An International Journal of Landscape Science, Planning and Design

Landscape and Urban Planning is an international journal aimed at advancing conceptual, scientific, and applied understandings of landscape in order to promote sustainable solutions for landscape change. Landscapes are visible and integrative social-ecological systems with variable spatial and temporal dimensions. They have expressive aesthetic, natural, and cultural qualities that are perceived and valued by people in multiple ways and invite actions resulting in landscape change. Landscapes are increasingly urban in nature and ecologically and culturally sensitive to changes at local through global scales. Multiple disciplines and perspectives are required to understand landscapes and align social and ecological values to ensure the sustainability of landscapes. The journal is based on the premise that landscape science linked to planning and design can provide mutually supportive outcomes for people and nature.

Landscape science brings landscape ecology and urban ecology together with other disciplines and cross-disciplinary fields to identify patterns and understand social-ecological processes influencing landscape change. Landscape planning brings landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, landscape and ecological engineering, and other practice-oriented fields to bear in processes for identifying problems and analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating desirable alternatives for landscape change. Landscape design brings plans, designs, management prescriptions, policies and other activities and form-giving products to bear in effecting landscape change. The implementation of landscape planning and design also generates new patterns of evidence and hypotheses for further research, providing an integral link with landscape science and encouraging transdisciplinary collaborations to build robust knowledge and problem solving capacity.

Research Papers
Research Notes
Review Articles
Perspective Essays
Comments and rejoinders
Editorials
Book Reviews
Special Issues

