Special Issues

Land publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated EBM will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Urban Planning and Housing Market II submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2999 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban planning; spatial planning; housing market; housing needs; housing demand and supply; real-estate value; spatial analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Innovative Research Approaches & Practices Towards Sustainable Land Management, Preservation & Restoration (Second Edition) submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2493 | Submission Open
Keywords: land degradation; desertification; soil erosion; drought; ecosystem services; biodiversity; terrain evaluation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Land Systems and Transformation to Sustainability
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submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 196 | Submission Open
Keywords: nature-based solutions; sustainable development goals; innovative land systems; land use science; management and policy transformation; multi-scale exemplars
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Urban Green Spaces: An Effective Tool to Regulate Urban Climate and Biodiversity submission deadline 20 Sep 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4928 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban green spaces; urban climate and climate change in cities; urban biodiversity; urban trees and vegetation management; meteorological monitoring of urban green areas; Urban Heat Island (UHI) and Urban Cool Island (UCI); thermal comfort; natural and artificial climate-friendly materials; nature-based solutions and good practices in cities; plant species selection criteria in cities; water and maintenance requirements of urban vegetation
Urban Ecosystem Services and Climate Resilience: Trends and Challenges submission deadline 20 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2496 | Submission Open
Keywords: benefits from urban green/blue spaces; urban ecosystem management; climate adaptation and mitigation; urban human– nature relations; valuation of urban ecosystem services; governance; spatial planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Brownfield (Re)development and Climate Change Implications—Conflicting Dynamics between Pressure(s) to Reclaim and Capacity to Reclaim Contaminated Land
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submission deadline 20 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open
Keywords: contaminated land; brownfields; land reclamation; redevelopments; environmental risk assessment; risk management; climate change impacts; climate change adaptation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)
Digital Mapping for Ecological Land
edited by , Juhua Luo and
submission deadline 23 Sep 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 8568 | Submission Open
Keywords: natural resources; ecological environment; lake; wetland; agriculture; remote sensing; big data analysis; GIS analysis; ecological restoration
Energy Colonialism, Extractivism, Socio-Ecological Transitions, and Land Planning
edited by , Antonio Ortega Santos, , Chiara Olivieri, , and Josefa Sánchez Contreras
submission deadline 25 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 22313 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy transition; biodiversity; renewable energy; megaprojects; energy colonialism; extractivism; socioenvironmental impacts; human rights impacts; territorial defense; territorial planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Sustainable Evaluation Methodology of Urban and Regional Planning
edited by Yilun Liu, and
submission deadline 26 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5904 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable evaluation; urban and regional planning; geospatial big data; GeoAI; land use optimization; land use evaluation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Landscape Governance in the Age of Social Media (Second Edition) submission deadline 27 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2735 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Strategic Planning for Urban Sustainability submission deadline 27 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 480 | Submission Open
Keywords: infill redevelopment; urban and suburban retrofit; novel approaches to land use planning; new forms of eco-urbanism; land use planning strategies; tools; and instruments; coordinated land use and transportation planning interventions; land markets and sustainable urbanism; greenway planning and urbanization; parks and urban growth; infrastructure and commercial interventions; science and business parks; vacant land and community economic development; green gentrification; land value capture mechanisms
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Land Use Systems from Resource Nexus Perspectives submission deadline 27 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open
Keywords: SDGs; resource coupling; resource policy; water-energy-food-materials-land nexus; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus)
Feature Papers for Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions Section
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submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 16531 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban landscapes; urban land use change; urban heat island and climate change; urbanization impacts on ecosystems and their services; biodiversity; wildlife; and nature conservation in urban ecosystems; urban planning and governance of green-blue infrastructures; green infrastructure and nature-based solutions; sustainable cities; environmental justice in cities; technology for cities and big data
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Planning Sustainable Cities through Nature-Based Solutions submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 15498 | Submission Open
Keywords: nature-based solutions; sustainability; urban planning; city resilience; re-naturing cities; stakeholder participation; innovative solutions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Tillage Methods on Soil Properties and Crop Growth submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6826 | Submission Open
Keywords: conservation tillage; no tillage; zero tillage; tillage practices; crop yields; soil physics; soil chemistry; soil biology; soil microbiology; soil erosion; nitrate leaching; soil organic carbon; greenhouse gas emissions; water use efficiency
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Deciphering Land-System Dynamics in China
edited by , , Yanfeng Jiang and Chao Liu
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6732 | Submission Open
