Land | Recruiting Editorial Board Members for the “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability” Section
Land (ISSN: 2073-445X) is an international and cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal of land system science, landscape, soil–sediment–water systems, urban study, land–climate interactions, water–energy–land–food (WELF) nexus, biodiversity research and health nexus, land modeling and data processing, ecosystem services, multifunctionality and sustainability, etc., published monthly online by MDPI. The International Association for Landscape Ecology (IALE), European Land-use Institute (ELI), Landscape Institute (LI), and Urban Land Institute (ULI) are affiliated with Land, and their members receive a discount on the Article Processing Charge. More information about the journal is available at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/land.
Land use and land management have significant socio-cultural, environmental and economic impacts, affecting sustainability from local to global scales. Understanding such impacts is an important aspect of advancing sustainable land use and land management practices. Section “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability” is dedicated to publishing high-quality research that address assessment and evaluation methods and frameworks (ecosystem services/nature’s contributions to people, multifunctionality and sustainability), the development of indicators and indices and the presentation of approaches to how land use and land management can be transformed to improved sustainability.
More information about the Section is available at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/land/sections/land_environmental_policy_impact_assessment.
To help develop the “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability” Section, the Editorial Office of Land is recruiting interested and eligible researchers from academia to apply for Editorial Board membership.
The main responsibilities of Editorial Board Members are as follows:
- Pre-screening and making decisions on new submissions related to their research interests;
- Setting up and guest-editing at least one Special Issue during their term on a topic related to their research interests;
- Helping to promote the journal among their peers or at conferences;
- Attending Board meetings to provide feedback and inform journal development strategies;
- Reviewing manuscripts on topics related to their research expertise.
The benefits of becoming an Editorial Board Member include the following:
- The opportunity to publish one paper, free of charge, per year in Land, as well as receiving certain discounts for papers invited from your scientific network;
- A certificate recognizing you as an Editorial Board Member of Land;
- Land may offer sponsorship for conferences organized by you;
- Land may offer travel grants of CHF 300–500 per year for conferences that you attend or organize.
Editorial Board Members will hold the position for two years, with the possibility of renewal for a second term.
To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact the Land Editorial Office with the following two files attached:
- A full academic CV;
- A short cover letter that details your interest and motivation for the position.
We look forward to receiving your applications.
Land Editorial Office