Assessing the effects of China's three-north shelter forest program over 40 years

J Zhai, L Wang, Y Liu, C Wang, X Mao - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Forests provide vital ecosystem services such as soil and water conservation, climate
regulation, and carbon storage. Large-scale afforestation programs are being attempted in …

[HTML][HTML] Restoring the unrestored: strategies for restoring global land during the UN decade on ecosystem restoration (UN-DER)

PC Abhilash - Land, 2021 - mdpi.com
Restoring the health of degraded land is critical for overall human development as land is a
vital life-supporting system, directly or indirectly influencing the attainment of the UN …

[HTML][HTML] Conflict or Coordination? measuring the relationships between urbanization and vegetation cover in China

T Zhou, H Liu, P Gou, N Xu - Ecological Indicators, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the relationship between urbanization and vegetation is essential for
sustainable urban development. Over the last few decades, China has experienced rapid …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation and prediction of the level of high-quality development: A case study of the Yellow River Basin, China

L Jiang, Q Zuo, J Ma, Z Zhang - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
High-quality development (HQD) is the requirement for adapting to the changes in the main
contradictions of Chinese society and achieving sustained and stable development. Based …

Instability of remote sensing based ecological index (RSEI) and its improvement for time series analysis

Z Zheng, Z Wu, Y Chen, C Guo, F Marinello - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of remote sensing technology, the monitoring of land surface
ecological status (LSES) based on remote sensing has made remarkable progress, which …

The spatiotemporal effects of environmental regulation on green innovation: Evidence from Chinese cities

Y Xu, Z Dong, Y Wu - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental regulation is expected to stimulate green innovation for the promotion of
urban sustainability, while the effectiveness of this stimulus has long been debated under …

[HTML][HTML] Divergent changes in vegetation greenness, productivity, and rainfall use efficiency are characteristic of ecological restoration towards high-quality …

Y Yu, T Hua, L Chen, Z Zhang, P Pereira - Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Globally, vegetation has been changing dramatically. The vegetation–water dynamic is key
to understanding ecosystem structure and functioning in water-limited ecosystems …

Identifying ecosystem service supply-demand imbalance for sustainable land management in China's Loess Plateau

X Zhang, Y Wang, X Yuan, Y Shao, Y Bai - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Supply-demand relationships of ecosystem services (ESs) are the core of human-earth
system coupling. This study explored the spatiotemporal characteristic of ESs supply …

Effectiveness and driving mechanism of ecological restoration efforts in China from 2009 to 2019

Y Zhang, X Zhao, J Gong, F Luo, Y Pan - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Over the past decades, China's rapid economic growth and industrialization have led to
serious ecological concerns. To combat ecological degradation and promote ecosystem …

Spatial–temporal evolution and driving force analysis of eco-quality in urban agglomerations in China

L Zhang, C Fang, R Zhao, C Zhu, J Guan - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban agglomerations are important spatial carriers of regional economic development, and
their ecological quality (EQ) is closely related to economic growth and human development …