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1 September 2025
Land | Invitation to Read the Papers Selected from Volume 14, Issue 8, August 2025

We are delighted to announce that Issue 8, Volume 14 of Land (ISSN: 2073-445X), was released in August 2025. The following is a list of partial articles which we believe will be of interest to you:
“Estimating Urbanization’s Impact on Soil Erosion: A Global Comparative Analysis and Case Study of Phoenix, USA”
by Ara Jeong,Dylan S. Connor, Ronald I. Dorn and Yeong Bae Seong
Land 2025, 14(8), 1590; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081590
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1590
Section: “Land Systems and Global Change”
1. “A Disappearing Cultural Landscape: The Heritage of German-Style Land Use and Pug-And-Pine Architecture in Australia”
by Dirk H. R. Spennemann
Land 2025, 14(8), 1517; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081517
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1517
Section: “Landscape Ecology”
2. “Mapping Tradeoffs and Synergies in Ecosystem Services as a Function of Forest Management”
by Hazhir Karimi, Christina L. Staudhammer, Matthew D. Therrell, William J. Kleindl, Leah M. Mungai, Amobichukwu C. Amanambu and C. Nathan Jones
Land 2025, 14(8), 1591; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081591
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1591
Section: “Land, Soil and Water”
3. “Quality of Constructed Technogenic Soils in Urban Gardens Located on a Reclaimed Clay Pit”
by Dariusz Gruszka, Katarzyna Szopka and Cezary Kabala
Land 2025, 14(8), 1613; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081613
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1613
Section: “Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues”
4. “Practicality of Blockchain Technology for Land Registration: A Namibian Case Study”
by Johannes Pandeni Paavo, Rafael Rodríguez-Puentes and Uchendu Eugene Chigbu
Land 2025, 14(8), 1626; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081626
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1626
Section: “Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions”
5. “Towards a Sustainable Process of Conservation/Reuse of Built Cultural Heritage: A “Coevolutionary” Approach to Circular Economy in the Case of the Decommissioned Industrial Agricultural Consortium in the Corbetta, Metropolitan Area of Milan, Italy”
by Mehrnaz Rajabi, Stefano Della Torre and Arian Heidari Afshari
Land 2025, 14(8), 1595; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081595
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1595
Section: “Land–Climate Interactions”
6. “Spatial Variations in Perceptions of Decarbonization Impacts and Public Acceptance of the Bioeconomy in Western Macedonia”
by Christina-Ioanna Papadopoulou, Stavros Kalogiannidis, Dimitrios Kalfas, Efstratios Loizou and Fotios Chatzitheodoridis
Land 2025, 14(8), 1533; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081533
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1533
Section: “Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing”
7. “The Impact of Climate and Land Use Change on Greek Centipede Biodiversity and Conservation”
by Elisavet Georgopoulou, Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis and Stylianos M. Simaiakis
Land 2025, 14(8), 1685; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081685
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1685
Section: “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability”
8. “Methodological Framework for Evaluating Quarry Reclamation Based on the Reclamation Quality Index”
by Oľga Glova Végsöová and Jozef Glova
Land 2025, 14(8), 1557; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081557
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1557
Section: “Land Innovations—Data and Machine Learning”
9. “AI-Enhanced Remote Sensing of Land Transformations for Climate-Related Financial Risk Assessment in Housing Markets: A Review”
by Chuanrong Zhang and Xinba Li
Land 2025, 14(8), 1672; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081672
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1672
Section: “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus”
10. “Increase in Grain Production Potential of China Under 2030 Well-Facilitated Farmland Construction Goal”
by Jianya Zhao, Fanhao Yang, Yanglan Zhang and Shu Wang
Land 2025, 14(8), 1538; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081538
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1538
Section: “Land—Observation and Monitoring”
11. “Monitoring Post-Fire Deciduous Shrub Cover Using Machine Learning and Multiscale Remote Sensing”
by Hannah Trommer and Timothy Assal
Land 2025, 14(8), 1603; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081603
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1603
Section: “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture”
12. “Addressing Urban Vulnerability: A Comprehensive Approach”
by Iwona Kaczmarek, Małgorzata Świąder, Maria Hełdak and Maria Prezioso
Land 2025, 14(8), 1527; https://doi.org/10.3390/land1408152
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1527
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13. “Exploring the Spatial Correlation of Blight and Litter: A Case Analysis of Memphis, Tennessee Neighborhoods”
by Reza Banai and Navid Enayati Shabkolaei
Land 2025, 14(9), 1702; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091702
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1702
14. “Fusion of Airborne, SLAM-Based, and iPhone LiDAR for Accurate Forest Road Mapping in Harvesting Areas”
by Evangelia Siafali, Vasilis Polychronos and Petros A. Tsioras
Land 2025, 14(8), 1553; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081553
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1553
by Filemon Eliamini, Richard Mbatu and M. Duane Nellis
Land 2025, 14(8), 1546; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14081546
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/8/1546