Land | Special Issues

Archaeological Landscape and Settlement II

edited by

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submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 42717 | Submission Open

Keywords: human impact on the landscape; coastal changes and sea-level rise; settlement pattern and site complementarity; radiocarbon dating; the exploitation of the highland zones

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Archaeology)

Contribution of Trail Paths to the Protection and Promotion of the Natural Environment

edited by

Panagiotis Lemonakis

,

Apostolos Kantartzis

and

Chrisovaladis Malesios

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 21651 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use planning; trail path; natural environment protection; urban and rural areas; cultural heritage; wildlife ecosystem

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Spatial Justice in Urban Planning (Second Edition)

edited by

Fox Zhiyong Hu

,

Wendy Yan Chen

and Izzy Yi Jian

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 17868 | Submission Open

Keywords: social-spatial justice; distributional and procedural justice; urban redevelopment; environmental justice; green gentrification; right to the city; segregation and discrimination; urban political ecology; capital and capability; co-production

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Rural Tourism Development: Land Use, Ecosystem Services, and Community Interactions

edited by

Ioan Sebastian Jucu

and Cătălina ANCUȚA

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 11 articles | Viewed by 15211 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural land use change; rural tourism development; rural tourism and socio-economic interaction; rural cultural heritage; cultural tourism in rural areas

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

New Urbanization: Urban-Rural Coordination and Sustainable Development

edited by

Xiong He

and

Chunshan Zhou

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 14791 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban and regional planning; urban– rural integration; sustainable development; urban and rural land use; urban governance; urban– rural landscape; urban– rural relations; geographic information systems (GISs) and remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services in Relation to Landscape Design, Planning and Management

edited by Aikaterini Gkoltsiou and

Albert Fekete

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 15 articles | Viewed by 14552 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape architecture (planning; design and management); ecosystem planning; green roofs/green walls; xeriscaping; green infrastructure strategies; nature based solutions; urban ecosystems; nature and public health; biodiversity conservation; knowledge sharing and participatory decision-making; site preservation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Human–Nature Relations in Urban Landscape Planning

edited by

Rob Roggema

and

Nico Tillie

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11557 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban landscape; urban ecosystem; landscape planning; spatial planning; resilient design; landscape design; landscape-based urban design; design-led approach; green and blue grids; nature-based solutions; biourbanism; regenerative design

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Application of the Ecosystem Service in Landscape Planning: From Cognition to Decision-Making

edited by

Xi Li

, Kai Li, Yuejing Rong, Hao Xia and Ruhong Xin

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10030 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem service; landscape planning and design; ecosystem management decision-making; trade-off and synergy; human wellbeing; green infrastructure; socio-ecological interaction; landscape conservation and restoration; nature-based solutions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Modeling Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation Planning (Second Edition)

edited by

Eve Bohnett

and

Eben N. Broadbent

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9352 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; conservation planning; geodesign; modeling; spatial ecology; spatial conservation prioritization; landscape architecture; alternative futures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)

Social–Ecological Ecosystems in Rewilding Urban Environment: Multidisciplinary Approaches for Multifaceted Wild Natures

edited by

Giovanni Trentanovi

,

Roberta Bartoletti

and

Francesco Sacchetti

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8510 | Submission Open

Keywords: wild urban nature; urban voids; regeneration policies; socio-ecological characters; socio-environmental movements; urban biodiversity; citizen science; contested natures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Towards Land System Sustainability: Navigating Global Challenges and Local Realities

edited by

Li Ma

,

Yingnan Zhang

,

Yanfeng Jiang

, Chao Liu and Rong Ran

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7658 | Submission Open

Keywords: land systems; theories of land system change; land degradation; human– environment systems; human– land relations; land use/land cover change; land use transition; urban land management; rural land use; sustainable land use; urban sprawl and regeneration; urban– rural migration and housing affairs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)

Soil Legacies, Land Use Change and Forest and Grassland Restoration

edited by

Ken Smith

,

Deborah A. McGrath

,

Kuok Ho Daniel Tang

and

Kevin Emmanuel Scriber, II

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7397 | Submission Open

Keywords: forest restoration; grassland restoration; soil legacies; land use change; soil carbon

