Spatial Decision Support for Controlled Environment Agriculture in Cold Regions: Evidence from Alberta, Canada

A Planning-Oriented GIS Screening Framework for Sustainable Agrivoltaic Planning: A Connecticut Case Study

Urban and peri-urban regions increasingly face climate-related pressures, competing land-use demands, and the need to expand renewable-energy infrastructure while maintaining agricultural land and landscape functions. Agrivoltaics, which combines photovoltaic energy generation with agricultural production, represents a...

Integrating Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and GIS to Safeguard Ecological Connectivity in Renewable Energy and Transport Infrastructure Planning: A Case Study from Western Macedonia, Greece

Renewable-energy and transport infrastructure can fragment habitats and weaken ecological connectivity when siting is addressed only at the project-permitting stage. Using Western Macedonia, Greece, with detailed application in the Regional Unit of Florina, this study develops a screening-level decision-support framewo...

Mapping Ecological Sensitivity for Restoration-Oriented Planning in Mediterranean Mountain Landscapes

Effective environmental monitoring and sustainable landscape management require spatially explicit approaches that can identify ecologically sensitive areas and support targeted conservation and restoration planning. Although Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and multi-criteria decision-making approaches are widely...

Climate-triggered land transition and sustainable district planning: GIS-based allocation for housing, renewable energy and open space

This study aims to present a GIS-based spatial decision-support workflow that converts climate-driven agricultural threshold crossing into proactive planning for district-scale housing, renewable-energy infrastructure and open-space protection. DSSAT-CERES-Wheat is used to define a planning trigger for rain-...

Geoinformation-Based Simulation of Policy-Oriented Land-Use Scenarios for SDG-Oriented Spatial Planning in a Resource-Depleted City: Evidence from Huangshi, China

Rapid urban development has intensified conflicts between land development and ecological conservation, making spatially explicit land-use planning increasingly important for resource-depleted cities. This study develops a geoinformation-based decision-support framework for Huangshi, China, by integrating multi-scenari...

Spatially integrated assessment of urban road-safety conditions in complex terrain: coupling environmental resistance with socio-technical indicators