Land | Special Issues

Promoting Anti-Racism in Land System Science and Social Ecological Systems

edited by

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3258 | Submission Open

Keywords: anti-racism; land system; social ecological system; land use management; landscape planning; community engagement; community planning; community development

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

Rural Demographic Changes and Land Use Response

edited by

Yuheng Li

, Guoming Du,

Monika Stanny

and

Łukasz Komorowski

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2554 | 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)

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

edited by

Lingzhi Wang

, Yeting Fan and

Hichem Omrani

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1968 | Submission Open

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

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

Smart City and Architectural Design, Second Edition

edited by

Elisabetta Maria Venco

,

Chiara Garau

and

Emanuele Giorgi

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1790 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban and spatial planning policies; sustainable and smart planning; urban life quality; urban environment; digital transition; smart cities

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

Observation, Monitoring and Analysis of Savannah Ecosystems

edited by

Paul Aplin

,

Elias Symeonakis

and

Moses Azong Cho

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1498 | Submission Open

Keywords: savannah; monitoring; degradation; biodiversity; climate; human activity

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

Urban Resilience and Heritage Management (Second Edition)

edited by

Maria Rosaria Guarini

,

Eduardo Mosquera-Adell

and

Clara Mosquera-Pérez

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 699 | Submission Open

Keywords: cities recovery; cultural property potentials; good practices; heritage stakeholders and actors; heritage values and indicators; information technologies and systems; resilient cities and territories; sustainable development goals; urban planning and politics; withstanding risks and vulnerability

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

The New Suburbia: Redefining Suburban Growth—Exploring Deeper Meanings and Dynamics

edited by Emil Israel and Amnon Frenkel

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 446 | Submission Open

Keywords: suburbanization; sustainability; suburban inequality; social justice; suburban sprwal; housing; labor market; mobility and transportation; planning and policy

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

Frameworks to Evaluate Urbanization Sustainability in a Changing Climate

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submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 406 | Submission Open

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

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

Sustainable Monitoring of Wetland Ecosystems for Environmental Conservation

edited by

Yongheng Gao

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 286 | Submission Open

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

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

Rural Land Use, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture

edited by

Nicoleta Mateoc-Sirb

,

Gabriela Popescu

,

Oana Brînzan

and

Ramona Mariana Ciolac

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 190 | Submission Open

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

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

Climate Adaptation, Urban Regeneration, and Regreening Processes: Challenges and Opportunities for Contemporary Cities

edited by Alessandro Deserti,

Beatrice Maria Bellè

,

Manuel Alméstar

and Fabian Dembski

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 166 | Submission Open

Keywords: nature-based solutions; urban planning and governance innovation; digital platforms for decision-making; digital twin and urban simulations; climate resilience; land use planning; systemic innovation

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

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

edited by

Nicolas Marine

,

Cecilia Arnaiz Schmitz

and

Yael Allweil

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 125 | Submission Open

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

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

Urban Ecological Indicators: Land Use and Coverage

edited by

Lorenzo Paglione

and

Keti Lelo

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

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

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

Land Use, Heritage and Ecosystem Services

edited by Gustavo Ballesteros-Pelegrín,

Carlos Sánchez-García

, Marcos Francos and Daniel Ibarra Marinas

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 90 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use; ecosystem services; heritage conservation; climate change; coastal processes; territorial management; forest fires; biodiversity

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Urban Heat Island Effects in Global Cities: Balancing Rapid Urbanization, Land Surface Temperature Dynamics, and Sustainable Adaptation Strategies

edited by

Liliia Hebryn Baidy

and

Gareth Rees

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban heat island; land surface temperature; urbanization; urban microclimate; land use/land cover change; remote sensing; geoinformatics; GIS modeling; sustainable adaptation strategies; climate change adaptation

