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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Energy Colonialism, Extractivism, Socio-Ecological Transitions, and Land Planning
edited by , Antonio Ortega Santos, , Chiara Olivieri, , and Josefa Sánchez Contreras
submission deadline 28 Mar 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 19714 | Submission Open
Keywords: energy transition; biodiversity; renewable energy; megaprojects; energy colonialism; extractivism; socioenvironmental impacts; human rights impacts; territorial defense; territorial planning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
The Forming of Cultural Landscapes and Urbanscapes
edited by and
submission deadline 29 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2129 | Submission Open
Keywords: cultural heritage management; cultural landscapes; historical landscapes; landscape history; landscape forming; multi-proxy archaeological approaches; archaeological prospection methods; paleoecology; geoarchaeology
Landscape Governance in the Age of Social Media (Second Edition) submission deadline 29 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1240 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Multi-Dimensional Integration of Geo-Planning for Land Planning and Design
edited by
submission deadline 29 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open
Developing 3D Cadastre for Urban Land Use
edited by
submission deadline 30 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3097 | Submission Open
Keywords: 3D cadastre; 3D urban planning; rights; restrictions and responsibilities to land; 3D land use; property; building information modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Resilience in Territorial Planning and Architecture: Exploring Themes, Objectives, and Approaches to Go beyond Adaptability
edited by , Alessandro Melis, and Daniela Perrotti
submission deadline 30 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 527 | Submission Open
Keywords: design approaches; climate adaptation; nature-based solutions; landscape resilience; co-evolutive resilience; adaptation; and transformation; integrated planning policies and plans; the city and its modifications: climate-sensitive design; methodological and intertwined challenges; regional development policies and programs; strategies and actions to future-proof cities; territorial development; social; environmental; and economic sustainability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Digital Soil Mapping, Decision Support Tools and Soil Monitoring Systems in the Mediterranean submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13400 | Submission Open
Keywords: digital soil mapping; soil organic carbon; soil monitoring; anthropogenic soils; soil modeling
Resilience in Historical Landscapes submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12927 | 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)
Territorial Impact Analysis of Rural Policies: Approaches, Methods and Results from a Multidisciplinary Point of View
edited by , Jane Atterton and Enrique Nieto
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10026 | Submission Open
Keywords: rural development and regional policies for rural areas; rural proofing; socio-economic and climate-environmental indicators of rural development; institutional innovations in rural policies; impact assessment; distribution of policy support among rural areas; territorial disparities between rural and urban areas; analysis of the evolution over time; econometric models for impact evaluation; community-led local development partnerships
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Landscape Planning for Human Wellbeing in Asia submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7528 | Submission Open
Keywords: landscape planning; landscape architecture; landscaping; planting design; human wellbeing; forest management; regional promotion; land use/cover change; environmental history; environmental sustainability; geographic information technologies; human– nature interactions; evidence-based landscape practice; forest therapy; post-COVID-19 condition; green spaces; blue spaces
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land, Biodiversity, and Human Wellbeing)
New Tools for Terrestrial Carbon Cycle and Land Surface Modelling
edited by , and Caroline E. Gallagher
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7300 | Submission Open
Keywords: climate change; greenhouse gases; carbon flux; land surface modelling; resilience; sustainability; geographical information systems; environmental management; public health; vegetation; atmosphere; monitoring; remote sensing
Tillage Methods on Soil Properties and Crop Growth submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5834 | Submission Open
Keywords: conservation tillage; no tillage; zero tillage; tillage practices; crop yields; soil physics; soil chemistry; soil biology; soil microbiology; soil erosion; nitrate leaching; soil organic carbon; greenhouse gas emissions; water use efficiency
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Digital Mapping for Ecological Land
edited by , Juhua Luo and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5566 | Submission Open
Keywords: natural resources; ecological environment; lake; wetland; agriculture; remote sensing; big data analysis; GIS analysis; ecological restoration
Sustainable Evaluation Methodology of Urban and Regional Planning
edited by Yilun Liu, and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4353 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable evaluation; urban and regional planning; geospatial big data; GeoAI; land use optimization; land use evaluation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Evaluation, Application, and Opportunities of Land-Use Decision Support System in Agriculture submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3510 | Submission Open
Keywords: decision support systems; sustainable land uses; ecosystem services; vulnerability; resilience; policy and management strategies; models and analytical tools for land use management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Sustainable Ecosystem Services in Cultural Landscapes: Recent Trends and Future Challenges submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3295 | Submission Open
Keywords: multifunctionality of cultural landscapes; heritage landscapes; sustainability of cultural landscapes; planning and management of cultural landscapes; socioeconomic and cultural ecosystem services; cultural ecosystem services; ecological ecosystem services; territorial identity
Dynamics of Land Use/Land Cover Change and Ecosystem Service Provision in a Rapidly Changing World II submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2589 | Submission Open
