Land | Invitation to Read the Papers Selected from Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2025
We are delighted to announce that Issue 9, Volume 14 of Land (ISSN: 2073-445X), was released in September 2025. The following is a list of partial articles which we believe will be of interest to you:
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“The CUGA Method: A Reliable Framework for Identifying Public Urban Green Spaces in Metropolitan Regions” |
Section: “Land Systems and Global Change”
1. “Fine-Scale Organization and Dynamics of Matrix-Forming Species in Primary and Secondary Grasslands”
by Sándor Bartha,Judit Házi,Dragica Purger, Zita Zimmermann, Gábor Szabó, Zsófia Eszter Guller, András István Csathó and Sándor Csete
Land 2025, 14(9), 1736; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091736
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1736
Section: “Landscape Ecology”
2. “Assessing Coastal Vulnerability in Finland: A Geoinformation-Based Approach Using the CVI”
by Konstantina Lymperopoulou, George P. Petropoulos, Anna Karkani, Niki Evelpidou and Spyridon E. Detsikas
Land 2025, 14(9), 1741; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091741
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1741
Section: “Land, Soil and Water”
3. “Predicting Heavy Metal and Nutrient Availability in Agricultural Soils Under Climatic Variability Using Regression and Mixed-Effects Models”
by Vassilios Diakoloukas, Georgios Koutopoulis, Sotiria G. Papadimou, Marios-Efstathios Spiliotopoulos and Evangelia E. Golia
Land 2025, 14(9), 1743; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091743
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1743
Section: “Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues”
4. “Impact of Political Economy on Land Administration Reform”
by Anthony Francis Burns, Abbas Rajabifard and Davood Shojaei
Land 2025, 14(9), 1888; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091888
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1888
Section: “Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions”
5. “Experiments of Network Literacy for Urban Designers: Bridging Information Design and Spatial Morphology”
by Dario Rodighiero
Land 2025, 14(9), 1901; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091901
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1901
Section: “Land–Climate Interactions”
6. “Preserving Coastal Heritage: A Review of Climate Adaptation Strategies on Ilha de Moçambique (Mozambique)”
by Cristiana Valente Monteiro, Francesca Dal Cin, Luís Lage and Sérgio Barreiros Proença
Land 2025, 14(9), 1917; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091917
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1917
Section: “Landscape Archaeology”
7. “Conservation for Whom? Archaeology, Heritage Policy, and Livelihoods in the Ifugao Rice Terraces”
by Stephen Acabado, Adrian Albano and Marlon Martin
Land 2025, 14(9), 1721; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091721
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1721
Section: “Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing”
8. “Protected Areas Under Threat: Unravelling the Protected Areas Downgrading, Downsizing, and Degazettement (PADDD) Events in Myanmar in a Global Context: 1989–2020”
by Zaw Min Thant, Eivin Røskaft, Glenn Hunt, Myat Su Mon, Thaw Zin Tun, Patrick Oswald and Henri Rueff
Land 2025, 14(9), 1800; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091800
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1800
Section: “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability”
9. “Economic Valuation of the Public Health Impacts of Wetland Degradation: The Case of Lake Cuitzeo (Mexico)”
by Rafael Trueba-Regalado, José A. Albaladejo-García, Arturo Chacón-Torres, Carlos F. Ortiz-Paniagua and José M. Martínez-Paz
Land 2025, 14(9), 1908; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091908
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1908
Section: “Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning”
10. “Land Use and Land Cover Maps for Stream Water Quality Assessment in Spatial Buffers: A Systematic Review of Recent Trends (2020–2024)”
by Giancarlo Alciaturi and Artur Gil
Land 2025, 14(9), 1858; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091858
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1858
Section: “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus”
11. “Exploring the Coordinated Development of Water-Land-Energy-Food System in the North China Plain: Spatio-Temporal Evolution and Influential Determinants”
by Zihong Dai, Jie Wang, Wei Fu, Juanru Yang and Xiaoxi Xia
Land 2025, 14(9), 1782; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091782
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1782
Section: “Land – Observation and Monitoring”
12. “A Comparison of Tree Segmentation Methods for Savanna Tree Extraction from TLS Point Clouds”
by Tasiyiwa Priscilla Muumbe, Pasi Raumonen, Jussi Baade, Corli Coetsee, Jenia Singh and Christiane Schmullius
Land 2025, 14(9), 1761; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091761
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1761
Section: “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture”
13. “Do Trees Really Make a Difference to Our Perceptions of Streets? An Immersive Virtual Environment E-Participation Streetscape Study”
by Marcus White, Nano Langenheim, Tianyi Yang, Hussein Dia, Ian Woodcock and Jeni Paay
Land 2025, 14(9), 1866; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091866
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1866
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14. “A Participatory SWOT-Based Approach to Nature-Based Solutions Within Urban Fragile Territories: Operational Barriers and Strategic Roadmaps”
by Marta Dell’Ovo, Giulia Datola, Elena Di Pirro, Silvia Ronchi, Andrea Arcidiacono, Sandy Attia, Diego Baronchelli, Andrea Benedini, Maddalena Buffoli, Gianpiero Calvi et al.
Land 2025, 14(9), 1847; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091847
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1847
15. “Modeling the Effectiveness of Alternative Flood Adaptation Strategies Subject to Future Compound Climate Risks”
by Fatemeh Nasrollahi, Philip Orton and Franco Montalto
Land 2025, 14(9), 1832; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14091832
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/9/1832