Advances in Sustainable Utilization and Optimal Decision of Land Resources
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2022) | Viewed by 23722
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable utilization of land resources and ecological effect; spatial planning; geospatial modeling and applications using geographic information systems
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Interests: GIS and spatial analysis and modeling; agent-based models and spatiotemporal simulation; cyberinfrastructure and high-performance computing; complex adaptive spatial systems; land use and land cover change
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Interests: spatial analysis; environment; environmental impact assessment; land use planning; natural resource management; mapping; spatial statistics; sustainability; geoinformation; geographical analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Land resources are essential for human beings to survive. With rapid socioeconomic development and increasing urbanization, land resources have borne increasing pressure from multiple stakeholders, which accelerates land use competition and conflicts. In this context, the sustainable utilization of land resources has been regarded as one of the key indicators in the 2030 agenda for worldwide Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and has attracted a great deal of attention from countries around the world. The optimal utilization of land resources needs to take into account multiple aspects of land systems and interactions with other physical and socioeconomic systems (e.g., ecosystem, climatic system, and human activities). Although extensive studies have focused on the optimal allocation of land resources from theoretical and methodological aspects, few have highlighted the coupled relationships of humans and nature as well as the interactions of various related systems in the process of land use decision making. This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in the Sustainable Utilization and Optimal Decision of Land Resources. We seek papers that explore new theoretical, methodological, and experimental subjects regarding the optimal utilization of land resources. Policy-oriented papers are also welcomed to present various decision-making processes of land resources from a wide range of backgrounds.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Land use and climate change adaptation;
- Land use change and its ecological effects;
- Spatial optimization for land use allocation;
- Simulation methods of land use change;
- Intelligent algorithms in land use decision-making;
- Sustainable evaluation of land use;
- Delineation of ecological redlines and urban growth boundaries;
- Spatial planning principles and practice.
Dr. Dianfeng Liu
Dr. Wenwu Tang
Dr. Jianxin Yang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- land resources
- sustainability
- decision-making
- land use change
- spatial optimization
- spatial planning
- land use allocation
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