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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Agritourism in Inland Areas: An Opportunity for the Development of Rural Areas submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1965 | Submission Open
Keywords: agritourism; agroecoturism; authenticity; agricultural landscapes; cultural landscapes; organic farming and tourism; rural areas
Planning for Sustainable Urban and Land Development submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1116 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Climate Mitigation Potential of Urban Ecological Restoration
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 166 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecological restoration projects; urbanization; urban greening; urban surface temperature; vegetation management; ecological restoration; climate mitigation; driving mechanisms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)
Optimizing Land Development: Trends and Best Practices
edited by and Aneta Chmielewska
submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 68 | Submission Open
Keywords: land development; optimization strategies; land use dynamics; human– environment dynamics; contemporary trends; best practices; land/land-use/land-cover change; land management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Historical Data for Natural Hazard Risk Mitigation and Land Use Planning submission deadline 5 Sep 2024 | 11 articles | Viewed by 27528 | Submission Open
Keywords: documentary sources; historical documents and materials; historical archives; qualitative and visual materials; hazard database(s); geohazard reconstruction and analysis; historical seismic scenarios; land use planning and/or zoning; disaster and risk reduction; cultural heritage and resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Plant-Soil Interactions in Agricultural Systems
edited by , Qianmin Jia, and
submission deadline 5 Sep 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10352 | Submission Open
Keywords: drought; water use efficiency; plant‒soil‒animal interaction; fertilizers; organic and inorganic fertilizers; plastic film mulching; remote sensing technology to plant‒soil interaction
Soil Legacies, Land Use Change and Forest and Grassland Restoration submission deadline 5 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2178 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest restoration; grassland restoration; soil legacies; land use change; soil carbon
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Territory Spatial Planning and Regional Sustainable Development submission deadline 5 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 1185 | Submission Open
Keywords: territorial imbalances; territorial cohesion; spatial planning; sustainable regional development; development policies and programs; urban polycentrism; urban– rural partnerships
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Geoparks, Geotrails, and Geotourism – Linking Geology, Geoheritage, and Geoeducation
edited by Margaret Brocx and
submission deadline 10 Sep 2024 | 20 articles | Viewed by 48689 | Submission Open
Keywords: geoparks; geotrails; geosite; geoheritage; landscape heritage
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Archaeology)
Urban Landscape Transformation vs. Heritage submission deadline 10 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7081 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban landscape transformation; heritage preservation; active vs. passive land use; cultural heritage; natural heritage; heritage urbanism; forgotten urban layers; sustainability and resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Strategic Spatial Planning in Urban and Regional Sustainability Transitions
edited by and
submission deadline 11 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7143 | Submission Open
Keywords: strategic spatial planning; land use changes; sustainability transitions; urban and regional development; multi-level and multi-actor governance; stakeholder engagement; spatial justice
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Land System
edited by
submission deadline 11 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3257 | Submission Open
Keywords: land system assessment; environmental assessment; environmental management; land policy; climate change adaptation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)
Urban Resilience and Heritage Management submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5017 | Submission Open
Keywords: cities recovery; cultural property potentials; good practices; heritage stakeholders and actors; heritage values and indicators; information technologies and systems; resilient cities and territories; sustainable development goals; urban planning and politics; withstanding risks and vulnerability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Land Degradation in Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) : Assessment and Conservation submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3344 | Submission Open
Keywords: land degradation; environmentally sensitive areas; land degradation neutrality; land management; innovative land restoration; conservation solutions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)
Urban Planning and Housing Market II submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2819 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban planning; spatial planning; housing market; housing needs; housing demand and supply; real-estate value; spatial analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Innovative Research Approaches & Practices Towards Sustainable Land Management, Preservation & Restoration (Second Edition) submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1755 | Submission Open
Keywords: land degradation; desertification; soil erosion; drought; ecosystem services; biodiversity; terrain evaluation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Land Systems and Transformation to Sustainability
edited by
submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open
Keywords: nature-based solutions; sustainable development goals; innovative land systems; land use science; management and policy transformation; multi-scale exemplars
