Land | Special Issues

Rethinking Urban–Rural Dynamics Through the Lens of Social Geography

edited by Claudia Popescu and

submission deadline 1 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 960 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban– rural; hybridization; dynamics; functionality; identity; power relations; development; policy

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

Environmental Monitoring and Sustainable Transition in Post-Mining Landscapes: Challenges, Innovations, and Policy Implications

edited by

Csaba Lorinț

, Sorin Mihai Radu and Florin Sala

submission deadline 1 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 268 | Submission Open

Keywords: post-mining landscapes; environmental monitoring; land degradation; ecological restoration; sustainable development; soil and water contamination; remote sensing; GIS; risk assessment; land use planning

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

Digital Soil Mapping and Land-Use Planning

edited by Marmar Sabetizade and

Robert Milewski

submission deadline 1 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 198 | Submission Open

Keywords: land-use planning; soil health assessment; remote sensing and geospatial modeling; soil carbon and climate mitigation; decision-support systems; ecosystem services; sustainable land management; data integration

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

Adaptive Management of Coastal Landscapes

edited by

Daniele Trogu

,

John F. Weishampel

and

Maria Ferentinou

submission deadline 6 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 625 | 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)

Ecosystem Services Design from Single Space Solution to Landscape Vision—Second Edition

edited by

Teodoro Semeraro

submission deadline 9 Dec 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3475 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem services design; landscape and urban planning; natural-based solutions; green infrastructure; ecological restoration

(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 10 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 1010 | 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)

Post-Disaster Urban Futures: Disruptive Planning, Design and Resilience in Climate Crisis and Conflict

edited by Inés Aquilué Junyent, Javier Ruiz Sanchez, Roger Joan Sauquet Llonch,

Alvaro Ardura Urquiaga

and

Ho Gul Kim

submission deadline 10 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1002 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban resilience; urban and territorial planning; post-disaster design; catastrophes; urban recovery; climate change

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

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 15 Dec 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4897 | 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)

Climate-Driven Land Degradation

edited by

Fan Yang

, Xinghua Yang,

Peng He

and

Stephen S. Young

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1273 | Submission Open

Keywords: climate change; land degradation; desertification; soil erosion; ecosystem services; sustainable development; ecological restoration; remote sensing monitoring; adaptation and management strategies; ecosystem service assessment

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

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

edited by

Nicolas Marine

,

Cecilia Arnaiz Schmitz

and

Yael Allweil

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1131 | 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)

A Sustainable Perspective on Urban Planning and Landscape Design

edited by

Anamaria Andreea Anghel

and

Iasmina Onescu

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 440 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban resilience; land use; climate-adaptive planning; cultural landscape; environmental sustainability; landscape design; smart cities; landscape design; green infrastructure; urban ecology; management and technology

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

Advances in Remote Sensing for Monitoring Agricultural Land Use and Land Cover Change Under a Changing Climate

edited by

Mustafa Ustuner

,

Elhadi Adam

,

Siti Aekbal

, Anang Wahyu Sejati and

Admir Mulahusić

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 439 | Submission Open

Keywords: earth observation; LULC dynamics; climate change; agricultural land use and cover change; urban microclimate; environmental monitoring and assessment

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

Urban–Rural Transformations in Shrinking Regions: Policy and Planning Approaches

edited by

Aleksandra Gajić Protić

, Nikola Krunic and

Marta Gallardo

submission deadline 15 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 20 | Submission Open

Keywords: shrinking regions; urban– rural transformation; population decline and depopulation; land-use change; land and housing vacancy; functional regions; regional planning and governance; GIS and spatial analysis

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

Untangling Urban Analysis Using Geographic Data and GIS Technologies—Second Edition

edited by

He Jin

and

Joni Downs Firat

submission deadline 18 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 10 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban planning; urban environment; GIS; geographic data; spatial or spatial-temporal analysis

