Land | Special Issues

Geodesign and Spatial Data for Inclusive and Accessible Cities: Geomatics, Walkability, and Participatory Urban Planning

edited by

Daniele Treccani

and

Andrea Adami

submission deadline 11 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 242 | Submission Open

Keywords: geodesign; urban accessibility; walkability analysis; geospatial data and geomatics; GIS-based analysis; GeoAI and artificial intelligence; participatory urban planning; urban digital models and digital twins; accessible public transportation planning; inclusive and accessible public spaces

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

Integrating Participatory Approaches, Ecosystem Services, and Risk Perception for Sustainable Cities

edited by Mahdi Gheitasi,

Daniel Jato-Espino

, Azadeh Shahrad and Mais Jafari

submission deadline 15 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 354 | Submission Open

Keywords: participatory approaches; risk perception; ecosystem services; urban planning; sustainability; sustainable cities; green infrastructure; environmental hazards; social-ecological systems; urban resilience; urban transformation; nature-based solutions (NBS); co-creation of green space; planning governance

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

Land Resource Assessment (Second Edition)

edited by

Weiguo Fan

and

Xuechao Wang

submission deadline 19 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4140 | 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)

Urban Land Use Policies and Ecological Sustainability

edited by

Cezary Beker

,

Sandra Wajchman-Świtalska

and

Alina Źróbek-Rózańska

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 443 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatial management; urban sustainability; socio-economic geography; local and regional policy; ecosystem service assessment; environmental management; urban green and blue infrastructure

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

Regional Sustainable Development of Yangtze River Delta, China—Fourth Edition

edited by

,

,

,

and

submission deadline 20 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 413 | Submission Open

Keywords: Yangtze River Delta region; sustainable development; human– earth system coupling; ecosystem services; industry development; innovation network; territorial space; climate change; urban– rural coordination; food security

Green Infrastructure for Resilient Cities: Rethinking Urban Parks and Open Spaces

edited by

Sumita Ghosh

,

Sara Jane Wilkinson

,

Elizelle Juanee Cilliers

and Louis Lategan

submission deadline 24 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1440 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban parks; ecologies; conservation; resilience; sustainability; landscapes; green spaces; biodiversity; nature-based solutions; mental health; social cohesion

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

Urban Planning in a Time of Crisis

edited by

Kinga Rybak-Niedziółka

,

Janusz Marchwinski

,

Luis Araújo Santos

and

Eduardo Natividade-Jesus

submission deadline 25 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1758 | Submission Open

Keywords: resilience of urban spaces; sustainability in planning of the built environment; green-blue infrastructure; energy consciousness in urban planning; social equality and quality of life in urban spaces; multifunctional spaces and flexibility in urban design; resident safety in urban design

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

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 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 11470 | 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)

Eco-Sensitive Areas: Ecosystem Services, Protected Lands, and Current Challenges (Third Edition)

edited by

Shicheng Li

,

Lanhui Li

and Mingjie Song

submission deadline 30 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2846 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem services; protected lands; eco-sensitive areas; Tibetan Plateau; land use/cover change; ecological compensation; anthropogenic activities; ecosystem restoration; ecosystem services trade-off

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Grassland Ecosystem Services: Research Advances and Future Directions for Sustainability: 3rd Edition

edited by

Michael Vrahnakis

and

Yannis (Ioannis) Kazoglou

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 11093 | Submission Open

Keywords: grassland abandonment; grassland ecology; grassland management; grassland biodiversity; grassland hydrology; issues and threats; supporting; provisioning; regulating and cultural grassland ecosystem services; grass cultivation and management

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

Navigating the Balance: The Role of National Parks in Ecological Conservation and Socioeconomic Development, 2nd Edition

edited by

Fanglei Zhong

and Lihua Zhou

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9632 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable development goals; national parks; mode of management; socioeconomic development; conservation

