Land | Special Issues

Monitoring Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Under Land Use Change

edited by Lindsay Claire Maskell and Claire Wood

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11754 | 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)

Spatiotemporal Data Analytics and Modeling of Land Systems: Shaping Sustainable Landscape, Second Edition

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submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8844 | 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)

Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Utilization Trend of Farmland

edited by Maoxin Zhang,

Tingting He

, Andong Guo, Youpeng Lu and

Jose Raul Romo Leon

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4951 | Submission Open

Keywords: farmland change; spatiotemporal analysis; land use dynamics; utilisation efficiency; land system sustainability; innovative farmland governance

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

Multiscale Geospatial and Remote Sensing Approaches for Landscape Ecology

edited by

Wayne Myers

submission deadline 25 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 419 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape ecology; multiscale spatial analysis; geoinformatics; environmental modeling; conservation; environmental monitoring; remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Building Resilient and Sustainable Urban Futures

edited by

Angeliki Peponi

,

Gonçalo Duarte

,

Phelipe da Silva Anjinho

and

Patrícia Abrantes

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 9845 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban metabolism; urban ecology; ecosystem services; urban and landscape planning; smart cities; regenerative design

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

Frameworks to Evaluate Urbanization Sustainability in a Changing Climate

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submission deadline 30 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2939 | Submission Open

Keywords: urbanization; climate change; sustainable development framework; urban and rural sustainable development; land use/land cover changes; urban expansion; urban climate; food security; environmental pollution; landscape ecology

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

Territorial Impact Analysis of Rural Policies: Approaches, Methods and Results from a Multidisciplinary Point of View (Second Edition)

edited by

Francesco Mantino

, Barbara Forcina and Petri Kahila

submission deadline 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 772 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural development and regional policies for rural areas; rural proofing; socio-economic and climate– environmental indicators of rural development; sustainable innovation in rural areas; institutional innovations in rural policies; impact assessment of rural policies; distribution of policy support among rural areas; econometric models for impact evaluation of policy schemes for rural areas; community-led local development partnerships

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

Modeling Biodiversity and Landscape Conservation Planning (Second Edition)

edited by

Eve Bohnett

and

Eben N. Broadbent

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 13464 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; conservation planning; geodesign; modeling; spatial ecology; spatial conservation prioritization; landscape architecture; alternative futures

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)

Towards Land System Sustainability: Navigating Global Challenges and Local Realities

edited by

Li Ma

,

Yingnan Zhang

,

Yanfeng Jiang

, Chao Liu and Rong Ran

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13174 | Submission Open

Keywords: land systems; theories of land system change; land degradation; human– environment systems; human– 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)

Healthy and Inclusive Urban Public Spaces

edited by

Ester Higueras García

,

Andrea Alonso

and

María Teresa Baquero Larriva

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10173 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban health; spatial equity; urban accessibility; urban public spaces; inclusive public spaces

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

Salinity Monitoring and Modelling at Different Scales: 2nd Edition

edited by

Maria da Conceição Gonçalves

,

Mohammad Farzamian

and Tiago Brito Ramos

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8648 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil salinity; soil hydraulic properties; pedotransfer functions; proximal soil sensing; remote sensing; electromagnetic induction; digital soil mapping; machine learning; arid and semi-arid climate; agricultural water management

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

Interactions and Transformations in Urban–Rural Land Use Systems and Their Nexus with Ecosystems

edited by

Lingzhi Wang

, Yeting Fan and

Hichem Omrani

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7871 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban-rural land use systems; ecosystem services; land use transitions; land cover change; sustainable land management; peri-urban expansion; socioecological feedback

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

Big Data-Driven Urban Spatial Perception

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submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6100 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban mobility and transportation; human mobility and urban activity patterns; urban spatial perception and city image; sentiment analysis in urban spaces; urban safety and crime prediction; public health and urban environments

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

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 5985 | 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)

Evaluating and Managing Historic Landscapes

edited by

Mariolina Grasso

,

Fabrizio Finucci

, János Gyergyák and Ágnes Borsos

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4837 | Submission Open

Keywords: historic landscapes; evaluation methods; digital tools; heritage conservation; community engagement; landscape protection

Overtourism and the Disappearance of Sustainable Land Use and Local Knowledge Systems: A New Form of Colonialism?

edited by

Andrea Pieroni

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4479 | Submission Open

Keywords: overtourism; local food chains; ethnoecology; ecological history; sustainable land use; food sustainability; ethnobiology; small-scale farming; tourism industry; colonialism; touristic services

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

Estimation of Forest Biomass from High and Medium Spatial Resolution Satellite Imagery

edited by Adélia Sousa and

Ana Cristina Gonçalves

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4278 | 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)

