Special Issues

Land publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated EBM will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Advances on Land Cover/Land Use Ontologies for Innovative Production/Utilization of Land Information submission deadline 25 Jul 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6901 | Submission Open
Keywords: land cover; land use; interoperability; standardization; geospatial technology; semantic ontology; harmonization; classification; earth observation; remote sensing; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
Forest Ecosystems: Protection and Restoration II
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1675 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest science; degradation; ecosystem; biodiversity; strategies; resource conflict; forest exploitation; climate change; mechanisms; forest loss
The Second Edition: Urban Planning Pathways to Carbon Neutrality
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 232 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban spatial planning; carbon emission; carbon neutrality; spatial layout optimization; green transportation systems; green infrastructure
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)
Land Use/Land Cover and Natural Hazards: Interactions, Changes, and Impacts II submission deadline 26 Jul 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16858 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use/land cover (LULC); historical LULC; present LULC; LULC scenarios; natural hazards mapping; floods; landslides; erosion; geographic information systems (GIS); remote sensing (RS); statistical modeling; numerical modeling; machine learning modeling; urban and environmental planning; green infrastructure; nature-based solutions (NbS); ecosystem services
Effects of Human-Environment Interaction on Land Ecosystem since Holocene II
edited by , Shanjia Zhang and Zhiping Zhang
submission deadline 26 Jul 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 7701 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; human activity; human-environment interaction; ecosystem; holocene; subsistence strategy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)
Urban Land Use Change and Its Spatial Planning submission deadline 28 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3547 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use change; dynamic processes; planning; policy; quality; sustainability; participation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Land Resource Assessment submission deadline 29 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2864 | Submission Open
Keywords: land resource efficiency; functional differences evaluation; land resource capitalization; process evaluation and simulation; energy system language and LCA; typical model of land use; ecological security and carrying capacity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)
Landscape-Scale Sustainable Tourism Development submission deadline 30 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3851 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscape recreation potential; cultural landscape management and planning; landscape protection; urban and rural landscape vs. tourism; tourism in protected areas; ecological management of tourist areas; sustainable tourism and spatial planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Ecosystem Services Design from Single Space Solution to Landscape Vision
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 15514 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Advances in Land Consolidation and Land Ecology
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 11377 | Submission Open
Keywords: land consolidation; land ecology; sustainable land use; landscape construction; nature resource management; cross-disciplinary contributions; technology-driven solutions; land property rights; rural development; land ecological restoration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Salinity Monitoring and Modelling at Different Scales
edited by , and Tiago Brito Ramos
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 10543 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil salinity; soil hydraulic properties; pedotransfer functions; proximal soil sensing; remote sensing; electromagnetic induction; digital soil mapping; machine learning; arid and semi-arid climate; agricultural water management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Advances in Hydro-Sedimentological Modeling for Simulating LULC submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3283 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use/cover change; hydrological modeling; sediment transport; machine learning; environmental science; climate change; soil physics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Assessment and Monitoring of Land Degradation: Current Trends and Future Directions
edited by Xuchao Zhu
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2896 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil erosion; soil desertification; soil salinization; soil fertility decline; soil pollution; land degradation evaluation; land degradation monitoring; current status; future prospects
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Urban Forestry Dynamics: Management and Mechanization
edited by , and Valerio Di Stefano
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 490 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban forest; mechanization; urban forest operations; soil impact; environmental effects; technical and economic performance; new technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Sustainable and Resilient Perspectives in Digital Landscape Architecture and Planning
edited by , Mark Lindquist and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 460 | Submission Open
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; computational design; landscape architecture; landscape design; landscape planning; landscape visualization; machine learning; multisensory representation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Innovation for Resilience Biodiversity to Global Warming submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 392 | Submission Open
Keywords: biodiversity; natural capital; ecosystem services; resilience; adaptive capacity; global warming; agroecosystem; agro-ecological system; aquatic ecosystem; green infrastructure; blue infrastructure; sustainability; human well-being
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)
Impact of Pollutants on Soil Health submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 391 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use/management; soil contamination; soil health; soil amendments; soil science
