Land | Special Issues

Ecology of the Landscape Capital and Urban Capital

edited by

submission deadline 16 Jul 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 32387 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity; ecosystem services; natural-based solution; green infrastructure; urban planning; landscape planning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services in Relation to Landscape Design, Planning and Management

edited by Aikaterini Gkoltsiou and

Albert Fekete

submission deadline 20 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 391 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape architecture (planning; design and management); ecosystem planning; green roofs/green walls; xeriscaping; green infrastructure strategies; nature based solutions; urban ecosystems; nature and public health; biodiversity conservation; knowledge sharing and participatory decision-making; site preservation

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

Integrated Assessment of Global Environmental Change and Forest Ecosystems

edited by

Susete Marques

and Ana Maria Cuartas

submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 895 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem services; land use changes; policy and management; climate change impacts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Transport and Urban Green Space Planning

edited by

Renata Żochowska

and Piotr Soczówka

submission deadline 26 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 636 | Submission Open

Keywords: transport system planning; urban green space design; sustainable development; green solutions for transport; sustainable mobility; the harmful impact of transport on the environment

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

Green Infrastructure Planning and Management for Sustainable Urban Development and Quality of Life

edited by

Xinhao Wang

,

Xin Fu

and Chen Shen

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5110 | Submission Open

Keywords: green infrastructure; planning and management; sustainable development; urban resilience; quality of life

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

Climate Adaptation Planning in Urban Areas

edited by Jin-Oh Kim,

Sangjun Kang

and

Juchul Jung

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4825 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate adaptation planning; urban resilience; green infrastructure; community-based adaptation; climate policy and governance

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

Urban Landscape Transformation vs. Memory

edited by

Bojana Bojanic Obad Scitaroci

,

Nerma Omićević

and

Tamara Zaninović

submission deadline 30 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 462 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban landscape transformation; memorialisation; heritage resilience; active vs. passive land use; cultural heritage; natural heritage; heritage urbanism; forgotten urban layers

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

Managing Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services

edited by

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,

and

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 26142 | Submission Open

Keywords: land management; urban green infrastructure; ecosystem services; geoinformation; decision making; sustainable urban development

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

Planning for Socio-Spatial Justice and Quality of Life in the Face of Competing Urban Development Dynamics

edited by

Antigoni Faka

, Angeliki Paidakaki and

Pieter Van den Broeck

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12164 | 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)

Land Use Sustainability from the Viewpoint of Carbon Emission: 2nd Edition

edited by

Xuechao Wang

,

Weize Song

and

Yingjie Li

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 11403 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use; sustainability; carbon emissions; carbon emissions neutrality; carbon source; carbon sink; climate change; agriculture; forestry

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

Feature Papers for Land Systems and Global Change Section: 2nd Edition

edited by

Le Yu

,

Xin Chen

, Zhenrong Du and

Pengyu Hao

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11150 | Submission Open

Keywords: land system; global change; datasets; models; time series

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

Rural Tourism Development: Land Use, Ecosystem Services, and Community Interactions

edited by

Ioan Sebastian Jucu

and Cătălina ANCUȚA

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6489 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural land use change; rural tourism development; rural tourism and socio-economic interaction; rural cultural heritage; cultural tourism in rural areas

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

Soil Contamination—Ecological Environment Risk Assessment and Remediation

edited by Magdalena Myszura-Dymek and

Grażyna Żukowska

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6330 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil pollution; fate of pollutants in soil; effects of soil pollution; methods of assessing soil pollution; ecological environment risk; indicators and methods of assessing ecological environment risk; soil remediation technologies; legal regulations on soil pollution

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

Advances in Wildlife Conservation and Habitat Management in the Anthropocene

edited by

Yiannis G. Zevgolis

and

Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5369 | Submission Open

Keywords: innovative technologies; advanced monitoring techniques; habitat suitability modeling; species distribution modeling; climate change scenarios; anthropogenic; biotic; and abiotic stressors; environmental impact assessments; invasive species management; disease outbreak impacts; long-term ecological monitoring; protected area effectiveness; keystone species conservation; threatened species; adaptive conservation strategies; conservation planning; wildlife conservation; habitat management

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

Land Use: Integration of Rural and Urban Landscape

edited by

Luís Mendes

,

Le Yu

and Justice Nana Inkoom

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5167 | 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)

Rethinking Rural-Urban Interactions in Terms of Food Security and Agriculture Development

edited by Yingnan Niu, Gaodi Xie and Luoman Pu

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4640 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural– urban interactions; food security; ecological agriculture; agricultural economy; agricultural policy; sustainable development

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

Salinity Monitoring and Modelling at Different Scales: 2nd Edition

edited by

Maria da Conceição Gonçalves

,

Mohammad Farzamian

and Tiago Brito Ramos

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4274 | 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)

New Urbanization: Urban-Rural Coordination and Sustainable Development

edited by

Xiong He

and

Chunshan Zhou

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 3871 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban and regional planning; urban– rural integration; sustainable development; urban and rural land use; urban governance; urban– rural landscape; urban– rural relations; geographic information systems (GISs) and remote sensing

