Aerial photographs have been systematically collected from as early as the 1930s, providing
a unique resource to describe changes in vegetation and land cover over extended periods …

Context Landscape metrics can effectively quantify urban landscape dynamics and their
ecological stress, but incorrect metric, scale and zoning choices may lead to inaccurate …

Town expansion changes land-use type, and results in ecological and environmental
issues. To minimize the influence of these problems and relieve the conflict between town …

Land use based on landscape ecological security pattern provides a scientific basis for
alleviating conflicts between land conservation and human use, ensuring concomitant …

Pseudo-alpine grassland ecosystems have started to decline during the past few decades.
According to many studies, climate change and abandonment of traditional anthropogenic …

Global environmental governance (GEG) is one of the world's major attempts to address
climate change issues through mitigation and adaptation strategies. Despite a significant …

Traditional agrarian landscapes have been managed over centuries to provide
complementary ecosystem services (provision and regulation) in a sustainable manner. The …

Increased pressure on land resources to provide multiple benefits calls for landscape
strategies that optimize the supply of multiple ecosystem services (ES). Previous research …

Cropland diversity was the focus of this work to support regional policy in a land planning
perspective for the development of both the agriculture and renewable energy sectors …

Forest landscape restoration and ecosystem of Loess Plateau have enhanced prominently,
since the policy implementation (1999) of the Grain for Green Project in China. Land …