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

Feature Papers for Land Planning and Landscape Architecture Section, Second Edition

edited by

Thomas Panagopoulos

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 73 | Submission Open

Keywords: participative design; planning and management; climate resilience; energy transition; biophilic design; nature-based solutions; regenerative design; circular solutions for sustainable tourism; environmental footprint; virtual reality to facilitate collaboration

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

Healthy and Inclusive Urban Public Spaces

edited by

Ester Higueras García

,

Andrea Alonso

and María Teresa Baquero Larriva

submission deadline 30 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 38 | Submission Open

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

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

Patrimony Assessment and Sustainable Land Resource Management (Second Edition)

edited by

Florentina-Cristina Merciu

,

Alexandru-Ionuţ Petrişor

and

Maciej J. Nowak

submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1841 | Submission Open

Keywords: qualitative and quantitative assessment of cultural heritage; natural heritage assessment; biodiversity and its conservation; management of natural and cultural resources; heritage communities; heritage education versus promotion of heritage sustainability; circular architecture versus cultural heritage sustainability; administrative; regulatory; and legal issues related to the conservation of heritage

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

Spatiotemporal Dynamics and Utilization Trend of Farmland

edited by Maoxin Zhang,

Tingting He

, Andong Guo, Youpeng Lu and

Jose Raul Romo Leon

submission deadline 1 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 388 | Submission Open

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

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

Islandscapes: From Biodiversity Conservation to Ecosystem Services Provision

edited by

Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis

,

Aristides Moustakas

,

Emilio Padoa-Schioppa

and

Savvas Zotos

submission deadline 3 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 268 | Submission Open

Keywords: small– medium islands; ecosystem services; natural capital; nature conservation; management; nature-based solutions; policy and governance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Coupled Man-Land Relationship for Regional Sustainability

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submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 712 | Submission Open

Keywords: land resources; human– land relationships; sustainability; land planning and management; climate change; anthropogenic activities and their effects; ecological protection; economic development; remote sensing; carbon neutrality

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

Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies for Climate-Resilient Soil–Water Systems

edited by

Nunziarita Palazzolo

and

Luca Furnari

submission deadline 5 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 65 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change adaptation; hydrological extremes; soil– water systems; water scarcity; hydrological modelling; remote sensing and precision agriculture; nature-based solutions; sustainable water management; decision support systems; socio-hydrology

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

New Insights in Landscape Approaches for Biodiversity and Community Resilience

edited by Wenyuan Zhang and

Yanjie Xu

submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2013 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape planning; ecological connectivity; ecosystem services; community resilience; ecological restoration; essential biodiversity variables

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

Big Data-Driven Urban Spatial Perception

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submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 46 | Submission Open

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

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

Advancing Sustainable Urban Development Through Spatial Analysis: Leveraging Digital Technologies and Geographic Data for Smart, Inclusive, and Resilient Cities

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submission deadline 19 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban spatial analysis; geographic information systems (GISs); remote sensing; real estate valuation; smart cities; big data and AI in urban planning; sustainable urban development; mobility and infrastructure planning; environmental justice and equity; urban sustainability and SDGs

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

Land Degradation in Environmentally Sensitive Areas (ESA) : Assessment and Conservation (Second Edition)

edited by

Mario Al Sayah

,

Rita Der Sarkissian

and

Rachid Nedjaï

submission deadline 25 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 74 | Submission Open

Keywords: land degradation; environmentally sensitive areas; land degradation neutrality; land management; innovative land restoration; conservation solutions

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

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

edited by

Andrea Pieroni

submission deadline 29 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2775 | Submission Open

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

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

Celebrating National Land Day of China

edited by

Yurui Li

,

Fangzhou Xia

and

Hualin Xie

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 102 | Submission Open

Keywords: land resource management; sustainable land use; land conservation; urban– rural integration; land value assessment; land policy and governance; socioeconomic value of land; land and food security; land and ecological services; land degradation and restoration; land use planning; land quality and soil health; land tenure and property rights; land economics; land market dynamics