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

Vegetation Spatial Dynamics and Plant Diversity Trends of Natural and Urban Landscapes

edited by

Gianmarco Tavilla

,

Mauro André Maurício Raposo

,

Carlos José Pinto Gomes

and

Sandro Lanfranco

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3447 | 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)

Nature-Based Solutions for Soil-Water Related Sustainable Development Goals

edited by

Kristina Potočki

and

Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3224 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable land management (SLM); nature-based solutions (NBS); ecosystem services; land degradation neutrality (LDN); mitigation of weather extremes

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

Land Use Change and Plant Invasion: Plant Invasion Due to Changed Landscape Use, Changed Behavior and Ecological Problems of Native and Non-Native Species

edited by

Judit Hází

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2807 | Submission Open

Keywords: human impact; land abandonment; rural-urban transformation; invasion; alien species; exotic species; ecosystem services assessment; management; restoration

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

Integrating Climate, Land, and Water Systems

edited by Krzysztof Raczynski, Jamie Dyer, Łukasz Chabudziński and

Katarzyna Baran-Gurgul

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2584 | Submission Open

Keywords: land; climate; water; integration; system interconnections; system dynamics; geospatial frameworks; interdependencies; resilience; sustainability

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

Agroforestry Systems for Sustainable Land Management: Innovations and Challenges

edited by Judit Rubio-Delgado and

J. Francisco Lavado Contador

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2404 | Submission Open

Keywords: agroforestry; sustainability; environmental conservation; ecosystem services; biodiversity; land management innovation; land use/cover dynamics; climate change adaptation; climate change mitigation

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

Resilient Cities: The Nexus of Urban Land, Climate Change and Property Economics

edited by Piyush Tiwari, Raghu Dharmapuri Tirumala and Jyoti Shukla

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2294 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban resilience; climate change; housing economics; urban land use; smart cities

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

Urban Green Spaces: An Effective Tool to Regulate Urban Climate and Biodiversity, 2nd Edition

edited by

Nikolaos Proutsos

and

Alexandra D. Solomou

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1788 | 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

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

Harnessing the Power of Land Mapping Data for Effective Land Policy Development

edited by Xiao Huang, Zehua Zhang and

Cheolhee Yoo

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1770 | Submission Open

Keywords: land mapping; land use policy and management; land use and land cover (LULC) monitoring; remote sensing; spatial data; sustainable development; environmental monitoring

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

New Advance in Intensive Agriculture and Soil Quality

edited by

Dioselina Álvarez Bernal

and

Eloy Conde

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1620 | Submission Open

Keywords: precision agriculture; soil quality; soil sustainability; intensive agriculture; intensive farming systems

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

Digital Soil Mapping for Soil Health Monitoring in Agricultural Lands

edited by

João Augusto Coblinski

,

Sylwia Pindral

and

Gabriele Buttafuoco

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1574 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital soil mapping; pedometrics; remote sensing; proximal sensing; soil functions; soil threats; soil ecosystem services; soil modelling

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

Connections Between Land Use, Land Policies, and Food Systems

edited by

Xiangzheng Deng

,

Peiheng Yu

and

Yuping Bai

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1517 | Submission Open

Keywords: land management; land use/land cover change; land policies; food systems; urbanization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus)

Nutrient Cycling and Management in Drylands: Challenges and Innovations in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions

edited by Hao Qu and Eduardo Medina-Roldán

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1484 | Submission Open

Keywords: global change; ecosystem services; sustainability; litter decomposition; nutrient dynamics; nutrient availability; microbe– soil– plant interaction

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

Suburban Land Development and Rural-Urban Integration

edited by

Yanwei Zhang

,

Kaifeng Duan

and

Maomao Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1464 | Submission Open

Keywords: suburban land development; rural– urban integration; land use transition; sustainable land use and management; rural revitalization

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

Feature Papers for the ‘Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues’ Section: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals—2nd Edition

edited by

Hossein Azadi

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1079 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable land management; socio-economic implications of land use; political dimensions of land governance; land tenure systems; land rights and access; equitable land distribution; rural development and land policies; land-based livelihoods; land use planning; urbanization and land use; land degradation and restoration; gender and land ownership; climate change adaptation and land resilience; ecosystem services and land management; land conflicts and dispute resolution; land-based investments and governance; monitoring and evaluation of land-related SDGs; land administration; zero hunger (SDG 2); life on land (SDG 15); reduced inequalities (SDG 10); climate action (SDG 13)

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

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 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 1049 | 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)

Land and Drought: An Environmental Assessment Through Remote Sensing

edited by

Keyvan Soltani

,

Silvio José Gumiere

and

Isa Ebtehaj

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 845 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing and drought; drought impacts on land; drought monitoring with remote sensing; satellite-based drought indices; remote sensing applications in drought; climate variability and land systems; geospatial technologies for drought assessment; resilience of land to drought; drought early warning systems; sustainable land management under drought; remote sensing in environmental monitoring

