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        3 November 2025
        Land | Feature Papers from the Second Half of 2024 (I)
    
            
    
    
    
We are delighted to present a list of papers published in Land (ISSN: 2073-445X) in the second half of 2024 that have received considerable attention.
1. “Patterns of Urban Sprawl and Agricultural Land Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Cases of the Ugandan Cities of Kampala and Mbarara”
by Ronald O. Muchelo, Thomas F. A. Bishop, Sabastine U. Ugbaje and Stephen I. C. Akpa
Land 2024, 13(7), 1056; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13071056
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/7/1056

2. “Wide-Scale Identification of Small Woody Features of Landscape from Remote Sensing”
by Alessio Patriarca, Eros Caputi, Lorenzo Gatti, Ernesto Marcheggiani, Fabio Recanatesi, Carlo Maria Rossi and Maria Nicolina Ripa
Land 2024, 13(8), 1128; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081128
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/8/1128

3. “Market Value or Meta Value? The Value of Virtual Land during the Metaverse’s Digital Era”
by Aurora Greta Ruggeri, Giuliano Marella and Laura Gabrielli
Land 2024, 13(8), 1135; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081135
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/8/1135

4. “Spatiotemporal Analysis of Economic and Ecological Coupled Coordination: A Case Study of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Urban Agglomeration”
by Rigala Na, Xinliang Xu and Shihao Wang
Land 2024, 13(8), 1138; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081138
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/8/1138

5. “Soil Geochemical Mapping of the Sal Island (Cape Verde): Ecological and Human Health Risk Assessment”
by Luísa Diniz, Gelson Carlos, Carmelita Miranda, Pedro Dinis, Rosa Marques, Fernando Tavares Rocha, Eduardo Ferreira da Silva, Agostinho Almeida and Marina Cabral Pinto
Land 2024, 13(8), 1139; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081139
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/8/1139

6. “Evolution of the Beach–Dune Systems in Mediterranean Andalusia (Spain) Using Two Different Proxies”
by Rosa Molina, Giorgio Anfuso, Belén González-Aguilar, Giorgio Manno and J. Andrew G. Cooper
Land 2024, 13(8), 1185; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081185
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/8/1185

7. “Metabolic Network Analysis Reveals Human Impact on Urban Nitrogen Cycles”
by Yong Min, Hong Li, Ying Ge and Jie Chang
Land 2024, 13(8), 1199; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081199
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/8/1199

8. “Technology to Assist Land Management: User Satisfaction with an Online Forest Management System”
by Tim Kane, Wayne K. Clatterbuck, Krista Merry, Taeyoon Lee and Pete Bettinger
Land 2024, 13(8), 1247; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13081247
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/8/1247

9. “Visualizations to Explore the Possible Land Uses and Food Systems Approaches in Revelstoke, Canada”
by Robert Newell, Colin Dring and Elvia Willyono
Land 2024, 13(9), 1345; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13091345
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/9/1345

10. “Urban and Rural Environments and Their Implications for Older Adults’ Adaptation to Heat Waves: A Systematic Review”
by Pablo De Gea Grela, Diego Sánchez-González and Lorena Patricia Gallardo Peralta
Land 2024, 13(9), 1378; https://doi.org/10.3390/land13091378
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/9/1378
