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Time to Rethink Rural Landscape Planning for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 November 2023) | Viewed by 30267

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Dr. María Jesús Montero-Parejo

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Department of Graphical Expression, University of Extremadura, 10600 Plasencia, Spain
Interests: geographic information systems; planning; territory management and planning; public participation; graphic design
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Dr. Jacinto Garrido Velarde

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Research Institute for Sustainable Territorial Development, University of Extremadura, 06006 Badajoz, Spain
Interests: spatial planning; urbanism; sustainable development; strategic planning; cross-border cooperation
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Dr. Lorenzo García Moruno

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Department of Graphical Expression, University of Extremadura, Sta. Teresa de Jornet 38, 06800 Mérida, Spain
Interests: design; environmental integration; visual impact assessment
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Dr. Julio Hernández Blanco

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Department of Graphical Expression, University of Extremadura, 10600 Plasencia, Spain
Interests: visual impact assessment; GIS; landscape; building design
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The soil and the landscape are non-renewable and limited natural resources. For this reason, it is necessary to consider territorial planning responsibly and innovatively, not subject to the conditioning criteria and approaches of several decades ago. It is necessary to attend to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) not as a final objective, but as a premise whose postulates must be incorporated as a starting point. The climate crisis, resources, migration, demographics, etc. in which we are immersed pose major challenges that must be faced and that must lead to a rethinking of territorial planning. They must be seen as opportunities to achieve a different, more harmonious, person-centered development that encompasses all aspects of the rural world, where more sustainable development is not seen as a limitation, but as a driver of new policies. However, to implement these policies, new proven technical and scientific criteria are needed, which suppose a methodological and practical tool for all actors that intervene in the planning and management of the rural landscape.

With this Special Issue, we intend to collect contributions that help in the planning of territories by the objectives set (i.e., the SDGs), and which provide concrete solutions so that sustainable development becomes a reality. For this, we are especially interested in:

  • Technical and scientific criteria for the location of constructions and infrastructures in territories;
  • Technical and scientific criteria for the design of buildings and infrastructures in rural areas;
  • Landscape assessment methodologies that take the SDGs into account;
  • Analysis of transport and communication networks in rural areas;
  • Extreme weather conditions in planning: fires and floods;
  • Analysis of opportunities and threats for the sustainable development of rural areas;
  • Protection of the rural landscape against indiscriminate resource exploitation;
  • Technical and scientific criteria for the development of sustainable rural tourism.

Dr. María Jesús Montero-Parejo
Dr. Jacinto Garrido Velarde
Dr. Lorenzo García Moruno
Dr. Julio Hernández Blanco
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • environmental integration
  • visual impact assessment
  • sustainable rural development
  • geographic information systems
  • management and planning of the territory
  • sustainable development goals 2030
  • buildings design
  • sustainable rural tourism