Co-Editors-in-Chief
J. I. Nassauer
University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, 440 Church Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan, MI 48109-1041, United States Phone Phone +1 734 963 2195 Email J. I. Nassauer
P. H. Verburg
VU University Amsterdam Institute for Environmental Studies, De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, Netherlands Phone Phone +31 20 59 83594 Email P. H. Verburg
Senior Editorial Assistant
R. Pols
Email R. Pols
Journal Manager
Rajah Devotta
Email Rajah Devotta
Associate Editors
P. H. Gobster
USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station Evanston, 1033 University Place, Suite 360, Evanston, Illinois, IL 60201-3172, United States Email P. H. Gobster Human dimensions
A. Grêt-Regamey
Swiss Federal Polytechnic Institute Zurich Research Unit of Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems, HIL H 51.3 Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, CH-8093, Zurich, SwitzerlandEmail A. Grêt-Regamey Landscape planning models
G. Kolenic
University of Michigan Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109-5276, United States Email G. Kolenic Statistical methods and models
K. L. Larson
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, , United States Email K. L. Larson Human Dimensions
C. A. Lepczyk
Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, 3301 Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, Alabama, 36849-5418, United States Email C. A. Lepczyk Habitat and wildlife
N. R. Netusil
Reed College Department of Economics, 3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, Oregon, 97202-8199, United States Email N. R. Netusil Ecosystem services and land economics
T. Plieninger
University of Göttingen and University of Kassel, Germany Email T. Plieninger Cultural landscapes, Landscape change, Ecosystem services, Multifunctional land use, Social-ecological systems
P. Y. Tan
National University of Singapore School of Design and Environment, 4 Architecture Drive, 117566, Singapore, Singapore Email P. Y. Tan Vegetation and urban forestry
Editorial Advisory Board
C. Albert
Leibniz University Hannover Institute of Environmental Planning, Hanover, Germany
A. Ando
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, United States
O. Axelsson
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
T. BenDor
University of North Carolina System, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
I. D. Bishop
The University of Melbourne Asialink, Parkville, Australia
J. Byrne
University of Tasmania - Launceston Campus, Newnham, Tasmania, Australia
L. Chen
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
N. Clerici
University of the Rosary, Bogota, Colombia
J. Collier
Trinity College Dublin Department of Botany, Dublin, Ireland
T. Conway
University of Toronto - Mississauga Department of Geography and Programs in Environment, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
R. Corry
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
K. Culbertson
Design Workshop Inc, Denver, Colorado, United States
W. Dramstad
Norwegian Institute for Forest and Landscape, Ås, Norway
F. Escobedo
University of the Rosary Functional and Ecosystem Ecology Research Group, Bogota D.C., Colombia
T. P. Evans
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States
R. Ewing
The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
P. Fan
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
V. Gaube
University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Vienna, Austria
V. Gundersen
Norsk Institutt for Naturforskning Lillehammer, Lillehammer, Norway
L. Inostroza
Ruhr University Bochum Department of Geography, Bochum, Germany
L. Inostroza
Ruhr University Bochum Department of Geography, Bochum, Germany
G.D. Jenerette
University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States
W. Ji
University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
C. Y. Jim
University of Hong Kong Department of Geography, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
J. Jokimaki
University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland
J. B. Kirkpatrick
University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
E. Koomen
VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
I. Kowarik
Technical University of Berlin Institute of Ecology Ecosystem Science and Plant Ecology, Berlin, Germany
E. Lange
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
P. Lindemann-Matthies
Karlsruhe University of Education, Karlsruhe, Germany
A. Mayer
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, United States
M. Metzger
The University of Edinburgh School of GeoSciences, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
J. M. Mueller
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
M. Netzband
Julius Maximilians University of Wurzburg Institute of Geography, Leipzig, Germany
J. F. Palmer
Scenic Quality Consultants, Burlington, Vermont, United States
S. Pauleit
Technical University of Munich Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and Management, Freising, Germany
J. Peng
Peking University, Beijing, China
H. Pham
University of Quebec, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
S. Pickett
Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, New York, United States
M. Plegue
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
R. G. Ribe
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States
P. C. Roebeling
University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
E. Rothman
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
R. L. Ryan
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
N. Schwarz
University of Twente Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Enschede, Netherlands
C. Shackleton
Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
A. Shearer
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, United States
W. D. Shuster
US Environmental Protection Agency Andrew W Breidenbach Environmental Research Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
W. D. Shuster
US Environmental Protection Agency Andrew W Breidenbach Environmental Research Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
F. R. Steiner
University of Texas System, Austin, Texas, United States
T. Sugiyama
Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia
S. Swaffield
Lincoln University School of Landscape Architecture, Lincoln, New Zealand
R. Swetnam
Staffordshire University, Stoke-On-Trent, United Kingdom
W. Tang
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
A. Troy
University of Colorado Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States
W. Tseon Loong Chow
Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore
A. Van Rompaey
KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
T. Van de Voorde
Ghent University Department of Geography, Gent, Belgium
S. de Vries
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
W. Yue
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
W. Zhou
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Emeritus Board Members
J. F. Ahern
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
M. Antrop
Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
B. Blackwell
R. D. Brown
Texas A&M University College of Architecture, College Station, Texas, United States
P. Clergeau
National Museum for Natural History, Paris, France
G. Domon
University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
S. Dragicevic
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Geographic information systems, spatio-temporal modeling, geographic automata, agent-based models, artificial intelligence
J. G. Fabos
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
R. Freestone
University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
B.J. Fu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Land use change; Landscape ecology; ecosystem services, ecosystem assessment; soil erosion; land degradation; global environment change; geography; environmental sustainability; ecohydrology.
X. Gao
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
D. Geneletti
University of Trento, Trento, Italy
W. Gould
USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, Puerto Rico
D. Haase
Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
R. Hammer
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States
L. D. Hopkins
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Champaign, Illinois, United States
S.-L. Huang
National Taipei University Graduate Institute of Urban Planning, New Taipei City, Taiwan"Spatial planning; urban sustainability; ecological energetic analysis; emergy synthesis; ecological modelling; urban metabolism; urban simulation; land use and cover change; ecological land use planning; urbanization and environmental change"
P. Jacobs
École d'Architecture Paysage, Fac. de l'Amenagement, Québec, Quebec, Canada
J. D. Kartez
University of Southern Maine, Portland, Maine, United States
S. Lai
National Taipei University Department of Real Estate and Built Environment, Taipei, Taiwan
U. Mander
University of Tartu Department of Geography, Tartu, Estonia Constructed wetlands; Greenhouse gases; Carbon and nutrient cycling; Landscape management 
M. McDonnell
Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology, Melbourne University, Australia
L. R. Musacchio
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
J. Niemelä
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
K. Oh
Hanyang University College of Engineering Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Seongdong-gu, Korea, Republic of
A. Otte
University of Giessen, Gießen, Germany Landscape Ecology
J. E. Rodiek
Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, Texas, United States
L. M. Seabrook
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
S. A. Snyder
USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States
K. Takeuchi
The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan
A. Van Herzele
VUB University, Brussel, Belgium
R. Waldhardt
University of Giessen, Gießen, Germany
C. Ward Thompson
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
N. H. Wong
National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
W.-N. Xiang
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
Z. F. Yang
Guangdong University of Technology Institute of Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Guangzhou, China
K. Yu
Peking University, Beijing, China
M. Zellner
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States