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Land-Use Impacts on Water Resources and Watershed Management

edited by

Łukasz Borek

Joanna Jaskuła

and

Věra Hubačíková

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 41 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use changes; water quality; water monitoring; hydromorphology; water retention; pollution source; surface waters; water management; soil

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)

Resilient Urban Regeneration: Adaptive Strategies for Future Metropolis

edited by Qipeng Liao,

Arkadiusz Przybysz

and

Isidoro Fasolino

submission deadline 1 May 2026 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban resilience; urban regeneration; metropolis; smart spatial planning; digital governance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)

Integrating Post-Industrial Landscape Design Approaches with Climate Adaptation and Social Equity

edited by

Niall Kirkwood

, Luca Maria Francesco Fabris and

Quanchuan ‘Cara’ Fu

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2120 | Submission Open

Keywords: post-industrial landscape; social equity and public space; climate adaptation; interdisciplinary landscape planning and design; landscape remediation approaches; environmental justice

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Evaluating Urban Public Spaces Based on User-Generated Geographic Data

edited by

Annunziata Palermo

and

Lucia Chieffallo

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 236 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban public space; urban fabric; urban regeneration; geographic information systems; user-generated geographic data; mobile device; social media; participation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)

Land Use Change and Technological Innovations: Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence Approaches

edited by

Ali R. Alruzuq

, Amobichukwu Chukwudi Amanambu and

Di Yang

submission deadline 15 May 2026 | Viewed by 13 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use and land cover change (LULC); remote sensing; GeoAI; machine learning; deep learning; land degradation; sustainable land management; earth observation; spatial modeling; climate– land interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)

Resilient Urban Regeneration in European Cities

edited by

Luana Parisi

and

Thomas Panagopoulos

submission deadline 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 43 | Submission Open

Keywords: resilient urban regeneration; sustainable land use; circular urbanism; adaptive planning; urban governance; climate adaptation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Applications of Trajectory Analysis to Describe Changes in a Time Series of Maps

edited by

Robert Gilmore Pontius, Jr.

and Thomas Mumuni Bilintoh

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3448 | Submission Open

Keywords: alternation; GIS; land change; Latin America; pattern; resolution; spatial; trajectories; temporal; time series

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)

Feature Papers for Land–Climate Interactions Section: Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS

edited by

Adrianos Retalis

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2677 | Submission Open

Keywords: land– climate interactions; remote sensing; GIS; biogeochemical cycles; land use/land cover change; environmental impact assessment; data fusion; sustainable land management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)

Sustainable Urban Planning and Development for Resilient and Equitable Communities

edited by

Xosé Somoza-Medina

Karolina Józefowicz

, Hanifa El Motaki and

Qiaofeng (Robin) Zhang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 86 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable urban development and planning; sustainable cities and urban communities; resilient cities and urban communities; local development strategies; spatial planning and land use; equitable and inclusive cities and urban communities; urban risks management (climate adaptation and urbanization in arid areas); migration impacts; urban governance; vulnerability mapping

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Soil Pollution by Heavy Metals: Monitoring, Remediation, and Land Management Strategies

edited by

Lorena Salgado

and

Rubén Forján Castro

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 76 | Submission Open

Keywords: heavy metals; soil pollution; bioavailability; risk assessment; diffuse spectroscopy; remote sensing; machine learning; phytoremediation; biochar amendments; microbial remediation; land management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)

Young Researchers in Land, Soil, and Water

edited by

Deirdre Dragovich

and

Nick B. Comerford

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 17 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; land use change; ecosystem sustainability; land degradation; water quality; temporal change in land– soil– water relations; land cover; land management; water harvesting

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)

Regenerative Agriculture and Its Potential for Soil Carbon Sequestration

edited by

Václav Novák

Teodor Rusu

, Emre Tunca and

Petr Šařec

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 7 | Submission Open

Keywords: regenerative agriculture; soil carbon sequestration; carbon farming; carbon credits; sustainable land management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)

The Role of Land Policy in Shaping Tourism Development: 2nd Edition

edited by

Dunja Demirović Bajrami

Adriana Radosavac

and Nikola Naumov

submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 62 | Submission Open

Keywords: land policy; tourism development; sustainable tourism; urban planning; zoning laws; property rights; local economies; policy innovation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

Digital Earth and Remote Sensing for Land Management, 2nd Edition

edited by

Massimo Fabris

and Michele Monego

submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 24 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital earth; satellite imagery; InSAR; digital elevation models (DEMs); land monitoring; land use; land cover; urban morphology; GIS tools

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)

Community-Based Land Dynamics in Urban Transformation: Perceptions, Reconfigurations, and Sustainable Land-Use Strategies

edited by

Katsunori Furuya

Xin-Chen Hong

Jing Xie

, Jiaying Shi and

Shixian Luo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1489 | Submission Open

Keywords: perception of land-use changes; land-use reconfiguration in urban communities; sustainable land management strategies; technological innovations in land system analysis; qualitative and quantitative research

