Managing Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce a Special Issue of Land on “Managing Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services”.

Land, as a limited resource, demands effective integrated management. Achieving economic, social and environmental aspects in a balanced and integrated manner is a complex and challenging concept. Geoinformation-based decision making related to urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services (ESs) can be crucial to promote sustainable conservation and urban development. Integrated approaches to land management must efficiently assess and address various aspects to take advantage of the recent developments and trends in data science, and can be used together with widely available spatially enabled datasets within the framework of geoinformation infrastructure.

For this Special Issue, we are interested in contributions that link urban green infrastructure and/or ecosystem services and land management strategies with information-based decision making, good practices and different decision-making models at different levels. Although the roles and benefits of urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services are recognized and encouraged at the strategic level, for the purpose of efficient planning and monitoring, it is necessary to identify and model the indicators needed to efficiently monitor and evaluate the status of the establishment or improvement of urban green infrastructure and the connected ESs.

The focus of the papers submitted to this Special Issue may relate to—but are not limited to—the following themes:

ISO LADM: Land Administration Domain Model extensions concerning urban green Infrastructure and/or SE—exploring the integration and harmonizing with the principles of ISO LADM.

Urban Pre-parcellation (Consolidation) Strategies: investigating urban pre-parcellation techniques and strategies that enhance the implementation of urban green infrastructure.

Landscape Aspects in Urban Green Infrastructure: valuing economic, social and environmental aspects.

Assessments and Technical Aspects of Urban Green Infrastructure: exploring methodologies for valuing land and property within the context of urban green infrastructure.

Dr. Hrvoje Tomić
Prof. Dr. Miodrag Roić
Dr. Goran Andlar
Prof. Dr. Jaroslaw Janus
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Land is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• land management
• urban green infrastructure
• ecosystem services
• geoinformation
• decision making
• sustainable urban development