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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: natural and anthropic hazard and risk factors; landslides and triggering factors; geological and geomorphological mapping; soil erosion; preservation of historical and archeological sites; monitoring; cultural landscape and UNESCO Heritage
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Interests: natural hazards (e.g., landslide and flood) and risk analysis using GIS/remote sensing and spatial statistical analysis; fluvial geomorphology; flood risk analysis; flood hazards; soil water dynamics; water resource management; hydrologic modeling; remote sensing; climate change; carbon sequestration; soil moisture dynamics; drought; precision agriculture and land use/land cover change
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Interests: Geomorphological mapping; geoheritage assessment; valorization proposals for the enhancement of geological, geomorphological, and additional values of cultural landscapes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The main objective of this Special Issue is to highlight the state of the art of the new and traditional frontiers of study and research in geomorphological and historical landscape changes, sustainable landscape planning, and soil erosion assessment, with particular focus on the historical transformations of the landscape caused by human activities. Another goal is to combine and stimulate an interdisciplinary debate on these interconnected themes and reflect the different interactions between humans and the environment, which over time have favored and induced local and global changes in the physical landscape.
For example, a particularly relevant aspect of the last century is the impact of the urban sprawl of small and big urban centers and the consequent land consumption, resulting in multiple situations of criticality and sustainability in urban planning and landscape choices, especially if we consider the current 17 goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Considering these premises, contributions regarding different geographical areas, analysis methods, and reviews of existing literature and case studies focusing on the Special Issue key themes from geomorphological, geoarcheological, and landscape architectural disciplines are strongly encouraged as well as broader overviews.
Dr. Maurizio Lazzari
Dr. Ram L Ray
Dr. Veronica Guerra
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- geomorphology
- geoarcheology
- historical and cultural landscape
- landscape change assessment methods
- landscape analysis and planning
- landscape degradation
- landscape protection and enhancement
- landscape value
- landscape archeology
- human impact on the landscape
- land use change
- soil erosion rate
- soil loss