1. Retrospect and prospect of Geographical Sciences in China: A comparison with the Strategic Directions for Geography in the USA

   • Jun Sun
   • Yujun Pan
   • Youde Wu

   OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 963 - 977

2. Comparisons of cropland area from multiple datasets over the past 300 years in the traditional cultivated region of China

   • Fanneng He
   • Shicheng Li
   • Junhu Dai

   OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 978 - 990

3. Carbon emissions trends with optimal balanced economic growth of China and the USA and some abatement options for China

   • Zheng Wang
   • Yongbin Zhu
   • Yongming Peng

   OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 991 - 1004

4. Change analysis of rice area and production in China during the past three decades

   • Zhenhuan Liu
   • Zhengguo Li
   • Huajun Tang

   OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 1005 - 1018

5. Rubber plantation and its relationship with topographical factors in the border region of China, Laos and Myanmar

   • Xiaona Liu
   • Zhiming Feng
   • Zhen You

   OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 1019 - 1040

6. Underlying motivation for land use change: A case study on the variation of agricultural factor productivity in Xinjiang, China

   • Huiyi Zhu

   OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 1041 - 1051

7. Vegetation greenness modeling in response to climate change for Northeast Thailand

   • Watinee Thavorntam
   • Netnapid Tantemsapya

   OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 1052 - 1068

8. Quantifying temporal changes in Tornionjoki river ice breakup dates and spring temperatures in Lapland since 1802

   • Samuli Helama
   • Jianmin Jiang
   • Mauri Timonen

   OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 1069 - 1079

9. Remote sensing monitoring on regional crop water productivity in the Haihe River Basin

   • Fapeng Li
   • Chesheng Zhan
   • Jun Xiong

   OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 1080 - 1090

10. Soil erosion and its response to the changes of precipitation and vegetation cover on the Loess Plateau

    • Wenyi Sun
    • Quanqin Shao
    • Jiyuan Liu

    OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 1091 - 1106

11. Trends in precipitation over the low latitude highlands of Yunnan, China

    • Hui Fan
    • Jinming Hu
    • Daming He

    OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 1107 - 1122

12. Natural capital accounting in Xi’an City of western China during 1995–2011

    • Caihong Ma
    • Zhiyuan Ren
    • Xiaoyan Li

    OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 1123 - 1135

13. Regional suitability for settling rural migrants in urban China

    • Yangfen Chen
    • Jieyong Wang
    • Xiande Li

    OriginalPaper 04 October 2013 Pages: 1136 - 1152