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Land Use Change (LUC) and Resources and Environmental Carrying Capacity (RECC) in Tropics and Sub-tropics

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 2677

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Chiwei Xiao

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Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: tropical plantations mapping; agro-forestry remote sensing; border geography; border land use changes and geopolinomical relations; resources and environmental carrying capacity
Prof. Dr. Luguang Jiang

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Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
Interests: land use and land cover change; geography; remote sensing; resources and environmental carrying capacity
Dr. Guilin Liu

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School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China
Interests: land use and land cover change; agricultural remote sensing
Dr. Qiong Hu

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College of Urban and Environment Sciences, Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan 430079, China
Interests: land cover mapping; land use change; agricultural remote sensing; agricultural land systems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Land use and land cover change (LULCC) is an important field in global environmental change and critical for the modeling human–Earth systems. It affects ecosystem services, water conservation, food security, the climate system, and resources and environment carrying capacity (RECC). Currently, the (sub-) tropical region has become the a hotspot experiencing, or about to experience, LULCC due to the rapid and extensive development of society and the economy. Remote sensing techniques have been established as the most cost-efficient and reliable approaches to obtain information related to this topic. Meanwhile, RECC has become an effective and operational tool to describe development restrictions and quantify regional sustainable development. RECC research has become a frequently methodologically and theoretically debated topic in ecology, geography, and natural resources and environmental studies.

The scientific issues of LULCC and their impacts on the environment are of great significance in stabilizing and improving regional sustainable development. Such research is not only a primary route for exploring the impact of human activities on the resources and environment, but also acts as a basis and premise for optimizing and improving the management and control strategies surrounding the area.

This Special Issue aims to include studies that provide insights about the remote sensing of land cover and land use mapping and its impact and driving factors, as well as their resources and environmental carrying capacity at sub- and/or tropical scales.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Land use/cover mapping and validation;
  • Land and water resources remote sensing;
  • Land use change;
  • Landscape change;
  • Environmental impacts;
  • Human–environment interactions;
  • Land-related issues in climate, ecology, environmental, social, economic (sustainability) sciences;
  • Land resource carrying capacity;
  • Water resource carrying capacity;
  • Ecological carrying capacity.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Chiwei Xiao
Prof. Dr. Luguang Jiang
Dr. Guilin Liu
Dr. Qiong Hu
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • land cover and land use change
  • remote sensing
  • algorithm
  • monitoring change
  • environmental impacts
  • resources and environmental carrying capacity