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

Carbon Cycling and Carbon Sequestration in Wetlands

edited by

Ligang Xu

,

Xiaobing Chen

, Junxiang Cheng and Jiaxing Xu

submission deadline 30 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 67 | 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)

Ground Deformation Monitoring via Remote Sensing Time Series Data

edited by

Ebrahim Ghaderpour

and

Paolo Mazzanti

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 20487 | 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)

Driving Future to Shape Sustainable Agricultural System: Urban-Rural Land Management and Environment Protection

edited by

Safwan Mohammed

and

Endre Harsányi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 20339 | 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)

Geographic Information Technologies and the New Challenges of Globalization in a Changing Environment

edited by

Ana Nieto Masot

,

Gema Cárdenas

and

José A. Gutiérrez Gallego

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 17795 | 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

Tomáš Peráček

, Mária Srebalová and

Andrea Čajková

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 12990 | 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

edited by

Marta Gallardo

,

Julio Fernandez Portela

,

David Cocero

and

Lara Vilar

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 11993 | 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)

Big Data in Urban Land Use Planning

edited by

Thomas W. Sanchez

and

Soheil Sabri

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 11887 | 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)

Assessment of Spatial and Temporal Landscape Patterns Under Land Use Change

edited by

Priyakant Sinha

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10512 | Submission Open

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

Urban Land Use Change and Its Spatial Planning

edited by

Barbara Goličnik Marušić

,

Vita Žlender

,

Manfred Schrenk

and Kasper Kok

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 8963 | 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)

Cadastre and Land Management in Support of Sustainable Real Estate Markets—2nd Edition

edited by

Chryssy Potsiou

and

Gerhard Navratil

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 6495 | 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)

Synergies in Land Use Planning: Advancing Urban-Rural Integration for Sustainable Development

edited by

Li Tian

,

Yan Song

and

An Huang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5310 | 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)

Monitoring and Simulation of Wetland Ecological Processes (Second Edition)

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4100 | 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)

Agricultural Land Management to Meet Future Global Food Demand (Second Edition)

edited by

Uttam Khanal

and

Sanzidur Rahman

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3504 | 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)

Celebrating World Soil Day

edited by

Gabriele Broll

and Arwyn Jones

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2407 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil health; soil protection; soil communication; soil awareness; citizen engagement

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

Preservation, Reuse and Reveal of Cultural Heritage Through Sustainable Land Management, Rural and Urban Development (Third Edition)

edited by

Antonia Moropoulou

,

Charalabos Ioannidis

and

Ekaterini Delegou

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2325 | 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)

Building Resilient and Sustainable Urban Futures

edited by

Angeliki Peponi

, Gonçalo Duarte,

Phelipe da Silva Anjinho

and

Patrícia Abrantes

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2081 | 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)

Novel Methods and Trending Topics in Landscape Archaeology

edited by

Francesca Cigna

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1662 | 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)

Exploring Sustainable Rural Development Models and Environmental Protection Reglamentations: Interactions and Compatibilities

edited by Julián Mora Aliseda,

Jacinto Garrido Velarde

,

José Manuel Naranjo Gómez

and

José Castro

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 1074 | 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)

Reimagining Public Spaces in Europe: Towards Inclusive, Livable, and Resilient Human-Scale Urban Environments

edited by

Álvaro Bernabeu-Bautista

and

Leticia Serrano-Estrada

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 995 | 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)

Land Modifications and Impacts on Coastal Areas, Second Edition

edited by

Alexis Mooser

,

Giorgio Anfuso

,

Carlos Mestanza-Ramón

,

Rodolfo Silva

,

Hernando José Bolivar Anillo

and

Rosa Molina

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 734 | 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)

The Role of Land Policy in Shaping Rural Development Outcomes

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submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 602 | 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)

Water, Energy, Land, and Food (WELF) Nexus: An Ecosystems Perspective

edited by

Reginaldo Geremias

and

Naoki Masuhara

submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 595 | 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)

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