We are delighted to announce that Issue 12, Volume 14 of Land (ISSN: 2073-445X) was released in December 2025. The following is a list of partial articles which we believe will be of interest to you:

Section: “Land Systems and Global Change”
1. “Future Land Use and Cover Modeling in South Korea: Linking SSP-RCP with FLUS Model”
by Seongil Han, Youngeun Kang, Hyeryeon Jo, Miyeon Ahn, Taelyn Kim and Seungwoo Son
Land 2025, 14(12), 2380; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122380
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2380

Section: “Landscape Ecology”
2. “From Socialism to Market Economy in Central Europe’s Mountains: Interactions Between Population and Land Cover Changes in the Polish Carpathians”
by Rafał Kroczak, Tomasz Bryndal, Sławomir Dorocki and Janusz Olszak
Land 2025, 14(12), 2302; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122302
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2302

Section: “Land, Soil and Water”
3. “Soil’s Physical, Chemical, and Biological Responses to Different Post-Harvest Management of Pinus elliottii in Santa Catarina, Brazil”
by Ana Carolina de Mattos e Avila, Gunnar Kirchhof, Marlise Nara Ciotta, Sandra Denise Camargo Mendes, João Frederico Mangrich dos Passos, Marieli do Nascimento and Jackson Adriano Albuquerque
Land 2025, 14(12), 2331; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122331
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2331

Section: “Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues”
4. “Land Expansion and Green Rural Transformation in Developing Countries: A Kaya Identity Approach”
by Edward B. Barbier
Land 2025, 14(12), 2314; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122314
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2314

Section: “Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions”
5. “Toward an Integrative Framework of Urban Morphology: Bridging Typomorphological, Sociological, and Morphogenetic Traditions”
by Emad Noaime and Mohammed Mashary Alnaim
Land 2025, 14(12), 2323; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122323
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2323

Section: “Land–Climate Interactions”
6. “Dilemmas in Statutory Urban Planning When Addressing the Climate Adaptation Implementation Gap: Insights from Six European Cities”
by Gemma García-Blanco, Saioa Zorita, Maria Wirth, Magdalena Biernacka and Pedro José Lozano
Land 2025, 14(12), 2304; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122304
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2304

Section: “Landscape Archaeology”
7. “Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Sanxingdui (3.7–3.1 ka BP) and Shi’erqiao (3.1–2.6 ka BP) Sites on the Chengdu Plain, Southwest China”
by Hui Chao, Xiaolin Chang and Changhao Xu
Land 2025, 14(12), 2379; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122379
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2379

Section: “Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing”
8. “Which Soil Type Is Optimal for Festuca wagneri, a Species of the Pannonian Region Adapted to Drought?”
by Károly Penksza, Tünde Szabó-Szöllösi, László Sipos, Szilárd Szentes, Eszter Saláta-Falusi, Anita Takács, Norbert Boros, András Sebők, Boglárka Anna Dálnoki, Márta Fuchs et al.
Land 2025, 14(12), 2405; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122405
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2405

Section: “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability”
9.”Unveiling the Spatiotemporal Drivers of Green Utilization Efficiency of Cultivated Land in China: A PEST-GTWR Framework”
by Mengyao Zhang, Quanfeng Li, Bonoua Faye and Anran Yang
Land 2025, 14(12), 2329; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122329
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2329

Section: “Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning”
10. “Official Projection vs. Public Perception: Measuring the Perceptual Discrepancy of Creative Industry Parks in the Industrial Heritage Category Using Large Language Models”
by Xiaoke Yang, Bin Hu and Jingwei Zhao
Land 2025, 14(12), 2371; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122371
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2371

Section: “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus”
11. “Optimizing Urban Land-Use Through Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Case Study in Hangzhou for Reducing Carbon Emissions”
by Jie Shen, Fanghao Zheng, Tianyi Chen, Wu Deng, Anthony Bellotti, Fiseha Berhanu Tesema and Elena Lucchi
Land 2025, 14(12), 2368; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122368
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2368

Section: “Land – Observation and Monitoring”
12. “Analysis of Soil δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N Along Precipitation Gradient: Critical Insights into Tree–Grass Interactions and Soil C Sequestration in Savannas”
by Kebonye Dintwe, Gregory S. Okin, Frances O’Donnell, William P. Gilhooly, Abinash Bhattachan, Mokganedi Tatlhego, Lixin Wang and Paolo D’Odorico
Land 2025, 14(12), 2328; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122328
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2328

Section: “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture”
13. “Exploring Overtourism Implications Through the ‘Lens’ of Local Community—A Case Study of Santorini Island, Greece”
by Akrivi Leka, Anastasia Stratigea and Panayiotis Prekas
Land 2025, 14(12), 2422; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122422
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2422

General
14. “What Does Resilience of Social–Ecological Systems Mean in Burundi? A Qualitative Approach”
by Luc Janssens de Bisthoven, Ilya Pijpen, Olivier Nkurikiye, Anne-Julie Rochette, Johan Slimbrouck, Alice Vandommele, Longin Ndayikeza, Jacques Nkengurutse and Jean Hugé
Land 2025, 14(12), 2301; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122301
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2301

15. “An Integrated Conceptual Approach for Biodiversity Risk Assessment: How Do Biodiversity Risk Patterns Respond to the Simultaneous Impacts of Climate Change and Urbanization?”
by Hye In Chung, Yuyoung Choi, Gregory S. Biging, Woo-Kyun Lee, Dong Kun Lee, Jinhyung Chon, Hyun Chan Sung, Kyungil Lee and Seong Woo Jeon
Land 2025, 14(12), 2374; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14122374
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/12/2374