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)

Application of Multi-Source Geographical Big Data in Land Use Decision-Making

edited by

Shi Shen

,

Antonio Miguel Martínez-Graña

,

Sijing Ye

,

Zhuolin Tao

and Min Zhao

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6133 | Submission Open

Keywords: geographic information systems (GISs); land use decision-making; land use simulation; GeoAI; multi-source data integration; geospatial big data; land use decision-making; remote sensing data; land use classification; land management; global land use patterns

Land and Drought: An Environmental Assessment Through Remote Sensing

edited by

Keyvan Soltani

,

Silvio José Gumiere

and

Isa Ebtehaj

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4409 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing and drought; drought impacts on land; drought monitoring with remote sensing; satellite-based drought indices; remote sensing applications in drought; climate variability and land systems; geospatial technologies for drought assessment; resilience of land to drought; drought early warning systems; sustainable land management under drought; remote sensing in environmental monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)

Rural Demographic Changes and Land Use Response

edited by

Yuheng Li

, Guoming Du,

Monika Stanny

and

Łukasz Komorowski

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4056 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural demographics; population dynamics; land use change; rural– urban migration; socioeconomic factors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)

Observation, Monitoring and Analysis of Savannah Ecosystems

edited by

Paul Aplin

,

Elias Symeonakis

and

Moses Azong Cho

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3163 | Submission Open

Keywords: savannah; monitoring; degradation; biodiversity; climate; human activity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)

Healthy and Inclusive Urban Public Spaces

edited by

Ester Higueras García

,

Andrea Alonso

and María Teresa Baquero Larriva

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2271 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban health; spatial equity; urban accessibility; urban public spaces; inclusive public spaces

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Urban Ecological Indicators: Land Use and Coverage

edited by

Lorenzo Paglione

and

Keti Lelo

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1767 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban ecological indicators; land use and land cover change; green and blue infrastructure and ecological networks; environmental justice and equity; walkability and public space accessibility

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Frameworks to Evaluate Urbanization Sustainability in a Changing Climate

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submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1656 | Submission Open

Keywords: urbanization; climate change; sustainable development framework; urban and rural sustainable development; land use/land cover changes; urban expansion; urban climate; food security; environmental pollution; landscape ecology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

The New Suburbia: Redefining Suburban Growth—Exploring Deeper Meanings and Dynamics

edited by Emil Israel and Amnon Frenkel

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1632 | Submission Open

Keywords: suburbanization; sustainability; suburban inequality; social justice; suburban sprwal; housing; labor market; mobility and transportation; planning and policy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Land Use, Heritage and Ecosystem Services

edited by Gustavo Ballesteros-Pelegrín,

Carlos Sánchez-García

,

Marcos Francos

and Daniel Ibarra Marinas

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1545 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use; ecosystem services; heritage conservation; climate change; coastal processes; territorial management; forest fires; biodiversity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Sustainable Monitoring of Wetland Ecosystems for Environmental Conservation

edited by

Yongheng Gao

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 899 | Submission Open

Keywords: wetlands; restoration; ecosystems; landscape; wetland protection

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)

Agri-Food Systems, Land Transitions and Society in Evolving Africa

edited by

Hossein Azadi

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 400 | Submission Open

Keywords: agri-food systems; transitions; landscapes; social systems; degradation; rights; intensification; climate change; ecological debt; drivers

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

Rural Land Use, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

edited by

Nicoleta Mateoc-Sirb

,

Gabriela Popescu

,

Oana Brînzan

and

Ramona Mariana Ciolac

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 400 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable agriculture; food security issues; land resources; land use ” smart” use; "branding" for rural land/agriculture/food products

