Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability
A section of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).
Section Information
Land use and land management have significant socio-cultural, environmental and economic impacts, affecting sustainability from local to global scales. Understanding such impacts is an important aspect of advancing sustainable land use and land management practices.
The following section particularly welcomes studies on land use and land management practices and policies and their impacts on sustainability. We invite the submission of papers that address assessment and evaluation methods and frameworks (ecosystem services/nature’s contributions to people, multifunctionality and sustainability), the development of indicators and indices and the presentation of approaches to how land use and land management can be transformed to improved sustainability.
Editorial Board
Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Carbon-Focused Land Use Strategies: Pathways to Climate Resilience (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Contribution of Trail Paths to the Protection and Promotion of the Natural Environment, Second Edition (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Economic Valuation Assessment and Sustainable Management of Ecosystem Services: From Theory to Policy Applications (Deadline: 30 June 2026)
- Land Degradation in Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) : Assessment and Conservation (Second Edition) (Deadline: 3 July 2026)
- Climate and Carbon Cycle Impact Assessment of Land Policies, Prospects and Challenges (Deadline: 15 July 2026)
- Recent Progress in Land Degradation Processes, Control and Restoration (Deadline: 30 July 2026)
- Urban and Rural Development Planning for Resilient Human Environments (Second Edition) (Deadline: 3 August 2026)
- Land Resource Assessment (Second Edition) (Deadline: 19 August 2026)
- Urban Land Use Policies and Ecological Sustainability (Deadline: 20 August 2026)
- Geodiversity, Land Use and Ecosystem Services: Integrating Abiotic and Biotic Perspectives of Regional Development with Methodological Advances (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
- Land Cover/Use Dynamics and Its Implications for Regional Sustainable Development (Deadline: 31 August 2026)
- Relationship Between Land Use and Land Degradation (Deadline: 15 September 2026)
- Land Degradation: Global Challenges and Sustainable Solutions (Deadline: 30 September 2026)
- Coupled Man-Land Relationship for Regional Sustainability (Deadline: 1 October 2026)
- Land and Green Infrastructure Synergies: Advancing Ecological and Social Sustainability in Urban Environments (Deadline: 10 October 2026)
- Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Utilization Trend of Farmland (Deadline: 15 October 2026)
- State of the Art in Agriculture in Rural Areas: For Sustainable Land Management, 2nd Edition (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Valuing Non-Market Benefits of Nature Conservation and Restoration (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Assessment and Monitoring of Landslides and Other Natural Hazards for Resilient Land-Use Planning (Deadline: 31 October 2026)
- Data-Driven Geospatial Methods for Land Use and Land Cover Change Monitoring (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
- Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Landscape Patterns Under Land Use Change (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 30 November 2026)
- Environmental Monitoring and Sustainable Transition in Post-Mining Landscapes: Challenges, Innovations, and Policy Implications (Deadline: 1 December 2026)
- Sustainability in Land Use Planning: Tools and Case Studies (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Feature Papers on "Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability" (2nd Edition) (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
- Land Use Optimization for Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems (Deadline: 31 December 2026)
