This issue heads into the wild, with coverage of the reintroduction of beavers, mink control in Scotland, and the benefits of rewilding.

The world’s most comprehensive mapping project is uncovered in this issue, which also looks at the value of technology from blockchain and drones to the so-called ‘internet of bins’.

World Heritage Sites can be both a blessing and a curse – as this issue’s lead article contends.

We have to understand the value of natural capital in order to protect and conserve it. This edition dedicates itself to the subject, offering interesting options and case studies to consider.

Welcome to the new-look Land Journal, with a fresh, cleaner design.

UK agriculture is at a break point, according to this issue’s lead article, while reports from Africa look at the challenges the continent faces in creating sustainable cities, and the impact of the recent drought in Cape Town.

This issue asks whether lessons can be learned from the US suburb of Levittown, Pennsylvania in building affordable homes quickly and cheaply in the UK today. Articles also cover the different ways that cities around the world use land for housing, and barriers faced by town and parish councils in Northamptonshire in taking up neighbourhood plans.

Ash dieback disease hit the headlines in 2012 with predictions of devastation, but then seemed to be forgotten. Yet in the intervening years it has continued to spread and is now threatening millions of trees across the UK.

The UK faces some significant challenges over the next decade sourcing its energy and maintaining security of supply.

There is a revolution going on in the development and application of satellite technology, and much of it is highly relevant to surveyors.

The notion of selling nature seems, at first, to be rather uncouth. You might wonder what a romantic poet such as Wordsworth would have made of it.

In this Land Journal we look at how financial technology "fintech" and cadastres that can use digital currencies have positive applications in land and real-estate transactions.

It may be hard to believe at the moment, but there is more to life than Brexit — as, I hope, this issue of Land Journal demonstrates.

Our lead article by the eminent Stig Enemark — well-known to many of you — is entitled “Supporting the 2030 global agenda”, and examines the need for sound land governance and administration as well as the importance of land issues in the Sustainable Development Goals.