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Land, Volume 10, Issue 5

May 2021 - 107 articles

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Cover Story: Virtual reality offers new forms of representation and geovisualization. In the cover photo, Las Tereseitas Beach (Tenerife, Spain) is displayed using a game engine VR environment, in which twenty-five architecture students performed landscape design tasks. The 3D environment perception was analyzed through the Questionnaire on User eXperience in Immersive Virtual Environments. The motivational factor was part of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory. Results showed a high 3D environment perception during geovisualization in the nine subcategories (sense of presence, engagement, immersion, flow, usability, emotion, judgment, experience consequence, and technology adoption) analyzed. The game engine-based teaching approach carried out has been motivating for students, with values over 5 (1–7 Likert scale) in the five subscales considered. View this paper

Articles (107)

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
12,394 Views
28 Pages

20 May 2021

Urban regeneration governance (URG) has become a popular issue in academia, politics and civil society because it has a significant influence on the success of urban regeneration activities. However, a comprehensive review on URG has yet to be produc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,337 Views
16 Pages

20 May 2021

Climate and socioeconomic and policy factors are found to stimulate land use changes along with changes in greenhouse gas emissions and adaption behaviors. Most of the studies investigating land use changes in the U.S. have not considered potential s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,165 Views
18 Pages

The Spatial Effect of Administrative Division on Land-Use Intensity

  • Pengrui Wang,
  • Chen Zeng,
  • Yan Song,
  • Long Guo,
  • Wenping Liu and
  • Wenting Zhang

20 May 2021

Land-use intensity (LUI) is one of the most direct manifestations of regional land use efficiency. The study of cross-administrative LUI in urban agglomerations is of great importance for the sustainable development of land, new urbanization, and ter...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,755 Views
19 Pages

20 May 2021

Despite the increased usage of global soil property maps, a proper review of the maps rarely takes place. This study aims to explore the options for such a review with an application for the S-World global soil property database. Global soil organic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,131 Views
15 Pages

19 May 2021

The world can learn two key lessons from spontaneous settlements: (i) design so as to adapt to human biology; and (ii) design to save energy. Timeless processes of urban growth and sustainability have forced societies to conserve energy. Yet, nowaday...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,712 Views
31 Pages

19 May 2021

Land system change has been identified as one of four major Earth system processes where change has passed a destabilizing threshold. A historical record of landscape change is required to understand the impacts change has had on human and natural sy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,935 Views
18 Pages

Spatial-Temporal Changes and Driving Force Analysis of Green Space in Coastal Cities of Southeast China over the Past 20 Years

  • Huayan Weng,
  • Yongchao Gao,
  • Xinyi Su,
  • Xiaodong Yang,
  • Fangyan Cheng,
  • Renfeng Ma,
  • Yanju Liu,
  • Wen Zhang and
  • Liwen Zheng

19 May 2021

The purpose of this study is to reveal the spatial-temporal change and driving factors of green space in coastal cities of southeast China over the past 20 years. A supervised classification method combining support vector machines (SVMs) and visual...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,471 Views
16 Pages

19 May 2021

Access to land for many people in Africa is insecure and continues to pose risks to poverty, hunger, forced evictions, and social conflicts. The delivery of land tenure in many cases has not been adequately addressed. Fit-for-purpose spatial framewor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,398 Views
31 Pages

19 May 2021

Ordination methods are used in ecological multivariate statistics in order to reduce the number of dimensions and arrange individual variables along environmental variables. Geoheritage designation is a new challenge for conservation planning. Quanti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,962 Views
33 Pages

19 May 2021

World War II’s military activities and the post-war devastation period destroyed many European cities and towns. One of the areas that was struck the most was former East Prussia, currently located in Poland and the Kaliningrad Region (the Russian Fe...

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