5 August 2025
Land | Invitation to Read the Selected Papers from Volume 14, Issue 7, July 2025

We are delighted to announce that Issue 7, Volume 14 of Land (ISSN: 2073-445X), was released in July 2025. The following is a list of partial articles which we believe will be of interest to you:

Cover Story

SDI-Enabled Smart Governance: A Review (2015–2025) of IoT, AI and Geospatial Technologies—Applications and Challenges
by Sofianos Sofianopoulos, Antigoni Faka and Christos Chalkias
Land 202514(7), 1399; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071399
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/7/1399

Section: “Land Systems and Global Change
Land-Use Changes Largely Determine the Trajectory of Plant Species Distributions Under Climatic Uncertainty in a Mediterranean Landscape
by Spyros Tsiftsis, Anna Mastrogianni, Diogenis A. Kiziridis, Fotios Xystrakis, Magdalini Pleniou and Ioannis Tsiripidis
Land 202514(7), 1438; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071438

Section: “Landscape Ecology”
Impact of Slow-Forming Terraces on Erosion Control and Landscape Restoration in Central Africa’s Steep Slopes
by Jean Marie Vianney Nsabiyumva, Ciro Apollonio, Giulio Castelli, Elena Bresci, Andrea Petroselli, Mohamed Sabir, Cyrille Hicintuka and Federico Preti
Land 202514(7), 1419; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071419

Section: “Land, Soil and Water”
Spatial Distribution and Management of Trace Elements in Arid Agricultural Systems: A Geostatistical Assessment of the Jordan Valley
by Mamoun A. Gharaibeh, Bernd Marschner, Nicolai Moos and Nikolaos Monokrousos
Land 202514(7), 1325; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071325

Section: “Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues”
Resident Empowerment and National Park Governance: A Case Study of Three-River-Source National Park, China
by Yulian Ma, Yaolong Li, Yonghuan Ma, Yusong Liu, Xuechun Li and Fanglei Zhong
Land 202514(7), 1413; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071413

Section: “Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions
Urban Heat Islands and Land-Use Patterns in Zagreb: A Composite Analysis Using Remote Sensing and Spatial Statistics
by Dino Bečić and Mateo Gašparović
Land 202514(7), 1470; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071470

Section: “Land–Climate Interactions”
Identification of Restoration Pathways for the Climate Adaptation of Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra Huds.) in Türkiye
by Derya Gülçin, Javier Velázquez, Víctor Rincón, Jorge Mongil-Manso, Ebru Ersoy Tonyaloğlu, Ali Uğur Özcan, Buse Ar and Kerim Çiçek
Land 202514(7), 1391; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071391

Section: “Landscape Archaeology”
Earthquake Destruction and Resilience in Ancient Helike, Gulf of Corinth, Greece: A Case Study of Past Human–Environment Relationship
by Dora Katsonopoulou, Ioannis Koukouvelas and Mariza Kormann
Land 202514(7), 1392; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071392

Section: “Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing”
The Usability of Citizen Science Data for Research on Invasive Plant Species in Urban Cores and Fringes: A Hungarian Case Study
by Georgina Veronika Visztra and Péter Szilassi
Land 202514(7), 1389; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071389

Section: “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability”
“Comparative Analysis of Non-Negative Matrix Factorization in Fire Susceptibility Mapping: A Case Study of Semi-Mediterranean and Semi-Arid Regions
by Iraj Rahimi, Lia Duarte, Wafa Barkhoda and Ana Cláudia Teodoro
Land 202514(7), 1334; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071334

Section: “Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning
Soil Organic Carbon Mapping Through Remote Sensing and In Situ Data with Random Forest by Using Google Earth Engine: A Case Study in Southern Africa
by Javier Bravo-García, Juan Mariano Camarillo-Naranjo, Francisco José Blanco-Velázquez and María Anaya-Romero
Land 202514(7), 1436; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071436

Section: “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus
Water–Energy–Land–Food Nexus to Assess the Environmental Impacts from Coal Mining
by Reginaldo Geremias and Naoki Masuhara
Land 202514(7), 1360; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071360

Section: “Land – Observation and Monitoring
Historical Land Cover Dynamics and Projected Changes in the High Andean Zone of the Locumba Basin: A Predictive Approach Using Remote Sensing and Artificial Neural Network—Cellular Automata Model
by German Huayna, Victor Pocco, Edwin Pino-Vargas, Pablo Franco-León, Jorge Espinoza-Molina, Fredy Cabrera-Olivera, Bertha Vera-Barrios, Karina Acosta-Caipa, Lía Ramos-Fernández and Eusebio Ingol-Blanco
Land 202514(7), 1442; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071442

Section: “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture
Tenure Security and Responsible Land Management of Urban Informal Settlements on Waqf Land in Semarang City, Indonesia
by Iwan Rudiarto, Walter Timo de Vries, Alvita Bhanuningtyas Rustanto and Kanaya Aliyanadira Hidayat
Land 202514(7), 1365; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071365

General
Evidence Synthesis and Knowledge Integration for Sustainable Peatland Management
by Kate Flood, David Wilson and Florence Renou-Wilson
Land 202514(7), 1397; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071397

Estimating Biomass in Eucalyptus globulus and Pinus pinaster Forests Using UAV-Based LiDAR in Central and Northern Portugal
by Leilson Ferreira, André Salgado de Andrade Sandim, Dalila Araújo Lopes, Joaquim João Sousa, Domingos Manuel Mendes Lopes, Maria Emília Calvão Moreira Silva and Luís Pádua
Land 202514(7), 1460; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14071460

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