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

Land Use Change and Technological Innovations: Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence Approaches

edited by

Ali R. Alruzuq

, Amobichukwu Chukwudi Amanambu and

Di Yang

submission deadline 20 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 674 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use and land cover change (LULC); remote sensing; GeoAI; machine learning; deep learning; land degradation; sustainable land management; earth observation; spatial modeling; climate– land interactions

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

Multiscale Geospatial and Remote Sensing Approaches for Landscape Ecology

edited by

Wayne Myers

submission deadline 20 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 510 | Submission Open

Keywords: landscape ecology; multiscale spatial analysis; geoinformatics; environmental modeling; conservation; environmental monitoring; remote sensing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

Water–Food–Land Nexus in Arid Regions: Inefficiencies, Risks, and Sustainable Pathways

edited by Juanma Cintas and

Jaime Martinez Valderrama

submission deadline 20 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 117 | Submission Open

Keywords: desertification; land degradation; drylands; food security; water scarcity; water stress

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

Territory, Heritage, and Landscape Nexus: Bridging Cultural Landscape and Urbanism

edited by

Zlata Vuksanović-Macura

,

Nevena Vasiljević

and

Dina Statuto

submission deadline 25 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 174 | Submission Open

Keywords: cultural landscape; historical landscape assessment; heritage urbanism; landscape planning and protection; historical geography; historical cartography; GIS environment; landscape governance; spatial justice; urbanism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Archaeology)

Young Researchers in Land, Soil, and Water

edited by

Deirdre Dragovich

and

Nick B. Comerford

submission deadline 27 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 483 | Submission Open

Keywords: soil erosion; land use change; ecosystem sustainability; land degradation; water quality; temporal change in land– soil– water relations; land cover; land management; water harvesting

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

Urban Heat Islands: Mechanisms, Impacts and Mitigation Through Planning and Land Cover Modification

edited by

Edith de Guzman

, Ruth Engel, Elizabeth Wesley,

Dagmar Haase

and

Jacques Teller

submission deadline 30 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 347 | Submission Open

Keywords: heat mitigation; heat adaptation; land cover; urban heat; nature-based solutions; built environment; thermal comfort; applied research

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

Advances in Urban Hydrological Modeling and Stormwater Management for Hydrological Hazard Mitigation

edited by Mohammed N. Assaf, Hazem Abdo and

Qasem Abdelal

submission deadline 30 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 311 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban hydrology; hydrological hazards; flood risk assessment; stormwater management; hydrological modeling; model calibration and optimization; sensitivity analysis; nature-based solutions (NBS); low-impact development (LID); green infrastructure; climate change adaptation; sustainable urban water management

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

Enhancing Urban Resilience with Blue–Green Infrastructure

edited by

Conghui Zhou

, Dongdong Yang,

Yujia Zhai

,

Xiaohang Bai

and Jin Xu

submission deadline 30 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 260 | Submission Open

Keywords: blue– green infrastructure; stormwater control; ecological restoration; biodiversity; disaster resilience; health and wellbeing

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

Feature Papers for "Land–Climate Interactions" Section: Integration of Remote Sensing and GIS

edited by

Adrianos Retalis

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5947 | Submission Open

Keywords: land– climate interactions; remote sensing; GIS; biogeochemical cycles; land use/land cover change; environmental impact assessment; data fusion; sustainable land management

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

Archaeological Landscape and Settlement (Third Edition)

edited by

Paolo Biagi

and

Elisabetta Starnini

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5140 | Submission Open

Keywords: human impact on the landscape; coastal changes and sea-level rise; settlement pattern and site complementarity; raw material exploitation and distribution; mining stones and ore; high-altitude settlements and rituals; preservation of archaeological sites

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Archaeology)

Recent Progress in Land Cadastre

edited by

Anita Kwartnik-Pruc

,

Agnieszka Pęska-Siwik

and Monika Mika

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4297 | 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)

Urban Planning for a Sustainable Future

edited by

Jan Cudzik

,

Yu Wang

,

Javier Orozco-Messana

and

Avar Almukhtar

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3677 | 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)

