LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Journal Title

LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

LANDSCAPE URBAN PLAN

ISSN / eISSN

0169-2046

Aims and 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.

Subject Area

ECOLOGY

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

GEOGRAPHY

CiteScore

14.40 View Trend

CiteScore Ranking

Category	Quartile	Rank
Social Sciences - Urban Studies	Q1	#2/261
Social Sciences - Nature and Landscape Conservation	Q1	#5/196
Social Sciences - Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	Q1	#13/384
Social Sciences - Ecology	Q1	#15/437

Web of Science Core Collection

Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)	Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)
Indexed	Indexed

Category (Journal Citation Reports 2023)	Quartile
ECOLOGY - SCIE	Q1
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES - SSCI	Q1
GEOGRAPHY - SSCI	Q1
GEOGRAPHY, PHYSICAL - SCIE	Q1
REGIONAL & URBAN PLANNING - SSCI	Q1
URBAN STUDIES - SSCI	Q1

H-index

132

Country/Area of Publication

NETHERLANDS

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Frequency

Bimonthly

Year Publication Started

1986

Annual Article Volume

237

Open Access

NO

Contact

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, PO BOX 211, AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, 1000 AE