Sustainable Land Use and Management, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid progress of urbanization and social economy, the utilization and protection of land have become one of the great social problems in many countries. Rapid and excessive urbanization has not only brought significant challenges to the sustainable use and management of urban land, but also imposed far-reaching, negative implications on farmland use as well as ecological environment protection, as both urban and rural land are faced with overexploitation, and the harmony of the human–land system has yielded to discord. Unreasonable land-use planning and allocation are gradually reducing the efficiency and sustainability of urban land use, and also branching out the conversion scale of farmland to construction land. However, farmland reduction and urbanization not only give rise to ecological environmental issues, such as farmland degradation, environmental pollution, carbon emission increases, and so on, but also induce many social problems around land interests. We hope that if sustainable development and a harmonious human–land relationship can be integrated into the land-use planning and management processes, it will be possible to fulfill the diversified requirements of urbanization and minimize adverse ecological and social impacts at the same time.

This Special Issue intends to collect recent diverse studies regarding sustainable land use and management from different research perspectives, with the ultimate aim of contributing to the global challenges of the sustainable urban and rural development in the rapidly urbanizing world. We seek original and innovative academic papers concerning land-use planning as well as its social and ecological effects, preferably for making use of big data, GIS, system simulation, social networks, etc. Planning approaches and policy analysis are also welcomed, as land-use planning and management depend, to a high degree, on authorities and governance models in many countries and regions.

Relevant topics include but are not limited to the following areas:

• Urban/rural land use planning and allocation;
• Urban/rural land use and sustainable development;
• Sustainable urban land management approaches;
• Planning and public policy analysis in urban areas;
• Rural land use and land conflicts;
• Sustainable rural land management approaches;
• Low-carbon-oriented land use allocation;
• Resilience and sustainable intensification of cultivated land systems.

Dr. Lu Zhang
Dr. Bing Kuang
Dr. Bohan Yang
Guest Editors

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• land use planning and management
• land overexploitation
• the harmony of the human–land system
• sustainable development
• big data
• system simulation