Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Utilization Trend of Farmland
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2025 | Viewed by 336
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land use and land cover; cropland abandonment; cropland resilience
Interests: environmental science; urban/rural sociology; remote sensing; machine learning
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Interests: cropland abandonment; land use and land cover; urban heat island; urban morphology
Interests: land use efficiency; land surface temperature; ecosystem services
Interests: land use management; remote sensing; spatial analysis; satellite image processing; satellite image analysis; mapping; vegetation mapping; landscape ecology; digital mapping; natural resource management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Farmland is the foundation for guaranteeing food security and promoting sustainable rural development. With rapid urbanisation, industrialisation, and climate change, farmland systems are undergoing profound spatial and functional changes. Understanding the spatiotemporal dynamics and utilisation trends of farmland is essential to ensure the long-term sustainability of agriculture, the resilience of ecosystems, and the harmonious development of human–land systems. A growing number of studies have highlighted the importance of the high-resolution and long-term characterisation of farmland changes, particularly in understanding utilisation trends such as fragmentation and marginalisation.
In this Special Issue, we encourage contributions that aim to provide new methods or new models for the governance of farmland. We hope to provide an interdisciplinary platform to advance our understanding of how farmland patterns and uses evolve over time and space, as well as the drivers and policy responses that shape these trajectories.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- Monitoring and modelling farmland change using multi-source remote sensing data;
- Drivers of farmland transformation: urbanisation, climate change, policy, and socio-economics;
- Trends in land consolidation, fragmentation, and marginalisation;
- Farmland utilisation efficiency and sustainability assessment;
- Scenario modelling and policy assessment of optimal farmland allocation;
- Technological innovations and data-driven tools for monitoring farmland.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Maoxin Zhang
Dr. Tingting He
Dr. Andong Guo
Dr. Youpeng Lu
Dr. Jose Raul Romo Leon
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- farmland change
- spatiotemporal analysis
- land use dynamics
- utilisation efficiency
- land system sustainability
- innovative farmland governance
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