Young Researchers in Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2026 | Viewed by 217
Editors
Interests: urban planning; landscape; land use; governance
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Interests: land-use change modelling; ecosystem services; socio-environmental justice; urban land teleconnections; urban ecology; GIS and remote sensing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to highlight the work of early-career researchers in the field of Urban Contexts and Urban–Rural Interactions. The senior author(s) of each contribution should be (a) the first or the corresponding author and (b) within 10 years of completing their PhD (or equivalent) or becoming an assistant professor/on track to make tenure. We welcome submissions of both an academic and a practical nature, exploring urban–rural land use change, urban land governance, urban planning, urbanization impacts on ecosystems, climate and biodiversity. Please provide a short cover letter when submitting the following details:
(1) Eligibility of the senior author;
(2) Alignment with the scope of the Special Issue and the journal.
We invite the submission of theoretical, applied, and review articles, whether they be local, regional, or global in scale. Interdisciplinary work is also welcome, as well as studies of the potential contributions of land cover and land use to urban systems and urban ecology under global and climate change; we explicitly welcome articles with links to distributional and justice aspects. Articles submitted for this Special Issue should meet the standard requirements of the Land journal (regarding quality, novelty, and significance) and be relevant to a broad international and interdisciplinary readership.
Contributors who obtained their PhD within the past 10 years will also be eligible for consideration for the Land Young Investigator Award. The award includes a CHF 2000 prize, a certificate, and a free publication voucher for Land. More details can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/land/awards/3554.
We also encourage submissions from promising PhD students. Co-authored work with senior mentors is welcomed, and the involvement of mentors can further support the development of early-stage researchers.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Prof. Dr. Jacques Teller
Prof. Dr. Dagmar Haase
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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.
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-anonymized 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
- urban and periurban land use
- urban planning and governance
- urban climate change (adaptation) and urban resilience
- urban heat island
- urban systems
- urban ecology and biodiversity
- urban and periurban landscapes
- urban expansion and densification processes
- urban remote sensing
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