Climate Adaptation and Recovery Strategies: Reimagining Governance in Urban Regions

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, “Climate Adaptation and Recovery Strategies: Reimagining Governance in Urban Regions”, of the journal Land welcomes contributions that deal with sustainable approaches to landscapes, covering a range of scales (e.g., urban, regional, etc) and landscape typologies. We welcome submissions, by both academics and practitioners, that deal with climate adaptation approaches and strategies, looking at environmental aspects and reimagining governance frameworks in cities and in peri-urban, rural, or regional areas.

The climate crisis and its governance have become integral parts of research and practice in the recent years and the professions dealing with landscapes, spatial strategies, and the physical environment are often called to address environmental challenges linked with land and the ways in which communities use it. Policy and governance play a significant role in how new and alternative spatial approaches can promote a sustainable future. Working from an understanding of landscape as the infrastructure upon which we depend for everything, landscapes are the setting for all matters of environmental sustainability, impacting towns, cities, and the countryside, as well as communities and their wellbeing, economics, governance, and politics. Recognising the long-standing relationship between Indigenous communities and their environments, this Special Issue also aims to explore how traditional ecological knowledge offers unique perspectives on sustainable land management, resilience building, and governance frameworks for climate adaptation. We therefore seek innovative climate adaptation strategies and new governance and policy frameworks that put the landscape at the forefront of addressing the climate emergency.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:

• The climate crisis and the landscape;
• Spatial strategies for climate adaptation;
• Landscape design;
• The landscape and governance;
• Landscape policy and environmental stability;
• Urban and regional design addressing the climate emergency;
• Climate resilience and the landscape;
• Indigenous ecological knowledge;
• Landscape governance frameworks.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Anastasia Nikologianni
Prof. Kathryn Moore
Dr. Marina Cervera
Dr. Bruno Marques
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• climate crisis
• landscape strategies
• landscape governance
• climate adaptation
• landscape design
• regional approaches
• landscape approaches
• governance
• landscape environmental policy
• indigenous knowledge