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

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2682 | 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)

The Land–Energy–Water–Climate Nexus and Sustainable Development Challenges

edited by

Tao Shi

,

Qian Zhou

and

Qiang Li

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2304 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable development challenges; spatiotemporal evolutionary; resilient development; climate change; land development; energy change; water utilization; technological innovation; ecological economics

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

Urban Risk and Climate Resilience Planning: Tools for Managing Land Use Under Uncertainty

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 2191 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban analytics; machine learning for urban planning; land use modelling; digital twins; geospatial analysis; multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA); big data in land management; sustainable development policy; public-private partnerships (PPP); just transition; green infrastructure planning; soil protection policies; integrated urban planning; urban policy innovation; brownfield regeneration; circular urban planning; sustainable land management; geographic information systems (GIS); ESG urban assessment; smart planning tools; predictive modelling; environmental and health risk evaluation

Soil Pollution by Heavy Metals: Monitoring, Remediation, and Land Management Strategies

edited by

Lorena Salgado

and

Rubén Forján Castro

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2096 | Submission Open

Keywords: heavy metals; soil pollution; bioavailability; risk assessment; diffuse spectroscopy; remote sensing; machine learning; phytoremediation; biochar amendments; microbial remediation; land management

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

Enhancing Biodiversity-Friendly Built Environments in Line with the New European Bauhaus

edited by

Ana Nikezić

,

Slađana Lazarević

and Marco Acri

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1884 | Submission Open

Keywords: built environment; biodiversity friendly; regeneration and renaturing; socio-ecological well-being; resilient landscapes; urban planning; and design; green rural; coastal; and urban communities; New European Bauhaus

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

Young Researchers in Land Planning and Landscape Architecture

edited by

Maria Ignatieva

and

Thomas Panagopoulos

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1782 | Submission Open

Keywords: participatory design; landscape planning and management; landscape architecture: research to practice; ecological design; climate resilience; urban planning and energy transition; biophilic design; nature-based solutions; regenerative design; urban planning and sustainable tourism development; environmental footprint; virtual reality for collaborative design

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

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

edited by

Shiliang Liu

and

Jinyan Zhan

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1550 | 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)

Sustainability in Land Use Planning: Tools and Case Studies

edited by

Kwasi Gyau Baffour Awuah

and

Raymond Abdulai

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1308 | Submission Open

Keywords: case studies; land use planning; natural environment; sustainability; the built environment; tools

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

Natural Disaster Monitoring and Land Mapping

edited by

,

,

,

and Wei Wu

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1212 | Submission Open

Keywords: natural hazards; disaster monitoring; land cover mapping; change detection; damage and recovery assessment

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

Green Infrastructure Planning Using Modern Technologies, LiDAR and 3D Urban Models

edited by

Vesna Poslončec-Petrić

,

Dubravka Sladić

,

Dina M. Saadallah

and

Joep Crompvoets

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1045 | Submission Open

Keywords: LiDAR ; 3D urban modelling ; green infrastructure ; smart city ; urban sustainability ; ecosystem services ; evidence-based planning

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

Sustainable Land Management Practices in the Face of Climate Change

edited by

Inmaculada Gómez Jiménez

,

Javier Velázquez Saornil

and

Rui Alexandre Castanho

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | 1 articles | Viewed by 841 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable land management (SLM); urban adaptation; socio-ecological systems; landscape water management; climate resilience; land use policy

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

Sustainable Landscape Planning for Urban Heat Island Mitigation: Strategies, Tools, and Emerging Challenges

edited by

Adeb Qaid

, Dilshan Ossen,

Sevgi Yilmaz

and

Akram A. N. Alabsi

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 658 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban heat island (UHI) mitigation; nature-based Solutions (NbS); green and blue infrastructure (GBI); outdoor thermal comfort; microclimate regulation; urban morphometry; evidence-based planning; land surface temperature; climate change adaptation & policy; sustainable urban design

