Desertification is an escalating concern in global drylands, yet assessments to guide
management and policy responses are limited by ambiguity concerning the definition of …

The extensive exploitation and use of land resources has caused a variety of land
degradation problems including soil erosion, desertification and salinization in China, which …

Urban heat island (UHI) has become a worldwide concern under global warming and
urbanization waves, which pose significant threats to human health and urban sustainability …

The structure of urban environments is known to alter local climate, in part due to changes in
land cover. A growing subset of research focuses specifically on the UHI in terms of land …

Farmland fragmentation can be influenced by factors that operate at different scales. It is not
only a spatial boundary pattern of farmland use and management rights shaped by macro …

Land-use change in the United States is a significant factor in environmental degradation,
and occurs at a faster rate than population growth. This paper develops the hypothesis that …

Agricultural land acquisition for urbanization (ALAFU) has strongly impacted agriculture in
Vietnam during the last decades. Given the mixed data obtained from a survey (with 50 …

Urban fragmentation is generally regarded as a strong urban structural polarisation that is
closely related to sustainability, yet a comprehensive understanding of the management of …

Detecting and understanding disturbance is a challenge in ecology that has grown more
critical with global environmental change and the emergence of research on social …

With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems
may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. Consisting of green …