Each downtown commercial district has a different degree of mixed land use. Some commercial areas are a huge cluster with monotonous retail use, while others consists of a wide variety of land uses including residential or office uses as well. Locational factors such as proximity to other...

With rapid urbanization, land use change has shown a close negative relationship with ecosystem services, especially in urban agglomerations. Thus, rational urban planning involving key ecosystem services (ESs) in highly urbanized areas has become urgent and crucial in urban ecology and urban...

Baiyangdian wetland is called “Kidney in north China”, providing a wide range of ecosystem services that are important for human wellbeing. In the past few decades, the water scarcity and eco-environmental problems resulted from climate changes and human activities have become more and more...

The proactive disclosure of relevant information is very important to get services since it is one of the powerful tools in terms of dominating others. Hence, in land management services, information is a very important element both for service providers and service recipients. Therefore,...

Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) are becoming increasingly common in freshwater and coastal waters around the world. Eutrophication and the impairment of water quality due to the toxins produced by HABs are especially concerning for water bodies used as a drinking water supply. Freshwater systems are...

We study the impact of China's land use regulation on firm productivity. Our theoretical analysis shows that a restriction on the supply of industrial land will reduce the number of operating firms and harm their average productivity. We employ a natural experiment based on geography and find...

We provide a full characterisation of the socially optimal allocation of urban land to households and firms in a long narrow city with centrally located amenities. Households support linear costs of commuting to their workplace, and linear costs of travelling to the centre to benefit from...

Flooding has become more common due to global climate change, challenging urban resilience. However, there needs to be more research on hedge flood risk while conducting long-term series and refined land use development. To bridge this gap, we built a resilient land-use decision-making framework...

The international conventions on environments, i.e., biodiversity (UNCBD), land degradation (UNCCD), and climate change (UNFCCC) stipulates country-level policies, programs, and actions in sustaining the environmental well-being. This study is intended to connect the three conventions that has...

Human actions can alter the local and regional climate, particularly via land use. We assess the impact of the Great Plains Shelterbelt, a large-scale forestation program in the 1930s which planted 220 million trees across six US Midwestern states. The program led to a regional increase in...