Recent Progress in Land Cadastre

edited by

Anita Kwartnik-Pruc

,

Agnieszka Pęska-Siwik

and Monika Mika

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4015 | Submission Open

Keywords: land cadaster; 3D cadaster; cadastral data; cadaster development; cadaster model; land management; quality of cadastral data; spatial policy

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

Urban Ecological Indicators: Land Use and Coverage

edited by

Lorenzo Paglione

and

Keti Lelo

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3054 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban ecological indicators; land use and land cover change; green and blue infrastructure and ecological networks; environmental justice and equity; walkability and public space accessibility

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

Sustainable Monitoring of Wetland Ecosystems for Environmental Conservation

edited by

Yongheng Gao

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2168 | Submission Open

Keywords: wetlands; restoration; ecosystems; landscape; wetland protection

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

The Land–Energy–Water–Climate Nexus and Sustainable Development Challenges

edited by

Tao Shi

,

Qian Zhou

and

Qiang Li

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2154 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable development challenges; spatiotemporal evolutionary; resilient development; climate change; land development; energy change; water utilization; technological innovation; ecological economics

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

Research in Urban Ecology: Application into Landscape Design and Green Infrastructure (Second Edition)

edited by

Diana Dushkova

and

Maria Ignatieva

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2141 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban ecology; urban vegetation and urban wildlife; ecological design; nature based solutions in urban areas; landscape and green infrastructure

Landscapes Across the Mediterranean

edited by

Lucia Della Spina

,

Maria Rosa Trovato

and

Salvatore Giuffrida

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1856 | Submission Open

Keywords: nature-scape; coast-scape; urban-scape; rural-scape; real estate-scape; tourism-scape; culture-scape; energy-scape

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Young Researchers in Land Planning and Landscape Architecture

edited by

Maria Ignatieva

and

Thomas Panagopoulos

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1623 | Submission Open

Keywords: participatory design; landscape planning and management; landscape architecture: research to practice; ecological design; climate resilience; urban planning and energy transition; biophilic design; nature-based solutions; regenerative design; urban planning and sustainable tourism development; environmental footprint; virtual reality for collaborative design

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

Monitoring Forest Dynamics Using Remote Sensing and Spatial Data

edited by

Wonhee Cho

,

Min Kim

, Bora Lee and Nanghyun Cho

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1425 | Submission Open

Keywords: land degradation trajectories; forest dynamics under climatic and anthropogenic pressure; forest evaluation by remote sensing and spatial data; land cover dynamics in forest landscape; forest functionality change; environmental policies and implications; ecological resilience in crisis; landscape modeling

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

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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1238 | 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)

Urban Nature, Public Space and Walkable Urban Form for Climate Resilience, Planning and Design

edited by Malgorzata Hanzl,

Alessandro Camiz

and

Paul Osmond

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1099 | Submission Open

Keywords: walkability; green infrastructure; public space; urban morphology; urban reforestation; sustainable urban design; urban revitalisation; urban form; spatial planning; connectivity; nature-based solutions; climate resilience; liveability

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

Landscape Governance in the Age of Social Media, 3rd Edition

edited by

Nicolas Marine

,

Cecilia Arnaiz Schmitz

and

Yael Allweil

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1061 | Submission Open

Keywords: user-generated content (UGC); social media; cultural landscapes; landscape governance; participatory processes

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

Land Use and Landscape Impacts of the Energy Transition: Challenges and Opportunities for Integrated Energy and Landscape Planning

edited by

Luca Barbarossa

,

Eliana Fischer

and

Raffaele Pelorosso

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 718 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy transition policies and practices; land consumption and land use transformations; renewable acceleration areas; landscape preservation; patterns of balanced transition; just and sustainable green transition; energy communities

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

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 510 | 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)

Young Researchers in Land, Soil, and Water

edited by

Deirdre Dragovich

and

Nick B. Comerford

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 457 | 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)

Vulnerability and Resilience of Urban Planning and Design (Second Edition)

edited by

João Pedro Monteiro

,

Eduardo Natividade-Jesus

,

Nuno Sousa

and João Coutinho-Rodrigues

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 444 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban resiliency; climate adaptation; governance mobility; smart cities; geographical information systems; sustainable development; green infrastructure; socioeconomic resilient form and function

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

Reconfiguring Human–Climate–Ecosystem Interactions: Patterns, Risks, and Methodology Innovations

edited by

Kunyang Wang

,

Baixue Wang

and Lei Wang

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 387 | Submission Open

Keywords: coupled human– natural systems; hydrological modeling; land use; ecological risk assessment; spatial heterogeneity; remote sensing and data analytics; environmental resilience; climate adaptation; landscape sustainability; watershed processes

