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 4 to 5 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
Department of Geography, Ghent University, 9000 Ghent, Belgium