Land degradation has become one of the most critical environmental and socioeconomic
issues in the world, particularly in Central Asia. Moreover, the realization of Land …

Being a relatively less known driver of land vulnerability to degradation in Southern Europe,
the net impact of urban expansion on land quality depletion requires a comparative …

Soil erosion is one of the most widespread soil degradation phenomena worldwide.
Mediterranean landscapes, due to some peculiar characteristics, such as fragility of soils …

The couple rapid urbanization and policy failure in controlling urban expansion was
sometimes associated to soil and land degradation phenomena in both developing and …

Polycentric development is one of the fundamental components of the European Spatial
Planning and Development (ESPD) strategy and substantiates the legitimacy of a …

As the population continues to shrink in the black soil region of Northeast China since 2000,
it is critical to master the impact of population shrinkage on rural functions to realize rural …

The spatial mismatch between population growth and settlement expansion is at the base of
current models of urban growth. Empirical evidence is increasingly required to inform …

Land abandonment is among the most complex la nd use change processes driven by a
multiplicity of anthropogenic and natural factors, such as agricultural over-exploitation …

Natura 2000 is the largest coordinated network of protected areas in the world, which has
been established to preserve rare habitats and threatened species at the European …

The increasing expansion of open-pit mining and the drastic transformations of land use in
Latin America have led to processes of rural depopulation among traditional inhabitants …