The urban-rural transformation from dichotomy to integration is a gradual process. Like rural
areas in many countries, Chinese rural society is experiencing a decline in all spheres due …

Purpose Over the past decade, a changing spectrum of disease has turned chronic non-
communicable diseases (CNCDs) into the leading cause of death worldwide. During the …

Abstract Urban-rural integration (URI), as a tendency of urban-rural development worldwide,
is an inevitable way to create a coordinated and sustainable human society. China has been …

Supply-demand relationships of ecosystem services (ESs) are the core of human-earth
system coupling. This study explored the spatiotemporal characteristic of ESs supply …

This multidisciplinary special issue examines the contemporary rural restructuring in China,
focusing on spatial restructuring, economic restructuring and social restructuring and the key …

The quantitative identification of land use functions (LUFs) forms the basis of land use
planning and management. Based on the widely recognized “ecological-production-living” …

Rural settlement is an important land use type in China due to the country's large rural
population. In recent years, China's social economy has undergone dramatic transformation …

With the increase in climate change and increasing social concerns about environmental
deterioration, sustainability has become a hot topic in both natural and social research …

Since the late 1970s, China has undergone an unprecedented urbanization process. With
land finance as the main driving force, land-centered urbanization has not only greatly …

Tillage treatments have an important effect on soil microstructure characteristics, water
thermal properties and nutrients, but little is known in the newly reclaimed cultivated land …