Land Management at Urban-Rural Interface

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, the discipline relating to land governance, consisting of all the urban, landscape, environmental, and building regulations that affect settlement transformations, has become progressively substantial, complex, and wide-ranging.

Increasingly, a country’s land transformation activity depends on a complex system of national and local regulations; this is based on the discipline derived from the operating constraint system decided in various sector plans that have joint effectiveness and impose different levels of administrative verification. This complexity is mainly affected by those areas in between the urbanized and the natural—urban-rural interface and sprawl. However, these areas express the greatest potential for transformation to adapt cities to the change that the contemporary era imposes.

Such areas must be able to express functions capable of satisfying the increasing needs of residents, city users and tourists, ensuring proper reconnection between natural and urbanized systems; at the same time, land management processes of redevelopment/transformation of such areas must be characterized by administrative and temporal certainty, guaranteeing investors.

Public administrators, politicians, investors, operators, and professionals working within land management at the urban–rural interface are called upon to manage the complexity that characterizes land settlement transformations. This demonstrates the ability to choose the most appropriate initiatives to activate, from safeguarding to transformation, and initiates strategies of sustainable use and safeguarding at the same time as resources are required.

Researchers and scholars are invited to propose scientific works for publication dealing with issues related to land management at the urban-rural interface. In particular, studies and research including but not limited to the following topics will be considered:

• Assessment methods and techniques to support choices in urban planning and programming of interventions affecting the urban-rural interface;
• Territorial marketing;
• Strategies for enhancing the relationship between urban areas and agricultural and/or wildland areas;
• Innovative models for the environmental recovery of compromised areas;
• Innovative urban and regional planning tools;
• Administrative procedures for land transformation and/or preservation;
• Strategies for the transformation of degraded urban areas;
• Urban agriculture.

Dr. Fabrizio Battisti
Guest Editor

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