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Sustainability and Peri-Urban Agriculture II submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 318 | Submission Open
Keywords: peri-urban agriculture; land sustainability; multifunctionality; farm diversification; new income sources in agriculture; urban food systems; urban– rural linkages; land use policy; social farming; rural-urban services
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Ecosystem Services and Coastal Management: Tools to Counteract Sediment Losses
edited by , Marucci Angelo and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 289 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecosystem services; coastal morphodynamics; natural capital; river ecosystems; coastal management; nature-based solutions; protected natural areas
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Digital Earth and Remote Sensing for Land Management submission deadline 2 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1092 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital earth; satellite imagery; InSAR; digital elevation models (DEM); land monitoring; land use; land cover; urban morphology; GIS tools
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
Land Use Change from Non-urban to Urban Areas: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities II submission deadline 8 Aug 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10729 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
A Livable City: Rational Land Use and Sustainable Urban Space
edited by and
submission deadline 8 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1309 | Submission Open
Keywords: rational land use; sustainable urban space; urban planning and design; spatial optimization; public participation and governance; land-use policy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
New Insights into Land-Space Ecological Restoration (LSER) Policy for Sustainable Development Goals
edited by Lingxiao Ying, Ming Luo and
submission deadline 8 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 159 | Submission Open
Keywords: land-space ecological restoration policy and strategy; ecosystem conservation and restoration approach; climate change mitigation and adaption; ecosystem services and human well-being enhancement; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Geospatial Data for Landscape Change
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submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 18200 | Submission Open
Keywords: space-time landscape analysis; landscape quality assessment and monitoring; LULC change detection; landscape 3D mapping and monitoring; landscapes in a changing climate; people’ s perception of landscape change; changes in landscape analysis approaches; landscape geospatial visualization; geospatial data of moon and mars landscape mapping
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Resilience in Historical Landscapes submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 15806 | Submission Open
Keywords: resilience; historical ecology; landscape archaeology; vegetation history; paleoecology and archaeobotany; human geography and environmental anthropology; world/global history; long-term human– environment interactions; landscape changes; geospatial (GIS) analyses
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Archaeology)
Rural–Urban Gradients: Landscape and Nature Conservation II submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2768 | Submission Open
Keywords: gradient approach; rural– urban divide; effectiveness of protected areas; ecosystem services supply; urban expansion; rural cultural landscapes; social-ecological resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Ecosystem Disturbances and Soil Properties submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2628 | Submission Open
Keywords: wildfires; herbivory; soil structure; soil nutrients; soil carbon; soil biota
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Landscape Planning for Mass Tourism in Historical Cities
edited by , Ana-Neli Ianăş and
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2622 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban planning; mass tourism; historical center; public policies; landscape planning; tourist strategies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Urban Landscape Ecological Planning and Its Environmental Effects
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1560 | Submission Open
Keywords: air pollution prevention and control plan; urban wind environment; green space and residents' health; landscape ecosystem stability analysis; urban landscape ecological security; urban renewal; biodiversity conservation planning; ecological planning and design; carbon emission; sustainable landscape management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Land Use Change and Plant Invasion: Plant Invasion Due to Changed Landscape Use, Changed Behavior and Ecological Problems of Native and Non-native Species
edited by
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open
Keywords: human impact; land abandonment; rural-urban transformation; invasion; alien species; exotic species; ecosystem services assessment; management; restoration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)
Where Land Meets Sea: Terrestrial Influences on Coastal Environments submission deadline 20 Aug 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 18190 | Submission Open
Keywords: land– sea interactions; catchment management; terrestrial discharge; estuarine and coastal ecosystems; coastal resilience; coastal water quality; aquatic health; sustainable food production
Agriculture, Forestry, Land Allocation and Environmental Sustainability
edited by Sougata Bardhan and
submission deadline 23 Aug 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9169 | Submission Open
Keywords: land allocation; agriculture; forestry; environmental sustainability; land suitability; ecosystem services
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)
Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Carbon Sequestration in Croplands submission deadline 23 Aug 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7919 | Submission Open
Keywords: carbon/nitrogen cycling; plant/soil relationships; soil management; cropping systems; tillage; spatial variability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Interrelations in Urban–Rural Transects: Planning Sustainable Transformations for Human Wellbeing
edited by Luca Barbarossa, and
submission deadline 26 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 940 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban– rural transect; urban fringes; human well-being; active mobility; sustainable urban transformation; environmental and landscape planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
The Dynamics of Biodiversity and Landscape Ecology: Patterns, Processes, and Planning
