Land | Special Issues

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

edited by

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submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 16 articles | Viewed by 20498

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)

Planning for Sustainable Urban and Land Development

edited by

Zongcai Wei

,

Yuting Liu

and

Andrzej Biłozor

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 16939

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

Managing Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 16561

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)

Common Properties for the Sustainable Management of Territories

edited by

Fabiana Forte

and

Pietro Nervi

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14987

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

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

edited by

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,

and

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14813

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 10846

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)

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 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9493

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)

Developing 3D Cadastre for Urban Land Use

edited by

Karel Janečka

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8588

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 Sustainability from the Viewpoint of Carbon Emission: 2nd Edition

edited by

Xuechao Wang

,

Weize Song

and

Yingjie Li

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6785

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 4148

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 3185

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

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

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 2145

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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1525

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 430

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

edited by

,

,

,

and Francesca Minniti

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 260

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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2333 | 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 11181 | 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 7893 | 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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3492 | 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 1568 | 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 10308 | 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 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9080 | 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 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4612 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2499 | 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 1103 | 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 | 8 articles | Viewed by 13328 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2144 | 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 30998 | 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 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12828 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3491 | 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)

Sustainable Urban Greenspace Planning, Design and Management

edited by

Fatemeh Kazemi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 15316 | 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)

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 13817 | 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)

Urban Regeneration: Challenges and Opportunities for the Landscape

edited by Francesca Moraci, Laura Ricci,

,

,

and

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13323 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban regeneration for landscape; best practices; public spaces and urban landscape; social animation; cultural heritage and landscape; landscape; architecture; and new social relations; land; landscapes; risk management; landscape enhancement; the role ecosystem services play in landscape planning; energy and the environment: the challenges of the landscape; landscape and urban planning for climate-proofing; landscape development; management and competing land uses; sustainable and inclusive design of open spaces; role of green infrastructures; landscape urban regeneration; ecosystem services in landscape planning; landscape identity and community involvement; welfare in urban regeneration; public urban policy for identity and landscape; accessibility and sustainable mobility; prerequisites for enhancing the urban landscape as it changes.

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

Strategic Planning for Urban Sustainability

edited by

Carlos José Lopes Balsas

and

Awais Piracha

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 13018 | 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 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10984 | 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

,

,

and

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9854 | 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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9673 | 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)

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 | 8 articles | Viewed by 5794 | 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)

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 5265 | 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 4906 | Submission Open

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

Salinity Monitoring and Modelling at Different Scales: 2nd Edition

edited by

Maria da Conceição Gonçalves

,

Mohammad Farzamian

and Tiago Brito Ramos

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2664 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil salinity; soil hydraulic properties; pedotransfer functions; proximal soil sensing; remote sensing; electromagnetic induction; digital soil mapping; machine learning; arid and semi-arid climate; agricultural water management

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

Soil Contamination—Ecological Environment Risk Assessment and Remediation

edited by Magdalena Myszura-Dymek and

Grażyna Żukowska

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2057 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil pollution; fate of pollutants in soil; effects of soil pollution; methods of assessing soil pollution; ecological environment risk; indicators and methods of assessing ecological environment risk; soil remediation technologies; legal regulations on soil pollution

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

Integrating Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (Second Edition)

edited by

Michael Hensel

,

Defne Sunguroglu Hensel

and

Alessandra Battisti

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1556 | Submission Open

Keywords: integration of urban design; landscape architecture; and architecture; urban environmental and ecological restoration; multifunctional land use; integration of green; blue; and grey infrastructure; novel urban green systems; urban agriculture; horticulture; and gardening; urban ecology and multi-species design; decision support systems for integrating urban design; landscape architecture; and architecture; data-driven design for integrating urban design; landscape architecture; and architecture

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

Building Climate-Resilient Farms: Navigating Risks and Adaptation in Agriculture

edited by Nasir Abbas Khan

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1426 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; agricultural adaptation; vulnerability and resilience; climate-smart practices; food security; sustainable land management

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

Leveraging Big Data and Emerging Technologies for Agricultural Land Monitoring and Management

edited by Fang Liu,

Erqi Xu

and Xiaocui Wu

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1255 | Submission Open

Keywords: agriculture; land management; big data; GeoAI; remote sensing; climate change; sustainability

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

Rural Social Movements and the Question of the Land in the 21st Century

edited by

Peter Rosset

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 552 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural social movements; agroecology; land grabbing and the defense of land and territory; food sovereignty; peasant and indigenous autonomy; land and territory; peasants and indigenous people

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

Advances in Urban Flood Modeling: Exploring the Impacts of Land Use, Climate Change, and Green Infrastructure on Flood Risks and Mitigation Strategies

edited by

Jinyao Lin

and

Fabrizio Terenzio Gizzi

submission deadline 28 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 312 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban flood; waterlogging; land use; urban expansion; impervious surface; green infrastructure; historical flood investigations

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

Integrating Remote Sensing and Geospatial Big Data for Land Use Mapping and Monitoring (Second Edition)

edited by

Myroslava Lesiv

,

Linda See

and

Dmitry Schepaschenko

submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3332 | Submission Open

Keywords: data fusion; machine learning; remote sensing; geospatial big data

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

Computational Design and Planning for Socio-Environmental Sustainability of Landscapes and Communities

edited by

Xiwei Shen

, Bo Zhang and

Yang Song

submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1262 | Submission Open

Keywords: socio-environmental sustainability; climate change adaption; environment impact assessment; smart cities; green infrastructure; environmental modeling

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

Applications of GIS-Based Methods in Land Change Science

edited by

Beata Calka

and

Marta Szostak

submission deadline 1 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 162 | Submission Open

Keywords: land change science (LCS); geographical information sciences (GIS); spatial data integration land use monitoring; land use planning; land degradation; natural resource management; multicriteria analysis

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

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