Feature Papers on Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability
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: 23 February 2026 | Viewed by 29
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural resource management; spatial multi criteria assessment; ecosystem service assessment and management; decision support system
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: sustainable rural development; agro-food economics; sustainable food systems; territorial planning; decision analysis; sustainability assessment
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce a call for submissions to the “Feature Paper for Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability”. This Special Issue aims to bring together cutting-edge research, critical reviews, and novel case studies that explore the dynamic interplay between land use practices, environmental and social impact assessments, and pathways toward sustainable development. Land use and land management have significant socio-cultural, economic, and ecological impacts, affecting sustainability from local to global scales. Understanding such impacts is a crucial aspect of advancing sustainable land use and management practices, in particular in the context of the restoration of natural ecosystems or disturbed environments, such as the peri-urban areas.
This Special Issue particularly welcomes studies on land use and management, practices and policies, and their impacts on all the dimensions of sustainability. We invite the submission of papers that address assessment and evaluation methods and frameworks (ecosystem services/nature’s contributions to people's wellbeing, multifunctionality, and sustainability), the development of indicators and indices, and the presentation of approaches to how land use and land management can be transformed to improved sustainability.
We invite high-quality contributions that address (but are not limited to) the following themes:
- Integrated land use planning and policy;
- Environmental and social impact assessment methodologies;
- Sustainable land management and restoration;
- Land use change and its implications for climate, biodiversity, and water;
- Urbanization and green infrastructure development;
- Restoration of natural ecosystems;
- Nature-based solution for sustainable land management;
- Cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability.
Dr. Lucia Rocchi
Dr. Giovanni Ottomano Palmisano
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- land use and land management policies
- land use and land management practices
- land use impact assessment
- sustainable land management
- land use decision making
- nature restoration
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