1. Rural land engineering and poverty alleviation: Lessons from typical regions in China

   • Yansui Liu
   • Yongsheng Wang

   OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 643 - 657

2. Characterizing the changing environment of cropland in the Songnen Plain, Northeast China, from 1990 to 2015

   • Yuan Zhang
   • Shuying Zang
   • Jiaguo Qi

   OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 658 - 674

3. Rural transformation: Cherry growing on the Guanzhong Plain, China and the Adelaide Hills, South Australia

   • Guy M. Robinson
   • Bingjie Song

   OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 675 - 701

4. Detecting spatio-temporal changes of arable land and construction land in the Beijing-Tianjin corridor during 2000–2015

   • Liying Guo
   • Liping Di
   • Qing Tian

   OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 702 - 718

5. Land use and landscape change driven by gully land consolidation project: A case study of a typical watershed in the Loess Plateau

   • Yurui Li
   • Yi Li
   • Yansui Liu

   OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 719 - 729

6. Quantifying the vertical distribution pattern of land-use conversion in the loess hilly region of northern Shaanxi Province 1995–2015

   • Zhi Cao
   • Yurui Li
   • Lingfan Yang

   OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 730 - 748

7. Multi-dimensional expansion of urban space through the lens of land use: The case study of Nanjing City, China

   • Weifeng Qiao
   • Junbo Gao
   • Min Cao

   OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 749 - 761

8. Practice of barren hilly land consolidation and its impact: A typical case study from Fuping County, Hebei Province of China

   • Yifan Wu
   • Weilun Feng
   • Yang Zhou

   OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 762 - 778

9. Geodetection analysis of the driving forces and mechanisms of erosion in the hilly-gully region of northern Shaanxi Province

   • Xuefeng Yuan
   • Jichang Han
   • Yongsheng Wang

   OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 779 - 790

10. Evaluating the soil quality of newly created farmland in the hilly and gully region on the Loess Plateau, China

    • Yiping Chen
    • Junhua Wu
    • Yi Wang

    OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 791 - 802

11. Simulating land use for protecting food crop areas in northeast Thailand using GIS and Dyna-CLUE

    • Kanda Sakayarote
    • Rajendra P. Shrestha

    OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 803 - 817

12. Land engineering and its role for sustainable agriculture in the agro-pastoral ecotone: A case study of Yulin, Shaanxi Province, China

    • Wenhao Wu
    • Zongfeng Chen
    • Chuanyao Song

    OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 818 - 830

13. Spatiotemporal heterogeneity and influencing mechanism of ecosystem services in the Pearl River Delta from the perspective of LUCC

    • Rubo Zhou
    • Meizhen Lin
    • Zhuo Wu

    OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 831 - 845

14. Measuring the area of cultivated land reclaimed from rural settlements using an unmanned aerial vehicle

    • Cunjian Yang
    • Guanghong Xu
    • Xiao Xiang

    OriginalPaper 17 April 2019 Pages: 846 - 860