urbanization, land use–land cover change, landscape pattern, green space area, ecosystem services, Jakarta, Changchun, China, air pollution removal, ecosystem assessment, food security, heat mitigation, urban green areas, urban recreation, urban ecosystem services, land cover, Copernicus, land monitoring, CORINE land cover, carbon storage capacity, EAGLE matrix, nature-based solutions, conservative agriculture, erosion protection, water regulation and supply, N balance, ecosystem services flows, land consumption, Italy, ecosystems governance, knowledge, regulations, Urban Agenda for the EU, under-used spaces, urban regeneration, carbon budget, spatiotemporal patterns, drivers, Yangtze River Delta, coupling coordination relationship, Inner Mongolia, deep learning, convolutional neural networks, land consumption mapping, remote sensing, semantic segmentation, urban–rural continuum, land use efficiency, SDG, urban expansions, population dynamics, ecosystem accounting, SEEA-EA, MAES, EAGLE, carbon stock, crop production, Research and information: general

This reprint focuses on monitoring and analysis of the relationship between urbanization and ecosystem services on the different scales. The use of innovative technologies for land cover change monitoring, ecosystem services modeling and mapping, innovation in land use planning, and which highlight the potential of technologies to tackle challenges such as sustainability of urbanization, climate change adaptation, sustainable land management, and food security are of particular interest.