Achieving effective, sustainable environmental governance requires a better understanding
of the causes and consequences of the complex patterns of interdependencies connecting …

Highlights•Biodiversity and ecosystem services are perceived differently by different
stakeholders.•Land management decisions require negotiating trade-offs among values and …

We review recent scholarship relevant to the pursuit of sustainable development. We find a
compelling argument that the interactions of nature and society in the Anthropocene …

While many developed countries are increasing their forest cover, deforestation is still rife in
the tropics and subtropics. With international trade in forest-risk commodities on the rise, it is …

Highlights•Land use model are a central tool in land system science.•There is a lack of new
land use modelling concepts published in recent years.•Land use models are frequently …

城乡转型发展进程中, 土地利用转型与乡村转型发展是乡村地域系统演变的重要特征,
系统开展土地利用转型与乡村转型发展的耦合过程及互动机理研究有利于揭示乡村演变的内在 …

Water is indispensable for Earth resilience and sustainable development. The capacity of
social-ecological systems to deal with shocks, adapting to changing conditions and …

Zero-deforestation commitments are a type of voluntary sustainability initiative that
companies adopt to signal their intention to reduce or eliminate deforestation associated …

Archetypes are increasingly used as a methodological approach to understand recurrent
patterns in variables and processes that shape the sustainability of social-ecological …

Land-use planning (LUP), an instrument of land governance, is often employed to protect
land and humans against natural and human-induced hazards, strengthen the resilience of …