Land | Invitation to Read Papers and Hot Topic Special Issues Related to Sustainable Development in Deltas

We are delighted to share some papers on sustainable development in deltas that were published in our journal Land (ISSN: 2073-445X) in 2023 and 2024. In addition, some Special Issues related to this topic are currently open for submission.

The following is a list of articles and Special Issues that we believe will interest you:

1. “Planning and Designing Natural and Urban Environments with an Adaptive Visualization Framework: The Case of Pazhou Island, Guangzhou, Pearl River Delta”
by Adam Tomkins and Eckart Lange
Land 2023, 12(2), 377; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020377
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/2/377

2. “The Anthropocene in the Aspiring UNESCO Global Geopark Schelde Delta Area: Geological History, Human Resilience and Future Landscape Management”
by Sjoerd Kluiving and Ronald Waterman
Land 2023, 12(5), 990; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12050990
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/5/990

3. “How Destination City and Source Landholding Factors Influence Migrant Socio-Economic Integration in the Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region”
by Xuanyu Liu, Zehong Wang, Yungang Liu, Zhigang Zhu, Jincan Hu, Gao Yang and Yuqu Wang
Land 2023, 12(5), 1073; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12051073
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/5/1073

4. “Evaluating Urban Flood Resilience within the Social-Economic-Natural Complex Ecosystem: A Case Study of Cities in the Yangtze River Delta”
by Shiyao Zhu, Haibo Feng and Qiuhu Shao
Land 2023, 12(6), 1200; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12061200
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/6/1200

5. “Multi-Scale Drivers of Land-Use Changes at Farm Level I: Conceptual Framework and Application in the Highly Flooded Zone of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta”
by Thuy Ngan Le, Arnold K. Bregt, Gerardo E. van Halsema, Petra J. G. J. Hellegers and Thi Thu Trang Ngo
Land 2023, 12(7), 1273; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12071273
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/7/1273

6. “Research on Spatial–Temporal Characteristics and Driving Factors of Urban Development Intensity for Pearl River Delta Region Based on Geodetector”
by Hanguang Yu, Dongya Liu, Chunxiao Zhang, Le Yu, Ben Yang, Shijiao Qiao and Xiaoli Wang
Land 2023, 12(9), 1673; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12091673
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/9/1673

7. “Multi-Scale Drivers of Land-Use Changes at Farm Level II: Application of Conceptual Framework in the Salinity Intrusion Zone of the Vietnamese Mekong Delta and Cross-Case Comparison with the Highly Flooded Zone”
by Thuy Ngan Le, Arnold K. Bregt, Gerardo E. van Halsema, Petra J. G. J. Hellegers and Thi Thu Trang Ngo
Land 2023, 12(10), 1873; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12101873
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/10/1873

8. “Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Water Ecological Restoration Based on the Relationship between the Supply and Demand of Ecological Products—A Case Study of the Yellow River Delta”
by Jianing Zhang, Yeqing Duan, Shenbei Zhou and Yuanyuan Huang
Land 2023, 12(12), 2093; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12122093
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/12/12/2093

9. “Water-Town Settlement Landscape Atlas in the East River Delta, China”
by Jingyi Zhang, Xiaoxiang Tang, Zhao Yu, Suwen Xiong and Fan Yang
Land 2024, 13(2), 149; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13020149
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/2/149

10. “Plant Diversity Response to Environmental Factors in Yellow River Delta, China”
by Zhen Xu, Renqiang Li, Wenjun Dou, Hui Wen, Shulin Yu, Pan Wang, Lehua Ning, Jiaquan Duan and Jichun Wang
Land 2024, 13(3), 264; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13030264
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/3/264

11. “Comparison of Compact and Decentralized Urban Development Pathways for Flood Mitigation in Urbanizing Deltas—Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta as a Case Study”
by Weibin Lin, Yimin Sun and Steffen Nijhuis
Land 2024, 13(3), 351; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13030351
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/3/351

12. “Spatial–Temporal Differentiation and Trend Prediction of Coupling Coordination Degree of Port Environmental Efficiency and Urban Economy: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta”
by Min Wang, Yu Lan, Huayu Li, Xiaodong Jing, Sitong Lu and Kexin Deng
Land 2024, 13(3), 374; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13030374
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/3/374

13. “Carbon Balance Zoning and Spatially Synergistic Carbon Reduction Pathways—A Case Study in the Yangtze River Delta in China”
by Hui Guo and Wei Sun
Land 2024, 13(7), 943; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13070943
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/7/943

14. “Land Use Change Impacts over the Indus Delta: A Case Study of Sindh Province, Pakistan”
by Maira Masood, Chunguang He, Shoukat Ali Shah and Syed Aziz Ur Rehman
Land 2024, 13(7), 1080; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13071080
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/7/1080

15. “Spatial Expansion Characteristics and Nonlinear Relationships of Driving Factors in Urban Agglomerations: A Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Urban Agglomeration in China”
by Bochuan Zhao, Yifei Wang, Huizhi Geng, Xuan Jiang and Lingyue Li
Land 2024, 13(11), 1951; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13111951
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/11/1951

Special Issues:
1. “Effects of Land Use on the Ecohydrology of River Basin in Accordance with Climate Change II”
Guest Editors: Wiktor Halecki, Dawid Bedla, Marek Ryczek and Artur Radecki-Pawlik
Submission deadline: 30 November 2025

2. “Regional Sustainable Development of Yangtze River Delta, China (3rd Edition)”
Guest Editors: Wei Sun, Zhaoyuan Yu, Kun Yu, Weiyang Zhang and Jiawei Wu
Submission deadline: 12 December 2025

3. “Agritourism as a Driver of Sustainable Land Management”
Guest Editors: Dora I. R. Ferreira and J. M. Sánchez-Martín
Submission deadline: 31 March 2026