Soil health, along with water supply, is the most valuable resource for humans, as human life
depends on the soil's generosity. Soil degradation, therefore, poses a threat to food security …

Over the past decades, landscapes worldwide have experienced changes (eg, urbanization,
agricultural intensification, expansion of renewable energy uses) at magnitudes that put their …

Abstract Changes in land systems generate many sustainability challenges. Identifying more
sustainable land-use alternatives requires solid theoretical foundations on the causes of …

Land systems are the result of human interactions with the natural environment.
Understanding the drivers, state, trends and impacts of different land systems on social and …

The objective of this study is to analyze the effects of innovation on the performance of
organizational sustainability, as well as on the environmental, economic and social …

Cellular automaton (CA) is a widely-used tool for modeling land-use changes that can
enhance our understanding of past and future urban development. Previous studies have …

Urbanisation patterns in Europe since the 1950s have resulted in a swath of low-density
discontinuous development, commonly called peri-urban areas. These areas are …

The Amazon biome, spanning nine countries, has one of the highest rates of deforestation
worldwide. This deforestation contributes to biodiversity loss, climate change, the spread of …

Agricultural land abandonment is a complex, multidimensional and non-linear global
phenomenon driven by multiple factors and with contrasting impacts on agrobiodiversity …

Land use and land cover change (LULCC) is the result of complex human-environmental
interactions. The high interdependencies in social-ecological systems make it difficult to …