Special Issues

Land publishes Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics, with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors, who are experts on the topic. The journal’s Editor-in-Chief and/or designated EBM will oversee Guest Editor appointments and Special Issue proposals, checking their content for relevance and ensuring the suitability of the material for the journal. The papers published in a Special Issue will be collected and displayed on a dedicated page of the journal’s website. For any inquiries related to a Special Issue, please contact the Editorial Office.

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Analysis and Evaluation of Terrestrial Ecosystems in the Mediterranean, Temperate and Tropical Climates
edited by and Ana Cano-Ortíz
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2613 | Submission Open
Keywords: earth sciences; botany; ecology; agriculture; bioclimatology and biogeography; climate change; research methodologies; natural disasters; socioculture; socioeconomics; forests; scrub; vegetal dynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)
Impact of Climate Change on Land and Water Systems
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1231 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change impact; water; climate change adaptation; soil; hydrology; erosion; landscape
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)
Big Data in Urban Land Use Planning submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 578 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI); big data; technology; urban land; land use planning; data fusion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Land Use Transformation in River Basins: Green Options and Their Effects
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 352 | Submission Open
Keywords: agricultural green development; river basin economics; ecological restoration and protection; climate change awareness and response; rural economic development; water crisis awareness and response; sustainable livelihoods; cleaner production behavior; land use transformation; ecological restoration
Climate Change Impacts on Coastal and Marine Ecosystems: Integrated Assessment and Best Adaptation Options submission deadline 30 Jun 2024 | Viewed by 301 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change impacts; coastal areas; integrated assessment; adaptation strategies; participative governance; economic and non-market valuation
Landscape Ecological Risk in Mountain Areas
edited by Wei Deng and
submission deadline 3 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2417 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscape ecological risk; mountain areas; structure and function; changing environment; simulation and prediction; landscape ecological response
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Integrating Urban Design and Landscape Architecture submission deadline 5 Jul 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 33479 | Submission Open
Keywords: Integration of urban design; landscape architecture; and architecture; Urban environmental and ecological restoration; Multifunctional land use; Integration of green; blue; and grey infrastructure; Novel urban green systems; Urban agriculture; horticulture; and gardening; Urban ecology and multi-species design; Decision support systems for integrating urban design; landscape architecture; and architecture; Data-driven design for integrating urban design; landscape architecture; and architecture
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Predictive Soil Mapping Contributing to Sustainable Soil Management
edited by and Kwabena Abrefa Nketia
submission deadline 9 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1233 | Submission Open
The Third Edition: Sustainable Land Management and Land Tenure: Experiences for the Future submission deadline 10 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 650 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable land management; land tenure; land planning processes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Biosphere Reserves in the Global South submission deadline 12 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1074 | Submission Open
Keywords: UNESCO; biosphere; sustainability; natural resources; human capital; mountains; transboundary; land use
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)
Feature Papers for Land–Climate Interactions Section II
edited by
submission deadline 14 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1148 | Submission Open
Keywords: land surface; global climate science; net zero
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)
Urban Transitions and Dynamics: Cultural, Ecological, Digital and Degrowth submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8811 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable urban development; urban resilience; urban dynamics; degrowth theories; circular economies; 15-minute city; urban governance; urban art; culture and social movements
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Water Resources and Land Use Planning II
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 8628 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use planning; integrated water resource management; threshold scenarios; sustainability; best management practices; resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Land Degradation and Soil Mapping
edited by Zahn Münch, and
submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2363 | Submission Open
Keywords: land degradation; digital soil mapping; predictive mapping; land use management; soil management; sustainable agriculture; ecosystem restoration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
Managing Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services submission deadline 15 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1359 | Submission Open
Keywords: land management; urban green infrastructure; ecosystem services; geoinformation; decision making; sustainable urban development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Key Hydrological Processes and Its Controlling Factors in Terrestrial Ecosystems
edited by Licong Dai, and
submission deadline 18 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 600 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrological processes; water infiltration; runoff; evapotranspiration; groundwater recharge; soil water retention; terrestrial ecosystems; land cover change
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Imbricating Socioeconomic and Environmental Data to Model Spatial Patterns of Peri-Urbanisation and Their Consequences
edited by and
submission deadline 22 Jul 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5762 | Submission Open
