Special Issue "Advances in Sustainable Utilization and Optimal Decision of Land Resources"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Dianfeng Liu
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Guest Editor
wuhan university
Interests: sustainable utilization of land resources and ecological effect; spatial planning; geospatial modeling and applications using geographic information systems
Dr. Wenwu Tang
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Guest Editor
Center for Applied Geographic Information Science and Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA
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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Dr. Jianxin Yang
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Guest Editor
Department of Land Resource Management, School of Public Administration, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: land use changes and ecological modelling; land use planning

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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Urban Land Expansion Simulation Considering the Diffusional and Aggregated Growth Simultaneously: A Case Study of Luoyang City
Sustainability 2021, 13(17), 9781; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179781 (registering DOI) - 31 Aug 2021
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Restricted by urban development stages, natural conditions, urban form and structure, diffusional growth occupies a large proportion of area in many cities. Traditional cellular automata (CA) has been widely applied in urban growth studies because it can simulate complex system evolution with simple [...] Read more.
Restricted by urban development stages, natural conditions, urban form and structure, diffusional growth occupies a large proportion of area in many cities. Traditional cellular automata (CA) has been widely applied in urban growth studies because it can simulate complex system evolution with simple rules. However, due to the limitation of neighborhood conditions, it is insufficient for simulating urban diffusional growth process. A maximum entropy mode was used to estimate three layers of probability spaces: the probability layer of cell transformation from non-urban status to urban status (PLCT), the probability layer for aggregated growth (PLAP), and the probability layer for diffusional growth (PLOP). At the same time, a maxent category selected CA model (MaxEnt-CSCA) was designed to simulate aggregated and diffusional urban expansion processes simultaneously. Luoyang City, with a large proportion of diffusional urban expansion (65.29% in 2009–2018), was used to test the effectiveness of MaxEnt-CSCA. The results showed that: (1) MaxEnt-CSCA accurately simulated aggregated growth of 47.40% and diffusional growth of 37.13% in Luoyang from 2009 to 2018, and the overall Kappa coefficient was 0.78; (2) The prediction results for 2035 showed that future urban expansion will mainly take place in Luolong District and the counties around the main urban area, and the distribution pattern of Luolong District will change from the relative diffusion state to the aggregation stage. This paper also discusses the applicable areas of MaxEnt-CSCA and illustrates the importance of selecting an appropriate urban expansion model in a region with a large amount of diffusional growth. Full article
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