Land | Special Issues

Sustainable Solutions for Land Degradation and Its Socio-Economic Impact in Rural and Peri-Urban Areas: Looking Back and into the Future

edited by

James Gambiza

submission deadline 27 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1427 | Submission Open

Keywords: land degradation; sustainable land management; livelihoods; climate change; biodiversity loss; food security; sustainability; land resources

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

Impact of Globalization on Rural Areas: Changes in Land Use and Functions, Deagrarianization, Tertiarization, Urbanization, and Mobility

edited by

Carmen Delgado-Viñas

and

María L. Gómez-Moreno

submission deadline 30 Jan 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 7450 | Submission Open

Keywords: globalization; deagrarianization; rural tertiarization; urbanization of rural areas; mobility; ecosystem services; integrated rural– urban development; land use and landscape management

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

Feature Papers for Land Systems and Global Change Section: 2nd Edition

edited by

Le Yu

,

Xin Chen

, Zhenrong Du and

Pengyu Hao

submission deadline 30 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3681 | Submission Open

Keywords: land system; global change; datasets; models; time series

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

Ecosystem Services and Coastal Management: Tools to Counteract Sediment Losses

edited by

Margherita Palmieri

, Marucci Angelo and

Marcello Di Risio

submission deadline 30 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1691 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem services; coastal morphodynamics; natural capital; river ecosystems; coastal management; nature-based solutions; protected natural areas

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Built Environment, Pedestrian Behaviors, and Urban Sustainability: 2nd Edition

edited by

Seung-Nam Kim

, Gi-Hyoug Cho and

Hee-Chul Kim

submission deadline 30 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 601 | Submission Open

Keywords: built environment; pedestrian environment; urban form and land use; urban spatial structure; pedestrian behaviors/activities; active travel; nonmotorized travel; urban sustainability; virtual reality experiment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)

Grassland Ecosystem Services: Research Advances and Future Directions for Sustainability II

edited by

Michael Vrahnakis

and

Yannis (Ioannis) Kazoglou

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 16 articles | Viewed by 18093 | Submission Open

Keywords: grassland abandonment; grassland ecology; grassland management; grassland biodiversity; grassland hydrology; issues and threats; supporting; provisioning; regulating; cultural grassland ecosystem services

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

Managing Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services

edited by

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14286 | Submission Open

Keywords: land management; urban green infrastructure; ecosystem services; geoinformation; decision making; sustainable urban development

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

Planning for Sustainable Urban and Land Development

edited by

Zongcai Wei

,

Yuting Liu

and

Andrzej Biłozor

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 13871 | Submission Open

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

Common Properties for the Sustainable Management of Territories

edited by

Fabiana Forte

and

Pietro Nervi

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13814 | Submission Open

Keywords: common properties; biodiversity conservation; local communities; sustainable management; values and valuation

Resilient Cities and Land Take Effective Management through Sustainable Urban Planning Tools

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12611 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use policy; land deal; land market; land take; ecological indicators; urban policy; sustainable development and finance; decision support tools; risk assessment; real estate assessment models; index and indicator-based system

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

Sustainable Urbanscapes: The Role of Green Infrastructure on the Resilience of Ecosystem Services

edited by

Bo Hong

,

Alessio Russo

and Wenxiao Jia

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9071 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban green infrastructure; ecosystem services; climate change; socio-ecological systems; spatial resilience; public health

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

Developing 3D Cadastre for Urban Land Use

edited by

Karel Janečka

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7734 | Submission Open

Keywords: 3D cadastre; 3D urban planning; rights; restrictions and responsibilities to land; 3D land use; property; building information modeling

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

Land Use and Food Security in China's Urbanizing Regions: Problems and Possibilities

edited by

Haijun Bao

and

Helen Zheng

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 7708 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use change; land protection; food security; food production; spatial planning and design; urban management; environmental governance

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

Impact of Climate Change on Land and Water Systems

edited by

Afshin Ghahramani

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6018 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change impact; water; climate change adaptation; soil; hydrology; erosion; landscape

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)

Land Use Sustainability from the Viewpoint of Carbon Emission: 2nd Edition

edited by

Xuechao Wang

,

Weize Song

and

Yingjie Li

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5195 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use; sustainability; carbon emissions; carbon emissions neutrality; carbon source; carbon sink; climate change; agriculture; forestry

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

Digital Earth and Remote Sensing for Land Management

edited by

Massimo Fabris

and

Djamil Al-Halbouni

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3495 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital earth; satellite imagery; InSAR; digital elevation models (DEM); land monitoring; land use; land cover; urban morphology; GIS tools

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)

Impact of Pollutants on Soil Health

edited by

Ioannis Zafeiriou

,

Dionisios Gasparatos

and

Nikolaos Monokrousos

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2771 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use/management; soil contamination; soil health; soil amendments; soil science