Keywords: land systems; theories of land system change; land degradation; human-environment systems; man– land relations; land use/land cover change; land use transition; urban land management; rural land use; sustainable land use; urban sprawl and regeneration; urban– rural migration and housing affairs
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Landscape-Based Spatial Planning in Europe submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6079 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscape planning; spatial planning; European landscape convention; landscape-based solutions; regional planning; spatial policies
Global Savanna Variation in Form and Function: Theory & Practice
edited by Kelley Crews and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5747 | Submission Open
Keywords: savanna systems; land grabs and land tenure; disturbance ecology; tree: grass ratio; remote sensing; socio-ecological systems; landuse / landcover change; ecosystem services; conservation policy and econometric modeling; climate change and ecological feedbacks in savannas
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
The Impact of Extreme Weather on Land Degradation and Conservation submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4949 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil degradation; soil conservation; agricultural land; climate change; weather extremes; land degradation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)
Local and Regional Planning for Sustainable Development submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3609 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscape architecture; territorial design; territorial marketing; sustainable development; sustainable design; local and regional planning; stakeholders; environmental impact
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Assessing Land Subsidence Using Remote Sensing Data
edited by , Talib Oliver-Cabrera and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3195 | Submission Open
Keywords: land subsidence; remote sensing; LiDAR; synthetic aperture radar; radar interferometry; GPS; groundwater withdrawals; mining; sediment compaction; hazard mapping; subsidence risk assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
Land Use Change (LUC) and Resources and Environmental Carrying Capacity (RECC) in Tropics and Sub-tropics
edited by , , Guilin Liu and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2948 | Submission Open
Keywords: land cover and land use change; remote sensing; algorithm; monitoring change; environmental impacts; resources and environmental carrying capacity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Research in Urban Ecology: Application into Landscape Design and Green Infrastructure submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1797 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban ecology; urban vegetation and urban wildlife; ecological design; nature based solutions in urban areas
Planning for Socio-Spatial Justice and Quality of Life in the Face of Competing Urban Development Dynamics
edited by , Angeliki Paidakaki and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1575 | Submission Open
Keywords: socio-spatial justice; spatial inequalities; socioeconomic inequalities; quality of life; urban sustainability; spatial analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Celebrating 30 Years of International Day against Desertification, and Drought submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1138 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; sustainable land management; soil erosion; desertification indicators; desertification models; desertification processes; drought; food & water security
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Cadastre and Land Management in Support of Sustainable Real Estate Markets Volume II submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 397 | Submission Open
Keywords: cadastre; land management; land tenure; geospatial data ecosystems; digital twins; BIM; land administration; market analysis; real estate market analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Vegetation Spatial Dynamics and Plant Diversity Trends of Natural and Urban Landscapes submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 330 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate changes; phytosociology; geobotany; vascular flora; plant chorology; plant biodiversity; alpha diversity; vegetation; invasive alien species; ecological data analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Land Resource Use Efficiency and Sustainable Land Use
edited by and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 287 | Submission Open
Keywords: land resources; land use efficiency; land management; rural industrial integration; land conversion; agricultural labor productivity
Contemporary Challenges for Urban Built Environment and Landscape Conservation: Social, Cultural and Economic Issues submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 226 | Submission Open
Keywords: heritage conservation; cultural landscape; built environment; urban planning; economic evaluation; reuse; participation; social value; decision-making; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Estimation of Forest Biomass from High and Medium Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery
edited by Adélia Sousa and
submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 114 | Submission Open
Keywords: image classification; spectral indices; sustainability; stand structure; datasets; multiple scale; modeling; forest biomass; carbon sequestration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
2nd Edition: Land Use Change and Its Environmental Effects
edited by , and
submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 7793 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use change; remote sensing monitoring; environmental effects; model simulation; land– food– energy– water nexus; sustainable development goals
Integrating Remote Sensing and Geospatial Big Data for Land Use Mapping and Monitoring (Second Edition) submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 126 | Submission Open
Keywords: data fusion; machine learning; remote sensing; geospatial big data
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
Monitoring Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity under Land Use Change
edited by Lindsay Claire Maskell and Claire Wood
submission deadline 2 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 455 | Submission Open
Keywords: land-use and land-cover (LULC) change; biodiversity; ecology; protected areas; landscape connectivity; green space; invasive species; ecosystem services; ecosystem disservices; and well-being
