The present review retraces the steps of the industrial and agriculture revolution that have
taken place up to the present day, giving ideas and considerations for the future. This paper …

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is the largest infrastructure scheme in our lifetime,
bringing unprecedented geopolitical and economic shifts far larger than previous rising …

The integration of the photovoltaic (PV) energy in the greenhouse farm has raised concerns
on the agricultural sustainability of this specific agrosystem in terms of crop planning and …

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 …

This review describes the infrastructural elements of the socio-technical system of power
supply based on renewables and the role of landscape concerns in decision-making about …

The presence of solar energy systems has increased significantly in recent years both in
rural areas–in the form of solar farms–, and in urban areas as part of building installations …

Southern Europe is a hotspot for desertification risk because of the intimate impact of soil
deterioration, landscape transformations, rising human pressure, and climate change. In this …

Land use change is a major driver of soils' properties variation and potential degradation.
Solar photovoltaic plants installed on the ground represent a key to mitigating global climate …

Building activity at the metropolitan scale reflects socioeconomic transformations
increasingly dependent on place-specific factors. The present study investigates height …

Land Degradation (LD) in socio-environmental systems negatively impacts sustainable
development paths. This study proposes a framework to LD evaluation based on indicators …