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:
- Land Resource Assessment (Second Edition) (Deadline: 27 August 2025)
- Geodiversity, Land Use and Ecosystem Services: Integrating Abiotic and Biotic Perspectives of Regional Development with Methodological Advances (Deadline: 31 August 2025)
- Recent Progress in Land Degradation Processes, Control and Restoration (Deadline: 25 September 2025)
- Land Governance Technology and Institutional Reform for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals with Environmental and Social Aspects (Second Edition) (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
- Carbon-Focused Land Use Strategies: Pathways to Climate Resilience (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
- Valuing Non-Market Benefits of Nature Conservation and Restoration (Deadline: 31 October 2025)
- Urban and Rural Development Planning for Resilient Human Environments (Second Edition) (Deadline: 23 November 2025)
- Patrimony Assessment and Sustainable Land Resource Management (Second Edition) (Deadline: 1 December 2025)
- Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Utilization Trend of Farmland (Deadline: 1 December 2025)
- Coupled Man-Land Relationship for Regional Sustainability (Deadline: 5 December 2025)
- Land Degradation in Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) : Assessment and Conservation (Second Edition) (Deadline: 25 December 2025)
- Climate and Carbon Cycle Impact Assessment of Land Policies, Prospects and Challenges (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
- Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Landscape Patterns Under Land Use Change (Deadline: 31 December 2025)
- Assessing Habitat Risk from Ecosystem Service Impacts Driven by Land Use and Landscape Pattern Changes (Deadline: 18 January 2026)
- Economic Valuation Assessment and Sustainable Management of Ecosystem Services: From Theory to Policy Applications (Deadline: 13 February 2026)
- Feature Papers on Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability (Deadline: 23 February 2026)
- Land Degradation: Global Challenges and Sustainable Solutions (Deadline: 17 March 2026)
