Regional Sustainability

Linking land use and cover change to Sustainable Development Goals and carbon storage: A case study in the Yellow River Basin, China

2026-10-06

Man LI, Lin ZHAO, Hao HE, Huijie YU, Siyuan DAI, Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage Dinesh Madhushanka KARUNARATNAA, Abu Reza Muhammad Towfiqul ISLAM, Dongli WU, Qi LI, Zhenghua HU

Insights into climatic adaptability of Acer truncatum and Quercus mongolica in typical sandy lands of China using the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt) model

2026-10-05

SHI Han, PENG Xi, GUO Jingjing, ZHAO Ruxia, HAO Guangyou

Trends in diameter at breast height (DBH)–height distribution and allometric relationships among major conifer species in the Altay Mountains, Northwest China

2026-09-29

Haiyan ZHANG, Jian WANG, Ireneusz MALIK, Malgorzata WIATUBA, Jianghua ZHENG

Spatial evolutions and trends of the coupling coordinated development of environment–economy–tourism in China

2026-09-29

CHEN Feng, LAN Yaxin, REN Jiao

Spatiotemporal heterogeneity of ecosystem health and its divergent responses to multidimensional urbanization in the Jialing River Basin (JRB), China

2026-09-29

Shiyu YAO, Haoyue WANG, Zhengyuan ZHAO, Yunlong ZHANG, Yihe LYU, Shiliang LIU, Gang WU, Xing WU

Quantitative risk evaluation of agricultural drought in China using the improved catastrophe progression method

2026-09-29

Xiaoyan DU, Di FANG, Chengqin WANG, Gang TANG, Qian WANG, Dongjun HAN

Assessment of regional sustainable development progress and influencing factors differences across the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries

2026-09-29

CHEN Sihan, DING Weitong, GUO Munan, Q.U. Aiyu, YANG Guang, WANG Fang, SHAO Chaofeng

Impact of economic functional zones on regional economic development and underlying mechanisms: A case study of Changchun Jiutai Economic Development Zone, China

2026-09-29

Yaojia DONG, Kaiyong WANG, Fuyuan WANG, Yicai ZHAO

Water use efficiency in oasis agriculture: Have we reached the limit of water-saving technologies?

2026-09-29

ZHAO Nan, ZHENG Xinjun, D.U. Lan, L.I. Yan

Oil palm land expansion and sustainable agriculture challenges in rural areas of Indonesia

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Herdis HERDIANSYAH, Randi MAMOLA

Spatiotemporal dynamics of land surface temperature in Yunnan, China: Interpreting multi-temporal drivers using eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP)

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Chaolian LIAO, Xudong HE, Xiaomin LONG, Ailing WAN, Ruliang ZHOU, Yanxia WANG

Spatiotemporal evolution and simulation optimization of rural settlements in Hotan Prefecture, China: A three-dimensional perspective

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Jiaxin HAO, Liqiang SHEN, Yuejian WANG, Huanhuan CHEN

Crop planting structural optimization over area expansion: A pathway to sustainable oasis agriculture in arid Northwest China

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Jinfeng HE, Jie BAI, Cun CHANG, Jingyu JIN, Yongbo ZHAO, Junli LI, Anming BAO, Qihao CHEN, Huilan SUN

Nonlinear carbon–water coupling in terrestrial ecosystems: insights from China’s Three-North Shelterbelt Forest region

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Impact of regional agriculture on economic development: A reflection from Lincolnshire, the United Kingdom

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Saul NGARAVA

Impact of land use/cover change on ecosystem services and sustainable optimization in the dry-hot valley region of Southwest China

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Zhiqiao LI, Donghong XIONG, Wenduo ZHANG, Qin LIU, Dongmei ZHAO, Lin LIU, Sheikh LARAIB, Dil Kumar RAI, Buddhi Raj SHRESTHA, Q.I.N. Xiaomin

Exploring uncertainty in the household water, energy, and food nexus: trade-offs and synergies in South Africa

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Thulani NINGI, Amon TARUVINGA, Leocadia ZHOU, Saul NGARAVA

Estimates of grassland carbon storage using machine-learning models

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Zhitao FAN, Fawu DONG, Dongwei LIU, Bingjie LI, Zhicheng QU, Shunyu YAO, Xiashu SU, Lixin WANG

Elevational patterns of plant species and phylogenetic diversity in the eastern Pamir Plateau

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Sustainable three-dimensional (3D) space optimization in high-density urban areas: Drivers, synergies, and multi-method insights

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Bowen KONG, Haoxuan LIU, Luyao ZHANG, Chun’an TANG, Baoping ZOU

Changes of ecological vulnerability under different wetland change patterns: A case study of the transboundary Heilongjiang (Amur) River Basin

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Xinyuan WANG, Fujia LI, Hao CHENG, Kirill GANZEY, Dashtseren AVIRMED, Ruofan ZHAO, Li CHEN, Aohan LEI

Spatiotemporal pattern of terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage in China with projections under multiple climate scenarios

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Ming LIU, Hao ZHANG, Zhihao KONG, Yuxin ZHENG, Gaoxiang ZHOU, Xiaofeng WANG, Zhaoxia REN, Jonathan LI

Evaluating runoff retention and associated flood mitigation services of urban blue-green infrastructure in a mega urban centre

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Md Rejaul ISLAM, Mohd RIHAN, Intejar ANSARI, SHAHFAHAD, Mohd Waseem NAIKOO, Swapan TALUKDAR, Atiqur RAHMAN

Uncovering multiple roles of green innovation in urban sustainable development efficiency in China

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Zhiyuan NIU, Tao WEN, Feifei TAN

Optimizing land cover planning for carbon neutrality: Policy insights from scenario-based vegetation carbon sink assessment in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, China

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Youyue WEN, Zhichao CHEN, Saoman CAI, Jian YANG

Broadband China Policy can alleviate city-level carbon inequality in China

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Mengbing DU, Caijing ZHANG, Ning QIU, Zhe ZHANG, Wen LI, Wanyue SHAN, Li ZHANG

Agricultural carbon emission intensity (ACEI) in China from 1997 to 2022: Spatiotemporal differences, convergence, and its influence factors

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Lilin ZOU, Shulin LI, Yongsheng WANG

Spatiotemporal variations in oasis structure and landscape stability in the middle reaches of the Konqi River based on high-spatial-resolution multispectral imagery

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Jingyu JIN, Junli LI, Anming BAO, Chunxia WEI, Fujie LI, Haoyu WANG, Jiudan ZHANG, Naibi SULEI

Impact of county-to-district conversion on the urban-rural integration development: A case study from Jiangsu Province, China

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Impact of green energy development on climate change mitigation

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