Keywords: planned and unplanned urban expansion; land use change; decision support context; peri-urban growth and socioeconomic factors; socio-ecological interactions; spatio-temporal patterns; socio-economic and environmental data integration; peri-urban growth and landscape dynamics; peri-urban ecosystem degradation and quality of life; socio-environmental consequences
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Land Use and Food Security in China's Urbanizing Regions: Problems and Possibilities
edited by and
submission deadline 22 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 169 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use change; land protection; food security; food production; spatial planning and design; urban management; environmental governance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Advances on Land Cover/Land Use Ontologies for Innovative Production/Utilization of Land Information submission deadline 25 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5483 | Submission Open
Keywords: land cover; land use; interoperability; standardization; geospatial technology; semantic ontology; harmonization; classification; earth observation; remote sensing; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
Forest Ecosystems: Protection and Restoration II
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jul 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1531 | Submission Open
Keywords: forest science; degradation; ecosystem; biodiversity; strategies; resource conflict; forest exploitation; climate change; mechanisms; forest loss
The Second Edition: Urban Planning Pathways to Carbon Neutrality
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 136 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban spatial planning; carbon emission; carbon neutrality; spatial layout optimization; green transportation systems; green infrastructure
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)
Land Use/Land Cover and Natural Hazards: Interactions, Changes, and Impacts II submission deadline 26 Jul 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14014 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use/land cover (LULC); historical LULC; present LULC; LULC scenarios; natural hazards mapping; floods; landslides; erosion; geographic information systems (GIS); remote sensing (RS); statistical modeling; numerical modeling; machine learning modeling; urban and environmental planning; green infrastructure; nature-based solutions (NbS); ecosystem services
Effects of Human-Environment Interaction on Land Ecosystem since Holocene II
edited by , Shanjia Zhang and Zhiping Zhang
submission deadline 26 Jul 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 6266 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; human activity; human-environment interaction; ecosystem; holocene; subsistence strategy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land–Climate Interactions)
Urban Land Use Change and Its Spatial Planning submission deadline 28 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2483 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use change; dynamic processes; planning; policy; quality; sustainability; participation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Land Resource Assessment submission deadline 29 Jul 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1966 | Submission Open
Keywords: land resource efficiency; functional differences evaluation; land resource capitalization; process evaluation and simulation; energy system language and LCA; typical model of land use; ecological security and carrying capacity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)
Landscape-Scale Sustainable Tourism Development submission deadline 30 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3296 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscape recreation potential; cultural landscape management and planning; landscape protection; urban and rural landscape vs. tourism; tourism in protected areas; ecological management of tourist areas; sustainable tourism and spatial planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Ecosystem Services Design from Single Space Solution to Landscape Vision
edited by
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 14416 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Advances in Land Consolidation and Land Ecology
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 9805 | Submission Open
Keywords: land consolidation; land ecology; sustainable land use; landscape construction; nature resource management; cross-disciplinary contributions; technology-driven solutions; land property rights; rural development; land ecological restoration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Salinity Monitoring and Modelling at Different Scales
edited by , and Tiago Brito Ramos
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8226 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil salinity; soil hydraulic properties; pedotransfer functions; proximal soil sensing; remote sensing; electromagnetic induction; digital soil mapping; machine learning; arid and semi-arid climate; agricultural water management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Advances in Hydro-Sedimentological Modeling for Simulating LULC submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2872 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use/cover change; hydrological modeling; sediment transport; machine learning; environmental science; climate change; soil physics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Assessment and Monitoring of Land Degradation: Current Trends and Future Directions
edited by Xuchao Zhu
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1893 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil erosion; soil desertification; soil salinization; soil fertility decline; soil pollution; land degradation evaluation; land degradation monitoring; current status; future prospects
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Urban Forestry Dynamics: Management and Mechanization
edited by , and Valerio Di Stefano
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 430 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban forest; mechanization; urban forest operations; soil impact; environmental effects; technical and economic performance; new technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Sustainable and Resilient Perspectives in Digital Landscape Architecture and Planning
edited by , Mark Lindquist and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 400 | Submission Open
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; computational design; landscape architecture; landscape design; landscape planning; landscape visualization; machine learning; multisensory representation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Innovation for Resilience Biodiversity to Global Warming submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 340 | Submission Open
