Dear Colleagues,

This is a call for papers on the topic of “Advances in Environmental Management and Climate Change”, which has been designed in order to provide stakeholders and decision-makers with guidelines to proactively address the challenges of climate change. The ongoing global warming crisis has been driving a wide range of impacts and natural disasters that are significantly challenging environmental systems worldwide. Furthermore, in the upcoming decades, it is projected that the magnitude and frequency of extreme events (namely, droughts, flash floods, heat waves, soil erosion, crop destruction and forest fires) will tend to increase due to climate change. Hence, the implementation of timely and effective environmental management strategies is critical to respond to climate change.

In this Special Issue, we invite submissions exploring innovation and originality in design, methods and applications that focus on advanced methodologies in environmental management, such as impact and risk assessments that are relevant responses to climate change impacts.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Nature-based solutions to face climate change;
• Ecosystem services in the context of climate change;
• Environmental resource management towards climate resiliency;
• Water management and challenges under changing climates;
• Climate-smart agricultural and forestry practices and options;
• Disaster risk reduction and management.

Dr. Joao Carlos Andrade dos Santos
Dr. André Ribeiro Da Fonseca
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2300 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• climate change
• nature-based solutions
• ecosystem services
• water resources
• hydrological processes
• environmental impact
• extreme weather events
• water quality
• decision making
• food security
• adaptation and mitigation strategies