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Spatio-Temporal Pattern of Urban Green Space in Chengdu Urban Center under Rapid Urbanization: From the Policy-Oriented Perspective
by Kelei Li, Wenpeng Du, Zhiqi Yang, Huimin Yan and Yutong Mu
Land 2024, 13(4), 443; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13040443 - 31 Mar 2024
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Urban green space (UGS) is increasingly recognized as a nature-based solution to achieving urban sustainable development. Under rapid urbanization, greening policies are often the main driving factor behind the restoration or even growth of UGS. In this study, Chengdu, the pioneering “park city” [...] Read more.
Urban green space (UGS) is increasingly recognized as a nature-based solution to achieving urban sustainable development. Under rapid urbanization, greening policies are often the main driving factor behind the restoration or even growth of UGS. In this study, Chengdu, the pioneering “park city” in China, is chosen as a representative region. Based on land use/land cover (LULC) and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) data, indicators that can reflect both UGS quantity and quality are constructed and the spatio-temporal characteristics of UGS in original and expanding urban areas are also explored at different greening policy stages. The findings show that, from 2000 to 2022, the basic trend of UGS reduction during urbanization remained unchanged, despite the greening policies implemented in Chengdu. However, the original urban area has evolved into a new urban area. This has been achieved by integrating the expanded urban area with higher greening rates, resulting in the greening rate in 2022 (44.61%) being restored to the 2000 level (44.21%). The implementation of green policies in Chengdu is primarily reflected in improved UGS quality, especially in the stage of the ecological garden city construction (2008–2018). Specifically, the UGS quality in the original urban area has been improved by 25.25%. Overall, the UGS quality in Chengdu Urban Center has improved, changing from a medium level in 2000 to a medium-high level in 2022. The construction of a national demonstration zone of the park city provides an opportunity for the UGS quantity to increase and quality to improve in Chengdu in the future. However, effectively considering the development positioning of the Tianfu Granary to coordinate the relationship between UGS and high-quality farmland is a huge challenge for urban sustainable development in Chengdu. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Use Change (LUC) and Resources and Environmental Carrying Capacity (RECC) in Tropics and Sub-tropics)
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Spatiotemporal Differentiation and Coupling Coordination Relationship of the Production–Living–Ecological Function at County Scale: A Case Study of Jiangsu Province
by Zhongshun Gong, Ye Yuan, Lu Qie, Sihua Huang, Xuefeng Xie, Rui Zhong and Lijie Pu
Land 2023, 12(11), 2027; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12112027 - 07 Nov 2023
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Land is multifunctional and includes production, living, and ecological functions (PLEF). Each aspect of PLEF is critical to the stability of human and natural ecosystems, and the balanced coordination of the three is an important guarantee of sustainable development. The study of the [...] Read more.
Land is multifunctional and includes production, living, and ecological functions (PLEF). Each aspect of PLEF is critical to the stability of human and natural ecosystems, and the balanced coordination of the three is an important guarantee of sustainable development. The study of the coupling and coordinated relationship of the three functions is of great significance to comprehensively optimizing the allocation of territorial space and promoting the coordinated and sustainable development of the national territory. Taking Jiangsu as a case study, based on the perspective of PLEF, this research constructed a PLEF evaluation index system adapted to rapidly urbanizing areas at the county scale and adopted the modified coupling coordination degree model (CCDM) for in-depth analyses of their coupling and coordinated relationships. The results of this study showed that the spatial distribution of PLEF had obvious heterogeneity, with living function (L) and ecological function (E) presenting as high in the south and low in the north, and production function (P) presenting as high in the middle and low in the north and south of Jiangsu; from 2010 to 2020, the production function steadily increased, the living function showed obvious signs of improvement, while the ecological function remained basically stable. The coupling degree and coupling coordination degree formed a spatial pattern with the intersection belt of North and Central Jiangsu and Central and South Jiangsu as the high-value area; from 2010 to 2020, both the coupling degree and the coupling coordination degree showed an upward trend. In the future, differentiated development strategies should be implemented according to the law of coupling and coordinated evolution and different regional characteristics. This study will provide a more appropriate reference for promoting the coordinated development of PLEF in rapidly urbanizing areas and formulating county policy planning. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Land Use Change (LUC) and Resources and Environmental Carrying Capacity (RECC) in Tropics and Sub-tropics)
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Measurements and Spatial–Temporal Evolution of Urban Comprehensive Carrying Capacity in the Yellow River Basin
by Yinghua Lin, Fengjun Jin, Li Ma and Jianwei Meng
Land 2023, 12(10), 1846; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12101846 - 27 Sep 2023
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An evaluation index system was conducted to determine the urban comprehensive carrying capacity of the Yellow River Basin using four subsystems (resources, society, ecology, and economy). The urban comprehensive carrying capacity level of nine provinces in the Yellow River Basin from 2008 to [...] Read more.
An evaluation index system was conducted to determine the urban comprehensive carrying capacity of the Yellow River Basin using four subsystems (resources, society, ecology, and economy). The urban comprehensive carrying capacity level of nine provinces in the Yellow River Basin from 2008 to 2019 was determined using the entropy weight TOPSIS model, and the spatial and temporal dynamics of the urban comprehensive carrying capacity of each province were investigated. There were four key results. (1) The urban comprehensive carrying capacity of the upstream and downstream provinces decreased from 2008 to 2011 and increased from 2011 to 2019; in the midstream provinces, it increased from 2008 to 2011 but decreased after 2011. (2) The urban comprehensive carrying capacity of the Yellow River Basin was “high in the east and west, low in the middle” from 2008 to 2017, while in 2019, the distribution was “high in the west and low in the east.” The gap between the urban comprehensive carrying capacities of the nine provinces and regions gradually narrowed over the study period. (3) The urban comprehensive carrying capacity of the Yellow River Basin increased annually during the study period. (4) The urban comprehensive carrying capacity was mainly influenced by the social and ecological subsystems. Full article
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