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Transformation of Abandoned Railways into Tourist Itineraries/Routes: Model of Revitalization of Marginal Rural Areas
by Dušan Ristić, Danijela Vukoičić, Marko Ivanović, Milena Nikolić, Nikola Milentijević, Ljiljana Mihajlović and Dragan Petrović
Land 2024, 13(3), 321; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13030321 - 2 Mar 2024
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Railways that were once utilized by conventional speed trains but now lay technologically outdated and neglected are scarcely in use today, with many lying abandoned. These rail networks sprawl across vast areas, posing a substantial impediment to sustainable land use and management. Our [...] Read more.
Railways that were once utilized by conventional speed trains but now lay technologically outdated and neglected are scarcely in use today, with many lying abandoned. These rail networks sprawl across vast areas, posing a substantial impediment to sustainable land use and management. Our research advocates for the adoption of tourist itinerary/route as a viable model for the transformation of abandoned railways into sustainable and functional systems. This innovative concept involves repurposing abandoned railways into tourist itineraries with the aim of utilizing them for tourism and commercial ventures. Recognizing a knowledge gap, particularly the absence of scientifically grounded models, on a selected case study (abandoned regional railway number 223 in the Toplica District, Serbia), we develop and present a model for the identification and Tourist Evaluation of Abandoned Railways (TEAR model). The defined model comprises a total of 27 sub-indicators categorized into four groups of indicators: natural tourist values (NV), anthropogenic tourist values (AV), tourist attractiveness of the railway (TA), and functional values (FV). The findings from the TEAR model suggest that the abandoned railway holds significant tourism value, with a rating of ≥0.7. Specifically, three sets of indicators—NV, AV, and TA—indicate a high level of tourist values (≥0.7), while FV falls within a moderate range of tourist values (0.4 ≤ V < 0.7). This endeavor not only supports sustainable local and regional development but also contributes to the enhancement of rural landscapes and the revitalization of rural areas. Importantly, this initiative aligns directly and indirectly with several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), thus fostering progress towards broader economic, societal, and environmental objectives. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Time to Rethink Rural Landscape Planning for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs))
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Towards Land Consumption Neutrality and Natural Capital Enhancement at Urban Landscape Scale
by Donatella Valente, Erica Maria Lovello, Cosimo Gaspare Giannuzzi, Angela Maria Scardia Scardia, Maria Victoria Marinelli and Irene Petrosillo
Land 2023, 12(4), 777; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12040777 - 29 Mar 2023
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Among the UNCCD SDGs 2030, there is the recognition that land consumption can strongly affect the provision of ecosystem services. From the perspective of land degradation neutrality, urban level is the right scale when planning actions against land consumption. The aims of this [...] Read more.
Among the UNCCD SDGs 2030, there is the recognition that land consumption can strongly affect the provision of ecosystem services. From the perspective of land degradation neutrality, urban level is the right scale when planning actions against land consumption. The aims of this research are: (1) to assess land consumption at urban landscape scale and its effects on natural capital flow provision; and (2) to identify sustainable strategic planning choices for land consumption mitigation and natural capital enhancement. We propose and test an approach based on multi-temporal landscape spatial analysis (land use/land cover map, land consumption map, and landscape metrics) and ecosystem services’ flow assessment for the identification of areas at risk of loss of natural capital flow. The results have shown that from 2006 to 2019, land consumption has increased with a consequent decrease of natural capital flow. LULC dynamics has been analyzed in terms of landscape risk to lose natural capital flow, highlighting that the management of Galatone urban landscape is still far from land consumption neutrality. Landscape metrics have allowed the analysis of the aggregation among land consumption areas. The mitigation of land consumption should be based on the identification of suitable nature-based solutions towards the balance between past land consumption and future land recovery. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Time to Rethink Rural Landscape Planning for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs))
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Promoting Green Buildings and Low-Carbon Design Strategies of Green B&B Rooms for Sustainable Tourism after COVID-19
by Gangwei Cai, Min Zhang, Xiandu Zhang, Huijian Xi, Zhong Chen, Chao Liu, Kang Liu, Ke Liu, Shiwen Xu and Zuoping Yu
Land 2023, 12(3), 633; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12030633 - 7 Mar 2023
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COVID-19 opened a window of opportunity to change the green development of the hospitality industry. For many years, Chinese tourists have been the world’s largest source of outbound tourists. Therefore, this study attempted to improve built-environment strategies for green rooms at B&Bs using [...] Read more.