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Ground Deformation Monitoring via Remote Sensing Time Series Data submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6750 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; change detection; ground deformation; PS-InSAR; monitoring; synthetic aperture radar; time series; trend analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
Topical Advisory Panel Member Solicited Papers Series: Land Use Changes in Rural Areas submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3414 | Submission Open
Keywords: land change; land use modelling; rural dynamics; rural spatial planning; rural land management; cultural landscapes; sustainable farming; sustainable rural development; depopulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Social–Ecological Ecosystems in Rewilding Urban Environment: Multidisciplinary Approaches for Multifaceted Wild Natures submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 608 | Submission Open
Keywords: wild urban nature; urban voids; regeneration policies; socio-ecological characters; socio-environmental movements; urban biodiversity; citizen science; contested natures
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Soil Security of Peatland Ecosystems: Risk Assessment, Pollution Prevention and Restoration
edited by and Marios Drosos
submission deadline 18 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 365 | Submission Open
Keywords: peatlands; soil security; restoration; peatland ecosystems; water regime of peatlands
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Planning and Designing Livable and Sustainable Regions: Integrating Urban and Regional Perspectives submission deadline 20 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2536 | Submission Open
Keywords: livability; urban and regional planning; urban design; regional development; spatial planning; urban and regional resilience; community and neighborhood; habitat; human settlements; sustainable development goals
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Quantification of Soil Erosion and Sediment Transport in Basins submission deadline 23 Oct 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 11016 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil erosion; stream sediment transport; field measurements; laboratory measurements; machine learning methods; fuzzy logic; constructive and management measures
Impact of Globalization on Rural Areas: Changes in Land Use and Functions, Deagrarianization, Tertiarization, Urbanization, and Mobility submission deadline 23 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 134 | Submission Open
Keywords: globalization; deagrarianization; rural tertiarization; urbanization of rural areas; mobility; ecosystem services; integrated rural– urban development; land use and landscape management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Co-benefits of Heritage Protection and Urban Planning
edited by Jiaming Liu, Linsheng Zhong, and Shuying Zhang
submission deadline 25 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 176 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban heritage; urban regeneration; stakeholders; policy; protection of urban heritage; heritage tourism
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Spatiotemporal Data Analytics and Modeling of Land Systems: Shaping Sustainable Landscape submission deadline 28 Oct 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5154 | Submission Open
Keywords: spatiotemporal modeling; spatial-temporal landscape patterns and processes; landscape sustainability and resilience; geospatial technologies; land use/land cover; land change modeling; landscape assessment methods; landscape dynamic evolution
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
The Utilization of National Parks’ Natural Resources and Community Livelihood
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submission deadline 28 Oct 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3636 | Submission Open
Keywords: natural resource management; ecological landscape; community development; sustainable development goals; national park
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)
Dynamics of Urbanization and Ecosystem Services Provision II submission deadline 29 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6650 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecosystem services; land consumption; land cover change; remote sensing; spatial analysis; indicators
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Developing 3D Cadastre for Urban Land Use
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submission deadline 30 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3543 | Submission Open
Keywords: 3D cadastre; 3D urban planning; rights; restrictions and responsibilities to land; 3D land use; property; building information modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Ecosystem Services and Urban Green Spaces: Planning, Policy Development and Governance Implications submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6552 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecosystem services; green areas; urban ecology; green infrastructure; urban forest; urban resilience; urban planning and policies; urban governance; urban horticulture; cemeteries and sacred places
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Ecological and Cultural Ecosystem Services in Coastal Areas submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3964 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastal ecosystem services; coastal ecosystem conservation; cultural ecosystem services; coastal biodiversity conservation; coastal integrated management; threatened coastal plant species; socio-ecological approach
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Feature Papers for Land Planning and Landscape Architecture Section submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2408 | Submission Open
Keywords: land planning; landscape management; landscape protection; landscape architecture; landscape urbanism; environmental design; landscape perception
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Species Vulnerability and Habitat Loss II submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1092 | Submission Open
Keywords: edge effect; stress; species trait; threatened species; fragmentation; habitat shift; dispersal; extinction risk; conservation planning
Dynamics of Terrestrial Environmental Systems
edited by and Zhiwei Xu
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 650 | Submission Open
Keywords: complex environmental system; ecosystems; climate change; remote sensing; mathematical modelling; drylands; tipping points; pattern formation; aeolian processes; geomorphological systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
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