Land | Special Issues

In Situ Conservation Tools to Mitigate Impacts from Global Change on Biodiversity

edited by

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submission deadline 28 May 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 20901 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity crisis; pressure assessment; protected area effectiveness; conservation outcome; land use– land cover change; climate change; ecological restoration; OECM; community conserved area; Anthropocene

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

Geographic Information Technologies and the New Challenges of Globalization in a Changing Environment

edited by

Ana Nieto Masot

,

Gema Cárdenas

and

José A. Gutiérrez Gallego

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13529 | Submission Open

Keywords: Geographic Information Systems; ; Remote Sensing; ; Geoinformation; ; Sustainable development; ; Spatial decision support; ; Spatial analysis; ; Geographic knowledge

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

Planning and Designing Livable and Sustainable Regions: Integrating Urban and Regional Perspectives

edited by

Yuan Yuan

,

Yang Xiao

and

Jianxi Feng

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9248 | Submission Open

Keywords: livability; urban and regional planning; urban design; regional development; spatial planning; urban and regional resilience; community and neighborhood; habitat; human settlements; sustainable development goals

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

Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Sun Yat-Sen University in Urban Planning and Land

edited by

Tingting Chen

,

Weilin Liao

, Xinhui Wu and Zhi He

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6342 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban planning; land; urban– rural interactions; landscapes; climate change; GIS application

Spatial Planning and Land-Use Management: 2nd Edition

edited by

Eduardo Gomes

,

Eduarda Marques Da Costa

and

Patrícia Abrantes

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6215 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatial planning; land-use management; land use/land cover; participatory planning; system thinking planning; future scenarios; land-use conflicts; accessibility; periurban and rurban territories; geospatial modelling; remote sensing

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

Agricultural Land Management to Meet Future Global Food Demand (Second Edition)

edited by

Uttam Khanal

and

Sanzidur Rahman

submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2734 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable land management; food security; agricultural intensification; crop diversification; agricultural adaptations to climate change

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

State of the Art on Agriculture in Rural Areas: For Sustainable Land Management

edited by

Bangbang Zhang

,

Xinyuan Liang

and

Lulu Qu

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 16316 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainability; farmland; intensification; resilience; rural; livelihood; policy; optimization; interdisciplinary

Ground Deformation Monitoring via Remote Sensing Time Series Data

edited by

Ebrahim Ghaderpour

and

Paolo Mazzanti

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 15791 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; change detection; ground deformation; PS-InSAR; monitoring; synthetic aperture radar; time series; trend analysis

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

Towards Healthy and Sustainable Human Settlement: The Ecological and Cultural Connation of Landsenses

edited by

Jiang Liu

,

Yuhan Shao

and

Xin-Chen Hong

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10084 | Submission Open

Keywords: landsenses; environmental governance; cultural preservation; health promotion; resilience; restorative landscapes; community engagement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Landscape Architecture and Design in Urban and Peri-Urban Environment: 2nd Edition

edited by

Richard Smardon

and

Maria Ignatieva

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10079 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape architecture; urban design; urban expansion; land use; land use change; urban context; built-up area; adaptive governance; urban regeneration; ecosystem services: environmental health benefits

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

Ecosystem Services and Residents’ Perceptions: Integrating and Innovating Across Disciplinary Perspectives

edited by

Qi Fu

, Hans Skov-Petersen, Xu Bi and Kai Li

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 8569 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem service assessment; resident perception; cultural and socio-economic impacts; well-being and quality of life; interdisciplinary research; community participation; urban and rural ecosystems; climate change and biodiversity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Feature Papers for Land Innovations—Data and Machine Learning: 2nd Edition

edited by

Chuanrong Zhang

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8333 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatial big data ; land use and land cover; geospatial artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; big data processing; big data analysis; big data visualization

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

Effects of Land Use on the Ecohydrology of River Basin in Accordance with Climate Change II

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8251 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity conservation; spatial modeling; climate policy; land management; soil and water conservation; ecosystem services; nature-based solutions (NBS); ecohydrology; urban resilience; sponge city concepts

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

Species Vulnerability and Habitat Loss II

edited by

Michela Balestri

and

Marco Campera

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7223 | Submission Open

Keywords: edge effect; stress; species trait; threatened species; fragmentation; habitat shift; dispersal; extinction risk; conservation planning

Eco-Sensitive Areas: Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, and Current Challenges (Second Edition)

edited by

Shicheng Li

,

Lanhui Li

and Mingjie Song

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 6865 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem services; protected lands; eco-sensitive areas; Tibetan Plateau; land use/cover change; ecological compensation; anthropogenic activities; ecosystem restoration; ecosystem services trade-off

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

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 6764 | 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)

Key Hydrological Processes and Its Controlling Factors in Terrestrial Ecosystems

edited by Licong Dai,

Xiaowei Guo

and

Charles Bourque

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6573 | 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)

Urban Planning and Housing Market II

edited by

Agnieszka Szczepańska

and

Radosław Cellmer

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6001 | 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 5845 | 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)

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 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5574 | 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 Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)

Human–Nature Relations in Urban Landscape Planning

edited by

Rob Roggema

and

Nico Tillie

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5266 | 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)

Urban Morphology: A Perspective from Space (Second Edition)

edited by

Marco Maretto

and Nicola Marzot

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5220 | 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)

Innovations in Agricultural Green Infrastructure

edited by

Wendy McWilliam

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4550 | 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 4351 | 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 4154 | 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)

Sustainability and Peri-Urban Agriculture II

edited by

Roberto Henke

and

Francesca Giare

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4116 | 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)

Rural Demographic Changes and Land Use Response

edited by

Yuheng Li

, Guoming Du,

Monika Stanny

and

Łukasz Komorowski

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1018 | 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)

The Role of Land Policy in Shaping Tourism Development

edited by

Dunja Demirović Bajrami

and

Adriana Radosavac

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1000 | 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)

Smart City and Architectural Design, Second Edition

edited by

Elisabetta Maria Venco

,

Chiara Garau

and

Emanuele Giorgi

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 928 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban and spatial planning policies; sustainable and smart planning; urban life quality; urban environment; digital transition; smart cities

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

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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 857 | 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 | Viewed by 322 | 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)

Ecosystem Disturbances and Soil Properties (Second Edition)

edited by

Víctor Fernández-García

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 278 | Submission Open

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

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 253 | 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)

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 | Viewed by 168 | Submission Open

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

Heritage Landscapes, Their Inventory, Management and Future

edited by Jaromír Kolejka and

Igor Gallay

submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 139 | 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)

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 16348 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2267 | 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 5099 | 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 | Viewed by 269 | 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 Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)

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

edited by

,

,

,

,

Mohammed Abed Hossain

,

Khalid Mahmood

and

Foster Mensah

submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12834 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2750 | 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 | Viewed by 118 | 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 76 | 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)

Land Use, Ecosystem Services and Environmental Management in Mediterranean Climate Areas

edited by Mélanie Requier-Desjardins and Generosa Calabrese

submission deadline 20 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 289 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem services; food system; livelihoods; climate change; land degradation; biodiversity loss; agroecology

(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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7256 | 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 461 | 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 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6810 | 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 3286 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1427 | 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 1479 | 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)

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