Land | Special Issues

Managing Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services

edited by

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submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 22076 | 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)

Topical Advisory Panel Member Solicited Papers Series: Land Use Changes in Rural Areas

edited by

Marta Gallardo

,

Julio Fernandez Portela

,

David Cocero

and

Lara Vilar

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10020 | 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)

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 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9071 | 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)

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 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9058 | 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)

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 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7794 | 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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4151 | 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)

Advances in Wildlife Conservation and Habitat Management in the Anthropocene

edited by

Yiannis G. Zevgolis

and

Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3966 | 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)

Soil Contamination—Ecological Environment Risk Assessment and Remediation

edited by Magdalena Myszura-Dymek and

Grażyna Żukowska

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 3805 | 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)

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 3773 | 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)

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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3458 | 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)

Land Use: Integration of Rural and Urban Landscape

edited by

Luís Mendes

,

Le Yu

and Justice Nana Inkoom

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 2750 | 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)

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 2698 | 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)

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 2114 | 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)

New Urbanization: Urban-Rural Coordination and Sustainable Development

edited by

Xiong He

and

Chunshan Zhou

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 1903 | 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)

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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1761 | 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)

Agroforestry Systems for Sustainable Land Management: Innovations and Challenges

edited by Judit Rubio-Delgado and

J. Francisco Lavado Contador

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1577 | 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)

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 1215 | 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)

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 1170 | 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)

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 1040 | 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)

New Advance in Intensive Agriculture and Soil Quality

edited by

Dioselina Álvarez Bernal

and

Eloy Conde

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1018 | 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)

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 885 | 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)

Suburban Land Development and Rural-Urban Integration

edited by

Yanwei Zhang

,

Kaifeng Duan

and

Maomao Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 826 | 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)

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 | 1 articles | Viewed by 644 | 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)

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 621 | 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)

Integrating Climate, Land, and Water Systems

edited by Krzysztof Raczynski, Jamie Dyer, Łukasz Chabudziński and

Katarzyna Baran-Gurgul

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 546 | 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)

Soils and Land Management Under Climate Change (Second Edition)

edited by

Dionisios Gasparatos

and

Ioannis Charalampopoulos

submission deadline 31 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 527 | 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)

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 | Viewed by 485 | 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)

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 467 | 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 417 | 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)

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 | Viewed by 378 | 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)

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 | Viewed by 282 | 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)

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 271 | 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)

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 | Viewed by 177 | Submission Open

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

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 105 | 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 86 | 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 5115 | 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 4705 | 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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 870 | 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 538 | 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 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3384 | 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 7968 | 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 593 | 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 399 | 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)

Landscape Ecological Risk in Mountain Areas

edited by Wei Deng and

Quanzhi Yuan

submission deadline 12 Aug 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9168 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape ecological risk; mountain areas; structure and function; changing environment; simulation and prediction; landscape ecological response

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Potential for Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Green Infrastructure

edited by

Petra Schneider

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 7820 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological engineering; ecosystem services; nature-based solutions; green infrastructure; land recycling; land transformation; animal-aided design; sustainable urban drainage; climate adaptation; biotope networks

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

Spatial Optimization of Land Use: A Perspective on Carbon Emission and Energy Landscape Planning

edited by Jing Huang, Wenjing Han, Chai Duo, Jing Lan and Shan Guo

submission deadline 15 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 511 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatial optimization; land use planning; climate resilience; carbon neutrality; climate change mitigation; environmental impacts; energy transition; resilient energy landscapes; energy infrastructure planning

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

Responsible and Smart Land Management (2nd Edition)

edited by

Walter T. de Vries

and

Iwan Rudiarto

submission deadline 18 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1662 | Submission Open

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

Conservation of Bio- and Geo-Diversity and Landscape Changes II

edited by

Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor

,

Adrian Ursu

and

Ilinca-Valentina Stoica

submission deadline 20 Aug 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 23460 | 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)

Land-Based Greenhouse Gas Mitigation for Carbon Neutrality (2nd Edition)

edited by

Li'na Liu

,

Zhenhua Zhang

,

Rong Wu

and Suman Aryal

submission deadline 26 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 206 | Submission Open

Keywords: greenhouse gas emissions; carbon neutrality; climate smart agriculture; forest conservation and restoration; bioenergy and carbon capture; the role of carbon offsets in emissions trading mechanism; carbon emission mitigation; land use; land use change; and forestry (LULUCF); global climate change

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

Land Resource Assessment (Second Edition)

edited by

Weiguo Fan

and

Xuechao Wang

submission deadline 27 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 95 | Submission Open

Keywords: land resource efficiency; functional differences evaluation; land resource capitalization; process evaluation and simulation; energy system language and LCA; typical model of land use; ecological security and carrying capacity

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

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