Soils are home to more than 25% of the earth's total biodiversity and supports life on land
and water, nutrient cycling and retention, food production, pollution remediation, and climate …

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 …

Driven by increasing consumption and population numbers, human demands are depleting
natural resources essential to support human life, causing damage to crop lands, fresh water …

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) land degradation
neutrality (LDN) scientific conceptual framework underscores that LDN planning and …

Strong land-use pressure challenges sustainable development and calls for landscape
approaches that balance economic, ecological, and socio-cultural aspects and interests. In …

Land degradation poses a significant global challenge, adversely affecting soil quality and
diminishing the productivity of arable land, which, in turn, impacts food production and …

Sandification has become a major obstacle to China's regional farmland protection,
economic development, and ecological civilization construction. It is urgent to adopt …

At the sub-national level, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
proposes the analysis and contextualization of land degradation-neutrality (LDN) at a water …

To improve how extreme events and climate variations are managed, there is a need to
foster a deeper understanding of their interconnections. Consistent with this objective, this …

One fifth of the world's population and critical infrastructures are close to the coast and
regions of high-risk sea level rise elevation. The last decades have been characterized by …