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| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1173: Evaluation of the Sustainable Use of Land Resources in the Cities along the Jiangsu Section of the Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal | ||
| Donnerstag, 01. Juni 2023 | ||
| Sustainable development is an important topic of urban research. The rational use of land resources is of great significance for urban development and is conducive to promoting regional governance and coordinated development. The purpose of this study was to construct an effective evaluation framework for urban land resources to maintain sustainable urban development. Taking the cities along the Jiangsu Section of the Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal as the research object, this study... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1172: Spatial Distribution and Associated Risk Assessment of Heavy Metal Pollution in Farmland Soil Surrounding the Ganhe Industrial Park in Qinghai Province, China | ||
| Donnerstag, 01. Juni 2023 | ||
| The farmland around the industrial areas in the Upper Yellow River is crucial for agricultural production but is vulnerable to contamination from the surrounding industries. This research focused on analyzing the spatial distribution and environmental risks of heavy metal pollution in the farmland around the Ganhe Industrial Park in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau. A total of 138 surface soil samples were collected, and the concentration of seven heavy metals (Cd, As, Pb, Cr, Cu, Ni, and... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1170: Incorporating High-Speed Rail Development Scenario for Tourism Land Use Simulation: A Case Study of Xinxing County, China | ||
| Donnerstag, 01. Juni 2023 | ||
| High-speed rail (HSR) has been proven to drive the development of regional tourism. However, few studies paid attention to the impact of HSR on future tourism land use. In this study, points of interest (POI) were used to obtain the locations and types of tourism facilities, and high-resolution remote sensing images helped us determine the spatial extents of the tourism facilities, so that tourism land could be identified. A system dynamics (SD) model was coupled with the patch-generating... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1169: The Roots of First-Generation Farmers: The Role of Inspiration in Starting an Organic Farm | ||
| Donnerstag, 01. Juni 2023 | ||
| This research aimed to determine salient factors affecting the decision to become a beginning organic farmer. New and beginning organic farmers have unique characteristics, showcasing their dedication to environmental justice and social justice at the expense of their own businesses. This research aimed to determine why people with no background in agriculture would start a farm when it is a high-risk and low-return business. With multigenerational farmers aging out of agriculture, we... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1167: A Generative Urban Space Design Method Based on Shape Grammar and Urban Induction Patterns | ||
| Donnerstag, 01. Juni 2023 | ||
| This paper focuses on how to solve the demand of how to quickly explore more urban space design and layout in terms of the conservation and reuse of historical blocks under computer-aided design technology. Referring to urban inductive patterns, the author establishes an urban space design grammar of historical districts based on shape grammar and pattern language. It forms a complete generative urban space design method involving morphological analysis, rule-making, and scheme generation... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1168: Carbon Emission Effects of Land Use in Chaobai River Region of Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region | ||
| Donnerstag, 01. Juni 2023 | ||
| Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, the main economic area in northern China, has seen significant changes in its regional economic and physical landscape as a result of the coordinated development strategy. Assessing the link between land use and land cover (LULC) change and carbon emissions in the Chaobai River region, which represents the growth of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration, is crucial to achieve coordinated low-carbon development in this... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1166: Background Conditions for Revitalisation Processes in the Case of Unused Public Buildings in Italy: An Ostromian Perspective | ||
| Donnerstag, 01. Juni 2023 | ||
| In Italy, the number of buildings that have fallen into disuse is huge. Moreover, the normative and regulative framework promoting the public portfolio’s re-use and revitalisation is still unclear and ambiguous. Nevertheless, over the past decade, these buildings have become fertile ground for innovation and creative experiences led by civic actors. The rise of this new category of civic actors plays an important role, both in terms of the institutional dynamics and the kind of... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1165: The Contribution of GPR to the Historical Research of Urban and Rural Landscapes of Antiquity | ||
| Donnerstag, 01. Juni 2023 | ||
| This article observes the main trends in GPR research through a bibliometric analysis of a large corpus of contributions published between 1996 and 2021. This review aims to identify the scope of a flourishing methodology that has changed with technological advances and improvements. GPR research is at a similar development stage to other geophysical analysis techniques. Among archaeologists and historians interested in applying new techniques, the use of GPR has emerged as a critical tool... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1164: Land Use Optimization Embedding in Ecological Suitability in the Embryonic Urban Agglomeration | ||
| Donnerstag, 01. Juni 2023 | ||
