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Land Take and Value Capture: Towards More Efficient Land Use

Sustainability 2022, 14(2), 778; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14020778
by Francesco Botticini 1,*, Armands Auzins 2, Peter Lacoere 3, Odette Lewis 4 and Michela Tiboni 1
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Sustainability 2022, 14(2), 778; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14020778
Submission received: 4 November 2021 / Revised: 20 December 2021 / Accepted: 27 December 2021 / Published: 11 January 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Public Value Capture)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This manuscript should be revised by the authors. Next, there are some revisions for the presentations. I recommend several issues that should be addressed:

 

1-     The abstract need to be revised.

  • Please refine the purpose of this study more clearly in the introduction.

3-     By the end of the introduction, there should be a clear sense of the Novelty of this work as well as the scientific justification for this manuscript, and the authors are requested to take care of this issue carefully and present in the revised version.

  • “On the other hand”, which are mentioned five times should proceed with “on the one hand”.

5-     In Figure 1, 8 and 7, there are some important features missing on the map such as, latitude, longitude, scale, names, legend, and north direction.

  • The author should clearly explain what his own contribution to the methodology was (his own development).

7-     Some sentences are long. To improve readability, consider breaking those into multiple sentences.

8-     The whole manuscript should be revised for English errors and for inappropriate use of commas, full stops, parentheses or missing spaces between words. Authors should be aware that all these small issues denote lack of rigorousness, which may put a question mark even on the accuracy of the determinations.

9-     Please check the "Reference" section to correct several errors and inconsistencies with respect to the journal's reference format.

 

Author Response

please, see the reply in the attached cover letter

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Please highlight the key points in the abstract.


The introduction should further highlight the scientific problems, motivations, and possible innovations of the paper.

The originality of the paper needs to be clarified. What is the contribution and why the contribution is important?

"Land take in Europe: grounding principles and assessment": what role is this section in your work?

Please organize the paper according to the structure of introduction, literature review, theoretical framework, research methods and data sources, research results, discussions, and research conclusions.The current structure is more like a research report.

some references to consult:

Wind-sensitive urban planning and design: Precinct ventilation performance and its potential for local warming mitigation in an open midrise gridiron precinct. Journal of Building Engineering, 29, 101145.

Understanding land surface temperature impact factors based on local climate zones, Sustainable Cities and Society (2021), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2021.102818.

Demand prediction and regulation zoning of urban-industrial land: Evidence from Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Agglomeration, China. Environ Monit Assess 191, 412 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-7547-4

Author Response

please, see the reply in the attached cover letter

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

This is a well done study. 

Reviewer 2 Report

It is fine.

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