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Carbon Cycling and Carbon Sequestration in Wetlands
edited by , , Junxiang Cheng and Jiaxing Xu
submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 620 | Submission Open
Keywords: carbon cycling; carbon sequestration; climate change; soil organic carbon; blue carbon; wetlands
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)
Managing Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 36238 | 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)
Driving Future to Shape Sustainable Agricultural System: Urban-Rural Land Management and Environment Protection submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 30671 | Submission Open
Keywords: precision agriculture; agriculture and big data; climate change; agricultural drought; agriculture and conflict; soil; greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector; soil-water relations; land degradation (erosion; salinization; ); crop production (maize; wheat; etc.); land suitability assessment; land use changes; remote sensing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Conservation of Bio- and Geo-Diversity and Landscape Changes II submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 29906 | Submission Open
Keywords: biodiversity; eco-diversity; geo-diversity; land cover and use changes; planning; natural protected areas; local development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)
Ground Deformation Monitoring via Remote Sensing Time Series Data submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 23694 | 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)
Geographic Information Technologies and the New Challenges of Globalization in a Changing Environment submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 21682 | Submission Open
Keywords: Geographic Information Systems; ; Remote Sensing; ; Geoinformation; ; Sustainable development; ; Spatial decision support; ; Spatial analysis; ; Geographic knowledge
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Innovative Strategies for Sustainable Smart Cities and Territories
edited by , Mária Srebalová and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 18256 | Submission Open
Keywords: multi-scale planning and design; land planning methods; including participatory planning; ecosystem-based planning; collaborative planning; integrated planning; strategic planning; sustainable planning; smart planning; territorial ecological planning; etc.; planning theory and planning policy related to land; digital landscape architecture; urban and regional development related to land; land use and land use change; and disaster risk assessment/management/reduction; climate resilience; nature-based solutions; green/blue/gray/brown infrastructure; landscape protection/management/restoration; smart cities; ecosystem services; human health and well-being; biodiversity education; GIS; remote sensing; drones; sensors; big data; AI; VR; BIM; IoT; and other advanced technologies; social/spatial/environmental/distributional/procedural justice; transport heritage; real estate; energy transition
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Topical Advisory Panel Member Solicited Papers Series: Land Use Changes in Rural Areas submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 16873 | 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)
Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Landscape Patterns Under Land Use Change
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 15358 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)
Big Data in Urban Land Use Planning submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 14694 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); big data; technology; urban land; land use planning; data fusion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Urban Land Use Change and Its Spatial Planning submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 12150 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use change; dynamic processes; planning; policy; quality; sustainability; participation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Synergies in Land Use Planning: Advancing Urban-Rural Integration for Sustainable Development
edited by , and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10218 | Submission Open
Keywords: land property right; environmental outcome; urban-rural integration development; urban and rural revitalization; intelligent land use planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Soil Contamination—Ecological Environment Risk Assessment and Remediation
edited by Magdalena Myszura-Dymek and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10062 | 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)
Cadastre and Land Management in Support of Sustainable Real Estate Markets—2nd Edition submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 9909 | 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)
Advances in Wildlife Conservation and Habitat Management in the Anthropocene submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8731 | 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)
Preservation, Reuse and Reveal of Cultural Heritage Through Sustainable Land Management, Rural and Urban Development (Third Edition) submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7824 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable development; remote sensing; 3D modeling; spatial planning; GIS / HBIM; cultural routes; tangible/intangible cultural heritage; historical settlements; historical cities; circular economy; cultural tourism; environmental management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Land Use: Integration of Rural and Urban Landscape
edited by , and Justice Nana Inkoom
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7685 | 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)
Reimagining Public Spaces in Europe: Towards Inclusive, Livable, and Resilient Human-Scale Urban Environments submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6549 | Submission Open
Keywords: human-scale urban design; resilient public spaces; european cities; urban equity; active mobility; mixed methods
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
The Other Perspective. City Networks and Territorial Justice towards a Landscape Ethics submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5708 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Monitoring and Simulation of Wetland Ecological Processes (Second Edition) submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5633 | Submission Open
Keywords: wetland mapping; wetland landscape and functions; biodiversity monitoring; wetland connectivity; assessment; carbon sink; land-use sustainability; simulation of wetland geochemical cycle models; monitoring of wetland restoration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Feature Papers for "Land, Soil and Water" Section
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5568 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil and climate change; soil health; sustainable agriculture; soil biodiversity; soil ecosystem service; artificial intelligence applications to soil; emerging soil contaminants
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)
Feature Papers for the ‘Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues’ Section: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals—2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5527 | 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)
Salinity Monitoring and Modelling at Different Scales: 2nd Edition
edited by , and Tiago Brito Ramos
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5341 | 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)
Building Resilient and Sustainable Urban Futures submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4401 | 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)
