Farmland abandonment is considered as an important phenomenon for changing eco-
environmental and sociocultural landscapes of mountainous rural landscape. Many studies …

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 …

Accelerating urbanization and industrialization have had substantial impacts on economic
and social activities, changed the surface environment of the earth, and affected global …

Long-term stable cultivated land (LSCL) is associated with food security. However, relevant
studies about monitoring the eco-health condition (EHC) change of LSCL are insufficient at …

Human activities are considered as the main driving forces of land use/land cover (LULC)
variation at city scales. Monitoring the dynamic variation of LULC and its socioeconomic …

Land-use and land-cover (LULC) change analyses are useful in understanding the changes
in our living environments and their driving factors. Modeling changes of LULC in the future …

In recent decades, global social and economic development has resulted in substantial land-
use transitions. This was first observed with respect to losses of forested land, attracting …

Rapid growth in metropolitan areas is associated with high nitrogen (N) flows and
subsequent environmental and human health consequences. Many studies on the …

Although urbanization has been widely examined in individual city and urban agglomeration
scales, urban expansion patterns and dynamics in large-scale agricultural districts remain …

In the past 20 years, the global economy has undergone tremendous changes with rapid
industrialization and urbanization. Cultivated land is an important spatial carrier for human …