Urban Sprawl and Sustainable Land Use Planning
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 18082
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land use change; land use modelling; land use optimization; cropland protection; ecosystem services
Interests: land use change and simulation; ecological effects of land use change; land use policy; rural land consolidation; land use planning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Both the urban and rural developments need to cope with social, demographic, economic, governance, and environmental challenges. For the urban area, major cities are consuming 80% of the world’s energy, and are responsible for three-fourths of all the carbon emissions nowadays. This reduces an urban dwellers’ quality of life. Comparatively, the rural area is confronted from land degradation, deforestation, biodiversity loss, geographical isolation, and poor health conditions. Rural populations are more prone to extreme poverty, famine, social exclusion, and environmental injustice. However, cities are growing very quickly and the world’s population are expected to be highly concentrated in urban areas, while the rural areas suffer from rural population and economy decline in the near future. It is obvious to see that the sustainability of our planet is in greater danger than ever before.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to gather innovative research contributions aiming to achieve sustainable urban and rural development by applying relevant theories and modelling approaches. Contents may consider but not limited to analyzing the spatio-temporal characteristics of our urban and rural dynamics, revealing the factors that drive these changes, and projecting the future urban and rural futures.
We invite review and conceptual papers, also bringing to new frameworks or methodology-building efforts, and research papers, including cases studies, qualitative analyses, and more quantitative/empirical investigations able to contribute to the research and practitioner purposes of the Special Issue.
We will look forward to receiving your research works and will be delighted to provide preliminary feedback to evaluate the potential of the same for submission to our Special Issue. Please see also the website of Administrative Sciences for full editorial aims and submission requirements.
Prof. Dr. Xinli Ke
Dr. Wei Song
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable city
- rural revitalization
- integrated urban-rural development
- spatial optimization
- land use change
- land use modelling
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