Landslides are among the most frequent natural hazards in the world. Rainfall is an important triggering factor for landslides and is responsible for topples, slides, and debris flows—three of the most important types of landslides. However, se...
Heavy metals (HMs) entering soils are redistributed by natural processes such as surface runoff and soil erosion. These natural processes are characterized by topographic factors (TFs, e.g., Topographic Wetness Index (TWI), Total Catchment Area (TCA)...
Landslide susceptibility mapping (LSM) could be an effective way to prevent landslide hazards and mitigate losses. The choice of conditional factors is crucial to the results of LSM, and the selection of models also plays an important role. In this s...
Offender residences have become a research focus in the crime literature. However, little attention has been paid to the interactive associations between built environment factors and the residential choices of offenders. Over the past three decades,...
Farm households’ sustainable livelihoods in the dryland area of the Yellow River basin is an important guarantee of ecological protection and high-quality development for the Yellow River basin. However, farm households in this region have been...
Global urbanisation has accelerated in recent years, especially in rapidly growing coastal cities, and the destruction of habitat and natural resources has intensified. Although much attention has been paid to the study of habitat quality, there are...
Industrial heritage, as a vital carrier of industrial civilization, is a key resource for advancing regional sustainable development. Understanding its spatial distribution and influencing factors is essential for effective conservation and revitaliz...
15 August 2021
Residential sprawl constitutes a main part of urban sprawl which poses a threat to the inhabitant environment and public health. The purpose of this article is to measure the residential sprawl at a micro-scale using a case study of Hangzhou city. An...
Landslide susceptibility assessment is an effective non-engineering landslide prevention at the regional scale. This study aims to improve the accuracy of landslide susceptibility assessment by using an optimized statistical index (SI) method. A land...
TOD (transit-oriented development) is a planning concept that uses public transportation stations as the center of development, and it aims to integrate land use efficiency and transportation planning linkages to encourage the use of public transport...
The land surface temperature obtained from remote sensing was widely used in the simulation of permafrost mapping instead of air temperature with the rapid development of remote sensing technology. The land surface freezing and thawing index (LFI and...
This study aims to evaluate risk and discover the distribution law for landslides, so as to enrich landslide prevention theory and method. It first selected Fengjie County in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area as the study area. The work involved develo...
The Loess Plateau of China suffers from severe erosion, which results in a great variety of economic and ecological problems. For scientific control of soil erosion, the key questions urgently to be addressed in this paper are: (1) Which are the driv...
This study applies an integrated analytical framework combining GeoDetector and multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) to examine how the spatial distribution of cultural heritage values in the Chungcheong region of South Korea (Chungch...
Land surface temperature (LST) has a critical impact on the energy balance of land surface processes and ecosystem stability. Meanwhile, LST is controlled by multiple factors at the surface, resulting in heterogeneity of its spatial distribution. To...
Landslide susceptibility mapping is an effective approach for landslide risk prevention and assessments. The occurrence of slope instability is highly correlated with intrinsic variables that contribute to the occurrence of landslides, such as geolog...
The ecological environment of the remote plateaus has been a challenge plaguing many countries due to global warming, increased human activities, and frequent occurrence of various heavy metal (HM) pollutants. This paper analyzes the primary factors...
Rapid urbanization has heightened concerns over ecological degradation. This study analyzes spatiotemporal dynamics of land use in Jiangsu Province from 2000 to 2020 and integrates the intPLUS model to simulate and project land-use patterns for 2030&...
Numerous studies have been devoted to uncovering the characteristics of resident density and urban mobility with multisource geospatial big data. However, little attention has been paid to the internal diversity of residents such as their occupations...
The rapid development of urbanization has led to increasing uncertainties related to urban safety risks, which has brought certain challenges to the sustainable development of cities. The concept of urban resilience has found a new way to improve the...
The potentially toxic element pollution of agricultural soils has become a significant environmental threat to food safety and human health. Accurately identifying sources of potentially toxic element pollution is key to developing effective pollutio...
Creeping landslides constitute the predominant form of long-term, slow-moving geohazards in high mountain gorge regions. Under the combined influence of gravity and external triggering factors, these landslides undergo persistent deformation, posing...
The Liangzi Lake Basin (LLB) is an important ecological buffer for Wuhan’s urban agglomeration. It involves the ecological security of the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. Historical land misuse has altered the topography and impacted the e...
Ethnic minority villages are important resources for the economy and social development of ethnic minority areas because they preserve ethnic minorities’ culture. With the rapid development of industrialization and urbanization in China, the fa...
In the context of economic boom and climate change, monitoring the spatio-temporal dynamics of forest fragmentation induced by disturbances and understanding its corresponding associated factors are critical for developing informed forest management...