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

Landscape Fragmentation: Effects on Biodiversity and Wildlife

edited by

Jesús Alejandro Prieto-Amparán

,

Federico Villarreal-Guerrero

and

Alfredo Pinedo-Alvarez

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 784 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape fragmentation and biodiversity conservation; ecological connectivity modeling; land use/land cover changes (LULCC); habitat quality (HQ); ecosystem services; remote sensing and spatial pattern analysis; machine learning applications; multi-criteria evaluation; sustainable land management; artificial intelligence in landscape analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Urban, Rural, and Agricultural Infrastructures for Resource Recovery: Fostering Environmental Sustainability, Ecological Balance, and a Resilient Circular Bioeconomy

edited by

Tiziana Crovella

, Teodoro Gallucci and

Annarita Paiano

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 741 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus)

Soils and Land Management Under Climate Change (Second Edition)

edited by

Dionisios Gasparatos

and

Ioannis Charalampopoulos

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 611 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil functions; climate changes; soil carbon sequestration; land degradation; soil erosion; crop production; temperature and precipitation

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

Science-Based Approaches to Promote Sustainable Land and Resource Management in Protected Areas: Latest Insights from the Fields of Geography and Recreation Ecology

edited by Ting Wang,

Teiji Watanabe

and

Yu-Fai Leung

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 559 | Submission Open

Keywords: protected areas; recreation use; impacts monitoring; visitor management; voluntary data analysis; partnership; resource management; participatory assessment approach

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

Institutions in Governance of Land Use: Mitigating Boom and Bust (Second Edition)

edited by Piyush Tiwari, Jyoti Shukla and Godwin Kavaarpuo

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 463 | Submission Open

Keywords: land governance; land assembly; land value; land rights; land expropriation and compensation; disaster management

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

Reimagining Cities & Landscapes: AI, Sustainability, Exaptation and Inclusive Urban Futures

edited by Alessandro Melis and Antonio Lara-Hernandez

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 346 | Submission Open

Keywords: architectural exaptation; adaptive reuse; urban resilience; vacant spaces; sustainable urbanism; socio-ecological design

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

Soil Moisture: Remote Sensing Innovations and Applications

edited by

Chiranjibi Shah

, Md Mehedi Farhad and

M M Nabi

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 146 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil moisture retrieval; precision agriculture; multi-sensor integration; AI in soil moisture; hydrological modeling; microwave remote sensing; CYGNSS; SMAP; sentinel; SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar); spatiotemporal analysis

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

Ecological Functions and Conservation of Wetland Systems

edited by

Qibing Chen

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open

Keywords: wetland ecosystems; biodiversity conservation; climate change adaptation; human impact on wetlands; wetland restoration; land use change

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

Urban Land Expansion and Regional Inequality

edited by

Montaña Jiménez-Espada

and

Salvador García-Ayllón Veintimilla

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6113 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban sprawl and planning; regional inequality; territorial management; sustainable urban development; demographic challenge; public participation and municipal governance; metropolitan areas; rural areas; geographical accessibility issues

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

The Second Edition: Urban Planning Pathways to Carbon Neutrality

edited by

Yan Li

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5505 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban spatial planning; carbon emission; carbon neutrality; spatial layout optimization; green transportation systems; green infrastructure

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

Rural Space: Between Renewal Processes and Preservation

edited by Hadas Shadar and Irit Amit-Cohen

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1919 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural– urban spatial conflicts; development processes in rural areas; rural heritage; rural preservation; rural sense of place; rural local identity

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

Applications of GIS-Based Methods in Land Change Science

edited by

Beata Calka

and

Marta Szostak

submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 745 | Submission Open

Keywords: land change science (LCS); geographical information sciences (GIS); spatial data integration land use monitoring; land use planning; land degradation; natural resource management; multicriteria analysis

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

Sustainable Forest Landscape Management Towards Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity

edited by

Guillermo Martinez-Pastur

,

Robert Baldwin

,

Mónica Toro-Manríquez

and

Serban Chivulescu

submission deadline 7 Aug 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6177 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable forestry; ecosystem services; biodiversity conservation; multi-objective forest planning; synergies and trade-offs; landscape management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Land Management at Urban-Rural Interface

edited by

Fabrizio Battisti

submission deadline 11 Aug 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8465 | Submission Open

Keywords: 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

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

Valuing Culture Through Ecosystem Services: Integrating Economic, Social, and Land Perspectives

edited by

Martin Boltiziar

submission deadline 11 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 929 | Submission Open

Keywords: cultural ecosystems; ecosystem services; cultural landscapes; economic valuation; land-use planning; socio-ecological approaches

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

New Perspectives in the Management and Monitoring of Mountain Ecosystems

edited by

Oimahmad Rahmonov

and

Michał Sobala

submission deadline 11 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 447 | Submission Open

Keywords: mountains vegetation; disturbances of vegetation; ecosystem services; soil erosion; landscape diversity; land use/cover; livestock rangeland; land abandonment; historical grazing; mountain tourism

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

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