Landscape and Urban Planning
Published by Elsevier
ISSN : 0169-2046
Abbreviation : Landsc. Urban Plan.
Aims & Scope
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.
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Impact Factor
| Year | Value |
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| 2025 | 9.2 |
SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 2.932 |
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| 2024 | Q1 |
h-index
| Year | Value |
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| 2024 | 229 |
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Abstracting & Indexing
Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.
Subjects & Keywords
Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Environmental Science and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.
Most Cited Articles
The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.
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Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’
Citation: 3123
Authors: Jennifer R., Jason, Joshua P.
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Urban greening to cool towns and cities: A systematic review of the empirical evidence
Citation: 2194
Authors: Diana E., Lisette, Teri M., Andrew S.
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Promoting ecosystem and human health in urban areas using Green Infrastructure: A literature review
Citation: 2058
Authors: Konstantinos, Kalevi, Stephen, Vesa, Aleksandra, Jari, Philip
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A future land use simulation model (FLUS) for simulating multiple land use scenarios by coupling human and natural effects
Citation: 1414
Authors: Xiaoping, Xun, Xia, Xiaocong, Jinpei, Yimin, Shaoying, Shaojian, Fengsong
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The application of ‘least-cost’ modelling as a functional landscape model
Citation: 1156
Authors: F., J.P., G., E., S., H., E.