Land | Special Issues

Key Hydrological Processes and Its Controlling Factors in Terrestrial Ecosystems

edited by Licong Dai,

and

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7901 | Submission Open

Keywords: hydrological processes; water infiltration; runoff; evapotranspiration; groundwater recharge; soil water retention; terrestrial ecosystems; land cover change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)

Land Management Practices for Enhancing Ecosystem Services: Cases and Experiences

edited by

Wei Liu

, Le Yin, Xi Chu and

Jinyan Zhan

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7793 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem service; sustainable land use management; trade-offs/synergy analysis; ecological restoration; policy frameworks; ecosystem resilience; policy implications; land use efficiency; governance models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)

Urban Land Use Change and Its Spatial Planning

edited by

Barbara Goličnik Marušić

,

Vita Žlender

,

Manfred Schrenk

and Kasper Kok

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7656 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use change; dynamic processes; planning; policy; quality; sustainability; participation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Urban Morphology: A Perspective from Space (Second Edition)

edited by

Marco Maretto

and Nicola Marzot

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7005 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban morphology; public space; urban design; new technologies; trans-disciplinarity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Urban Planning and Housing Market II

edited by

Agnieszka Szczepańska

and

Radosław Cellmer

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6768 | 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)

Dynamics of Terrestrial Environmental Systems

edited by

Hezi Yizhaq

and Zhiwei Xu

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6628 | Submission Open

Keywords: complex environmental system; ecosystems; climate change; remote sensing; mathematical modelling; drylands; tipping points; pattern formation; aeolian processes; geomorphological systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)

Human–Nature Relations in Urban Landscape Planning

edited by

Rob Roggema

and

Nico Tillie

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6450 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban landscape; urban ecosystem; landscape planning; spatial planning; resilient design; landscape design; landscape-based urban design; design-led approach; green and blue grids; nature-based solutions; biourbanism; regenerative design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Sustainability and Peri-Urban Agriculture II

edited by

Roberto Henke

and

Francesca Giare

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6052 | Submission Open

Keywords: peri-urban agriculture; land sustainability; multifunctionality; farm diversification; new income sources in agriculture; urban food systems; urban– rural linkages; land use policy; social farming; rural-urban services

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Innovations in Agricultural Green Infrastructure

edited by

Wendy McWilliam

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5312 | Submission Open

Keywords: greening agricultural systems; environmental impacts; farm system resilience; green infrastructure; agrichemical use; indigenous biodiversity; green branding

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)

Social–Ecological Ecosystems in Rewilding Urban Environment: Multidisciplinary Approaches for Multifaceted Wild Natures

edited by

Giovanni Trentanovi

,

Roberta Bartoletti

and

Francesco Sacchetti

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5139 | 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 Legacies, Land Use Change and Forest and Grassland Restoration

edited by

Ken Smith

,

Deborah A. McGrath

,

Kuok Ho Daniel Tang

and

Kevin Emmanuel Scriber, II

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4670 | 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)

The Role of Land Policy in Shaping Tourism Development

edited by

Dunja Demirović Bajrami

and

Adriana Radosavac

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3730 | Submission Open

Keywords: land policy; tourism development; sustainable tourism; urban planning; zoning laws; property rights; local economies; policy innovation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

Ecosystem Disturbances and Soil Properties (Second Edition)

edited by

Víctor Fernández-García

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2763 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfires; herbivory; soil structure; soil nutrients; soil carbon; soil biota

Rural Demographic Changes and Land Use Response

edited by

Yuheng Li

, Guoming Du,

Monika Stanny

and

Łukasz Komorowski

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1831 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural demographics; population dynamics; land use change; rural– urban migration; socioeconomic factors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)

Application of the Ecosystem Service in Landscape Planning: From Cognition to Decision-Making

edited by

Xi Li

, Kai Li, Yuejing Rong, Hao Xia and Ruhong Xin

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1794 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem service; landscape planning and design; ecosystem management decision-making; trade-off and synergy; human wellbeing; green infrastructure; socio-ecological interaction; landscape conservation and restoration; nature-based solutions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Urban Ecosystem Services: 6th Edition

edited by

Alessio Russo

and

Giuseppe T. Cirella

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 894 | Submission Open

Keywords: assessing natural capital and ecosystem services; compact cities; ecology in cities; ecosystem services; ecosystem disservices; and well-being; ecosystem service degradation; edible green infrastructure; green infrastructure; green space; green walls; healing garden design; landscape architecture and urban design; mapping and assessing ecosystem services; modelling ecosystem services; nature-based solutions; social-ecological systems; sustainable urbanism; urban agriculture; urban biodiversity and ecosystem services; urban biosphere reserve; urban ecosystems; urban forest; urban geography and development; urban– rural interface; urban sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Heritage Landscapes, Their Inventory, Management and Future

edited by Jaromír Kolejka and

Igor Gallay

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 795 | Submission Open

Keywords: historical landscapes; identification criteria; inventory procedures; classification and typology; management; protection and planning; sustainable tourism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Landscape Analysis and Landscape Protection

edited by

Dora Tomić Reljić

, Petra Pereković and

Beata Fornal-Pieniak

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 596 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape planning; landscape value; landscape protection; landscape quality; GIS; sustainable development

