The significant increase in metal mining and the inevitability of the continuation of this trend suggests that environmental pressures, as well as related impacts, have become an issue of global relevance. Yet the scale of the impact remains, to a la...
22 November 2018
During the last 40 years, China has undergone rapid urbanization which has resulted in land degradation and a decrease in land. Cultivated land protection has thus become one of the most active and important aspects of land science. This study presen...
In this study, the transitions of land use that occurred in the urban and peripheral areas of Chihuahua City, Mexico, were determined for the period 1989–2014. Landsat TM and OLI scenes, as well as the method of Markov Chains (MC) were used. Grasslan...
In the context of global climate change, solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF), a robust proxy for gross primary productivity, is modulated by the coupled effects of soil moisture (SM) and vapor pressure deficit (VPD). However, fine-scale spat...
Suitability-overlap maps of potential functional conflict are widely used to identify potential land-use trade-offs, yet their ability to identify subsequent conversion is rarely tested. We examined whether potential functional conflict (C), measured...
Climate and land use change pressures are critical to food production in Social-Ecological Systems (SESs). This study assessed farmers’ perceptions of the pressures of climate and land use changes alongside their impacts on food production in Mhahaka...
6 December 2022
Food security is crucial to world peace. Economic development has posed a great threat to the protection of cultivated land. Considering 20 cities in the lower Yellow River (AALYR) as the study area, this study explored the spatial evolution of culti...
The CORINE Land Cover (CLC) map was established in 1985 and is now one of the most widely used products from the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service. As the world’s longest consistent operational land cover monitoring product, CLC maps have been...
In recent years, it has become common practice for Chinese local governments to inject land assets into financing platform companies and use them as mortgage or credit guarantees to obtain bank loans and issue urban investment bonds, which is known a...
Mountain–hill–plain transition zones combine terrain sensitivity, agricultural land use, and construction pressure and therefore require spatially differentiated management. This study develops a pressure-oriented framework that distingui...
As metropolitan areas (MAs) become increasingly complex, reconciling land development with ecological protection has become a major challenge in spatial governance. Although ecological security patterns (ESPs) are widely used to assess ecological net...
In human-affected fire environments, assessing the influence of human activities on the spatial distribution of wildfire ignitions is of paramount importance for fire management planning. Previous studies have shown that roads have significant effect...
The intensified use of cultivated land is essential for optimizing crop planting practices and protecting food security. This study employed a telecoupling framework to evaluate the cultivated land use intensification rates in typical Chinese village...
Long-term forest landscape change in mountainous rural areas reflects interactions among land-use pressure, forest structure and human activities. This study had two primary objectives: (i) to quantify 53 years of change in forest extent, stand struc...
The rational use of territorial resources is a key factor in achieving sustainability. Spatial planning is an important tool that helps decision makers to achieve sustainability in the long term. This work proposes a multi-objective model for sustain...
Exploring the intensity and constraint factors of land use conflicts provides essential insights for efficient land use planning. Currently, China’s spatial development is gradually transitioning towards the coordinated development of productio...
China’s contribution to global greening is regulated by increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations, climate change, and land use. Based on TRENDY project data, this study identified that the shifts in China’s contribution to the global lea...
Evaluation of intensive land use (ILU) over long time series is essential for the rational use of land and urban development. We propose a novel framework for analyzing ILU in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of China. First, we used Google Earth E...
China’s unique economic growth target system exerts significant economic growth pressure (EGP) on local officials, leading to notable economic and environmental consequences for urban land use. Consequently, this system is theoretically expecte...
In the Rhône-Mediterranean-Corsica (RMC) basin (130,000 km2, 14 million inhabitants), groundwater intended for human consumption has been monitored for decades. These data, stored in the SISE-EAUX database, were cross-referenced with informatio...
Exploring carbon emissions in Suzhou, a city with a significant heavy industry presence, and understanding the factors that influence these emissions are crucial in achieving China’s dual-carbon goals within the framework of global climate gove...
This perspective paper highlights the potentials, limitations, and combinations of openly available Earth observation (EO) data and big data in the context of environmental research in urban areas. The aim is to build the resilience of informal settl...
In this study, data collected from 2000 to 2019 on vapor pressure deficit (
Urban well-being in China emerges from spatially uneven configurations of development intensity, environmental pressure, governance input, public-service capacity, land-use transformation, and urban–rural conditions. Using a balanced panel of 2...
The present research examines the spatial dynamics and impact of Short-Term Rentals (STRs) in highly touristic and spatially constrained insular territories, using the island of Santorini (Thira), Greece, as a case study. Unlike large metropolitan ar...
