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Contemporary Challenges for Urban Built Environment and Landscape Conservation: Social, Cultural and Economic Issues

edited by

Francesca Torrieri

and

Marco Rossitti

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5191 | Submission Open

Keywords: heritage conservation; cultural landscape; built environment; urban planning; economic evaluation; reuse; participation; social value; decision-making; sustainable development

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

Sustaining the Past and Future: Innovative Approaches to Design, Heritage and Environmental Sustainability

edited by

Celestina Fazia

Dorina Camelia Ilieș

and Clara Stella Vicari Aversa

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4517 | Submission Open

Keywords: integrating conservation; land consumption; cultural heritage; green areas and water edges; architectural and urban regeneration; waterfront regeneration; architectural heritage and design; landscape restoration; green and blue infrastructure; sustainable cultural tourism; re-use of heritage building; regenerate cities and architecture; sustainable design; regenerative design; climate-resilient design

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

Challenges and Future Trends in Land Cover/Use Monitoring

edited by

Antonio Pepe

Francesco Falabella

Rosa Coluzzi

and Monika Przeor

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1271 | Submission Open

Keywords: land monitoring; land mapping; land cover; land use; land classification; land change detection; information fusion; multi-source registration; spectral imaging; machine learning; optical and microwave data

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

Valuing Non-Market Benefits of Nature Conservation and Restoration

edited by Giovanni Signorello,

Giuseppe Cucuzza

and

Laura Giuffrida

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 603 | Submission Open

Keywords: nature conservation; nature recovery; economic valuation; sustainable land management; non-market benefits

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

Green and Blue Infrastructure, Climate Change, and Urban Resilience: Best Practices and Adaptive Implementation

edited by

and

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 322 | Submission Open

Keywords: green and blue infrastructure; urban heat island effect; nature-based solutions; resilient and sustainable built environment; biodiversity; liveability; water-sensitive urban design; water-sensitive stormwater management; community engagement; global warming

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

Brownfield Redevelopment: Soil Remediation for Sustainable Cities

edited by

Fei Li

Jia Wen

and

Chuanrong Zhang

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 248 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil contamination; remediation technologies; bioremediation; phytoremediation; sustainable development; community engagement; green infrastructure; spatio-temporal management framework; economic impact; environmental resilience

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

Linking Ecological Networks and Ecosystem Service Flow: Toward Regional Ecological Conservation and Sustainability

edited by

Shiliang Liu

and

Jinyan Zhan

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 233 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological network; ecosystem service flow; ecological security pattern; habitat fragmentation; ecosystem service; landscape connectivity; ecological restoration; land use change; species migration

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Soil Engineering for Improving Water, Solutes, and Heat Dynamics of Arid Lands

edited by

Said Al-Ismaily

Daniel Menezes-Blackburn

Abdulrasoul Al-Omran

and Ali Akbar Moosavi

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 103 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart irrigation; soil– water– atmosphere interactions; engineered capillary barriers; water retention efficiency; solute transport control; heat flow in soils; waterlogging mitigation; rhizosphere engineering; soil amendments; irrigation water quality; ai for sustainable agricultural production

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

Effects of Rural-Urban Migration on Urban Infrastructure in Fast-Growing Cities

edited by

Tiyan Shen

Hao Wang

, Luge Wen and

Eduardo Gomes

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 69 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural– urban migration; spatial governance; urban infrastructure; fast-growing cities; land policy simulation; CGE model; land resource allocation; sustainable urban development

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

Conserving Biodiversity to Safeguard Ecosystem Services: Pathways to Sustainability

edited by Anwar Eziz and

Marco Campera

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 33 | Submission Open

Keywords: biodiversity conservation; ecosystem services; sustainable land use; climate adaptation; conservation policy; community-based conservation; ecological restoration

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

Sustainable Land Use and Governance in Forest and Grassland Ecosystems

edited by

Nicolae Talpă

Bogdan Popa

Aureliu-Florin Hălălișan

and Liviu Nichiforel

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 15 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable land use management; forest and grassland governance; sustainable transitions in forest and grassland ecosystems; policy instruments and governance tools; ecosystem management and decision-making; nature-based solutions; stakeholder participation; climate change adaptation; biodiversity conservation; landscape restoration

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

Adaptive Management of Coastal Landscapes

edited by

Daniele Trogu

John F. Weishampel

and

Maria Ferentinou

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 11 | Submission Open

Keywords: nature-based solutions (NbSs); ecosystem services; coastal resilience; coastal vulnerability; urban beaches; foredune systems; coastal monitoring; sea-level rise (SLR); remote sensing and GIS; data-driven decision support