The New Suburbia: Redefining Suburban Growth—Exploring Deeper Meanings and Dynamics

edited by Emil Israel and Amnon Frenkel

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 336 | Submission Open

Keywords: suburbanization; sustainability; suburban inequality; social justice; suburban sprwal; housing; labor market; mobility and transportation; planning and policy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Quantification of Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport in Basins

edited by

Vlassios Hrissanthou

and

Konstantinos Kaffas

submission deadline 6 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 17512 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; stream sediment transport; field measurements; laboratory measurements; machine learning methods; fuzzy logic; constructive and management measures

Land–Water–Energy–Food (LWEF) System Coupling and Sustainable Development of Watersheds

edited by

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and Zhifeng Jin

submission deadline 10 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 3996 | Submission Open

Keywords: land– water– energy– food nexus; climate change adaptation; regional resilience; land use transformation; energy transition; resource management; resources and environment; water– energy– food; carbon peak and neutrality; spatial governance and planning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus)

Building Resilient and Sustainable Territories

edited by

Hossein Azadi

and

André Samora-Arvela

submission deadline 12 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6341 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainability; resilience; development; territory; public policies; climate change adaptation; ecosystem services; natural resource management

Patrimony Assessment and Sustainable Land Resource Management (Second Edition)

edited by

Florentina-Cristina Merciu

,

Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor

and

Maciej J. Nowak

submission deadline 13 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1091 | Submission Open

Keywords: qualitative and quantitative assessment of cultural heritage; natural heritage assessment; biodiversity and its conservation; management of natural and cultural resources; heritage communities; heritage education versus promotion of heritage sustainability; circular architecture versus cultural heritage sustainability; administrative; regulatory; and legal issues related to the conservation of heritage

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)

Advances on Land Cover/Land Use Ontologies for Innovative Production/Utilization of Land Information

edited by

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,

,

Mohammed Abed Hossain

,

Khalid Mahmood

and

Foster Mensah

submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14934 | Submission Open

Keywords: land cover; land use; interoperability; standardization; geospatial technology; semantic ontology; harmonization; classification; earth observation; remote sensing; sustainable development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)

Spatial Justice in Urban Planning (Second Edition)

edited by

Fox Zhiyong Hu

,

Wendy Yan Chen

and Izzy Yi Jian

submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5076 | Submission Open

Keywords: social-spatial justice; distributional and procedural justice; urban redevelopment; environmental justice; green gentrification; right to the city; segregation and discrimination; urban political ecology; capital and capability; co-production

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Monitoring the Effect of Urban Green Space on Environmental Quality

edited by

Marko Bizjak

,

Jihui Yuan

and David Jesenko

submission deadline 16 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 239 | Submission Open

Keywords: green spaces; urban vegetation; monitoring; environmental quality; urban heat island

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Builders of the Middle Landscape: The Role of Urban Elites in the Construction of Rural Landscapes Between Antiquity and the Renaissance

edited by

Joan Negre

and Julio Navarro Palazón

submission deadline 16 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 217 | Submission Open

Keywords: antiquity; middle ages; renaissance; villa; almunia; periurban; rural landscape; urban elites

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Smart Land Management

edited by

Hossein Azadi

and Guy M Robinson

submission deadline 23 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8644 | Submission Open

Keywords: technology innovation; land management; land-use planning; land administration; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

Wetland Biodiversity and Habitat Conservation

edited by Rachel R. Fern, Jordan C. Giese and Kelsi Schwind

submission deadline 23 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 801 | Submission Open

Keywords: wetlands; biodiversity; habitat conservation; land use change; remote sensing; landscape modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Participatory Land Planning: Theory, Methods, and Case Studies

edited by Oswaldo Ledesma González and Rafael Merinero Rodríguez

submission deadline 25 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10566 | Submission Open

Keywords: collaborative planning; governance; land management; network management; participation; strategic planning; town planning; urban agenda; urban and land planning; urban and land policy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Cadastre and Land Management in Support of Sustainable Real Estate Markets—2nd Edition

edited by

Chryssy Potsiou

and

Gerhard Navratil

submission deadline 26 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4429 | Submission Open

Keywords: cadastre; land management; land tenure; geospatial data ecosystems; digital twins; BIM; land administration; market analysis; real estate market analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

Soil Ecological Risk Assessment Based on LULC

edited by

Lúcia Barão

submission deadline 26 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3295 | Submission Open

