The study of land use transition has generally become an important breakthrough point to
deeply understand the human-land interaction and reveal major socio-economic …

Land system science provides a theoretical lens for deepening our understanding of
interactions between social and environmental systems. Synthesis and integration of land …

This paper develops a theoretical model of regional land use transitions based on
expanding and deepening the concept and connotations of land use transition. With the …

Humans have altered land cover for centuries, and land-cover change is a main component
of global change. Land use transition trajectories, such as the forest transition theory (ie …

China's land use structure is closely related to its economic development. Based on the
theoretical analysis framework of China's farmland transition (FT), this paper establishes an …

The changes in cultivated land and rural residential land and their interrelation are the most
direct manifestation of land use transition in rural areas, which is an important basis to carry …

Rural settlements, a type of rural locality where residents live and engage in production,
always face significant changes and transitions when meeting the demands of rural …

Deforestation is one of the critical issues in our global climate change era. It leads to two
important environmental challenges, loss of biodiversity and increasing of greenhouse gas …

The effects of land abandonment on biodiversity have received considerable attention by
scholars, but results are far from conclusive. Different cultural traditions of scientists seem to …

Land use transition is essentially one of the manifestations of land use/cover change
(LUCC). Although a large number of studies have focused on land use transitions on the …