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Best Paper Award

Thank you for your continuous support. We regret to inform you that the deadline for announcing the winners of the 2023 Best Paper Award has been postponed to 31 May 2025.

The editorial office would like to apologize for any inconvenience caused. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Land Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The evaluation committee members choose six articles of exceptional quality that were published in the journal the year before the previous year and announce them online by the end of April.

The Prize:

Review:
– The first prize: CHF 600 and a chance to publish a paper (article/review) free of charge in Land in 2025 after peer review;
– The second prize: CHF 400 and a chance to publish a paper (article/review) free of charge in Land in 2025 after peer review;
– The third prize: a chance to publish a paper (article/review) free of charge in Land in 2025 after peer review;
– Each winner will also receive an electronic certificate.

Article:
– The first prize: CHF 500 and a chance to publish a paper (article/review) free of charge in Land in 2025 after peer review;
– The second prize: CHF 300 and a chance to publish a paper (article/review) free of charge in Land in 2025 after peer;
– The third prize: a chance to publish a paper (article/review) free of charge in Land in 2025 after peer review;
– Each winner will also receive an electronic certificate.

 
Land Best Paper Award
 
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Eligibility and Requirements:

– All papers published in Land will be eligible (both regular and Special Issue submissions).

Selection Criteria:

– Scientific merit and broad impact;
– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
– Clarity of presentation;
– Citations and downloads.

 
Past Winners
 
Year: 

Winner

25 pages, 1148 KiB  
Review
Land Use Planning and Green Environment Services: The Contribution of Trail Paths to Sustainable Development
by Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos
Land 2023, 12(5), 1041; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12051041 - 10 May 2023
16 pages, 3759 KiB  
Review
Remote Sensing and Invasive Plants in Coastal Ecosystems: What We Know So Far and Future Prospects
by Priscila Villalobos Perna, Mirko Di Febbraro, Maria Laura Carranza, Flavio Marzialetti and Michele Innangi
Land 2023, 12(2), 341; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020341 - 27 Jan 2023
18 pages, 1445 KiB  
Review
How Can Plants Help Restore Degraded Tropical Soils?
by Renaud Massoukou Pamba, Vincent Poirier, Pamphile Nguema Ndoutoumou and Terence Epule Epule
Land 2023, 12(12), 2147; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12122147 - 9 Dec 2023
19 pages, 2556 KiB  
Article
A Decision Support Tool for Green Infrastructure Planning in the Face of Rapid Urbanization
by Peta Brom, Kristine Engemann, Christina Breed, Maya Pasgaard, Titilope Onaolapo and Jens-Christian Svenning
Land 2023, 12(2), 415; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020415 - 4 Feb 2023
13 pages, 3580 KiB  
Article
Urban Heat Island Mitigation and Urban Green Spaces: Testing a Model in the City of Padova (Italy)
by Paolo Semenzato and Lucia Bortolini
Land 2023, 12(2), 476; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020476 - 15 Feb 2023
24 pages, 1942 KiB  
Article
Unraveling the European Agricultural Policy Sustainable Development Trajectory
by Yannis E. Doukas, Luca Salvati and Ioannis Vardopoulos
Land 2023, 12(9), 1749; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12091749 - 8 Sep 2023

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst Chairman
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Prof. Shiliang Liu
Beijing Normal University
Dr. Teodoro Semeraro
University of Salento
Prof. Dr. HANOCH LAVEE
Bar Ilan Univesity
Prof. Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor
Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism
Prof. Rui Alexandre Castanho
WSB

