Key ecological function areas are responsible for protecting and restoring ecosystems and
alleviating regional ecological deterioration. Revealing the inherent relationship between …

Land use and climate change can strongly affect the terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance.
However, there is a lack of clarity for existing studies that investigate total carbon balance for …

Ensuring food production while enhancing environmental sustainability is a critical
challenge in the 21st century. Quantitative descriptions of environmental performance at the …

Numerous conservation and regeneration practices are recognized as effective strategies in
the management of soil health (SH), a critical factor for ensuring the sustainability of food …

Integrating ecosystem services into development assessments is crucial for sustainable
urban and societal development. This requires a detailed examination of how land use …

A growing demand at several levels of territorial government concerns the need for tools to
support policy-making oriented towards sustainable planning. That of Ecosystem Services …

The harmonious coexistence of man and nature is a universally recognized standard to test
the rational utilization of multifunctional territorial space, and the planning of territorial space …

Land use changes are occurring with unprecedented magnitude and intensity, imposing
global impacts on ecosystem services (ES) and biodiversity. While the impacts of land use …

At global level, land-use changes induced by urban growth processes are considered to be
one of the most relevant threats to the conservation of natural habitats, their biodiversity and …

Sustainable intensification (SI) has become a central issue in both academic and political-
institutional debates. Questions mostly center on the term's conceptual scope. In this article …