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

Urban–Rural Migration and Rural Development in Global Megacity Regions

edited by

Kaiming Li

,

Rongxu Qiu

and

Yan Song

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 400 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban– rural linkages; megacity regions; rural revitalization; peri-urbanization; spatial restructuring

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

Designing Climate-Responsive Urban Landscapes: Microclimate, Thermal Comfort, and Urban Heat Mitigation

edited by

Bo Hong

,

Andreas Matzarakis

, Sasima Charoenkit,

Weiwu Wang

and Ming Shao

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 387 | Submission Open

Keywords: heat-health resilience; bio-climatic comfort; landscape planning; nature-based solutions; outdoor thermal comfort; sustainable land management; climate-responsive design

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

Land Development and Investment (Second Edition)

edited by

Kwong Wing Chau

and

William Ka Shing Cheung

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 294 | Submission Open

Keywords: land development; land investment; land financing; land policy; technological innovation; risk management; economic impact; social impact; environmental impact

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

Dynamic Monitoring and Sustainable Management of Land Resources

edited by

Muzaffer Can Iban

,

Aliihsan Sekertekin

and

Omer Gokberk Narin

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 287 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use change; big earth data analytics; eXplainable AI (XAI) and deep learning; multi-sensor remote sensing (microwave/thermal/altimetry); sustainable land management; ecosystem services; land degradation; climate change impacts

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

Land System Change and Ecological Environment Response

edited by

,

,

and

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 279 | Submission Open

Keywords: land system change; ecological response; sustainability; ecosystem; biodiversity; climate change

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

Feature Papers on "Land Use, Impact Assessment and Sustainability" (2nd Edition)

edited by

Lucia Rocchi

and

Giovanni Ottomano Palmisano

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 268 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use and land management policies; land use and land management practices; land use impact assessment; sustainable land management; land use decision making; nature restoration

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

Land Use Optimization for Sustainable Agricultural and Food Systems

edited by

Bonoua Faye

, Guoming Du, Guy M Robinson and

Tidiane Sane

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 250 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable agriculture; land use planning; food security; agroecosystems; precision agriculture; land degradation; climate-smart agriculture; rural development

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

Digital Transformation of Land Consolidation: Geospatial Technologies for Sustainable Land Administration

edited by

Arkadiusz Doroż

and

Jaroslaw Janus

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 248 | Submission Open

Keywords: land consolidation; rural land management; geodesy; geographic information systems (GIS); UAV surveying; digital cadastre; land administration; spatial planning; sustainable rural development; geospatial technologies

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

Carbon Cycle Dynamics and Climate Risk Response in Urban and Rural Land Systems

edited by

Qiang Yao

,

Yan Song

,

Helin Liu

and Baoqiang Wang

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 190 | Submission Open

Keywords: carbon cycle dynamics; carbon emission risk; low-carbon transition; climate-adaptive cities; compound climate change risks; low carbon urban and built environment; ecological network resilience; machine learning; scenario simulation

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

Dryland Systems Under Global Change: Resilience, Sustainability, and Nature-Based Solutions

edited by

Imane Serbouti

and Mustapha Hakdaoui

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 157 | Submission Open

Keywords: dryland systems; climate change; nature-based solutions (NbS); land degradation; water scarcity; water management; earth observation of dryland water systems; traditional irrigation systems

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

Urban Land Use Change and Its Spatial Planning (Second Edition)

edited by Barbara Goličnik Marušić, Trynos Gumbo and Madina Junussova

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 147 | 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)

Grassland Ecosystems in Changing Landscapes

edited by

Mthunzi Mndela

, Leslie Brown, Clarice Princess Mudzengi,

Humphrey Kgabo Thamaga

and

Eric Cofe Timpong‑Jones

submission deadline 31 Dec 2026 | Viewed by 131 | Submission Open

Keywords: grassland biome; ecosystem services; land systems change; climate change; grassland management regimes; degradation; grassland conservation and restoration; governance of grasslands; remote sensing and cloud computing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)

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