Ecosystem services (ESs) provided by dryland regions are very vulnerable to environmental dynamics and management transformation, and it is still unclear how these services will be affected by the combined effects of accelerated climate variability a...
Areas characterised by high ecological and cultural value are increasingly exposed to overtourism and intensifying land-use pressures, often exacerbated by mobility policies aimed at enhancing regional accessibility and promoting tourism. These dynam...
Increasing land use pressure is a primary force for degradation of agricultural areas. The drivers for these pressures are initiated by a series of interconnected processes. This study presents a novel methodology to analyze drivers of changing land...
The features of lentic waterbodies largely depend on the surrounding environment. Mediterranean coastal lagoons have been historically altered, with their catchment being highly modified for agricultural, livestock, or urban uses. Changes in land use...
China’s growth plans include a carbon emission peak policy, which is a restriction that indirectly impacts land use structure. In this study, we simulate different paths for achieving policy objectives, and explore the linkages between those pa...
Wetlands store large amounts of soil organic carbon stock (SOCS), making them crucial for global climate regulation. However, climate change, poor management, and weak protection policies threaten these stocks. To assess the contribution of different...
Land-Use Cover Changes (LUCCs) are one of the main problems for the preservation of landscapes and natural biodiversity. Protected Areas (PAs) do not escape this threat. Poland is among the European leaders in terms of the variety of landscapes and t...
24 December 2020
The karst region of Southwest China is one of the largest continuous karst areas in the world, and the ecosystem in the karst region is extremely fragile. The city of Liupanshui, a typical karst area in southwestern China, has provided the main energ...
Urbanization is one of the most visible symptoms of global changes. This process has been driven by the evolution of life on Earth, and it gradually modifies the structure of land use. Urban development is the most apparent indicator and measure of u...
A complex relationship exists between natural environmental and urban systems. This study focuses on the province of Qinghai, which is a major part of the Tibetan Plateau. For the period 1995–2020, we explore the relationships between ecosystem...
Forest conservation is of particular concern in tropical regions where a large refuge of biodiversity is still existing. These areas are threatened by deforestation, forest degradation and fragmentation. Especially, pressures of anthropogenic activit...
The most critical issue that was the main research interest is its groundwater quality which is vital for public health concerns. Groundwater is a significant worldwide water supply for diverse communities, especially in dryland regions. Groundwater...
The Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) of many regional landscapes are changing due to natural effects and anthropogenic activities, impacting biodiversity and ecosystem services. LULC dynamics reflect the altered flow of energy, water, and greenhouse ga...
Public participation in planning, though a foundational democratic principle, faces persistent implementation challenges across diverse planning systems. This paper examines participatory planning practice in Ireland and Serbia—two countries re...
Pea–cereal intercropping may combine ecological disease regulation with improved land-use efficiency, but field evidence for pea powdery mildew responses on the pea component under temperate continental conditions remains limited. A two-year fi...
In recent decades, population growth and economic development have greatly influenced the pattern of land use/land cover (LULC) in Rwanda. Nevertheless, LULC patterns and their underlying change mechanisms under future climate conditions are not well...
Food security has received extensive academic attention in recent years. However, research results analyzing cultivated land pressure from the perspective of urbanization are relatively few. This study used Jiangsu Province as the study area and anal...
The rapid development of urbanization, population growth, and unreasonable use of land resources have made the contradiction between human beings and land increasingly prominent, and the carrying capacity of land resources has become an important fac...
Grain trade connects regions with different land endowments and can help relieve pressure on productive cultivated land. This study constructs a modified cultivated land pressure index incorporating a standardized land productivity coefficient to acc...
Human societal growth has greatly pressured available land resources. The key to reducing land pressure and fostering regional synergistic development is revealing the transmission effect of land pressure. We used a modified gravity model to construc...
With economic growth, people’s living standards improve, and more cultivated land is needed to meet food demand. Meanwhile, the economic growth and urban expansion in China since 1978 has led to the loss of considerable amounts of cultivated la...
Land cover change is a key indicator for evaluating the effectiveness of protected areas and identifying anthropogenic pressures that may affect ecosystem integrity. This study presents the first national-scale assessment of land cover stability and...
Economic pressure on agricultural land is generating major changes in affected territorial systems. The development of methodologies to analyze the pressure on agricultural land is one of the main concerns regarding food security and how to provide f...
Facing worsening problems, including the decreasing amount, quality, and deterioration of land ecosystems, cultivated land needs protective measures. China has been conducting an experimental fallow policy to deter these problems in five pilot provin...
Habitat alteration due to agricultural expansion and heavy livestock grazing is a major threat for open natural ecosystems (ONEs). Within the Indian Thar Desert, such land-use transformations are altering native grassland habitats, with consequential...
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