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Islandscapes: From Biodiversity Conservation to Ecosystem Services Provision

edited by

Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis

Aristides Moustakas

Emilio Padoa-Schioppa

and

Savvas Zotos

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1165 | Submission Open

Keywords: small– medium islands; ecosystem services; natural capital; nature conservation; management; nature-based solutions; policy and governance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Carbon-Focused Land Use Strategies: Pathways to Climate Resilience

edited by

Xiao Liu

, Shifu Wang and

Jinda Qi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 419 | Submission Open

Keywords: carbon sequestration; land-based climate mitigation; agroforestry; soil carbon management; forest restoration; carbon markets; sustainable land management; land use strategies; sustainable community; policy and governance; technological innovations; climate resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)

Mapping and Evaluating Ecosystem Service Provision in Urban Green Areas Through Functional Traits and Spatial Metrics

edited by

Marco Ottaviano

Fabio Salbitano

and

Francesco Zullo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban forests; urban ecology; ecosystem services; functional traits; spatial metrics; earth observations; GIS; landscape ecology; urban resilience; sustainability; ecosystem assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Advancing Urban–Rural Community Empowerment Through Participatory Planning and Collaborative Co-Creation

edited by

Wei Lang

Tingting Chen

Xun Li

and Eddie Chi-man Hui

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 61 | Submission Open

Keywords: community planning; public participation; co-creation; service learning; rural community; collaborative workshop; collective action; planning theory; urban regeneration; human settlement environment improvement

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Regenerative Landscapes: Designing with Ecological Connectivity and Habitat Use in Mind

edited by

Beata Joanna Gawryszewska

Maja Radziemska

Syartinilia Wijaya

and

Akhmad Arifin Hadi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 38 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological connectivity; urban green infrastructure; landscape conservation; regenerative landscape design; habitat restoration and resilience; human-environment relations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

GenAI-Enabled Land Use Mapping as the Base for Modelling and Earth-Oriented Digital Twins

edited by

Karel Charvat

and

Tomas Mildorf

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 20 | Submission Open

Keywords: generative AI (GenAI); land-use/Land-cover (LULC) mapping; earth observation (optical; SAR; LiDAR); multimodal data fusion; earth-oriented digital twins; uncertainty quantification and explainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)

Sustainable Land Management for Food Security in Agriculture-Dependent Regions

edited by

James Magidi

Moreblessing Shoko

and

Claudia A. Radel

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 15 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable land management; land use planning; food security; sustainable agriculture; agroecology; agri-based economies; agricultural livelihoods; gender in land management; land tenure; socio-economic inclusion for land systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

Resilience Planning and Decision-Making: Responding to Today’s Soil Conservation and Future Conditions

edited by

Yang Liu

Shunhua Yang

and

Krish Jayachandran

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 14 | Submission Open

Keywords: resilience planning; soil conservation; soil degradation; soil management; soil monitoring/mapping; soil modelling; decision-making; climate change; scenario analysis; geographic information systems (GIS)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)

Identification, Evaluation and Management of Human-Transformed and Human-Constructed Soils and Landforms

edited by

Cezary Kabala

and

Andrzej Greinert

submission deadline 16 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 18 | Submission Open

Keywords: technosols; anthrosols; artesols; soil classification systems; soil health; ecosystem services of anthropogenic soils; land management on anthropogenic soils

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)

Integrated Approaches for Sustainable Soil and Water Management

edited by

Nikola Živanović

Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira

and

Marijana Kapović-Solomun

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 410 | Submission Open

Keywords: land degradation; integrated land and water management; soil and water conservation; adaptation and resilience; soil erosion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)

Land Cover/Use Dynamics and Its Implications for Regional Sustainable Development

edited by

Xidong Chen

Xiao Zhang

and

Yuan Gao

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1502 | Submission Open

Keywords: land cover/use change; remote sensing; sustainable development goals (SDGs); land use transition; spatio-temporal monitoring; land system science

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)

Mine Site Design, Rehabilitation and Closure for Resilient Landforms

edited by

Afshin Ghahramani

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 275 | Submission Open

Keywords: mine site design; progressive rehabilitation; flooding; tailings storage facilities; soil erosion; landform evolution; water quality; climate change; innovative technologies in rehabilitation; reliability engineering; risk management

Morphological and Climatic Adaptations for Sustainable City Living

edited by

Zhonghua Gou

Elmira Jamei

and

Hing-Wah Chau

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 143 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban morphology; climatic adaptation; sustainable urban design; thermal comfort; energy self-sufficiency; urban resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

Human–Land Coupling in Watersheds and Sustainable Development

edited by Wei Wu and

Guoqian Chen

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 79 | Submission Open

Keywords: human– land coupling; sustainable development/sustainable development goals; analysis of coupling mechanism/big data/machine deep-learning; governance/strategies/policies/development path; region/scales

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)

Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future

edited by

Jan Cudzik

Yu Wang

Javier Orozco-Messana

and

Avar Almukhtar

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 321 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable urban mobility; green infrastructure and biodiversity; climate-resilient urban design; digital innovation for smart cities; heritage in transformation; nature-based solutions; governance for just transitions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)

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