The rehabilitation and restoration of land is a key strategy to recover services-goods and
resources-ecosystems offer to the humankind. This paper reviews key examples to …

Urban trees play a key role in alleviating elevated summertime land surface temperatures in
cities. However, urban landscape influences the capacity of urban trees to mitigate higher …

The availability of accurate and updated spatial information of tree cover in semi-arid and
arid silvopastoral systems (SPSs) is crucial to understand their spatial patterns and trends …

Salinization and sodification are important processes of soil degradation affecting irrigated
lands. A large proportion of the global irrigated area is affected by some degree of soil …

The smart growth paradigm has emerged as a major planning framework to respond to the
adverse outcomes of reckless development, but its influences on urban thermal …

For many applications, raw satellite observations need to be converted to high-level
products of various essential environmental variables. While numerous products are …

Redlining—a racially discriminatory policy of systematic disinvestment established by the
Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the 1930s and continued until the late 1960s …

As climate warms, the impact of existing urban heat islands on the health of residents in
towns and cities will worsen. A reduction in impervious in cities may help to reduce …

Abstract The Guadiana Basin is a transnational basin, presenting historical contamination
with potentially toxic metals (PTM), which origin can be both natural and anthropogenic. This …

Urban canyon albedo (UCA) is a primary indicator used to evaluate the impact of urban
geometry on radiation absorption. A rapid and effective theoretical calculation for the UCA is …