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Identifying where and when urban renewal occurs: a continuous change detection-based framework using two decades' worth of Landsat data

Urban Renewal & Remote Sensing 🏙️ What if satellites could tell us when a city breathes, rebuilds, and transforms? A new study used 20 years of Landsat satellite data to map urban renewal in Beijing—capturing not just where old buildings were torn down and rebuilt, but when and how fast the changes happened.

Socio-economic impacts, challenges, and strategies for whole-region comprehensive land consolidation in China

Whole-region Comprehensive Land Consolidation Author: Qi Zhang Updated: Jan 2025

Understanding the role of land attachment in the emergence of hollow villages based on the agent-based complex system framework

Rural hollowing and land attachment This study aims to understand the emergence of hollow villages with the abandonment of cropland and homestead using a spatially explicit agent-based model. The process of rural hollowing can be explained by social-ecological feedback between land use and labor migration.

Complex adaptive systems science in the era of global sustainability crisis

Author: Qi Zhang Updated: January 2025

Dataset to quantify spillover effects among concurrent green initiatives

This paper describes the dataset for assessing the spillover effects of concurrently implemented policies. Methods for assessing spillover effects among concurrent green initiatives Author: Qi Zhang Updated: November 2024

Crop-raiding by wildlife and cropland abandonment as feedback from nature-based solutions: Lessons from case studies in China and Nepal

Nature-based solutions and wildlife-human conflicts This study investigates household land-use decisions on cropland abandonment under the influence of crop-raiding by wildlife. The research integrates satellite remote sensing, statistical modeling, and multilevel analysis.

Remittance from migrants reinforces forest recovery for China’s reforestation policy

Reforestation Policy & Rural Livelihoods: Migratio & Remittance This study investigates the role remittance play in sustaining forest and livelihoods. The experiment is based on China’s largest payments for ecosystem services policy, Congversion of Cropland to Forest Program (CCFP).

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