Land Use Change, Air Quality and Environmental Pollution Governance—2nd Edition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 1018
Special Issue Editors
Interests: land use change; geospatial artificial intelligence; remote sensing; air pollution
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Interests: remote sensing; ecological restoration; geographic information systems; land use change; Google Earth Engine
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Interests: land use structure; spatial morphological change; population change; government management; regional planning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Clean air is a basic requirement for human survival and development; however, the disorderly expansion of cities and the irrational development of land use has made the total amount and reach of air pollutant emissions increase dramatically. This increase has caused the burden of air pollution on humans to increase and, currently, air pollution has come to seriously threaten human health and social wellbeing, especially in developing countries. A country’s land space is affected by air pollution but it is also the place where the social economy occurs. Therefore, optimizing the structure, size, shape, and spatial distribution patterns of a country’s land space could help to control urban air pollution by improving the degree to which land use is mixed and reducing traffic density, both of which are of great significance for sustainable urban development. In particular, the air pollution controls and predictive analysis tools proposed through careful consideration of socio-economic and land-use changes will provide effective technical support, in terms of air pollution control, to governments and decision-makers.
This Special Issue seeks to compile studies regarding land use change, air pollution, and policies for their control in different geographical settings and from a wide range of disciplines, with the ultimate aim of contributing to the high-quality development of land use and improving urban air quality. This Special Issue welcomes all manuscripts presenting new and advanced scientific contributions in land use and environmental governance through socio-ecological modeling, air pollution exposure modeling, satellite remote sensing using artificial intelligence technologies, big data processing and analysis, public policy analysis, as well as other related topics. We expect this Special Issue will become an important reference for state-of-the-art methods for sustainable land use practices and environmental pollution governance.
Dr. Debin Lu
Dr. Meimei Wang
Dr. Tingting He
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land use change
- sustainable land use planning
- regional development strategies
- sustainable development
- environmental remote sensing
- environmental big data
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