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

Advances in Wildlife Conservation and Habitat Management in the Anthropocene

edited by

Yiannis G. Zevgolis

and

Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2092 | Submission Open

Keywords: innovative technologies; advanced monitoring techniques; habitat suitability modeling; species distribution modeling; climate change scenarios; anthropogenic; biotic; and abiotic stressors; environmental impact assessments; invasive species management; disease outbreak impacts; long-term ecological monitoring; protected area effectiveness; keystone species conservation; threatened species; adaptive conservation strategies; conservation planning; wildlife conservation; habitat management

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

Vegetation Cover Changes Monitoring Using Remote Sensing Data

edited by Dong Liang,

Barjeece Bashir

and

Min Xu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1607 | 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)

New Technologies and Methods in Spatial Planning, 2nd Edition

edited by

Zhigang Li

,

Feng Zhen

and

Yang Xiao

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1584 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatial planning; urban; governance; data

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

Urban Forestry Dynamics: Management and Mechanization

edited by

Leonardo Bianchini

,

Marcello Biocca

and Valerio Di Stefano

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 845 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban forest; mechanization; urban forest operations; soil impact; environmental effects; technical and economic performance; new technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

New Advances in Spatial Analysis of Wildfire Planning

edited by

Kunpeng Yi

and Shuai Yin

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 390 | Submission Open

The Mechanism of Land-Water Interaction and Management Strategies: Recent Discoveries and the Way Forward

edited by

Carla Rolo Antunes

and

Shiliang Liu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 385 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use change; hydrological processes; models; hydrological variables; runoff; infiltration

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

Climate Adaptation Planning in Urban Areas

edited by Jin-Oh Kim,

Sangjun Kang

and

Juchul Jung

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 262 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate adaptation planning; urban resilience; green infrastructure; community-based adaptation; climate policy and governance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)

Innovations in Soil Erosion Assessment and Management Along Rivers and Coastal Areas：2nd Edition

edited by

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and Francesca Minniti

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 198 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; assessment; management; modeling; natural and anthropogenic factors; extreme events and climate change; river and coastal dynamics; remote sensing; decision making

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

Rural Tourism Development: Land Use, Ecosystem Services, and Community Interactions

edited by

Ioan Sebastian Jucu

and Cătălina ANCUȚA

submission deadline 6 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1328 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural land use change; rural tourism development; rural tourism and socio-economic interaction; rural cultural heritage; cultural tourism in rural areas

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

Land Resource Assessment

edited by

Weiguo Fan

,

Xuechao Wang

and

Ranjay K. Singh

submission deadline 7 Feb 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9301 | Submission Open

Keywords: land resource efficiency; functional differences evaluation; land resource capitalization; process evaluation and simulation; energy system language and LCA; typical model of land use; ecological security and carrying capacity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)

Landscape Ecological Risk in Mountain Areas

edited by Wei Deng and

Quanzhi Yuan

submission deadline 9 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7165 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape ecological risk; mountain areas; structure and function; changing environment; simulation and prediction; landscape ecological response

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Urban Land Expansion and Regional Inequality

edited by

Montaña Jiménez-Espada

and

Salvador García-Ayllón Veintimilla

submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2177 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban sprawl and planning; regional inequality; territorial management; sustainable urban development; demographic challenge; public participation and municipal governance; metropolitan areas; rural areas; geographical accessibility issues

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

Technological and Social Innovations in Urban Ecosystems: Perspectives on Green and Blue Infrastructure

edited by

Maurício Lamano Ferreira

, Aline A. Cavalari Corete and Giuliano Maselli Locosselli

submission deadline 10 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1281 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban forest; urban greening; green infrastructure; blue infrastructure; socio-environmental issues; nature-based solutions; ecological patterns and processes in urban environments

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

The 2nd Conference on Future Challenges in Sustainable Urban Planning & Territorial Management

edited by

Salvador García-Ayllón Veintimilla

and

Josep Lluís Miralles Garcia

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 8782 | Submission Open

(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 15 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6850 | 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)

Land Development and Investment

edited by

Kwong Wing Chau

and

William Ka Shing Cheung

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2078 | Submission Open

Keywords: land development; land investment; land financing; land policy; technological innovation; risk management; economic impact; social impact; environmental impact

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

Sustainable Agricultural Land Management towards a Net-Zero Pathway

edited by

Ying Wang

,

Ou Wang

and Xin Yang

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 1261 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable agricultural land use management; greenhouse gas emissions mitigation; food security; climate change

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

Responsible and Smart Land Management (2nd Edition)

edited by

Walter T. de Vries

and

Iwan Rudiarto

submission deadline 15 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 1008 | Submission Open

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

Landscape Governance in the Age of Social Media (Second Edition)

edited by

Nicolas Marine

,

Cecilia Arnaiz Schmitz

and

Yael Allweil

submission deadline 24 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11325 | Submission Open

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

Regional Solutions to Urban-Rural Coordinated Development in the Megacity Regions (3rd Edition)

edited by

Wei Lang

,

Tingting Chen

,

Xun Li

and Eddie Chi-man Hui

submission deadline 24 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 994 | Submission Open

