The twentieth century was one of profound transformation in rural America. Demographic
shifts and economic restructuring have conspired to alter dramatically the lives of rural …

The spatial variability of farmland prices is determined by factors reflecting agricultural use,
and also by location-specific characteristics, which are crucial to the conversion of farmland …

A wide body of research in recent years has studied either green infrastructures as providers
of multiple ecosystem services, especially at the urban level, or ecological corridors and the …

This paper offers solutions to some of the challenges around maintaining productive
agricultural land close to cities in countries facing a decline in urban populations. In such …

Land surface temperature (LST) is a key climate variable that has been studied mainly at the
urban scale and in the context of urban heat islands. By analyzing the connection between …

Urban green infrastructure (UGI) is a network composed of natural and semi-natural areas,
such as greenspaces, open areas, and water bodies, designed to enhance the provision of …

Building upon a recent piece of research that maps a regional green infrastructure (RGI) in
relation to four components (natural value, conservation value, landscape value, and …

Land take is a process of significant relevance in the countries of European Union (EU).
Land take is the “Change of the amount of agriculture, forest and other semi-natural and …

This study aims at analyzing the relationships between supply of ecosystem services,
features of green areas and characteristics of settlements in urban contexts, by taking the …

With the majority of the world's population residing in urban areas, particularly in vast
suburbs, land use control around the suburbs of large cities is a concern for not only …