Keywords: land use/land cover change; land productivity; ecosystem services; ecosystem carbon sequestration; carbon stocks and fluxes; food system transformation; urban– rural system; urban– rural metabolism
Planning for Sustainable Urban and Land Development submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 884 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Balancing Ecosystems and Renewable Energy in Landscapes
edited by and
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 568 | Submission Open
Keywords: renewable energy/renewable energy infrastructure/landscape; building integrated agriculture; photovoltaics; wind technology; biomass; geothermal energy; landscape/landscape design/planning/landscape technology fit; green and blue energy; sustainability/security/resilience; landscape development /landscape heritage; policies/management/justice/communities/potential/capacity/assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Water, Energy, Land and Food (WELF) Nexus)
Editors’ Collection Series: Remote Sensing of Land Change Science submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 382 | Submission Open
Keywords: land change; land use/cover change modelling; remote sensing; geographic information science; earth observation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Dynamics of Soil Organic Carbon under Land Use and Land Cover Change submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 375 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil organic carbon; land use and land cover; remote sensing; SOC dynamic/storage; anthropogenic activities; land rehabilitation/restoration; climate change; spatiotemporal analysis; land management; deep learning/Historical modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Understanding Human-Nature Interrelations through Recreational Landscapes
edited by
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 242 | Submission Open
Keywords: human– nature interrelation; recreational landscape; ecosystem services; urban spaces; land use/cover change; ; social– ecological system; landscape ecology and conservation; sustainable planning and management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Ecological and Disaster Risk Assessment of Land Use Changes
edited by , , and Dewei Yang
submission deadline 31 Mar 2024 | Viewed by 200 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecological or disaster risk; risk assessment; risk prediction; ecosystem services; land use change; land use policy; sustainable development
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Selected Papers from the 2022 Annual Conference on Development Geography submission deadline 1 Apr 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 10868 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable land systems; development geography; land use; climate change; food security
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Planning for Socio-Spatial Justice and Quality of Life in the Face of Competing Urban Development Dynamics
edited by , Angeliki Paidakaki and
submission deadline 1 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 928 | Submission Open
Keywords: socio-spatial justice; spatial inequalities; socioeconomic inequalities; quality of life; urban sustainability; spatial analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Monitoring Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity under Land Use Change
edited by Lindsay Claire Maskell and Claire Wood
submission deadline 2 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 366 | Submission Open
Keywords: land-use and land-cover (LULC) change; biodiversity; ecology; protected areas; landscape connectivity; green space; invasive species; ecosystem services; ecosystem disservices; and well-being
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Urban Resilience and Urban Sustainability under Climate Change submission deadline 5 Apr 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 21376 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban resilience; urban sustainability; climate change; urban use of resources (water; electricity; etc.); urban citizens and freight movements; responsive government and resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Urban Form and the Urban Heat Island Effect
edited by , and Isaac Yu Fat Lun
submission deadline 5 Apr 2024 | 10 articles | Viewed by 14201 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban form; urban heat island (UHI); earth observation; remote sensing; smart city; spatial analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Planning Sustainable Cities through Nature-Based Solutions submission deadline 5 Apr 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13556 | Submission Open
Keywords: nature-based solutions; sustainability; urban planning; city resilience; re-naturing cities; stakeholder participation; innovative solutions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Water in Land System Science submission deadline 5 Apr 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7804 | Submission Open
Keywords: Adaptation; vulnerability; and resilience; Biodiversity; Ground and surface water; Hydrogeology; Land system science; Livelihoods; Networks and telecouplings; Scale; Water access; use; and policy
The Use and Perception of Urban Green Space in the Wake of COVID-19
edited by and David Pearlmutter
submission deadline 5 Apr 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 7408 | Submission Open
Keywords: biodiversity; biophilia; cities; forest therapy; gardens; green spaces; health
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
The Interaction between Public Transport Systems and Land Use in the Era of Technological Innovations in Transportation
edited by Robin Hickman and
submission deadline 5 Apr 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4294 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban planning; public transport; travel behaviours; built environment; accessibility; environmental and social equity impacts of public transport; technological innovations in transportation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Impacts of Landscape Patterns on the Urban Thermal Comfort
edited by and
submission deadline 5 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 475 | Submission Open
Keywords: urban heat island; thermal comfort; landscape pattern; UHI mitigation; urban design; urban materials and greening
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
The Socio-Economic Values in Land Resource Management
edited by
submission deadline 10 Apr 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 10518 | Submission Open