Keywords: megacity regions; metropolitan coordinating region; urban agglomeration; urban-rural systems; coordinated regional development; regional planning and governance; integrated urban-rural development; structures and networks; rural construction and evaluation; human settlement environment improvement

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

Energy Colonialism, Extractivism, Socio-Ecological Transitions, and Land Planning

edited by

Alberto Matarán Ruiz

, Antonio Ortega Santos,

Ivan González Márquez

, Chiara Olivieri,

Luis Bolonio

,

Helios Escalante Moreno

and Josefa Sánchez Contreras

submission deadline 26 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 29596 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy transition; biodiversity; renewable energy; megaprojects; energy colonialism; extractivism; socioenvironmental impacts; human rights impacts; territorial defense; territorial planning

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

Ecological Restoration and Reusing Brownfield Sites

edited by

Fuyuan Wang

and

Kaiyong Wang

submission deadline 27 Feb 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10791 | Submission Open

Keywords: brownfield sites; ecological restoration; reuse; land improvement; recreation; tourism; the revival of local vitality; regional transformation development; green development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Land-Use Systems from Resource-Nexus Perspectives

edited by

Jingying Fu

,

Dong Jiang

and

Gang Lin

submission deadline 27 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2634 | Submission Open

Keywords: SDGs; resource coupling; resource policy; water-energy-food-materials-land nexus; sustainable development

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

Land, Ageing, Gender and Environment: Problems and Challenges from Different Disciplines II

edited by

Vanessa Zorrilla-Muñoz

,

Maria Silveria Agulló-Tomás

,

Eduardo Fernandez

,

Sonia de Lucas Santos

,

Jesus Cuadrado Rojo

and

Blanca Criado Quesada

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12588 | Submission Open

Keywords: land/environment/ecology; ageing/ageism/older people; gender/eco/feminisms; rural– urban spaces/frames; health; social services and education aspects; land economic and public policies aspects; work/employment and leisure/tourism aspects; pandemic; psycho-social crisis and climate change aspects

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

Sustainable Urban Greenspace Planning, Design and Management

edited by

Fatemeh Kazemi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 12548 | Submission Open

Keywords: greenspace; sustainable city; landscape planning; landscape management; green infrastructures; green roof and green wall; urban landscape; urban design

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

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

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Mohammed Abed Hossain

,

Khalid Mahmood

and

Foster Mensah

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11732 | 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)

Strategic Planning for Urban Sustainability

edited by

Carlos José Lopes Balsas

and

Awais Piracha

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 9631 | Submission Open

Keywords: infill redevelopment; urban and suburban retrofit; novel approaches to land use planning; new forms of eco-urbanism; land use planning strategies; tools; and instruments; coordinated land use and transportation planning interventions; land markets and sustainable urbanism; greenway planning and urbanization; parks and urban growth; infrastructure and commercial interventions; science and business parks; vacant land and community economic development; green gentrification; land value capture mechanisms

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

GeoAI for Land Use Observations, Analysis and Forecasting

edited by

Wenfeng Zheng

,

Kenan Li

and

Xuan Liu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8468 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; land use and land cover; GeoAI; AI and machine learning

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

Urban Ecosystem Services and Climate Resilience: Trends and Challenges

edited by

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submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8204 | Submission Open

Keywords: benefits from urban green/blue spaces; urban ecosystem management; climate adaptation and mitigation; urban human– nature relations; valuation of urban ecosystem services; governance; spatial planning

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

Local and Regional Planning for Sustainable Development

edited by

Luís Carlos Loures

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7844 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape architecture; territorial design; territorial marketing; sustainable development; sustainable design; local and regional planning; stakeholders; environmental impact

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

Planning for Socio-Spatial Justice and Quality of Life in the Face of Competing Urban Development Dynamics

edited by

Antigoni Faka

, Angeliki Paidakaki and

Pieter Van den Broeck

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4666 | Submission Open

Keywords: socio-spatial justice; spatial inequalities; socioeconomic inequalities; quality of life; urban sustainability; spatial analysis

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

Agritourism in Inland Areas: An Opportunity for the Development of Rural Areas

edited by

J. M. Sánchez-Martín

and

Juan Rengifo-Gallego

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4446 | Submission Open

Keywords: agritourism; agroecoturism; authenticity; agricultural landscapes; cultural landscapes; organic farming and tourism; rural areas

Deep Learning of Climate Change and Extreme Events, Hydrological Processes and Land Use Dynamics Relationships

edited by

Hanoch Lavee

and

Jinping Liu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2809 | Submission Open

Keywords: deep learning techniques; climate change impact; extreme event forecasting; hydrological data analysis; land use change monitoring; predictive environmental modeling; remote sensing applications; disaster risk assessment; water resource optimization; ecosystem service evaluation; sustainable development strategies; environmental decision support

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

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