Keywords: risk assessment; ecosystem services; soil functioning; land use/land cover; soil threats

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)

Soil Erosion and Its Response to Agroforestry Restoration

edited by Zicheng Zheng, Jigen Liu and

Yuhai Bao

submission deadline 27 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1907 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; agricultural restoration practices; forestry restoration practices; land degradation; sustainable land

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)

Urban Transitions and Dynamics: Cultural, Ecological, Digital and Degrowth

edited by

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and

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 25829 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable urban development; urban resilience; urban dynamics; degrowth theories; circular economies; 15-minute city; urban governance; urban art; culture and social movements

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Archaeological Landscape and Settlement II

edited by

Paolo Biagi

and

Elisabetta Starnini

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 18733 | Submission Open

Keywords: human impact on the landscape; coastal changes and sea-level rise; settlement pattern and site complementarity; radiocarbon dating; the exploitation of the highland zones

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Archaeology)

Driving Future to Shape Sustainable Agricultural System: Urban-Rural Land Management and Environment Protection

edited by

Safwan Mohammed

and

Endre Harsányi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 16451 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; agriculture and big data; climate change; agricultural drought; agriculture and conflict; soil; greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector; soil-water relations; land degradation (erosion; salinization; ); crop production (maize; wheat; etc.); land suitability assessment; land use changes; remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Land Use/Cover Change and Its Impacts on Regional Sustainable Development

edited by

Shengbiao Wu

,

Xiao Zhang

and

Xidong Chen

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 12931 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use/ land cover; change detection; remote sensing; sustainable development; geographic information systems; driving forces; environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Land: Soil Quality and Contamination

edited by

Nick B. Comerford

,

Paola Grenni

and

Dongxue Zhao

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12769 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil quality; soil contamination; soil degradation; land degradation; sustainable land

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)

Land Transformation, Climate Change and Agroecosystems Response and Adaptation

edited by

Zeyuan Qiu

and

Subhasis Giri

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12290 | Submission Open

Keywords: agroecosystems; ecosystem services; urban agriculture; land use change; resilience and adaptation; climate change; climate-smart agriculture

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)

Big Data in Urban Land Use Planning

edited by

Thomas W. Sanchez

and

Soheil Sabri

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9648 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); big data; technology; urban land; land use planning; data fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Urban and Peri-Urban Forests—Status, Ecosystem Services, and Future Perspectives

edited by

Miglena Zhiyanski

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9626 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban forests; green infrastructure; nature-based solutions; ecosystem services (ES); assessment and mapping of ES; socio-ecological assessments

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Global Commons Governance and Sustainable Land Use

edited by

Fangzhou Xia

,

Hualin Xie

, Xiaoshun Li and Ling Li

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9202 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use sustainability; global commons; spatial planning and governance; global nature resources; carbon neutrality; climate change

Geoparks as a Form of Tourism Space Management II

edited by

Wojciech Zgłobicki

and

Bogusława Baran-Zgłobicka

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8827 | Submission Open

Keywords: geotourism; geoheritage; geoconservation; geoparks; spatial management; sustainable development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Navigating the Balance: The Role of National Parks in Ecological Conservation and Socioeconomic Development

edited by

Fanglei Zhong

and Lihua Zhou

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8341 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable development goals; national parks; mode of management; socioeconomic development; conservation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

GeoAI for Urban Sustainability Monitoring and Analysis

edited by

Nan Xu

,

Yifu Ou

and Jixiang Liu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6934 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban; sustainability; GeoAI; remote sensing; big data; geography

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)

Land Planning and Urban Regeneration for Achieving Sustainable Development: 2nd Edition

edited by

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6347 | Submission Open

Keywords: cultural heritage; landscape; urban sustainable development; urban regeneration; land planning; multicriteria evaluation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Vegetation Cover Changes Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Data

edited by Dong Liang,

Barjeece Bashir

and

Min Xu

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5875 | Submission Open

Keywords: vegetation cover change; remote sensing; high spatial resolution; big data; satellite imagery; data processing algorithms; multi-source data integration; climate change impacts; biodiversity monitoring; land management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)

Agroforestry Systems for Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation

edited by

Antonio Santoro

and

Francesco Piras

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5663 | Submission Open

Keywords: agroforestry systems; biodiversity; cultural landscape; landscape conservation; agricultural heritage

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)

Celebrating 10 Years of International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem

edited by

Diane Pearson

submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5475 | Submission Open

Keywords: rehabilitation; restoration; fragmentation; carbon sequestration; ecosystem functions; ecosystem services; climate adaptation; coastal protection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)

Regional Sustainable Development of Yangtze River Delta, China (3rd Edition)

edited by

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submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4317 | Submission Open

Keywords: Yangtze River Delta region; sustainable development; human– earth system coupling; ecosystem services; industry development; innovation network; territorial space; climate change; urban– rural coordination; food security

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