Land Use and Management for Waste Disposal and Wastewater Treatment
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land, Soil and Water".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 9
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wastewater treatment; pollutant removal from water and wastewater; environmental soil–water interactions; innovative technologies for groundwater remediation; waste management in a circular economy; recovery of soils with waste
Interests: key performance indicators; strategic planning development; zero-waste approach; waste prevention; waste minimization; monitoring and evaluation; sustainable development programs water footprint; environmental footprint; environmental impact and environmental risk assessment analysis; environmental multi criteria analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Globally, environmental challenges related to waste production, its management, and its occupation of land have arisen. Handling waste and introducing it into the circular economy potentially requires occupying large swathes of land, generating significant impacts on the landscape and new problems associated with land management, mainly in periurban areas. Furthermore, waste treatment facilities can negatively affect the environment, such as through leachate from landfills resulting in soil and water contamination. Experts aim to promote the sustainable use and protection of natural resources by ensuring proper waste management and use; therefore, understanding the challenges we face is key to applying the best available technologies to minimize environmental impacts on land stemming from waste and waste management.
This Special Issue (SI) seeks to highlight the effects of land occupation associated with waste treatment and the consequent landscape transformations, including remediation and management strategies implemented to recover landscapes and land use.
This Special Issue aligns with the scope of the journal Land, which emphasizes the interplay between human activities and the environment, thanks to its focus on the disposal and treatment of waste, land degradation processes (including soil contamination from leachates), the spread of pollutants, the disruption of ecosystems, and sustainable land management.
The goal of this Special Issue is to gather together high-quality contributions—including original research articles, review papers, and case studies—that provide valuable insights into innovative strategies, advanced technologies, forward-looking policies, and integrated planning approaches aimed at minimizing the spatial footprint of waste management, reducing the associated environmental risks, and promoting sustainable and resilient land use practices.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:
- The assessment and monitoring of land degradation and soil contamination from waste disposal;
- The impacts of waste and wastewater on soil health and biodiversity;
- The ecohydrological impacts of landfills;
- The impact of dumps on land occupation;
- Land remediation and restoration technologies for waste-contaminated or degraded land;
- Innovative land-based wastewater treatment systems;
- Circular economy principles applied to land use for waste management.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Ana Pérez-Gimeno
Dr. Irene Voukkali
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land use planning
- dumping sites and conditions
- land occupation in urban and periurban areas due to waste disposal
- landscape transformation and recovery
- land remediation strategies
- environmental impact assessment in land planning for waste treatment and disposal
- circular economy
- land pollution and control
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