Dear Colleagues,

Encompassing the physical, biotic, environmental, infrastructural, and socioeconomic components of a natural land unit, land resources are one of nature’s precious gifts that feed us and our resource endowments for economic development to improve the quality of living conditions of the people over time. Since the industrial revolution, the world population has almost quadrupled, followed by exponential growth in socioeconomic development. However, such advancement in the socioeconomic system was achieved at the expense of global land resources to a certain extent, causing serious environmental problems such as biodiversity loss, environmental pollution, land degradation, climate change, etc. Consequently, this poses a significant challenge to the sustainable development of the world economy and human well-being. Thus, there is an urgent need to understand past, current, and future patterns of land resource variation under the current utilization scheme from fine to coarse spatial resolution and to find suitable alternative approaches to sustainable management of land resources to avoid potential long-term negative consequences and achieve sustainable development goals.

Thus, we are interested in deepening our understanding of land resource spatiotemporal evolution at different scales with the application of various observation and modeling modalities and coming up with practical solutions to the problem we face, especially in ecologically and socioeconomically vulnerable areas, and hopefully contributing to sustainable land resource management guidance and tool development.

Given the broader aspects of land resources, relevant papers addressing the abovementioned aspects in various research fields are more than welcome. Specifically, the scope of this section encompasses the following but is not limited to them:

• Accurate mapping of land resources

• Simulation of future land resource patterns under the context of climate change

• Estimation of potential future risk of current land use scheme

• Optimization of land resources management for sustainable development

 

Section Editor

Dr. Anwar Eziz

Mapping Land Resources; Landscape Patterns; Effect of Climate Change; Land Resource Utilization Scheme; Potential Risks; Diversity Loss; Environment Degradation; Sustainable Resources Management; Resources Monitoring and Protection; Ecosystem Health; Resource Use Optimization; Cost-Effective Management; Anthropogenic Impacts