We are delighted to announce that Issue 1, Volume 15 of Land (ISSN: 2073-445X), was released in January 2026. The following is a list of partial articles which we believe will be of interest to you:

Section: “Land Systems and Global Change”
1. “Open Data Reuse in Agricultural, Livestock, and Environmental Systems: A Global Scoping Review with a Case Analysis of Ecuador”
by Juan Urdánigo-Zambrano, Bolier Torres, Carmen De-Pablos-Heredero, Robinson Herrera-Feijoo and Antón García
Land 2026, 15(1), 13; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010013
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/13

Section: “Landscape Ecology”
2. “Traditional Cultivation and Land-Use Change Under the Balaton Law: Impacts on Vineyards and Garden Landscapes“
by Krisztina Filepné Kovács, Virág Kutnyánszky, Zhen Shi, Zsolt Miklós Szilvácsku, László Kollányi and Edina Klára Dancsokné Fóris
Land 2026, 15(1), 106; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010106
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/106

Section: “Land, Soil and Water”
3. “Land Use and Agricultural Policy: Assessing the Green Morocco Plan’s Effect on Cereal Production”
by Noura Ed-dahmany, Lahouari Bounoua, Mohamed Amine Lachkham, Niama Boukachaba, Mohammed Yacoubi Khebiza and Hicham Bahi
Land 2026, 15(1), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010017
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/17

Section: “Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues”
4. “Legal Formalisation of Land Rights and Local Subsistence Security: Matrilineal Land Institutions in Northern Mozambique”
by Randi Kaarhus
Land 2026, 15(1), 94; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010094
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/94

Section: “Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions”
5. “Promoting Urban Ecosystems by Integrating Urban Ecosystem Disservices in Inclusive Spatial Planning Solutions”
by Anton Shkaruba, Hanna Skryhan, Siiri Külm and Kalev Sepp
Land 2026, 15(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010012
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/12

Section: “Land–Climate Interactions”
6. “Enhanced Urban Heat Island Modeling with Machine Learning and Regression Kriging in a Topographically Diverse Medium-Sized City”
by Iulian-Horia Holobaca, Mircea Alexe, Kinga Temerdek-Ivan and Cosmina-Daniela Ursu
Land 2026, 15(1), 49; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010049
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/49

Section: “Landscape Archaeology”
7. “A Disappearing Lake’s Water Area Changes Since 1761 AD in Northeastern Yunnan, SW China”
by Caiming Shen, Di Yang, Qifa Sun, Min Wang, Qi Suo and Hongwei Meng
Land 2026, 15(1), 153; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010153
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/153

Section: “Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing”
8. “Does Grazing or Climate Change Transform Vegetation More Rapidly? A Case Study of Calcareous Sandy Grasslands in the Pannonian Region”
by Ildikó Turcsányi-Járdi, Eszter Saláta-Falusi, Szilárd Szentes, Zoltán Kende, László Sipos, Gergő Péter Kovács, Tünde Szabó-Szöllösi, Gabriella Fintha, Leonárd Sári, Péter Penksza et al.
Land 2026, 15(1), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010072
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/72

Section: “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability”
9. “Sustainability Assessment of Circular Technologies in Agriculture: Overview of Evaluation Methodologies and Research Challenges”
by Giulia Datola and Alessandra Oppio
Land 2026, 15(1), 44; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010044
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/44

Section: “Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning”
10. “AI-Supported Detection of Vegetation Degradation and Urban Expansion Using Sentinel-2 Multispectral Data: Case Study”
by Mihai Valentin Herbei, Ana Cornelia Badea, Sorin Mihai Radu, Csaba Lorinț, Roxana Claudia Herbei, Radu Bertici, Lucian Octavian Dragomir, George Popescu, Adrian Smuleac and Florin Sala
Land 2026, 15(1), 140; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010140
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/140

Section: “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus”
11. “Agricultural Imaginaries and Contested Pathways to Sustainability in Galapagos”
by Rose Cairns
Land 2026, 15(1), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010011
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/11

Section: “Land – Observation and Monitoring”
12. “Putting Abandoned Farmlands in the Legend of Land Use and Land Cover Maps of the Brazilian Tropical Savanna”
by Ivo Augusto Lopes Magalhães, Edson Eyji Sano, Édson Luis Bolfe and Gustavo Bayma
Land 2026, 15(1), 53; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010053
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/53

Section: “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture”
13. “Is There Room for New Mosques in Belgian Cities? An Actor–Network Theory Approach”
by Mohamed El Boujjoufi, Corinne Torrekens and Jacques Teller
Land 2026, 15(1), 70; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010070
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/70

General
14. “Monitoring Forest Restoration in Berenty Reserve, Southern Madagascar”
by Ariadna Mondragon-Botero and Vanessa Winchester
Land 2026, 15(1), 30; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010030
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/30

15. “Ecological Insights from Above: Linking Habitat-Level NDVI Patterns with NDMI, LST and , Elevation in a Small Mediterranean City (Italy)”
by Chiara Bottaro, Michele Finizio, Michele Innangi, Marco Varricchione, Maria Laura Carranza and Giovanna Sona
Land 2026, 15(1), 57; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15010057
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/1/57