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

Land Development and Investment (Second Edition)

edited by

Kwong Wing Chau

and

William Ka Shing Cheung

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 275 | Submission Open

Keywords: land development; land investment; land financing; land policy; technological innovation; risk management; economic impact; social impact; environmental impact

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

Resilient Land Systems in the Face of Increasing Disaster Risks

edited by Dorcas Idowu and

Wendy Zhou

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 257 | Submission Open

Keywords: resilient land systems; disaster risk reduction; GIS; remote sensing; machine learning; climate change adaptation; land-use dynamics; sustainable land management

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

Agriculture in Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

edited by

Ben Sonneveld

,

Amani Alfarra

and

Brinda Ramasawmy

submission deadline 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 237 | Submission Open

Keywords: agriculture; food system; land and water resources; climate change; small island developing states (SIDSs)

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

Species Vulnerability and Habitat Loss (Third Edition)

edited by

Michela Balestri

and

Marco Campera

submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6579 | Submission Open

Keywords: edge effect; stress; species trait; threatened species; fragmentation; habitat shift; dispersal; extinction risk; conservation planning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)

Rural Land Use, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

edited by

Nicoleta Mateoc-Sirb

,

Gabriela Popescu

,

Oana Brînzan

and

Ramona Mariana Ciolac

submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 747 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable agriculture; food security issues; land resources; land use ” smart” use; "branding" for rural land/agriculture/food products

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

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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 552 | 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)

Advances in Urban Hydrological Modeling and Stormwater Management for Hydrological Hazard Mitigation

edited by Mohammed N. Assaf, Hazem Abdo and

Qasem Abdelal

submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 291 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban hydrology; hydrological hazards; flood risk assessment; stormwater management; hydrological modeling; model calibration and optimization; sensitivity analysis; nature-based solutions (NBS); low-impact development (LID); green infrastructure; climate change adaptation; sustainable urban water management

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

Digital Soil Mapping and Precision Agriculture

edited by

Xiaobo Wu

and

Songchao Chen

submission deadline 10 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4878 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital soil mapping; precision agriculture; geospatial technologies; machine learning; soil health; sustainable land management; remote sensing

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

Land Use Change from Non-Urban to Urban Areas: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities—Third Edition

edited by

Víctor Hugo González-Jaramillo

and

Ruetger Rollenbeck

submission deadline 10 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3686 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use change; land use planning; urban expansion; urban and rural development; land degradation; regulatory strategies; spatiotemporal dynamics; remote sensing imageries

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

Land Use: Integration of Rural and Urban Landscape

edited by

Luís Mendes

,

Le Yu

and Justice Nana Inkoom

submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 12282 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural and urban landscape; urban-rural integrated development; rural– urban gradient; rural urbanization; land use transitions; land-cover change; land-use planning; settlement systems

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

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Landscape Analysis and Landscape Protection

edited by

Dora Tomić Reljić

, Petra Pereković and

Beata Fornal-Pieniak

submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6480 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape planning; landscape value; landscape protection; landscape quality; GIS; sustainable development

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

edited by

Massimo Fabris

and Michele Monego

submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2228 | 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)

Multiscalar Interactions Between Climate and Land Management Regimes

edited by C. Andrew Day,

Kenneth R. Young

and

Brice B. Hanberry

submission deadline 15 Jun 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2084 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use change; climate change and variability; land– climate interactions; vegetation distribution; soil erosion/sedimentation; water quality; land management/governance; ecosystem services; resilience; multiscale modeling

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

Soil Ecological Risk Assessment Based on LULC—Second Edition

edited by

Lúcia Barão

submission deadline 16 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

Keywords: risk assessment; ecosystem services; soil functioning; land use/land cover; soil threats

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

Ground Deformation Monitoring via Remote Sensing Time Series Data

edited by

Ebrahim Ghaderpour

and

Paolo Mazzanti

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 9 articles | Viewed by 33782 | 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)

Heritage Landscapes, Their Inventory, Management and Future

edited by Jaromír Kolejka and

Igor Gallay

submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 16201 | Submission Open

Keywords: historical landscapes; identification criteria; inventory procedures; classification and typology; management; protection and planning; sustainable tourism

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

The Role of Land Policy in Shaping Rural Development Outcomes

edited by

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submission deadline 20 Jun 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7006 | Submission Open

Keywords: land policy reform; agricultural modernization; sustainable land use; land tenure systems; urban– rural integration; food security governance; rural revitalization strategies; ecological conservation in agriculture

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

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