Announcements

We are delighted to announce that Issue 4, Volume 14 of Land (ISSN: 2073-445X), was released in April 2025. The following is a list of partial articles which we believe will be of interest to you:

Cover Story:

Section: “Land Systems and Global Change”
“Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensor Backpack for Assessing Spatial and Temporal Variations in Soil Water Content in an Agroforestry System in Northern Spain”
by Leticia Gaspar, Trenton E. Franz and Ana Navas
Land 2025, 14(4), 744; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040744
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/744

Section: “Landscape Ecology”
“Anthropogenic Disturbances in Northwestern Virunga Forest Amid Armed Conflict”
by Charles Mumbere Musavandalo, Pyrus Flavien Ebouel Essouman, Serge Shakanye Ndjadi, Julien Bwazani Balandi, Timothée Besisa Nguba, Carlo Sodalo, Jean-Pierre Mate Mweru, Kouagou Raoul Sambieni and Jan Bogaert
Land 2025, 14(4), 732; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040732
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/732

Section: “Land, Soil and Water”
“Land Drainage Interventions for Climate Change Adaptation: An Overlooked Phenomenon—A Conceptual Case Study from Northern Bohemia, Czech Republic”
by Jiří Černý, Petr Fučík and Antonín Zajíček
Land 2025, 14(4), 782; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040782
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/782

Section: “Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues”
“Home Elevation Decisions in Post-Disaster Recovery: Social Vulnerability, Policy Gaps, and Lessons from Houston”
by Ivis García, Zhihan Tao, Julia Orduña, Leslie Martínez-Román and Windya Welideniya
Land 2025, 14(4), 689; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040689
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/689

Section: “Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions”
“A Method for Delineating Urban Development Boundaries Based on the Urban–Rural Integration Perspective”
by Mengjing Wang, Walter Timo de Vries, Wanchen Sang, Haijun Bao, Yuefeng Lyu and Sheng Liu
Land 2025, 14(4), 859; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040859
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/859

Section: “Land–Climate Interactions”
“Evaluating Natural Climate Solutions in Long-Term Climate Strategies: Opportunities for Enhanced Mitigation Across the European Union”
by Giulio Di Lallo, Chiara De Notaris and Maria Vincenza Chiriacò
Land 2025, 14(4), 825; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040825
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/825

Section: “Landscape Archaeology”
“Exploring the Rural Landscape of the Marches of the Welsh Borders in Roman Times Through Intervisibility Analysis”
by Daniel E. May
Land 2025, 14(4), 728; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040728
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/728

Section: “Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing”
“Application of Forest Integrity Assessment to Determine Community Diversity in Plantation Forests Managed Under Carbon Sequestration Projects in the Western Qinba Mountains, China”
by Chun-Jing Wang, Dong-Zhou Deng, Wu-Xian Yan, Zhi-Wen Gao, Shan-Feng Huang and Ji-Zhong Wan
Land 2025, 14(4), 798; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040798
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/798

Section: “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability”
“Nature Conservation and Sustainable Tourism in a Former Baltic Sea Coastal Military Area”
by Egidijus Jurkus, Julius Taminskas, Arvydas Urbis and Ramūnas Povilanskas
Land 2025, 14(4), 887; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040887
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/887

Section: “Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning”
“Segmentation Performance and Mapping of Dunes in Multi-Source Remote Sensing Images Using Deep Learning”
by Pengyu Zhao, Jiale An, Jianghua Zheng, Wanqiang Han, Nigela Tuerxun, Bochao Cui and Xuemi Zhao
Land 2025, 14(4), 713; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040713
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/713

Section: “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus”
“Incorporating Stepping Stone Establishment into Rural Ecological Security Pattern Optimization: A Water–Energy–Food Coupling Perspective”
by Jingwen Tian, Bolun Zhang, Jiaying Li, Anxiao Zhang and Ling Zhu
Land 2025, 14(4), 862; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040862
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/862

Section: “Land – Observation and Monitoring”
“The Potential of the Copernicus Product “Imperviousness Classified Change” to Assess Soil Sealing in Agricultural Areas in Poland and Norway”
by Wendy Fjellstad, Agata Hościło, Svein Olav Krøgli, Jonathan Rizzi and Milena Chmielewska
Land 2025, 14(4), 794; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040794
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/794

Section: “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture”
“Unregulated Urban Regeneration in Athens: Greening and Taxation of the Built Environment as Impending Levers of Increasing Inequalities”
by Thomas Maloutas, Stavros Nikiforos Spyrellis and Fereniki Vatavali
Land 2025, 14(4), 777; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040777
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/777

General

“Enhancing Post-Disaster Food Security Through Urban Agriculture in the Context of Climate Change”
by Yanxin Liu,Victoria Chanse and Fabricio Chicca
Land 2025, 14(4), 799; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040799
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/799

“Possibilities and Limitations of a Geospatial Approach to Refine Habitat Mapping for Greater Gliders (Petauroides spp.)”
by Jess E. Evans, Elizabeth A. Brunton, Javier X. Leon, Teresa J. Eyre and Romane H. Cristescu
Land 2025, 14(4), 784; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14040784
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/4/784