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Geographic Information Science for the Sustainable Development, 2nd Edition

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 8 November 2024 | Viewed by 72

Special Issue Editors

Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 10010, China
Interests: GIS; sustainability; LUCC; land use simulation; GeoAI
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Previously, we organized a Special Issue named “Geographic Information Science for the Sustainable Development”, which promoted our colleagues’ interests in this topic. Geographical information science (GIScience) is a link connecting multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary data, methods, and knowledge from various disciplines. Additionally, recent progress in large language models has tremendously reshaped the scientific paradigm. However, our world is facing more challenges on the way to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. As geographers and geographical scientists, we believe that GIScience must play a role in promoting geographical science innovation and achieving a better and more sustainable world.

This Special Issue calls for additional contributions to GIScience’s theories, tools, and practices regarding sustainable development. We invite all researchers to share research articles, reviews, and case studies on tackling challenges at local, regional, and global scales with GIScience.

The scope of submission includes, but is not limited to, the following:

  • GIScience theories or frameworks for sustainable development;
  • Novel Geographical Information System (GIS) tools, models, or methods for sustainable development;
  • Complex geosystems;
  • Big data analytics for SDGs;
  • Insightful applications of GIS/RS tools for sustainable development;
  • GeoAI models and their applications.

Dr. Shi Shen
Dr. Peichao Gao
Dr. Shaohua Wang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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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. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly 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 2400 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.

Keywords

  • geographical information science
  • sustainability
  • sustainable development goals
  • GeoAI
  • high-quality development
  • complex geosystem

Published Papers

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