edited by
submission deadline 30 Aug 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10024 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use changes; biodiversity loss; ecosystem function and services; management measures
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Topical Advisory Panel Member Solicited Papers Series: Soil Remediation
edited by , , Ana San José Wery, , and José Joaquín Ramos Miras
submission deadline 30 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4966 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil contamination; soil remediation; groundwater contamination; environmental risks; ecotoxicology; soil decontamination
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Advancing Sustainability through Land-Related Approaches: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Investigations
edited by , , Yujia Zhang, and Yuzhu Zang
submission deadline 30 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4648 | Submission Open
Keywords: land system science; sustainability science; landscape ecology; land system architecture; land management; land consolidation; spatial governance; landscape planning; geodesign; transdisciplinarity; actionable knowledge
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Feature Papers for the ‘Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues’ Section: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
edited by
submission deadline 30 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1379 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable land management; socio-economi implications of land use; political dimensions of land governance; land tenure systems; land rights and access; equitable land distribution; rural development and land policies; land-based livelihoods; land use planning; urbanization and land use; land degradation and restoration; gender and land ownership; climate change adaptation and land resilience; ecosystem services and land management; land conflicts and dispute resolution; land-based investments and governance; monitoring and evaluation of land-related SDGs; land administration; zero hunger (SDG 2); life on land (SDG 15); reduced inequalities (SDG 10); climate action (SDG 13)
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Sustainable Agricultural Land Management towards a Net-Zero Pathway
edited by , and Xin Yang
submission deadline 30 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 792 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable agricultural land use management; greenhouse gas emissions mitigation; food security; climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus)
New Insights in Soil Quality and Management in Karst Ecosystem II
edited by , Fen Huang, and
submission deadline 30 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 571 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil quality; karst landforms; soil erosion; land-use; assessment and monitoring method of soil quality
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Agricultural Land Management to Meet Future Global Food Demand (Second Edition) submission deadline 30 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 543 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable land management; food security; agricultural intensification; crop diversification; agricultural adaptations to climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
GeoAI for Land Use Observations, Analysis and Forecasting submission deadline 30 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 223 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; land use and land cover; GeoAI; AI and machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
Landscape Heritage: Geomorphology, Geoheritage and Geoparks submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 21866 | Submission Open
Keywords: geomorphology; geodiversity; geosites; geomorphosites; geoheritage; geoparks; geoconservation; geoeducation; land planning; landscape analysis; environmental education; ecosystems and geoparks; ecosystem services; natural protected areas
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Geospatial Data in Landscape Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12632 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscape resistance; connectivity; turnover; movement and modelling; refugia; isolation by distance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Spatial Optimization and Sustainable Development of Land Use submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9307 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use; sustainable development; spatial optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Contribution of Trail Paths to the Protection and Promotion of the Natural Environment submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7954 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use planning; trail path; natural environment protection; urban and rural areas; cultural heritage; wildlife ecosystem
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Sustainable Urban Greenspace Planning, Design and Management
edited by
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6158 | Submission Open
Keywords: greenspace; sustainable city; landscape planning; landscape management; green infrastructures; green roof and green wall; urban landscape; urban design
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Effects of Land Use on the Ecohydrology of River Basin in Accordance with Climate Change II submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5082 | Submission Open
Keywords: biodiversity conservation; spatial modeling; climate policy; land management; soil and water conservation; ecosystem services; nature-based solutions (NBS); ecohydrology; urban resilience; sponge city concepts
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)
Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) and Sustainable Development
edited by , Eva Maria Unger and Abdullah Kara
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4502 | Submission Open
Keywords: land administration domain model (LADM); sustainable development goals (SDGs); land value; marine space; poverty eradication; food security; gender equality; sustainable urban planning; disaster management; land tenure; land governance; land use planning; spatial data infrastructure; urbanization and rural development; environmental sustainability; social equity; economic growth; inclusive land policies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
Gender and Land submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2849 | Submission Open
Keywords: gender and agriculture; gender and climate change; gender and land tenure; gender and land use; intersectionality and land
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
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