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

Cultural Heritage Preservation as a Basis for Sustainable Development and Transformation of Historic Urban Landscapes (Second Edition)

edited by

Christer Gustafsson

Matthias Ripp

and

Manal Ginzarly

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 10 | Submission Open

Keywords: cultural heritage; sustainable development; historic urban landscape; urban transformation; resilience; cultural landscapes

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

Land-Use Impacts on Water Resources and Watershed Management

edited by

Łukasz Borek

Joanna Jaskuła

and

Věra Hubačíková

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Viewed by 6 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use changes; water quality; water monitoring; hydromorphology; water retention; pollution source; surface waters; water management; soil

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

Climate and Ecosystem Interactions Shaping Land Degradation and Recovery in Water-Scarce Environments

edited by

Borja Rodríguez-Lozano

, Pedro Leite and

Deirdre Dragovich

submission deadline 30 Apr 2026 | Submission Open

Keywords: desertification; climate change; ecosystem restoration; landuse/land cover change; land management; ecohydrology; soil health and fertility

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

Resilient Urban Regeneration: Adaptive Strategies for Future Metropolis

edited by Qipeng Liao,

Arkadiusz Przybysz

and

Isidoro Fasolino

submission deadline 1 May 2026 | Viewed by 81 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban resilience; urban regeneration; metropolis; smart spatial planning; digital governance

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

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 May 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2957 | 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)

The Role of Land Policy in Shaping Tourism Development: 2nd Edition

edited by

Dunja Demirović Bajrami

Adriana Radosavac

and Nikola Naumov

submission deadline 1 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 39 | Submission Open

Keywords: land policy; tourism development; sustainable tourism; urban planning; zoning laws; property rights; local economies; policy innovation

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

Community-Based Land Dynamics in Urban Transformation: Perceptions, Reconfigurations, and Sustainable Land-Use Strategies

edited by

Katsunori Furuya

Xin-Chen Hong

Jing Xie

, Jiaying Shi and

Shixian Luo

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1374 | Submission Open

Keywords: perception of land-use changes; land-use reconfiguration in urban communities; sustainable land management strategies; technological innovations in land system analysis; qualitative and quantitative research

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

Islandscapes: From Biodiversity Conservation to Ecosystem Services Provision

edited by

Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis

Aristides Moustakas

Emilio Padoa-Schioppa

and

Savvas Zotos

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 935 | 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)

Advancing Urban–Rural Community Empowerment Through Participatory Planning and Collaborative Co-Creation

edited by

Wei Lang

Tingting Chen

Xun Li

and Eddie Chi-man Hui

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 15 | Submission Open

Keywords: community planning; public participation; co-creation; service learning; rural community; collaborative workshop; collective action; planning theory; urban regeneration; human settlement environment improvement

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

Regenerative Landscapes: Designing with Ecological Connectivity and Habitat Use in Mind

edited by

Beata Joanna Gawryszewska

Maja Radziemska

Syartinilia Wijaya

and

Akhmad Arifin Hadi

submission deadline 30 Jun 2026 | Viewed by 12 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecological connectivity; urban green infrastructure; landscape conservation; regenerative landscape design; habitat restoration and resilience; human-environment relations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Integrated Approaches for Sustainable Soil and Water Management

edited by

Nikola Živanović

Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira

and

Marijana Kapović-Solomun

submission deadline 31 Jul 2026 | Viewed by 336 | Submission Open

Keywords: land degradation; integrated land and water management; soil and water conservation; adaptation and resilience; soil erosion

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

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 | 2 articles | Viewed by 963 | 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)

Mine Site Design, Rehabilitation and Closure for Resilient Landforms

edited by

Afshin Ghahramani

submission deadline 15 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 213 | 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

Morphological and Climatic Adaptations for Sustainable City Living

edited by

Zhonghua Gou

Elmira Jamei

and

Hing-Wah Chau

submission deadline 30 Sep 2026 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban morphology; climatic adaptation; sustainable urban design; thermal comfort; energy self-sufficiency; urban resilience

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

Human–Land Coupling in Watersheds and Sustainable Development

edited by Wei Wu and

Guoqian Chen

submission deadline 31 Oct 2026 | Viewed by 11 | Submission Open

Keywords: human– land coupling; sustainable development/sustainable development goals; analysis of coupling mechanism/big data/machine deep-learning; governance/strategies/policies/development path; region/scales

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

Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future

edited by

Jan Cudzik

Yu Wang

Javier Orozco-Messana

and

Avar Almukhtar

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 254 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable urban mobility; green infrastructure and biodiversity; climate-resilient urban design; digital innovation for smart cities; heritage in transformation; nature-based solutions; governance for just transitions

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

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