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Urban Green Spaces: An Effective Tool to Regulate Urban Climate and Biodiversity submission deadline 20 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4157 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban green spaces; urban climate and climate change in cities; urban biodiversity; urban trees and vegetation management; meteorological monitoring of urban green areas; Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Urban Cool Island (UCI); thermal comfort; natural and artificial climate-friendly materials; nature-based solutions and good practices in cities; plant species selection criteria in cities; water and maintenance requirements of urban vegetation
Urban Ecosystem Services and Climate Resilience: Trends and Challenges submission deadline 20 Sep 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1473 | Submission Open
Keywords: benefits from urban green/blue spaces; urban ecosystem management; climate adaptation and mitigation; urban human– nature relations; valuation of urban ecosystem services; governance; spatial planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Brownfield (Re)development and Climate Change Implications—Conflicting Dynamics between Pressure(s) to Reclaim and Capacity to Reclaim Contaminated Land
edited by
submission deadline 20 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 112 | Submission Open
Keywords: contaminated land; brownfields; land reclamation; redevelopments; environmental risk assessment; risk management; climate change impacts; climate change adaptation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)
Digital Mapping for Ecological Land
edited by , Juhua Luo and
submission deadline 23 Sep 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6978 | Submission Open
Keywords: natural resources; ecological environment; lake; wetland; agriculture; remote sensing; big data analysis; GIS analysis; ecological restoration
Energy Colonialism, Extractivism, Socio-Ecological Transitions, and Land Planning
edited by , Antonio Ortega Santos, , Chiara Olivieri, , and Josefa Sánchez Contreras
submission deadline 25 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 21305 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy transition; biodiversity; renewable energy; megaprojects; energy colonialism; extractivism; socioenvironmental impacts; human rights impacts; territorial defense; territorial planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Sustainable Evaluation Methodology of Urban and Regional Planning
edited by Yilun Liu, and
submission deadline 26 Sep 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5011 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable evaluation; urban and regional planning; geospatial big data; GeoAI; land use optimization; land use evaluation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Landscape Governance in the Age of Social Media (Second Edition) submission deadline 27 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2481 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Strategic Planning for Urban Sustainability submission deadline 27 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 353 | Submission Open
Keywords: infill redevelopment; urban and suburban retrofit; novel approaches to land use planning; new forms of eco-urbanism; land use planning strategies; tools; and instruments; coordinated land use and transportation planning interventions; land markets and sustainable urbanism; greenway planning and urbanization; parks and urban growth; infrastructure and commercial interventions; science and business parks; vacant land and community economic development; green gentrification; land value capture mechanisms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Land Use Systems from Resource Nexus Perspectives submission deadline 27 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 87 | Submission Open
Keywords: SDGs; resource coupling; resource policy; water-energy-food-materials-land nexus; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus)
Feature Papers for Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions Section
edited by
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 15840 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban landscapes; urban land use change; urban heat island and climate change; urbanization impacts on ecosystems and their services; biodiversity; wildlife; and nature conservation in urban ecosystems; urban planning and governance of green-blue infrastructures; green infrastructure and nature-based solutions; sustainable cities; environmental justice in cities; technology for cities and big data
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Tillage Methods on Soil Properties and Crop Growth submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6526 | Submission Open
Keywords: conservation tillage; no tillage; zero tillage; tillage practices; crop yields; soil physics; soil chemistry; soil biology; soil microbiology; soil erosion; nitrate leaching; soil organic carbon; greenhouse gas emissions; water use efficiency
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Deciphering Land-System Dynamics in China
edited by , , Yanfeng Jiang and Chao Liu
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6107 | Submission Open
Keywords: land systems; theories of land system change; land degradation; human-environment systems; man– land relations; land use/land cover change; land use transition; urban land management; rural land use; sustainable land use; urban sprawl and regeneration; urban– rural migration and housing affairs
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Landscape-Based Spatial Planning in Europe submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5873 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscape planning; spatial planning; European landscape convention; landscape-based solutions; regional planning; spatial policies
Global Savanna Variation in Form and Function: Theory & Practice
edited by Kelley Crews and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5523 | Submission Open
Keywords: savanna systems; land grabs and land tenure; disturbance ecology; tree: grass ratio; remote sensing; socio-ecological systems; landuse / landcover change; ecosystem services; conservation policy and econometric modeling; climate change and ecological feedbacks in savannas
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
The Impact of Extreme Weather on Land Degradation and Conservation submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4697 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil degradation; soil conservation; agricultural land; climate change; weather extremes; land degradation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)
Assessing Land Subsidence Using Remote Sensing Data
edited by , Talib Oliver-Cabrera and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3040 | Submission Open
