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1 September 2026
Land | Invitation to Read the Papers Selected from Volume 15, Issue 8, August 2026
We are delighted to announce that Issue 8, Volume 15 of Land (ISSN 2073-445X), was released in August 2026. The following is a list of partial articles which we believe will be of interest to you:
Cover Story:
“Mapping Ghost Springs: Strategic Ecohydrogeological Zones for Diatom-Based Monitoring and Conservation in the Northern Apennines”
by Lucia Piana, Soulaima Azizi, Enrico Dinelli, Maria Filippini, Alessandro Gargini, Nicolas Greggio, Andrea Mustoni, Alessandro Petraglia, Laura Pezzolesi, Abdullah A. Saber et al.
Land 2026, 15(8), 1441; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081441
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1441
Section: “Land Systems and Global Change”
“Spatial Insights into the Carbon and Environmental Footprint of Mediterranean Wheat: Integrating Life Cycle Assessment and Data Envelopment Analysis for Land-System Climate Resilience”
by Eleni Adam, Athanasia Mavrommati and Angelos Patakas
Land 2026, 15(8), 1417; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081417
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1417
Section: “Landscape Ecology”
“Spatial Heterogeneity of Romanian Agricultural Landscapes (2000–2024): Intensification, Polarization, and Agroecosystem Typologies”
by Emilia Herman
Land 2026, 15(8), 1412; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081412
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1412
Section: “Land, Soil and Water”
“Nanotechnology-Enabled Remediation of Contaminated Soils: Mechanisms, Soil Constraints, Environmental Risks, and Implications for Sustainable Land Management”
by Leticia Merchán, Hugo Díez, Antonio Miguel Martínez-Graña, Humberto Castillo-González, Lorena Salgado and Rubén Forján
Land 2026, 15(8), 1440; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081440
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1440
Section: “Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues”
“Contradictions of Rural Development, Agri-Environmental Policy, Agroecological Transitions and Alternative Visions for Agriculture and Food Security in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of Regions in Sweden and Italy”
by Cristián Alarcón-Ferrari, Alessandra Corrado, Johanna Bergman Lodin, Margarita Cuadra, Marcelo Garrido, Mario Pullano and Kajsa Skinnars
Land 2026, 15(8), 1391; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081391
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1391
Section: “Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions”
“Cultural Ecosystem Services and Sense of Place Diagnostic Model for Heritage Cities in the Global South”
by Salah A. M. Al-Gamal and István Valánszki
Land 2026, 15(8), 1350; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081350
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1350
Section: “Land–Climate Interactions”
“Climate-Resilient Land-Use Planning Across Heterogeneous Southern European Hazard Regions”
by Georgios Xekalakis, Gigliola D’Angelo, Mattia Leone, Giulio Zuccaro, Marija Vurnek and Denis Havlik
Land 2026, 15(8), 1352; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081352
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1352
Section: “Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing”
“Spatial Patterns of Biodiversity and Endemism Across Türkiye: A National-Scale Spatial Autocorrelation Analysis”
by Reşat Geçen, Enes Karadeniz, Fatih Sunbul, Selman Er, Murat Karabulut and M. Taner Sengun
Land 2026, 15(8), 1428; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081428
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1428
Section: “Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability”
“Dynamics of Urban Expansion and Agricultural Land Loss in the Trnava District (Slovakia): A CORINE Land Cover-Based Modelling Approach”
by Zlatica Muchová, Karol Šinka, Danka Moravčíková, Mária Tárníková, Jakub Pagáč and Alexander Fehér
Land 2026, 15(8), 1333; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081333
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1333
Section: “Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning”
“GeoLiquefy-AI: Predicting Soil Liquefaction Potential via Deep Neural Architecture Search in Seismically Active Coastal Zones”
by Salima Ait El Hocine, Fatiha Debiche, Mohammed Amin Benbouras, Tahar Messafer, Mohamed Lyes Baba Ali and Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor
Land 2026, 15(8), 1345; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081345
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1345
Section: “Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus”
“Advancing Climate-Smart Agriculture: A Global Assessment of Climate Impacts on Crop Yield and Adaptation Effectiveness Across Arid and Semi-Arid Regions”
by Kelechi Igwe, Manavjot Singh, Mahekpreet Kaur, Alireza Monavarian, Gloria Ramos, Michael Madin, Ikenna Onyekwelu, Meenakshi Rawat and Vaishali Sharda
Land 2026, 15(8), 1449; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081449
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1449
Section: “Land – Observation and Monitoring”
“Field-Calibrated Stem-Carbon Models and a Scale-Transfer Diagnostic for Interpreting Satellite Biomass in European Beech Forests of the Central Rhodope Mountains, Greece”
by Maria Triantafyllidou, Elias Milios and Kyriaki Kitikidou
Land 2026, 15(8), 1330; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081330
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1330
Section: “Land Planning and Landscape Architecture”
“Introducing Agroforestry into Urban Planning: A Procedural Approach for Italian Cities”
by Marco Focacci, Isabella De Meo, Alessandro Paletto, Francesca Ugolini and Fabio Salbitano
Land 2026, 15(8), 1373; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081373
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1373
General
“Mapping Recovery Resilience Pathways After the 2018 Palu Liquefaction: A Multi-Index Google Earth Engine Framework for Post-Disaster Land Systems”
by Seung-Jun Lee, Jisung Kim, In-Seok Heo and Hong-Sik Yun
Land 2026, 15(8), 1369; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081369
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1369
“Assessing Agroforestry Ecological and Socioeconomic Perceived Benefits in Uganda”
by Dastan Bamwesigye, Jitka Fialova, Evans Yeboah, Dalibor Safarík, David Brezina, Jitka Menhazova and Petra Hlavackova
Land 2026, 15(8), 1422; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081422
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1422
“Operational Multi-Source Data Fusion for High-Resolution LULC Mapping”
by Claudia Collu, Dario Simonetti, Francesco Dessì, Hugo Iker Gael Gómez Diez, Alberto Masala, Pasquale Lasio, Paolo Botti and Maria Teresa Melis
Land 2026, 15(8), 1461; https://doi.org/10.3390/land15081461
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/15/8/1461