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

Novel Methods and Trending Topics in Landscape Archaeology

edited by

Francesca Cigna

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7898 | 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 Cover/Use Dynamics and Its Implications for Regional Sustainable Development

edited by

Xidong Chen

,

Xiao Zhang

and

Yuan Gao

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 6 articles | Viewed by 6536 | Submission Open

Keywords: land cover/use change; remote sensing; sustainable development goals (SDGs); land use transition; spatio-temporal monitoring; land system science

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

The Mechanism of Land-Water Interaction and Management Strategies: Recent Discoveries and the Way Forward

edited by

Carla Rolo Antunes

and

Shiliang Liu

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5882 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use change; hydrological processes; models; hydrological variables; runoff; infiltration

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

Rural Demographic Changes and Land Use Response

edited by

Yuheng Li

, Guoming Du,

Monika Stanny

and

Łukasz Komorowski

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5700 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural demographics; population dynamics; land use change; rural– urban migration; socioeconomic factors

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

Feature Papers for "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions" Section: 2nd Edition

edited by

Dagmar Haase

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5515 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban landscapes; urban land use change; urban heat island and climate change; urbanization impacts on ecosystems and their services; biodiversity; wildlife; and nature conservation in urban ecosystems; urban planning and governance of green-blue infrastructures; green infrastructure and nature-based solutions; sustainable cities; environmental justice in cities; technology for cities and big data

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

Geodiversity, Land Use and Ecosystem Services: Integrating Abiotic and Biotic Perspectives of Regional Development with Methodological Advances

edited by Ana Vovk, Laura Melelli and

Borut Stojilković

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5169 | Submission Open

Keywords: geodiversity; ecosystem services; geosystem services; abiotic-biotic interactions; sustainable land management; biodiversity and resilience; geoconservation; diversity evaluation techniques

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

Innovations in Soil Erosion Assessment and Management Along Rivers and Coastal Areas：2nd Edition

edited by

,

,

,

and Francesca Minniti

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5084 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; assessment; management; modeling; natural and anthropogenic factors; extreme events and climate change; river and coastal dynamics; remote sensing; decision making

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

Green Exposure, Public Space Usage, and Travel Behavior: Strategies for Building Inclusive Cities and Supporting Vulnerable Groups

edited by

Yuxiao Jiang

,

Jie Chen

, Long Chen and

Yi Lu

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 7 articles | Viewed by 4885 | Submission Open

Keywords: public space; travel behavior; inclusive urban design; vulnerable groups; urban health; social justice

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

Decentralization and Development: Territorial Dimension and Spatial Disparities Mitigation

edited by

Marija Drobnjaković

,

Milena Panić

and

Eduarda Marques Da Costa

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 8 articles | Viewed by 3925 | Submission Open

Keywords: decentralization; spatial disparities; local development; territorial reform; rural areas integration; local and sub-local governing; community participation

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

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

edited by Alessandro Melis and Antonio Lara-Hernandez

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3289 | 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)

Feature Papers for "Land Systems and Global Change" Section: 3rd Edition

edited by

Le Yu

,

Xin Chen

, Zhenrong Du and

Pengyu Hao

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3253 | Submission Open

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

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

Spatial Governance Strategies for Enhancing Agricultural Livelihoods at Rural-Urban Transition

edited by

Gui Jin

,

Baishu Guo

,

Zhihui Li

and

Shaikh Shamim Hasan

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2925 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural– urban transition; agricultural livelihoods; spatial governance; resource efficiency; land-use planning; farmer preferences; sustainable development

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

Land Use Policy and Food Security: 3rd Edition

edited by

Dingde Xu

,

Shili Guo

and

Shaoquan Liu

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2300 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use policy; market development; food security; sustainable development

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

Large-Scale LULC Mapping on Google Earth Engine (GEE)

edited by

Matteo Cutugno

,

Umberto Robustelli

and

Yasir Hassan Khachoo

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1772 | Submission Open

Keywords: LULC; GEE; remote sensing; deep learning; machine learning

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

Selected Papers from the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Land (IECL2025)

edited by

Hossein Azadi

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 1420 | Submission Open

Innovative Strategies for Building Urban Resilience in a Changing Climate

edited by Lina Khaddour,

Bernardino D'Amico

, Hazem Abdo and Cletus Moobela

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1160 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban resilience; climate change; decarbonisation; low-carbon cities; disaster risk reduction; circular economy; sustainable urban development