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

Climate Adaptation, Urban Regeneration, and Regreening Processes: Challenges and Opportunities for Contemporary Cities

edited by Alessandro Deserti,

Beatrice Maria Bellè

,

Manuel Alméstar

and Fabian Dembski

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 356 | Submission Open

Keywords: nature-based solutions; urban planning and governance innovation; digital platforms for decision-making; digital twin and urban simulations; climate resilience; land use planning; systemic innovation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Utilization Trend of Farmland

edited by Maoxin Zhang,

Tingting He

, Andong Guo, Youpeng Lu and

Jose Raul Romo Leon

submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2043 | Submission Open

Keywords: farmland change; spatiotemporal analysis; land use dynamics; utilisation efficiency; land system sustainability; innovative farmland governance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)

Coupled Man-Land Relationship for Regional Sustainability

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submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3375 | Submission Open

Keywords: land resources; human– land relationships; sustainability; land planning and management; climate change; anthropogenic activities and their effects; ecological protection; economic development; remote sensing; carbon neutrality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)

Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate-Resilient Soil–Water Systems

edited by

Nunziarita Palazzolo

and

Luca Furnari

submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 165 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change adaptation; hydrological extremes; soil– water systems; water scarcity; hydrological modelling; remote sensing and precision agriculture; nature-based solutions; sustainable water management; decision support systems; socio-hydrology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)

Regional Sustainable Development of Yangtze River Delta, China (3rd Edition)

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submission deadline 12 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 14837 | Submission Open

Keywords: Yangtze River Delta region; sustainable development; human– earth system coupling; ecosystem services; industry development; innovation network; territorial space; climate change; urban– rural coordination; food security

Green Infrastructure Planning and Management for Sustainable Urban Development and Quality of Life

edited by

Xinhao Wang

,

Xin Fu

and Chen Shen

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 16284 | Submission Open

Keywords: green infrastructure; planning and management; sustainable development; urban resilience; quality of life

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Spatial Planning and Land-Use Management: 2nd Edition

edited by

Eduardo Gomes

,

Eduarda Marques Da Costa

and

Patrícia Abrantes

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 14332 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatial planning; land-use management; land use/land cover; participatory planning; system thinking planning; future scenarios; land-use conflicts; accessibility; periurban and rurban territories; geospatial modelling; remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

New Insights in Landscape Approaches for Biodiversity and Community Resilience

edited by Wenyuan Zhang and

Yanjie Xu

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5738 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape planning; ecological connectivity; ecosystem services; community resilience; ecological restoration; essential biodiversity variables

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)

Big Data-Driven Urban Spatial Perception

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submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 316 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban mobility and transportation; human mobility and urban activity patterns; urban spatial perception and city image; sentiment analysis in urban spaces; urban safety and crime prediction; public health and urban environments

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)

Advancing Sustainable Urban Development Through Spatial Analysis: Leveraging Digital Technologies and Geographic Data for Smart, Inclusive, and Resilient Cities

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submission deadline 19 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2933 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban spatial analysis; geographic information systems (GISs); remote sensing; real estate valuation; smart cities; big data and AI in urban planning; sustainable urban development; mobility and infrastructure planning; environmental justice and equity; urban sustainability and SDGs

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Landscape Analysis and Landscape Protection

edited by

Dora Tomić Reljić

, Petra Pereković and

Beata Fornal-Pieniak

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3224 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape planning; landscape value; landscape protection; landscape quality; GIS; sustainable development

Land Degradation in Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) : Assessment and Conservation (Second Edition)

edited by

Mario Al Sayah

,

Rita Der Sarkissian

and

Rachid Nedjaï

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1874 | Submission Open

Keywords: land degradation; environmentally sensitive areas; land degradation neutrality; land management; innovative land restoration; conservation solutions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)

Overtourism and the Disappearance of Sustainable Land Use and Local Knowledge Systems: A New Form of Colonialism?

edited by

Andrea Pieroni

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3519 | Submission Open

Keywords: overtourism; local food chains; ethnoecology; ecological history; sustainable land use; food sustainability; ethnobiology; small-scale farming; tourism industry; colonialism; touristic services

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

Land Planning and Urban Regeneration for Achieving Sustainable Development: 2nd Edition

edited by

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submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 19265 | Submission Open