Clarifying the spatio-temporal patterns of ecosystem services trade-off/synergy relationships (ESTSs) and their attribution in the Yellow River Basin is crucial to constructing ecological civilization in China. This study first analyzed the spatio-te...
4 October 2018
Regional soil quality issues arising from rapid urbanization have received extensive attention. The riverbank that runs through a city is representative of urbanization gradient transformation. Thirty soil samples in the Yangtze River Delta urban agg...
Habitat quality is a key indicator for assessing the biodiversity-maintenance functions of ecosystem services. The issue of habitat quality changes in semi-arid and arid areas has been becoming serious, but there are few deep investigations of habita...
In the context of increasing urbanization and worsening environmental pollution, nonpoint source pollution during high-frequency rainfall has become a major ecological problem that endangers residents in cities. This study takes Shenzhen as an exampl...
Agricultural practices significantly impact environmental sustainability, making the enhancement of Agricultural Ecological Efficiency (AEE) crucial for China’s sustainable agricultural development. However, the spatial-temporal evolution patte...
This study supports the preservation and sustainable development of traditional villages by examining their spatial distribution patterns and mechanisms underlying those patterns in Henan Province. The study utilizes data from six batches of Chinese...
Ecological footprint (EF) is used to measure the energy and resources that are consumed by human beings, and it is used to calculate the energy that ecological services can provide to determine the gap between human behavior and what the earth can to...
Landslide susceptibility mapping is a crucial tool for landslide disaster risk management. However, the spatial heterogeneity of landslide conditioning factors affects the accuracy of predictions. This study proposes a novel method combining GeoDetec...
Rapid urbanization in China has reshaped retail spatial structures, creating challenges of accessibility and service equity. This study employs a Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based analytical framework to examine the spatial distribution and...
Current source apportionment models have successfully identified emission sources and quantified their contributions. However, when being utilized for heavy metal source apportion in soil, their accuracy needs to be improved, regarding migration patt...
With the global increase in disaster risks, enhancing urban resilience has become a critical strategy for risk mitigation and sustainable development. This study develops a two-dimensional indicator framework based on urban systems and resilience cap...
Revealing the temporal and spatial evolution pattern of reservoirs and their driving mechanisms is of great significance for promoting the coordinated development of the national economy and natural ecology. In this study, the northern slope of the T...
Over the past decade, China’s air quality has improved significantly. To further mitigate the concentration levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), this study analyzed the spatio-temporal evolution of PM2.5 concentrations from 2012 to 2022....
The increasing degree of urbanization has continuously aggravated the surface urban heat island (sUHI) effect in China. To investigate the correlation between spatiotemporal changes of sUHI and urbanization in Beijing, land surface temperature in sum...
Desertification is a global eco-environmental hazard exacerbated by environmental and anthropogenic factors. However, comprehensive quantification of each driving factor’s relative impact poses significant challenges and remains poorly understo...
Habitat structure and quality in the urban agglomeration (UA) are subject to multiple threats and pressures due to ongoing anthropogenic activities and call for comprehensively effective solutions. Many approaches, including cartographic comparison,...
Cycling is a flexible way of traveling that can promote the development of urban public transportation. Previous studies on the influence of cycling have focused more on the cyclists themselves, ignoring the influences of the features of natural envi...
Against the backdrop of the ongoing advancement of China’s dual-carbon goals and the coordinated strategy for ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin (YRB), it is important to clarify the spatiotemporal dyna...
Given the background of ecological fragility in western China, the northward migration of the livestock industry, and the “carbon peak” in China, it is practically significant to discuss the evolution of carbon dioxide equivalent emission...
Rapid urbanization has altered the land use pattern, reducing urban green space and increasing carbon emissions, and it is critical to scientifically examine the interaction mechanism between green space and carbon emissions in order to drive low-car...
Urban economic development together with the concentration of population acts as a major stimulus for changes in land-use configurations, thereby reshaping local ecosystems and influencing habitat quality. Conducting a rigorous evaluation of the temp...
A comprehensive understanding of the spatial and temporal patterns of changes in ecosystem services, along with their driving factors, is crucial for managing ecosystems effectively and ensuring sustainable development in the area. Intense human acti...
Imbalanced supplies and demands of ecosystem services (ESSD) can negatively affect human well-being. Optimizing land use patterns in cities and regions is, in fact, essential to mitigate this challenge and ensure sustainable development. In this cont...
Due to the combined effects of the natural environment, climate change and human activities, profound changes have occurred in terms of the eco-environmental effects of land use/cover change (LUCC) in the Baiyangdian basin. Therefore, based on land r...
Enhancing carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems has become a key strategy for mitigating climate change. The Tibetan Plateau holds a pivotal position in achieving carbon neutrality, with the structural pattern of its land use types directly impact...
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