Keywords: biodiversity; natural capital; ecosystem services; resilience; adaptive capacity; global warming; agroecosystem; agro-ecological system; aquatic ecosystem; green infrastructure; blue infrastructure; sustainability; human well-being
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)
Impact of Pollutants on Soil Health submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 317 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use/management; soil contamination; soil health; soil amendments; soil science
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Sustainability and Peri-Urban Agriculture II submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 272 | Submission Open
Keywords: peri-urban agriculture; land sustainability; multifunctionality; farm diversification; new income sources in agriculture; urban food systems; urban– rural linkages; land use policy; social farming; rural-urban services
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Ecosystem Services and Coastal Management: Tools to Counteract Sediment Losses
edited by , Marucci Angelo and
submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 231 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecosystem services; coastal morphodynamics; natural capital; river ecosystems; coastal management; nature-based solutions; protected natural areas
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Digital Earth and Remote Sensing for Land Management submission deadline 2 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 362 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital earth; satellite imagery; InSAR; digital elevation models (DEM); land monitoring; land use; land cover; urban morphology; GIS tools
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
Land Use Change from Non-urban to Urban Areas: Problems, Challenges and Opportunities II submission deadline 8 Aug 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9633 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
A Livable City: Rational Land Use and Sustainable Urban Space
edited by and
submission deadline 8 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 144 | Submission Open
Keywords: rational land use; sustainable urban space; urban planning and design; spatial optimization; public participation and governance; land-use policy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
New Insights into Land-Space Ecological Restoration (LSER) Policy for Sustainable Development Goals
edited by Lingxiao Ying, Ming Luo and
submission deadline 8 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 102 | Submission Open
Keywords: land-space ecological restoration policy and strategy; ecosystem conservation and restoration approach; climate change mitigation and adaption; ecosystem services and human well-being enhancement; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Geospatial Data for Landscape Change
edited by
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16124 | Submission Open
Keywords: space-time landscape analysis; landscape quality assessment and monitoring; LULC change detection; landscape 3D mapping and monitoring; landscapes in a changing climate; people’ s perception of landscape change; changes in landscape analysis approaches; landscape geospatial visualization; geospatial data of moon and mars landscape mapping
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Resilience in Historical Landscapes submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 14081 | Submission Open
Keywords: resilience; historical ecology; landscape archaeology; vegetation history; paleoecology and archaeobotany; human geography and environmental anthropology; world/global history; long-term human– environment interactions; landscape changes; geospatial (GIS) analyses
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Archaeology)
Urban and Peri-Urban Forests—Status, Ecosystem Services, and Future Perspectives
edited by
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3541 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban forests; green infrastructure; nature-based solutions; ecosystem services (ES); assessment and mapping of ES; socio-ecological assessments
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Integrating Spatial Analysis and Regional Science to Guide Urban Planning
edited by Apostolos Lagarias, Poulicos Prastacos, and Alexandra Delgado-Jiménez
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3121 | Submission Open
Keywords: spatial analysis; urban planning; regional science; spatial optimization; land use modelling; decision support systems; sustainable development; policy making; environmental management; climate change; local-global connections
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Rural–Urban Gradients: Landscape and Nature Conservation II submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2404 | Submission Open
Keywords: gradient approach; rural– urban divide; effectiveness of protected areas; ecosystem services supply; urban expansion; rural cultural landscapes; social-ecological resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Landscape Planning for Mass Tourism in Historical Cities
edited by , Ana-Neli Ianăş and
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2068 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban planning; mass tourism; historical center; public policies; landscape planning; tourist strategies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Urban Landscape Ecological Planning and Its Environmental Effects
edited by and
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1316 | Submission Open
Keywords: air pollution prevention and control plan; urban wind environment; green space and residents' health; landscape ecosystem stability analysis; urban landscape ecological security; urban renewal; biodiversity conservation planning; ecological planning and design; carbon emission; sustainable landscape management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Ecosystem Disturbances and Soil Properties submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1241 | Submission Open
Keywords: wildfires; herbivory; soil structure; soil nutrients; soil carbon; soil biota
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Land Use Change and Plant Invasion: Plant Invasion Due to Changed Landscape Use, Changed Behavior and Ecological Problems of Native and Non-native Species
edited by
submission deadline 15 Aug 2024 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open
Keywords: human impact; land abandonment; rural-urban transformation; invasion; alien species; exotic species; ecosystem services assessment; management; restoration
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)
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