Healing Place and Planet: Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Landscape Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 25
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Interests: visual resource management; landscape assessment; cultural ecosystem services; wetland assessment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning is held every three years to connect landscape architects, planners, and policy makers to advance research and practice on landscape and greenway planning from the local to the international level. The aim of this conference is to explore how landscape architects and planners from different countries approach greenway planning and to understand how greenways have been tailored to each country’s unique geographical, cultural, and political circumstances.
The 2025 Fabos Conference had the theme of “Healing Place and Planet” (Ahern et al., 2025) (https://openpublishing.library.umass.edu/fabos/site/about/, 11-13 April 2025, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA), which focuses on greenways’ vital role in connecting urban and rural settings, promoting ecological balance, and offering spaces that promote human health and well-being.
More specifically, the following topics are addressed:
- Greenways and human health benefits;
- Greenways for revitalization and equity access;
- Climate mitigation and ecological assessment;
- Greenway ecological services assessment and management;
- Urban streetscape assessment, development, and management.
Because the conference provides an online platform for the dissemination of research findings via published proceedings, this Special Issue welcomes the submission of papers selected from the conference proceedings. Contributions will be subject to peer review and, upon acceptance, will be published in order to rapidly and widely disseminate research results, developments, and applications.
Submitted manuscripts should fulfil the following requirements: (i) The paper should be expanded to the size of a research article (at least 50% additional, new, and unpublished material compared to the earlier paper); (ii) the conference abstract and/or paper should be cited and noted on the first page of the submission; (iii) authors are asked to disclose that it is a conference paper in their cover letter and include a statement regarding what has been added and/or modified compared to the original conference paper.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Reference:
Ahern J., Cataldo L., Eisenman T., Fabos A., Jombach S., Keszthelyi A.B., Lindhult M. S., Mell I. C., Nusair S., Ryan. R. L., Valanszki I. 2025. Healing Place and Planet; Book of Abstracts; The 8th Fabos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning (Amherst, April 11-13, 2025).
Prof. Dr. Richard Smardon
Dr. Carlos José Lopes Balsas
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- resilience
- urban greenways
- landscape and regional planning
- landscape/greenspace policy and planning
- ecosystem services
- green infrastructure
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