Human activities and global change have dramatically transformed land systems. Land use transition (LUT), which comprehensively reflect the shift in land use status as a coupled human-environmental system, have attracted more attention. We argue that LUT is driven by conflicts underlying land...

Measuring organic carbon (OC) losses from soils presents a challenge because of the intricate interplay of human-induced and biophysical processes that govern its transfer from terrestrial to aquatic ecosystems. This study employed a modeling approach to enhance our comprehension of human...

The increasing occurrence of floods due to global climate change poses challenges to the growth of urban resilience. However, research on how to avoid flood risks in the process of long-term and detailed land use development is limited. To address this issue, this paper proposes a method that...

Around 75% of tropical deforestation in the XXI century has been driven by the expansion of agriculture and forest plantations. Since 1990s, palm oil has been standing for a critical global traded product in terms of embodied deforestation. The European Union (EU) is one of the major players in...

This paper examines whether land use deregulation increases housing supply when there are additional institutional frictions, such as slow updation of ownership records and unclear titles. India's urban land ceiling (ULC) laws, which put ceiling limits on privately owned vacant land in the...

Land managers’ preferences towards practice- and outcome-based payments for ecosystem services are analysed using a labelled choice experiment applied to a Mediterranean oak savannah (dehesa or montado) as a case study. Results indicate that land managers prefer outcome- to practice-based...

Seasonal variation in intensive agricultural land use patterns and its spatial scale effects on water nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations in watersheds have always been major concerns. However, the relationships and contributions of the important land use metrics to the pond water N...