Recent Progress in Land Degradation Processes, Control and Restoration

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce this Special Issue of Land entitled “Recent Progress in Land Degradation Processes, Control and Restoration”, which is a development of a previous Special Issue on “Recent Progress in Land Degradation Processes and Control”.

Land degradation has become one of the biggest environmental challenges that human society is currently facing. All these physical and ecological attributes of land systems are constantly eroded by the multitude of land degradation pathways/processes that occur on various spatial scales throughout the world. As an interdisciplinary and complex issue, land degradation is currently caused by 17 land degradation pathways (aridity, biological invasions, coastal erosion, land erosion by water, land erosion by wind, land pollution, land subsidence, landslides, permafrost thawing, salinization, soil acidification, soil biodiversity loss, soil compaction, soil organic carbon loss, soil sealing, vegetation degradation, and water logging). However, recent progress in land degradation processes, control, and restoration are short of large-scale, long-term, interdisciplinary, and multidimensional studies.

The aim of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to give insights into large-scale, long-term, interdisciplinary, and multidimensional studies on land degradation in relation to different degradation pathways. New findings and progress in relating to land degradation and control, as well as land restoration, are also welcome. The discussion of new forms of land degradation and pathways is encouraged in this Special Issue.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link to the following themes:

• Vegetation degradation and restoration;
• Land use and degradation;
• Land degradation pathways and control;
• Soil carbon loss and sequestration;
• Farmland degradation and protection;
• Soil erosion and degradation;
• Long-term land degradation effects;
• Land degradation and ecosystem services;
• Land degradation and environment effects;
• Land restoration;
• Ecosystem restoration and reconstruction.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Jianye Li
Dr. Weida Gao
Dr. Wei Hu
Dr. Qiang Chen
Prof. Dr. Xingyi Zhang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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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.

• land degradation pathways
• land degradation progress
• land use
• soil erosion
• soil carbon
• environment effects
• ecosystem functions and services
• control measures
• land restoration
• ecosystem restoration and reconstruction

• Recent Progress in Land Degradation Processes and Control in Land (10 articles)