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

Transport Planning in Smart Cities and Sustainable Urban Design

edited by Yuanyuan Guo,

Tao Liu

, Bin Chi,

Mengqiu Cao

and

Haitao Lian

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 924 | Submission Open

Keywords: shared mobility; TOD; land value; urban built environment; mixed land use; spatial planning; smart cities; transport-land use; low-carbon

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

Landscape Restoration in Fragmented Ecosystems: Innovations and Challenges

edited by

Vanessa Assumma

,

Lucia Della Spina

and Ana Jacinta Soares

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 839 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape restoration and enhancement; forecasting and econometric models; human behavior and social impact; mathematical modelling; climate emergency; carbon and energy neutrality

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling: From Micro Processes to Whole Ecosystems

edited by

Junzhu Pang

,

Yang Cao

and Kaiyan Zhai

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 811 | Submission Open

Keywords: carbon cycling; nitrogen cycling; soil; microbial driving mechanisms; ecosystem

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

Urban Landscape and Greenway Planning

edited by Dan Chen, Bo Zhang and

Xudong Zhang

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 750 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban landscape; greenway; health effects; green infrastructure; urban resilience; environmental justice; ecosystem services; urban ecological networks

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

Teleconnection and Telecoupling in Land System Science

edited by Loredana Mariana Crenganiș,

Salvador García-Ayllón Veintimilla

and

Nilanchal Patel

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 533 | Submission Open

Keywords: telecoupling; teleconnection; GIS and spatial modelling; land system science; land-use and land-cover change; global land systems; climate variability; spatial interactions

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

Computational Design and Planning for Socio-Environmental Sustainability of Landscapes and Communities: 2nd Edition

edited by

Xiwei Shen

, Bo Zhang and

Yang Song

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 447 | Submission Open

Keywords: socio-environmental sustainability; climate change adaption; environment impact assessment; smart cities; green infrastructure; environmental modeling

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

Potential for Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Green Infrastructure (2nd Edition)

edited by

Petra Schneider

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 415 | 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)

Monitoring and Modelling the Water and Carbon Dynamics in the Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Continuum

edited by Ruodan Zhuang,

Romulus Costache

, Na Li, Tiejun Wang, Joseph Tamale and

Paolo Nasta

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 356 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; eco-hydrology; spatial scaling; vadose zone hydrology; soil moisture

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

Rural–Urban Gradients: Landscape and Nature Conservation (Third Edition)

edited by

María Schmitz

and

Cecilia Arnaiz Schmitz

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 256 | Submission Open

Keywords: gradient approach; rural– urban divide; effectiveness of protected areas; ecosystem services supply; urban expansion; rural cultural landscapes; social-ecological resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Efficient Land Use and Sustainable Development in European Countries: Second Edition

edited by

Armands Auziņš

,

Andreas Hendricks

, Francesco Botticini and

Vida Maliene

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 246 | Submission Open

Keywords: land management; land use and development; value capture instruments; sustainability; comparative analysis; socio-economic evaluation; geospatial analysis; environmental assessment; ecosystem services; territorial governance

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

Fire-Dependent Ecosystems Under Global Change: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services at Risk

edited by

Rut Domènech

, Pepa Moran and Rubén Darío Coria

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 182 | Submission Open

Keywords: fire regimes; fire-dependent ecosystems; biodiversity conservation; ecosystem services; fire management; fire ecology; post-fire recovery; fire-adapted species; landscape ecology