Keywords: cultural heritage; landscape; urban sustainable development; urban regeneration; land planning; multicriteria evaluation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Celebrating National Land Day of China

edited by

Yurui Li

,

Fangzhou Xia

and

Hualin Xie

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2886 | Submission Open

Keywords: land resource management; sustainable land use; land conservation; urban– rural integration; land value assessment; land policy and governance; socioeconomic value of land; land and food security; land and ecological services; land degradation and restoration; land use planning; land quality and soil health; land tenure and property rights; land economics; land market dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

Carbon Cycling and Carbon Sequestration in Wetlands

edited by

Ligang Xu

,

Xiaobing Chen

, Junxiang Cheng and Jiaxing Xu

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 792 | Submission Open

Keywords: carbon cycling; carbon sequestration; climate change; soil organic carbon; blue carbon; wetlands

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)

Managing Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 40293 | Submission Open

Keywords: land management; urban green infrastructure; ecosystem services; geoinformation; decision making; sustainable urban development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Driving Future to Shape Sustainable Agricultural System: Urban-Rural Land Management and Environment Protection

edited by

Safwan Mohammed

and

Endre Harsányi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 34860 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; agriculture and big data; climate change; agricultural drought; agriculture and conflict; soil; greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector; soil-water relations; land degradation (erosion; salinization; ); crop production (maize; wheat; etc.); land suitability assessment; land use changes; remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Conservation of Bio- and Geo-Diversity and Landscape Changes II

edited by

Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor

,

Adrian Ursu

and

Ilinca-Valentina Stoica

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 33355 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; eco-diversity; geo-diversity; land cover and use changes; planning; natural protected areas; local development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)

Advances on Land Cover/Land Use Ontologies for Innovative Production/Utilization of Land Information

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Mohammed Abed Hossain

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Khalid Mahmood

and

Foster Mensah

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 27859 | Submission Open

Keywords: land cover; land use; interoperability; standardization; geospatial technology; semantic ontology; harmonization; classification; earth observation; remote sensing; sustainable development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)

Ground Deformation Monitoring via Remote Sensing Time Series Data

edited by

Ebrahim Ghaderpour

and

Paolo Mazzanti

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 25138 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; change detection; ground deformation; PS-InSAR; monitoring; synthetic aperture radar; time series; trend analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)

Geographic Information Technologies and the New Challenges of Globalization in a Changing Environment

edited by

Ana Nieto Masot

,

Gema Cárdenas

and

José A. Gutiérrez Gallego

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 23709 | Submission Open

Keywords: Geographic Information Systems; ; Remote Sensing; ; Geoinformation; ; Sustainable development; ; Spatial decision support; ; Spatial analysis; ; Geographic knowledge

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories

edited by

Tomáš Peráček

, Mária Srebalová and

Andrea Čajková

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 20577 | Submission Open

Keywords: multi-scale planning and design; land planning methods; including participatory planning; ecosystem-based planning; collaborative planning; integrated planning; strategic planning; sustainable planning; smart planning; territorial ecological planning; etc.; planning theory and planning policy related to land; digital landscape architecture; urban and regional development related to land; land use and land use change; and disaster risk assessment/management/reduction; climate resilience; nature-based solutions; green/blue/gray/brown infrastructure; landscape protection/management/restoration; smart cities; ecosystem services; human health and well-being; biodiversity education; GIS; remote sensing; drones; sensors; big data; AI; VR; BIM; IoT; and other advanced technologies; social/spatial/environmental/distributional/procedural justice; transport heritage; real estate; energy transition

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Topical Advisory Panel Member Solicited Papers Series: Land Use Changes in Rural Areas

edited by

Marta Gallardo

,

Julio Fernandez Portela

,

David Cocero

and

Lara Vilar

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 19762 | Submission Open

Keywords: land change; land use modelling; rural dynamics; rural spatial planning; rural land management; cultural landscapes; sustainable farming; sustainable rural development; depopulation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Landscape Patterns Under Land Use Change

edited by

Priyakant Sinha

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 12 articles | Viewed by 18002 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)

Big Data in Urban Land Use Planning

edited by

Thomas W. Sanchez

and

Soheil Sabri

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 15948 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); big data; technology; urban land; land use planning; data fusion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

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