Request for submissions: The Journal of Land Use Science, timely commentaries

Request for submissions:
The Journal of Land Use Science is looking to publish timely commentaries on current debates.

Format: 
Short (2,000 word) manuscripts that take a side on a controversial issue – please present a strong position supported by evidence.

Please review journal’s aims and scope to align your paper to fit.

Potential topics:

• Conservation policy (e.g., “land sparing vs. land sharing”)
• International land governance, from territory to flows?
• Land-based mitigation and adaptation to climate change
• Biodiversity in the anthropocene
• Health and land use
• Connections between land systems and other systems such as climate, hydrological, ecological
• Land change in understudied ecosystems (floodplains, wetlands, secondary forests)
• Big Data in land science
• “Illicit” land uses
• Feel free to suggest your own!

TO RESPOND TO THIS CALL: please send a short email of intent to the Editors in Chief, Munroe.9@osu.edu and d.mueller@hu-berlin.de

There is no fixed deadline.