Keywords: land resources management; socioeconomic value; sustainable development goals; urbanization; deforestation; ecosystem services of land; pollution; society needs; economic opportunities
Ground Deformation Monitoring via Remote Sensing Time Series Data submission deadline 10 Apr 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4117 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; change detection; ground deformation; PS-InSAR; monitoring; synthetic aperture radar; time series; trend analysis
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land – Observation and Monitoring)
Fostering Urban Regeneration Pathways via Urban and Architectural Design Projects submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5558 | Submission Open
Keywords: circular urban economy; resilient city; value creation; architectural design projects; sustainable development goals; built environment; assessment methods; urban district; energy transition; urban regeneration; underused urban area; landscape and built heritage; private and public contexts
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Urban Resilience and Heritage Management submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3940 | Submission Open
Keywords: cities recovery; cultural property potentials; good practices; heritage stakeholders and actors; heritage values and indicators; information technologies and systems; resilient cities and territories; sustainable development goals; urban planning and politics; withstanding risks and vulnerability
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Topical Advisory Panel Member Solicited Papers Series: Land Use Changes in Rural Areas submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2938 | Submission Open
Keywords: land change; land use modelling; rural dynamics; rural spatial planning; rural land management; cultural landscapes; sustainable farming; sustainable rural development; depopulation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Geospatial Technology for Landscape Design submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2415 | Submission Open
Keywords: geographic information systems (GISs); geospatial technology; geospatial applications and updates; remote sensing; virtual globes; spatial data infrastructure (SDI geoportal); global positioning system (GPS); 3D virtual environments; augmented reality; virtual reality; geospatial thinking for landscape planning; landscape planning and design
Landscape Spatial Analysis for Natural Capital Enhancement
edited by
submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1063 | Submission Open
Keywords: ecosystem services; landscape planning; land use planning; landscape approach; natural capital; GIS technologies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Landscape Ecology)
Social–Ecological Ecosystems in Rewilding Urban Environment: Multidisciplinary Approaches for Multifaceted Wild Natures submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 509 | Submission Open
Keywords: wild urban nature; urban voids; regeneration policies; socio-ecological characters; socio-environmental movements; urban biodiversity; citizen science; contested natures
(This special issue belongs to the Section Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions)
Nature-Based Solutions for Soil-Water Related Sustainable Development Goals submission deadline 15 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 375 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable land management (SLM); nature-based solutions (NBS); ecosystem services; land degradation neutrality (LDN); mitigation of weather extremes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Recent Progress in Land Degradation Processes and Control
edited by Jianye Li, Xingyi Zhang, Weida Gao, Wei Hu and
submission deadline 18 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 212 | Submission Open
Keywords: land degradation pathways; land degradation progress; land use; soil erosion; soil carbon; environment effects; ecosystem functions and services; control measures
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Environmental and Policy Impact Assessment)
Pollen-Based Reconstruction of Holocene Land-Cover submission deadline 22 Apr 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5329 | Submission Open
Keywords: past land use and anthropogenic land cover changes; vegetation and land cover reconstruction; pollen-based climate reconstruction; holocene vegetation– climate interactions; holocene vegetation dynamics; climate– human interactions; plant diversity and biodiversity
Feature Papers for Land Systems and Global Change Section
edited by and
submission deadline 24 Apr 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 10723 | Submission Open
Keywords: land system; global change; datasets; models; time series
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Systems and Global Change)
Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Socio-Ecological Transformations and Implications for Land Use Change
edited by and
submission deadline 24 Apr 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2720 | Submission Open
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Cadastre and Land Management in Support of Sustainable Real Estate Markets II submission deadline 24 Apr 2024 | Viewed by 250 | Submission Open
Keywords: cadastre; land management; land tenure
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Socio-Economic and Political Issues)
Soils and Land Management under Climate Change submission deadline 25 Apr 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1558 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil functions  ; climate changes  ; soil carbon sequestration  ; land degradation  ; soil erosion  ; crop production  ; temperature and precipitation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil-Sediment-Water Systems)
Land, Innovation and Social Good 2.0 submission deadline 26 Apr 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 16812 | Submission Open
Keywords: land tenure; land value modeling; land use planning; artificial intelligence; decision support systems
Digital Soil Mapping for Agri-Environmental Management and Sustainability
edited by , , Michele Duarte De Menezes and
submission deadline 26 Apr 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10828 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil mapping; machine learning; soil properties; soil functions and interpretations; precision agriculture; uncertainty predictions and cost benefit risk assessment
(This special issue belongs to the Section Land Innovations – Data and Machine Learning)
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