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

Innovative Remote Sensing Techniques for Land Observation and Restoration in Mining-Affected Areas

edited by

Daniela Guglietta

,

Rosalda Punturo

,

Isabel Nogues

, Adalgisa Scotti and

Vanesa Analía Silvani

submission deadline 31 Aug 2026 | Viewed by 160 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; spectral libraries; multi-scale data integration; environmental monitoring; restoration; sustainable resource use

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

Strategic Planning for Urban Sustainability (Second Edition)

edited by

Carlos José Lopes Balsas

and

Awais Piracha

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7231 | Submission Open

Keywords: infill redevelopment; urban and suburban retrofit; novel approaches to land use planning; new forms of eco-urbanism; land use planning strategies; tools; and instruments; coordinated land use and transportation planning interventions; land markets and sustainable urbanism; greenway planning and urbanization; parks and urban growth; infrastructure and commercial interventions; science and business parks; vacant land and community economic development; green gentrification; land value capture mechanisms

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

Integrating Spatial Analysis into Sustainable Urban Planning

edited by Apostolos Lagarias,

Despina Dimelli

and

Georgia Pozoukidou

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3986 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatial analysis; urban planning; land use modelling; sustainable development; policy making; environmental management; risk management; climate change

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

Co-Creating Resilient Cities: Community Engagement for Inclusive and Sustainable Urban Planning

edited by

Parisa Ziaesaeidi

,

Alessio Russo

and Sara Alidoust

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 1387 | Submission Open

Keywords: community engagement; age-friendly and child-inclusive green spaces; inclusive green infrastructure; urban resilience; co-creation/co-design/co-development; participatory urban planning; social sustainability

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

Monitoring Land Use/Land Cover Change and Forest Dynamics Through Remote Sensing

edited by Alkan Günlü,

Fatih Sivrikaya

and Sinan Bulut

submission deadline 1 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 158 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use/land cover change (LULC); remote sensing; forest dynamics; time series analysis; change detection; aboveground biomass estimation; stand parameter estimation; aboveground carbon estimation

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

Urban Landscape Transformation vs. Heritage and Memory

edited by

Bojana Bojanic Obad Scitaroci

,

Nerma Omićević

and

Tamara Zaninović

submission deadline 5 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4093 | 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)

Urban Land Use Planning in Europe: A Comparative Perspective

edited by

Ioannis A. Pissourios

,

Georgia Gemenetzi

and

Giancarlo Cotella

submission deadline 10 Sep 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1638 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban planning; land use planning; European planning systems; spatial policy; urban governance; contextual analysis; comparative study; cross-case analysis

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

Sustainable Forest Landscape Management Towards Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity (Second Edition)

edited by

Guillermo Martinez-Pastur

,

Robert Baldwin

,

Mónica Del Rosario Toro-Manríquez

and

Serban Chivulescu

submission deadline 11 Sep 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2810 | 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)

Urban Morphology: A Perspective from Space (3rd Edition)

edited by

Marco Maretto

and Nicola Marzot

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 7371 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban morphology; public space; urban design; new technologies; trans-disciplinarity

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

Relationship Between Land Use and Land Degradation

edited by Dajing Li, Hongqi Zhang and Fang Liu

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 839 | Submission Open

Keywords: land-use/cover change; land degradation; desertification; human activities; ecosystem services; ecologically fragile regions; sustainable development

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

Mine Site Design, Rehabilitation and Closure for Resilient Landforms

edited by

Afshin Ghahramani

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 717 | Submission Open

Keywords: mine site design; progressive rehabilitation; flooding; tailings storage facilities; soil erosion; landform evolution; water quality; climate change; innovative technologies in rehabilitation; reliability engineering; risk management

Human Activity-Driven Land Use Change: Insights and Perspectives from Novel Data and Methodologies

edited by

Zhiqi Yang

,

Brice B. Hanberry

and Wenpeng Du

submission deadline 16 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 262 | Submission Open

Keywords: human– environment systems; land use change; urban sustainability; socio-ecological resilience; machine learning; driving factors

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

Journal Menu

Journal Browser

Special Issues

Further Information

Guidelines

MDPI Initiatives

Follow MDPI