Dear Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure to announce the upcoming virtual conference “Land Entropy and Challenges for Restoration and Future Development”, which will take place from 4th to 5th September 2025.

The conference will address the philosophy and key interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary methodological approaches of land system sciences. Considering the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), we aim to discuss the state of the art in the nexus of land systems and global change, the intersection of food, land, water, energy, socioeconomic and political land issues, land–climate interactions, land use planning and architecture, ecosystem services, women's land rights, and the challenges posed by land entropy in the global South. Agreements such as the European Landscape Convention and their relevance in protecting and restoring cultural landscapes, the natural heritage, and the diversity of land systems are expected to be discussed. Other relevant governance instruments and governance mixes that translate land system science outputs into policies and conventions will be debated against their efficiency and success in order to assess how to further develop them.

This conference aims to bring together the LAND community in its widest sense to discuss these latest advances. Sessions on land system science advances and their societal relevance will be chaired by leading researchers. Additionally, we aim to select a significant number of oral presentations from early stage researchers based on their submitted abstracts.

We look forward to seeing you online!

Prof. Dr. Hossein Azadi
Chair of the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Land

Sessions

The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Land will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.

1. Deadline for abstract submission: 15th May 2025.
2. Abstract Acceptance Notification: 15th July 2025 . You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.

Certificates of Participation are available in your logged-in area of Sciforum.net, under “My certificates” after the conference.

Abstract submissions should be completed online by registering with www.sciforum.net and using the "Submit Abstract" function once logged into the system. No physical template is necessary.

1. The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 250–300 words in length.
2. All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Land in Environmental Sciences Proceedings (ISSN 2673-4931); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference.
3. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
4. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
5. All abstracts accepted for presentation will be collected in a book of abstracts, which will be published on the website after the conference.

Detailed Requirements:
1. The submitting author must ensure that all co-authors are aware of the contents of the abstract.
2. Please select only one presenter for each submission. If you would like to change the presenter after submission, please email us accordingly.

Note: We only accept live presentations.

The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session. Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.

To recognize the research contributions of participants, we are very pleased to announce that instead of limiting poster presentations to a live poster session, all participants have the opportunity to upload and display their research in the form of a poster at the Poster Gallery on the conference website.

Benefits of submitting to our poster gallery
Unlike a live poster session, the poster gallery would be ‘LIVE’ throughout and available for viewing during and permanently after the event:

i) Showcase your research to an international audience
This provides an excellent opportunity for participants to publicize and be recognized by a broader international audience for their research.

ii) Award and Poster Certificate Opportunities
All participants with poster submissions are now eligible for the Best Poster Award, where winners of outstanding poster submissions will receive a certificate and 200 CHF! Moreover, All participants with poster submissions to the poster gallery are also entitled to obtain a poster participation certificate in recognition of their contributions.

All authors with accepted submissions who wish to display a poster in the gallery are invited to email it to iecl2025@mdpi.com. Please be advised that all successfully submitted posters will be permanently displayed online in the poster gallery.

MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.

For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.