Keywords: land subsidence; remote sensing; LiDAR; synthetic aperture radar; radar interferometry; GPS; groundwater withdrawals; mining; sediment compaction; hazard mapping; subsidence risk assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
Local and Regional Planning for Sustainable Development submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2933 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscape architecture; territorial design; territorial marketing; sustainable development; sustainable design; local and regional planning; stakeholders; environmental impact
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Land Use Change (LUC) and Resources and Environmental Carrying Capacity (RECC) in Tropics and Sub-tropics
edited by , , Guilin Liu and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2728 | Submission Open
Keywords: land cover and land use change; remote sensing; algorithm; monitoring change; environmental impacts; resources and environmental carrying capacity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Planning for Socio-Spatial Justice and Quality of Life in the Face of Competing Urban Development Dynamics
edited by , Angeliki Paidakaki and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1172 | Submission Open
Keywords: socio-spatial justice; spatial inequalities; socioeconomic inequalities; quality of life; urban sustainability; spatial analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Celebrating 30 Years of International Day against Desertification, and Drought submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1021 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; sustainable land management; soil erosion; desertification indicators; desertification models; desertification processes; drought; food & water security
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Cadastre and Land Management in Support of Sustainable Real Estate Markets II submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 352 | Submission Open
Keywords: cadastre; land management; land tenure
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Vegetation Spatial Dynamics and Plant Diversity Trends of Natural and Urban Landscapes submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 294 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate changes; phytosociology; geobotany; vascular flora; plant chorology; plant biodiversity; alpha diversity; vegetation; invasive alien species; ecological data analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Land Resource Use Efficiency and Sustainable Land Use
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 249 | Submission Open
Keywords: land resources; land use efficiency; land management; rural industrial integration; land conversion; agricultural labor productivity
Contemporary Challenges for Urban Built Environment and Landscape Conservation: Social, Cultural and Economic Issues submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 201 | Submission Open
Keywords: heritage conservation; cultural landscape; built environment; urban planning; economic evaluation; reuse; participation; social value; decision-making; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Estimation of Forest Biomass from High and Medium Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery
edited by Adélia Sousa and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open
Keywords: image classification; spectral indices; sustainability; stand structure; datasets; multiple scale; modeling; forest biomass; carbon sequestration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
2nd Edition: Land Use Change and Its Environmental Effects
edited by , and
submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 7252 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use change; remote sensing monitoring; environmental effects; model simulation; land– food– energy– water nexus; sustainable development goals
Integrating Remote Sensing and Geospatial Big Data for Land Use Mapping and Monitoring (Second Edition) submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 108 | Submission Open
Keywords: data fusion; machine learning; remote sensing; geospatial big data
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
Monitoring Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity under Land Use Change
edited by Lindsay Claire Maskell and Claire Wood
submission deadline 2 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 413 | Submission Open
Keywords: land-use and land-cover (LULC) change; biodiversity; ecology; protected areas; landscape connectivity; green space; invasive species; ecosystem services; ecosystem disservices; and well-being
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Ground Deformation Monitoring via Remote Sensing Time Series Data submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6112 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; change detection; ground deformation; PS-InSAR; monitoring; synthetic aperture radar; time series; trend analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
Topical Advisory Panel Member Solicited Papers Series: Land Use Changes in Rural Areas submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3288 | Submission Open
Keywords: land change; land use modelling; rural dynamics; rural spatial planning; rural land management; cultural landscapes; sustainable farming; sustainable rural development; depopulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Social–Ecological Ecosystems in Rewilding Urban Environment: Multidisciplinary Approaches for Multifaceted Wild Natures submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 572 | Submission Open
Keywords: wild urban nature; urban voids; regeneration policies; socio-ecological characters; socio-environmental movements; urban biodiversity; citizen science; contested natures
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Soil Security of Peatland Ecosystems: Risk Assessment, Pollution Prevention and Restoration
edited by and Marios Drosos
submission deadline 18 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 334 | Submission Open
Keywords: peatlands; soil security; restoration; peatland ecosystems; water regime of peatlands
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Quantification of Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport in Basins submission deadline 23 Oct 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10656 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil erosion; stream sediment transport; field measurements; laboratory measurements; machine learning methods; fuzzy logic; constructive and management measures
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