Climate change and landscape transformation have led to rapid expansion of peri-urban
areas globally, representing new 'laboratories' for the study of human–nature relationships …

The rapid advancement of urbanization and industrialization has led to the continuous
strengthening of multi-functionality of land use. The overlap**, crowding, agglomeration …

With the development of global urbanization, land use conflicts have become one of the
major issues hindering sustainable land use and human-environment coordination in …

This study illustrates multifaceted urbanization patterns and processes in a coastal region of
Catalonia (northeastern Spain) as a paradigmatic example of the socio-economic …

In past decades, the European Mediterranean has undergone widespread land use
transformations. These are largely driven by changes of socio-economic conditions, such as …

****处于经济转型与社会发展的关键时期, 土地利用面临着巨大的压力和挑战,
土地利用结构失衡凸显, 各类用地矛盾日趋激烈, 由此引发的土地利用冲突问题日益受到重视 …

This paper reviews the research on land use change and its corresponding ecological
responses. Patterns of land use changes in spatio-temporal level are produced by the …

With the acceleration of economic and social development and the increasing competition
between multi-functional spaces, the coordination and stability of land space have been …

Production–living–ecological space (PLES) is the main body of the optimization of the
development and protection pattern of territorial space, and the spatial conflict in PLES …

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) does not distinguish
between natural and human drivers, and between active and inherited desertification. Partly …