A large portion of the earth's surface consists of arid, semi-arid and hyper-arid lands. Life in
these regions is profoundly challenged by harsh environmental conditions of water …

Rapid urbanization in China in recent decades has given rise to increasingly serious
ecological and environmental problems. Specifically, the provinces along the Silk Road …

Water resources system (WRS), socio-economic system (SES) and Ecological environment
system (EES) are systems closely related to the sustainable development of cities. It is …

Vegetation greening steered by land use management in the Chinese Loess Plateau has
been widely reported, however studies that quantitatively assessing and explicitly linking the …

Rivers are important agents of change that shape the Earth's surface and evolve through
time in response to fluctuations in climate and other environmental conditions. They are …

While urbanization has increased people's well-being, it has also caused ecological
problems, such as resource shortage, land degradation, and environmental pollution. As the …

The urbanization process of the Hanjiang Basin is speeding up and facing many challenges.
It is necessary to take active actions to realize the balance between urbanization …

Water erosion, a notorious major threat to food security and ecosystem sustainability, is
strongly conditioned by spatial and temporal scale effects. This paper systematically reviews …

Improving coordination between urbanization and ecosystem service value (ESV) in border
counties can help optimize the spatial patterns of regional coordinated development …

Rainfall erosivity (RE) is an important factor in the soil erosion process, which cannot be
altered by human intervention alone. The Huaihe River Basin (HRB) is a large agricultural …