Best Paper Award

Dear Colleagues,

The Editorial Team would like to congratulate the winners of the Land 2020 Best Paper Award, who were chosen by a selection committee chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Andrew Millington. Following a review process by the Evaluation Committee, four winners were selected. The recipients of the Land 2020 Best Paper Award are as follows:

Reviews:

Rank 1 Award: (600 CHF + one free publication)
Impact of Agrochemicals on Soil Microbiota and Management: A Review by Ram Swaroop Meena, Sandeep Kumar,Rahul Datta, Rattan Lal, Vinod Vijayakumar, Martin Brtnicky, Mahaveer Prasad Sharma,Gulab Singh Yadav, Manoj Kumar Jhariya, Chetan Kumar Jangir, Shamina Imran Pathan,Tereza Dokulilova, Vaclav Pecina and Theodore Danso Marfo
Land 2020, 9(2), 34; doi:10.3390/land9020034

Rank 2 Award: (400 CHF + one free publication)
From City- to Site-Dimension: Assessing the Urban Ecosystem Services of Different Types of Green Infrastructure by Patrycia Brzoska andAiga Spāģe
Land 2020, 9(5), 150; doi:10.3390/land9050150

Articles:

Rank 1 Award: (500 CHF + one free publication)
Not Simply Green: Nature-Based Solutions as a Concept and Practical Approach for Sustainability Studies and Planning Agendas in Cities by Diana Dushkova and Dagmar Haase
Land 2020, 9(1), 19; doi:10.3390/land9010019

Rank 2 Award: (300 CHF + one free publication)
A Theoretical Framework for Bolstering Human-Nature Connections and Urban Resilience via Green Infrastructure by Jackie Parker and Greg D. Simpson
Land 2020, 9(8), 252; doi:10.3390/land9080252

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Land 2020 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Land.

Land Editorial Office

 

Land 2020 Best Paper Award

 

Eligibility and Requirements

– All papers published in Land will be eligible (Both regular and Special Issue submissions).

 

Past Winners

 

Year: 

2020 2019

Winner

Rahul Datta

Department of Agrochemistry, Soil Science, Microbiology and Plant Nutrition, Faculty of Agrisciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemedelska 1, Brno 61300, Czech Republic

Patrycia Brzoska

Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development, 01217 Dresden, Germany

Dagmar Haase

1 Department of Geography, Humboldt University Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany 2 Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Science—UFZ, Department of Comp. Landscape Ecology, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany

Jackie Parker

1 Environmental and Conservation Sciences, College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University, South Street, Perth, WA 6150, Australia 2 Manager of Parks, Leisure and Environment, City of Belmont, 215 Wright Street, Perth, WA 610

Winner

Melanie Zurba

School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University, P.O. BOX 15000, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada

Luciene Gomes

School of Geography, Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

Bianca E. Lopez

National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), University of Maryland, 1 Park Place, Suite 300, Annapolis, MD 21401, USA

Marcello De Maria

1. School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Reading RG6 6AH, UK 2 Data Analyst and Researcher-Land Portal Foundation, Postbus 716, 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands

Award Committee

Dr. Andrew Millington Chairman