Soil degradation is one of the main environmental issues within the international agendas
on sustainability and climate adaptation. Among degradation processes, soil sealing …

The traditional village research is a popular topic in rural geography. The traditional village
space contains rich human settlement cultural ideas, and thus, revealing its formation and …

The uncontrolled spread of towns and cities into their surrounding rural and natural land,
and the consequent increasing demand for new natural resources are among the most …

Rural tourism (RT) has grown in many rural regions worldwide and today it is a stable driver
of rural social and economic development. In this paper we argue that RT growth should …

Traditional villages are the place where national culture is nurtured and inherited. Due to the
acceleration of urbanization, the protective exploitation of traditional villages is an urgency in …

The growing research debate concerning sustainability and its applications in
interdisciplinary domain represents a conjunction point where basic and applied science …

Artificial land use trends could represent an effective indicator of the settlement process
quality and could also provide information about the efficacy of protection and exploitation …

For more than a decade, the European Union recognizes soil as a common good and
considers it as a finite resource of inestimable value. The European Union defines it as the …

Agriculture is known to commonly cause soil degradation. In the Mediterranean, soil erosion
is widespread due to the millennia-old farming, and new drip-irrigated plantations on slopes …

With the development of globalization, intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has come under
increasing threat, making the safeguarding of ICH a crucial task for the governments and …