Land Use Change, Air Quality and Environmental Pollution Government

Dear Colleagues,

Clean air is a basic requirement for human survival and development. However, the disorderly expansion of cities and the unreasonable development of land use has made the total amount and scope of air pollutant emissions increase dramatically. This increase has caused the burden of air pollution on humans to increase. Currently, air pollution has seriously threatened human health and social well-being, especially in developing countries. National land space is affected by air pollution and it is also the place where the social economy occurs. The optimizing of structure, size, shape, and spatial distribution patterns of national land space could control urban air pollution by improving the mixing degree of land use and reducing traffic density, which is of great significance to sustainable urban development. In particular, the air pollution control and predictive analysis tools proposed through careful consideration of socio-economic and land-use changes will provide effective technical supports in air pollution control for governments and decision-makers.

This Special Issue seeks to compile studies regarding land-use change, air pollution, and their control policies in different areas 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 social-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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