The 2nd Conference on Future Challenges in Sustainable Urban Planning & Territorial Management
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 4759
Special Issue Editors
Interests: territorial anthropization; GIS analysis; landscape planning; land use policy; territorial management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The 21st century is going to be the century of challenges in terms of sustainable urban planning and land management. There is no B planet, so identifying urban and territorial challenges in our territories, such as reaching land use policies, diagnosing natural hazards, making urban mobility more sustainable, or controlling land resource consumption, is mandatory for our generation. Planning land uses that are compatible with the ecosystem services of the territory and managing them using public–private cooperation systems is a vast challenge for our global society. Human activities do not frequently include the maintenance of the ecosystem services of the territory among their objectives. Therefore, this field of research must help to guarantee the maintenance of natural resources, also called natural capital, which are necessary for the social and economic activities of our global society.
This Special Issue collects papers from the 2nd international Conference on Future Challenges in Sustainable Urban Planning & Territorial Management, which will be held online on January 28-30, 2024 (https://suptm2024.sciforum.net/). It seeks contributions involving relevant experiences and case studies on topics such urban and land use planning, environmental management, sustainable mobility, GIS analysis, flooding assessment, and landscape analysis or regional studies using spatial tools, among others. Proposals including innovative frameworks or new analysis methodologies linked to the specific issues presented at the conference are preferred, but other traditional scientific approaches may also be admitted.
We welcome contributions on the following topics (among others):
- Imbalances in urban growth (urban sprawl, suburbanization, gentrification, etc.);
- New urban phenomena linked to sustainability (heat islands, walkability, etc.) ;
- Studies linked to sustainable urban mobility (MaaS, LEZs, 15 min cities, etc.);
- Land use planning and management to protect periurban landscapes;
- Environmental planning and anthropization phenomena in vulnerable areas;
- Risk analysis and diagnosis of urban flooding phenomena derived from land-use change;
- Spatial analysis of migration phenomena (rural–urban, transnational, etc.);
- Regional studies through spatial analysis and GIS tools;
- Green infrastructures and new innovative proposals towards sustainable development.
Prof. Dr. Salvador García-Ayllón Veintimilla
Prof. Dr. Josep Lluís Miralles Garcia
Guest Editors
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