Winner

15 pages, 577 KiB  
Review
A Review on the Overall Optimization of Production–Living–Ecological Space: Theoretical Basis and Conceptual Framework
by Gang Lin, Dong Jiang, Jingying Fu and Yi Zhao
Land 2022, 11(3), 345; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030345 - 25 Feb 2022
21 pages, 2861 KiB  
Review
The Socio-Cultural Benefits of Urban Agriculture: A Review of the Literature
by Rositsa T. Ilieva, Nevin Cohen, Maggie Israel, Kathrin Specht, Runrid Fox-Kämper, Agnès Fargue-Lelièvre, Lidia Poniży, Victoria Schoen, Silvio Caputo, Caitlin K. Kirby, Benjamin Goldstein, Joshua P. Newell and Chris Blythe
Land 2022, 11(5), 622; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11050622 - 23 Apr 2022
20 pages, 2736 KiB  
Review
Driving Forces behind Land Use and Land Cover Change: A Systematic and Bibliometric Review
by Andrew Allan, Ali Soltani, Mohammad Hamed Abdi and Melika Zarei
Land 2022, 11(8), 1222; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11081222 - 2 Aug 2022
13 pages, 4185 KiB  
Article
Drone-Based Identification of Erosive Processes in Open-Pit Mining Restored Areas
by Joan-Cristian Padró, Johnsson Cardozo, Pau Montero, Roger Ruiz-Carulla, Josep Maria Alcañiz, Dèlia Serra and Vicenç Carabassa
Land 2022, 11(2), 212; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020212 - 29 Jan 2022
29 pages, 1680 KiB  
Article
Net Zero Energy Districts: Connected Intelligence for Carbon-Neutral Cities
by Nicos Komninos
Land 2022, 11(2), 210; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11020210 - 29 Jan 2022
41 pages, 74207 KiB  
Article
Mapping Agricultural Lands: From Conventional to Regenerative
by Luke Bergmann, Luis Fernando Chaves, Carolyn R. Betz, Serena Stein, Brian Wiedenfeld, Ann Wolf and Robert G. Wallace
Land 2022, 11(3), 437; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11030437 - 17 Mar 2022

Award Committee

Prof. Dr. Christine Fürst Chairman
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Prof. Huadong Zang
College of Agronomy and Biotechnology, China Agricultural University
Prof. Shiliang Liu
Beijing Normal University
Dr. Yurui Li

Winner

21 pages, 2495 KiB  
Review
Impact of Agrochemicals on Soil Microbiota and Management: A Review
by Ram Swaroop Meena, Sandeep Kumar, Rahul Datta, Rattan Lal, Vinod Vijayakumar, Martin Brtnicky, Mahaveer Prasad Sharma, Gulab Singh Yadav, Manoj Kumar Jhariya, Chetan Kumar Jangir, Shamina Imran Pathan, Tereza Dokulilova, Vaclav Pecina and Theodore Danso Marfo
Land 2020, 9(2), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/land9020034 - 23 Jan 2020
18 pages, 1540 KiB  
Review
From City- to Site-Dimension: Assessing the Urban Ecosystem Services of Different Types of Green Infrastructure
by Patrycia Brzoska and Aiga Spāģe
Land 2020, 9(5), 150; https://doi.org/10.3390/land9050150 - 14 May 2020
37 pages, 13768 KiB  
Article
Not Simply Green: Nature-Based Solutions as a Concept and Practical Approach for Sustainability Studies and Planning Agendas in Cities
by Diana Dushkova and Dagmar Haase
Land 2020, 9(1), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/land9010019 - 11 Jan 2020
20 pages, 618 KiB  
Article
A Theoretical Framework for Bolstering Human-Nature Connections and Urban Resilience via Green Infrastructure
by Jackie Parker and Greg D. Simpson
Land 2020, 9(8), 252; https://doi.org/10.3390/land9080252 - 29 Jul 2020

Winner

20 pages, 332 KiB  
Article
Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs), Aichi Target 11 and Canada’s Pathway to Target 1: Focusing Conservation on Reconciliation
by Melanie Zurba, Karen F. Beazley, Emilie English and Johanna Buchmann-Duck
Land 2019, 8(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/land8010010 - 7 Jan 2019
26 pages, 37670 KiB  
Article
Agricultural Expansion in the Brazilian Cerrado: Increased Soil and Nutrient Losses and Decreased Agricultural Productivity
by Luciene Gomes, Silvio J. C. Simões, Eloi Lennon Dalla Nora, Eráclito Rodrigues de Sousa-Neto, Maria Cristina Forti and Jean Pierre H. B. Ometto
Land 2019, 8(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/land8010012 - 8 Jan 2019
18 pages, 8731 KiB  
Review
Challenges and Opportunities of Social Media Data for Socio-Environmental Systems Research
by Bianca E. Lopez, Nicholas R. Magliocca and Andrew T. Crooks
Land 2019, 8(7), 107; https://doi.org/10.3390/land8070107 - 4 Jul 2019
14 pages, 264 KiB  
Review
Understanding Land in the Context of Large-Scale Land Acquisitions: A Brief History of Land in Economics
by Marcello De Maria
Land 2019, 8(1), 15; https://doi.org/10.3390/land8010015 - 10 Jan 2019

Award Committee

Dr. Andrew Millington Chairman
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