About this Research Topic
Cultivated land is an important resource for human survival and development. Healthy, ecological, and highly efficient cultivated forms the basis of modern agriculture. Rapid urbanization and industrialization have promoted rapid economic development and improved livelihoods, leading to diversified food and commodity production and consumption. Intensive cultivated land use and overwhelming dependence on fertilizers and pesticides have led to agricultural non-point source pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions challenge the ecological environment and human society’s sustainable development. In addition, serious cultivated land degradation problems, such as abandonment, pollution and erosion have emerged due to increased pressures on cultivated land use.
This Research Topic focuses on the theories, practices and models for cultivated land resources management and society sustainable development. Although, previous studies were conducted using field investigation, cultivated land use modeling, cultivated land quality evaluation to protect the valuable cultivated land. We encourage the colleague to use long-term experimental and published data, evaluation indexes and models to reveal the changing of the cultivated quality during rapid urbanization and its feedback to the climate change. The responsible sustainable management measures are also advocated in this Research Topic.
We welcome submissions with subtopics of interest including, but are not limited to:
• Cultivated land protection and management
• Degraded cultivated land consolidation and restoration
• Agricultural non-point source pollution
• Cultivated land that supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Cultivated land use and climate change
• Migration, agriculture, and land use
This Research Topic focuses on the theories, practices and models for cultivated land resources management and society sustainable development. Although, previous studies were conducted using field investigation, cultivated land use modeling, cultivated land quality evaluation to protect the valuable cultivated land. We encourage the colleague to use long-term experimental and published data, evaluation indexes and models to reveal the changing of the cultivated quality during rapid urbanization and its feedback to the climate change. The responsible sustainable management measures are also advocated in this Research Topic.
We welcome submissions with subtopics of interest including, but are not limited to:
• Cultivated land protection and management
• Degraded cultivated land consolidation and restoration
• Agricultural non-point source pollution
• Cultivated land that supports the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Cultivated land use and climate change
• Migration, agriculture, and land use
Keywords: Cultivated land, Sustainable development, Land degradation, rapid urbanization, agricultural non-point source pollution
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