COVID-19 opened a window of opportunity to change the green development of the hospitality industry. For many years, Chinese tourists have been the world’s largest source of outbound tourists. Therefore, this study attempted to improve built-environment strategies for green rooms at B&Bs using the empirical statistics of Chinese tourists after the end of COVID-19 control measures and different green B&B standards, combining IPA (importance-performance analysis). For the lack of a green built-environment study from a tourism perspective, this study can be used mainly for improving the green satisfaction of urban B&Bs as it attempted to fill the gaps in research on green B&B rooms. This study will significantly help improve the quality of green rooms for the B&B industry in the future, and it also provides an improved green B&B room sample for other countries and regions. Moreover, it is an optimistic attempt at hospitality and tourism recovery. Full article
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Creative Tourism in Islands and Regional Sustainable Development: What Can We Learn from the Pilot Projects Implemented in the Azores Territory?
by Rui Alexandre Castanho, Carlos Santos and Gualter Couto
Land 2023, 12(2), 498; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020498 - 16 Feb 2023
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The current need for territories and societies to grow is based on the Sustainable Development Models as well as the United Nations (UN) Agenda for 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In that case, such new forms of tourism development imply creating and upgrading [...] Read more.
The current need for territories and societies to grow is based on the Sustainable Development Models as well as the United Nations (UN) Agenda for 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In that case, such new forms of tourism development imply creating and upgrading critical infrastructures, facilities, equipment, or differentiated activities to bring clients who align with the desired Sustainable Development Models and SDGs. In this regard, the thematic literature provides evidence that some tourism typologies (nature-based, rural, culturally-based creative tourism) play a critical role in attaining sustainable regional development. Therefore, this paper aims to unfold what can be learned from the pilot projects implemented in the Azores region aimed toward the so-desired regional sustainability. Contextually, the obtained results ask for the regional leaders to consider encouraging entrepreneurship associated with small and medium-sized firms; fostering the diversity of touristic offerings; designing guidelines that follow sustainable development models and the SDGs; or creating meaningful investments in the conservation and protection of cultural heritage, as well as the Azorean endogenous resources. Full article
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A Systematic Review of Disaster Management Systems: Approaches, Challenges, and Future Directions
by Saad Mazhar Khan, Imran Shafi, Wasi Haider Butt, Isabel de la Torre Diez, Miguel Angel López Flores, Juan Castanedo Galán and Imran Ashraf
Land 2023, 12(8), 1514; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12081514 - 29 Jul 2023
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Disaster management is a critical area that requires efficient methods and techniques to address various challenges. This comprehensive assessment offers an in-depth overview of disaster management systems, methods, obstacles, and potential future paths. Specifically, it focuses on flood control, a significant and recurrent [...] Read more.
Disaster management is a critical area that requires efficient methods and techniques to address various challenges. This comprehensive assessment offers an in-depth overview of disaster management systems, methods, obstacles, and potential future paths. Specifically, it focuses on flood control, a significant and recurrent category of natural disasters. The analysis begins by exploring various types of natural catastrophes, including earthquakes, wildfires, and floods. It then delves into the different domains that collectively contribute to effective flood management. These domains encompass cutting-edge technologies such as big data analysis and cloud computing, providing scalable and reliable infrastructure for data storage, processing, and analysis. The study investigates the potential of the Internet of Things and sensor networks to gather real-time data from flood-prone areas, enhancing situational awareness and enabling prompt actions. Model-driven engineering is examined for its utility in developing and modeling flood scenarios, aiding in preparation and response planning. This study includes the Google Earth engine (GEE) and examines previous studies involving GEE. Moreover, we discuss remote sensing; remote sensing is undoubtedly a valuable tool for disaster management, and offers geographical data in various situations. We explore the application of Geographical Information System (GIS) and Spatial Data Management for visualizing and analyzing spatial data and facilitating informed decision-making and resource allocation during floods. In the final section, the focus shifts to the utilization of machine learning and data analytics in flood management. These methodologies offer predictive models and data-driven insights, enhancing early warning systems, risk assessment, and mitigation strategies. Through this in-depth analysis, the significance of incorporating these spheres into flood control procedures is highlighted, with the aim of improving disaster management techniques and enhancing resilience in flood-prone regions. The paper addresses existing challenges and provides future research directions, ultimately striving for a clearer and more coherent representation of disaster management techniques. Full article
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