Land, Environment, and Policy

Dear Colleagues,

Humanity is reliant upon land resources for the provision of food, energy, water, and ecosystem services. Understanding land resources, land use, their relationships with environment, and related policies is vital for addressing a range of contemporary environmental issues and land management issues, such as biodiversity loss, food security, land/soil degradation, land transition, climate change, and land use optimization. Despite its importance, large knowledge gaps related to land-environment-policy relationships exist. This Special Issue will assemble researches that present innovative methods, novel data analysis, application case studies, and insights that can improve our understanding to land-environment-policy relationships as well as related policies for sustainable land use.

In this Special Issue, we invite papers focusing on, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• modeling interactions between lands and environmental systems;
• evaluating land use and environmental policies, as well as their influences on land use and environmental outcomes;
• mapping impacts of environmental pollution and human activities on land sustainability;
• modeling/mapping land use spatiotemporal change;
• developing land and environmental management systems.

Dr. Chuanrong (Cindy) Zhang
Dr. Mark Boyer
Dr. Weidong Li
Dr. Shougeng Hu
Dr. Mingkai Qu
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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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.