Land | Feature Papers from the First Half of 2025 (III)

We are delighted to present a list of papers published in Land (ISSN: 2073-445X) in the first half of 2025 that have received considerable attention.

1. “Six Decades of Rural Landscape Transformation in Five Lebanese Villages”
by Abed Al Kareem Yehya, Thanh Thi Nguyen, Martin Wiehle, Rami Zurayk and Andreas Buerkert
Land 2025, 14(2), 262; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020262

2. “Predicting Landslide Deposit Zones: Insights from Advanced Sampling Strategies in the Ilopango Caldera, El Salvador”
by Laura Paola Calderon-Cucunuba, Abel Alexei Argueta-Platero, Tomás Fernández, Claudio Mercurio, Chiara Martinello, Edoardo Rotigliano and Christian Conoscenti
Land 2025, 14(2), 269; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020269

3. “Additionality in Theoretical von Thünenian Models of Deforestation and Conservation Payments”
by Thales A. P. West, Jill L. Caviglia-Harris and Philip Martin Fearnside
Land 2025, 14(2), 272; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020272

4. “Drifting Past Policy Coherence? Rhetoric and Realities of the Mexican Sembrando Vida Program’s Sustainability Goals”
by Sofia Mardero, Birgit Schmook, Sophie Calmé, Grecia Casanova and Rehema M. White
Land 2025, 14(2), 278; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020278

5. “Land Degradation-Based Approach for Assessing the Performance of the Natura 2000 Network in Mainland Spain”
by Mario Mingarro, María E. Sanjuan, Alberto Ruiz-Rancaño and Gabriel del Barrio
Land 2025, 14(2), 279; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020279

6. “Enhancing the Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services Provided by Coastal Beaches Through Economic and Biophysical Methods”
by Chi-Ok Oh, Namhee Kim and Yoonja Kang
Land 2025, 14(2), 280; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020280

7. “Land Reforms Revisited: An Emerging Perspective on the Hellenic Land Administration Reform as a Wicked Policy Problem”
by Evangelia Balla, Ana Mafalda Madureira and Jaap Zevenbergen
Land 2025, 14(2), 282; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020282

8. “Historical Roots of Heritage Horticulture in the Southern Coastal Plain of Israel”
by Motti Zohar, Yuval Ben-Bassat and Guy Bar-Oz
Land 2025, 14(2), 285; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020285

9. “Geohazard Plugin: A QGIS Plugin for the Preliminary Analysis of Landslides at Medium–Small Scale”
by Marta Castelli, Andrea Filipello, Claudio Fasciano, Giulia Torsello, Stefano Campus and Rocco Pispico
Land 2025, 14(2), 290; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020290

10. “Investigating the Zonal Response of Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Australian Grasslands to Ongoing Climate Change”
by Jingai Bai and Tingbao Xu
Land 2025, 14(2), 296; https://doi.org/10.3390/land14020296