Land Use Planning for Sustainable Ecosystem Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 1775
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable land resource management; landscape and land use planning; food security and ecological conservation
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Interests: food security and farmland protection; land resource utilization and management; comprehensive land consolidation and spatial optimization, etc.
Interests: land use transition, cultivated land use and protection, land consolidation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Unsustainable land management practices permanently reduce the land's biological productivity, leading to a loss of or reduction in yield, which in turn results in a long-term decrease in or loss of the land’s ecological integrity and value to humans. Reportedly, unreasonable land use practices have caused a serious degradation of 80% of agricultural land, 10-20% of pastures, and 87% of wetlands globally. The annual loss of ecosystem services due to land degradation amounts to more than 10% of the global GDP. Therefore, the United Nations has proposed SDG 15, which aims to “protect, restore, and promote the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, manage forests sustainably, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss.” Currently, there is an urgent need to optimize the allocation of natural resources through rational land use planning that is being pursued by scientists, thereby curbing and repairing the phenomenon of land degradation.
This Special Issue aims to elucidate and address the issues, challenges, developments, opportunities, tools, techniques, cases, etc., of land use planning, which can contribute to sustainable ecosystem management through multi-objective synergies. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Land use planning;
- Agricultural land reallocation;
- The optimization of protected areas;
- Landscape and urban planning;
- Land use transition;
- Ecosystem evolution and regulation;
- Natural resource management;
- Land degradation and restoration;
- Trade-offs of ecosystem services.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Xinyuan Liang
Dr. Jing Liu
Dr. Yeting Fan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable development
- land use planning
- ecosystem services
- land consolidation
- ecosystem restoration
- ecological protection
- land use policy
- natural resource management
- interdiscipline
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