| Healthy and sustainable urban agglomerations development relies heavily on land use optimization. However, there is insufficient scientific basis and reliable quantitative analysis for land use pattern identification and optimal prediction in embryonic urban agglomeration. Therefore, taking the Lanzhou–Xining (LX) region, a typical primary developing urban agglomeration, as the study area, we first assessed the land ecological suitability (LES). Then, we embedded the LES evaluation... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1163: Study on Production–Living–Ecological Function Accounting and Management in China | ||
| Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2023 | ||
| The current insufficient quantification and evaluation of major functions fundamentally affected regional sustainable management and policy implementation. This study focused on the problem that no effective quantitative accounting relationship has been established between development activities and resource utilization. In order to establish the relationship between major function accounting and natural resource accounting, we analyzed the relevant studies on the evaluation of major... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1162: Spatial Differentiation and Driving Mechanisms of Ecosystem Service Value Change in Rural Land Consolidation: Evidence from Hubei, China | ||
| Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2023 | ||
| Rural land consolidation projects (RLCPs) have become one of the largest organized human activities to change land use patterns and impact terrestrial ecosystems, and it may also be an important precondition to improving ecosystem service value (ESV). Evaluating the change in ecosystem service value (ESV) is an important basis for measuring the effectiveness of RLCPs. Therefore, this paper, taking RLCPs implemented at County Level in Hubei Province, China, as an example, uses the improved... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1161: Methodology for Determining Gully Widths in Multi-Temporal Studies in Olive Groves of Southern Spain | ||
| Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2023 | ||
| This study describes a new methodology for estimating gully widths based on their digitized borders. The procedure adapts a previous method developed to determine the mean displacement between two 3D linestrings, considering them continuously, which represents an advance over conventional approaches. In addition to the calculation of the average horizontal distance, it also considers the calculation of widths by sections of a given length in order to analyze differences in their behavior... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1160: Changes in Soil Sulphur Fractions as Influenced by Nutrient Management Practices in Mulberry | ||
| Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2023 | ||
| Sulphur (S) plays a vital role in improving the quality of mulberry leaves because of its involvement in protein synthesis. The knowledge of different pools of S in soils and its bioavailability for mulberry nutrition is thus, required for optimizing S fertilization. Hence, the present study was designed to ascertain the influence of chemical fertilizer and farmyard manure (both are S sources) on S fractions and its bioavailability in soils. In this regard, four nutrient management practices... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1159: Machine Learning Techniques to Map the Impact of Urban Heat Island: Investigating the City of Jeddah | ||
| Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2023 | ||
| Over the last decades, most agricultural land has been converted into residential colonies to accommodate the rapid population expansion. Population growth and urbanization result in negative consequences on the environment. Such land has experienced various environmental issues due to rapid urbanization and population increases. Such expansion in urbanization has a big impact on worsening the residences soon and in the long term, as the population is projected to increase more and more. One... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1158: Multicropping Pattern Reveals Human Adaptation at the Wanbei Site (ca. 5.7–4.4 ka cal. BP) in the Middle and Lower Huai River Valley, China | ||
| Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2023 | ||
| The middle and lower Huai River Valley, located between the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, was a key transitional zone for the northward spread of rice and southward migration of millet agriculture in central-eastern China during the Holocene. Knowing when millets spread here, how they were combined with rice in mixed farming, the reasons for their spread, and the temporal variation of cropping patterns is of crucial significance to the development of our understanding of ancient adaptation... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1157: Analysis of the Contribution of Land Registration to Sustainable Land Management in East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia | ||
| Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2023 | ||
| Land registration programs on a large scale aimed at strengthening the land rights of farm households in Ethiopia have been executed in different degrees across different regions since 1998. This study investigates the contribution of land registration on the perceived tenure security of farmers, farmer confidence, women and marginalized groups, and sustainable land-management practice after receiving a land holding certificate in the dryland areas of East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia. Face-to-face... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1156: Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Livestock Predation by Leopards in Bardia National Park, Nepal | ||
| Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2023 | ||