Agricultural Land Management to Meet Future Global Food Demand (Second Edition) submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4171 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable land management; food security; agricultural intensification; crop diversification; agricultural adaptations to climate change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Advancing Soil Literacy: Raising Awareness of the Importance of Soil
edited by and Arwyn Jones
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3897 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil health; soil protection; soil communication; soil awareness; citizen engagement
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)
Harnessing the Power of Land Mapping Data for Effective Land Policy Development
edited by Xiao Huang, Zehua Zhang and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3848 | 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)
Novel Methods and Trending Topics in Landscape Archaeology
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3533 | Submission Open
Keywords: remote sensing; LiDAR; artificial intelligence; machine learning; GeoAI; climate change-driven transformations; data mining; big data analytics; geospatial and geophysical surveying
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Archaeology)
Land Modifications and Impacts on Coastal Areas, Second Edition submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3398 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastal evolution; land use changes; coastal management; coastal natural processes; climate change impacts; human pressure and impacts; coastal contamination
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Feature Papers for Land Innovations—Data and Machine Learning: 3rd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2135 | Submission Open
Keywords: spatial big data; land use and land cover; geospatial artificial intelligence; machine learning; deep learning; big data processing; big data analysis; big data visualization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
Species Vulnerability and Habitat Loss (Third Edition) submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2101 | 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)
Digital Soil Mapping and Precision Agriculture
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2086 | 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)
Digital Soil Mapping for Soil Health Monitoring in Agricultural Lands submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2020 | 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)
Spatial Data Analysis and Geographic Information Systems for Urban Land Use
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1903 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban land use; spatial data analysis; geographic information systems (GISs); remote sensing imagery; machine learning; large language models (LLMs); big data; data-driven; urban planning; sustainable cities
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
Landscape Fragmentation: Effects on Biodiversity and Wildlife submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1891 | 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)
The Role of Land Policy in Shaping Rural Development Outcomes submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1844 | 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)
Exploring Sustainable Rural Development Models and Environmental Protection Reglamentations: Interactions and Compatibilities submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1743 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental regulations; socioeconomic development; rural areas; compatible development; sustainable development strategies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Water, Energy, Land, and Food (WELF) Nexus: An Ecosystems Perspective submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1555 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable resource management; climate change adaptation; land-use planning; water– energy– food interactions; biodiversity conservation; renewable energy and sustainability; integrated policy and governance; synergies and tradeoffs
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus)
Climate and Carbon Cycle Impact Assessment of Land Policies, Prospects and Challenges
edited by , Xin Li and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1541 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use policy; carbon reduction; climate change; carbon and climate simulation; agricultural land; urban land use; land management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability)
Land Dynamics in the Urbanization Process: Climate Change, Economic Transitions, and Demographic Shifts
edited by , Luminiţa Chivu, and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1139 | Submission Open
Keywords: urbanization; land use change; climate change impact; economic restructuring; demographic shifts; land degradation; ecosystem vulnerability; spatial analysis; urban land governance; ai use in remote sensing and GIS
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Land (IECL2025)
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 857 | Submission Open
Recent Progress in Land Cadastre
edited by , and Monika Mika
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 779 | 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)
Research in Urban Ecology: Application into Landscape Design and Green Infrastructure (Second Edition) submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 778 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban ecology; urban vegetation and urban wildlife; ecological design; nature based solutions in urban areas; landscape and green infrastructure
Integrated Soil Fertility Management for Sustainable Agriculture: Best Practices and Innovations submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 739 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil fertility; sustainable agriculture; integrated soil fertility management (ISFM); nutrient use efficiency; soil health
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Soil and Water)
Landscapes Across the Mediterranean submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 686 | 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)
Large-Scale LULC Mapping on Google Earth Engine (GEE) submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 629 | Submission Open
Keywords: LULC; GEE; remote sensing; deep learning; machine learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
The Dynamics of Urbanization: Challenges and Solutions in Land Development and Regional Planning
edited by , and
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 568 | Submission Open
Keywords: urbanization; migration; urban and rural land change; land-use challenges; regional planning and governance; mechanisms
(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 , Barbara Forcina and Petri Kahila
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 497 | 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)
The Impact of Population Transition on Land Value and Planning in Rural Areas submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 408 | Submission Open
Keywords: rural population mobility; the urban citizenship of migrant workers; rural aging; rural land function; rural land value; rural land consolidation; rural land use plan; rural revitalization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Redefining Urban Landscapes: Land Use and Regional Development in the Era of Urbanization submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 364 | Submission Open
Keywords: urbanization; land use change; metropolitan and megalopolis; spatial structure and planning; urban governance and policy; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
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