| Human–wildlife conflict is a challenging issue that requires the attention of conservationists worldwide. Habitat fragmentation and encroachment reduce the abundance of prey species, and an increase in the number of predators leads to a higher risk of conflict with large cats such as leopards, jeopardizing conservation efforts. This study explored the spatio-temporal pattern of the human–leopard conflict in Bardia National Park, Nepal, from 2000 to 2020. To analyze the... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1155: Prioritizing Tree-Based Systems for Optimizing Carbon Sink in the Indian Sub-Himalayan Region | ||
| Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2023 | ||
| Land use of the sub-Himalayan region is not that intensive like the intensively land-managed region of Punjab, India. Land resources of the sub-Himalayas must be managed effectively for sustainable development by preparing carbon inventories and data banks. Such macro-level studies have not been conducted yet in the present study area, and thus were conducted to suggest sustainable land use management options. To achieve the present study’s desired goal, 33 tree-based land uses... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1154: Research Progress and Hotspot Analysis of Urban Heat Island Effects Based on Cite Space Analysis | ||
| Mittwoch, 31. Mai 2023 | ||
| The urban heat island (UHI) effect has become a hot topic in the global urban ecological environment. Research on the UHI effect is of great significance for alleviating urban environmental problems. Therefore, it has attracted the extensive attention of a large number of researchers in the field of urban environmental issues, such as urban ecologists, urban climatologists, urban planners, geographers, relevant policy makers, etc. However, systematic reviews are lacking on UHI research in... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1153: Spatial–Temporal Pattern Characteristics and Impact Factors of Carbon Emissions in Production–Living–Ecological Spaces in Heilongjiang Province, China | ||
| Dienstag, 30. Mai 2023 | ||
| Under the threat of global climate change, China has proposed a dual carbon goal of peak carbon and carbon neutrality. As the vital carrier for territorial spatial planning, production–living–ecological (PLE) spaces drive carbon emissions and are important to the dual carbon goals. In this study, carbon emissions and sinks of PLE spaces in cities in Heilongjiang Province from 2005 to 2020 were calculated and spatial–temporal changes were analyzed. The carbon... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1152: Impact of Land Value Tax on the Equity of Planning Outcomes | ||
| Dienstag, 30. Mai 2023 | ||
| The question of land ownership is fundamental to any modern society and has been blamed as the root of numerous social inequalities. This paper explores one potential solution to the land question, Land Value Tax (LVT), which was first popularised in the 1880s by Henry George. Despite its long history, LVT has not been widely implemented, but recently proposals to replace existing property taxes with this form of taxation have re-emerged on the political scene. While the Welsh Government has... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1151: Spatial Prediction of Landslides Using Hybrid Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Methods: A Case Study of the Saqqez-Marivan Mountain Road in Iran | ||
| Dienstag, 30. Mai 2023 | ||
| Landslides along the main roads in the mountains cause fatalities, ecosystem damage, and land degradation. This study mapped the susceptibility to landslides along the Saqqez-Marivan main road located in Kurdistan province, Iran, comparing an ensemble fuzzy logic with analytic network process (fuzzy logic-ANP; FLANP) and TOPSIS (fuzzy logic-TOPSIS; FLTOPSIS) in terms of their prediction capacity. First, 100 landslides identified through field surveys were randomly allocated to a 70% dataset... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1150: Attitudes toward Conservation of the Transboundary Białowieża Forest among Ecotourism Businesses in Poland and Belarus | ||
| Dienstag, 30. Mai 2023 | ||
| The Białowieża Forest is a contested transboundary forest massif in Poland and Belarus. Reflecting on transitions from value chains built on sustained yield forestry to ecotourism, we pioneer documentation of how country-specific legacies shape preferences toward increased forest protection at the expense of wood production. For both countries, we used a quantitative ordered logit model based on questionnaires to Polish and Belarusian ecotourism business owners to, for the... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1149: Evaluating the Impact of County-to-District Transformation on Urban Residential Land Supply: A Multi-Period Difference-in-Differences Model Analysis | ||
| Dienstag, 30. Mai 2023 | ||
| Utilizing panel data from 264 prefecture-level cities in mainland China between 2009 and 2017, this study employs a multi-period difference-in-differences model and propensity score matching to assess the effects of county-to-district transformation (CDT) on the scale, proportion, and price of the urban residential land supply. The findings reveal the following details: (1) CDT led to a short-term increase in the overall proportion and price of this land, whereas its influence on the scale... | ||
| Land, Vol. 12, Pages 1148: Mediating Effect and Suppressing Effect: Intermediate Mechanism of Urban Land Use Efficiency and Economic Development | ||
| Dienstag, 30. Mai 2023 | ||
| The limited nature of land supply determines that improving land use efficiency is an inherent requirement for economic development. The aim of this study was to quantitatively examine its impact. Most current studies have explored the quantitative relationship between urban land use efficiency (ULUE) and economic development, but less attention has been given to the mechanism of action of both. In this study, we construct an analysis framework for the mechanism of ULUE in promoting economic... | ||
