Climate Change and Human Activities Impact on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
A special issue of Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818). This special issue belongs to the section "Biogeography and Macroecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 1513
Special Issue Editors
Interests: landscape ecology; coupled human-natural system; sustainable development
Interests: integrated physical geography; land change science; ecosystem service; environmental remote sensing; ecological assessment
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: ecohydrology; sociohydrology; ecosystem services and socio-ecological systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The open-access journal Diversity (EISSN 1424-2818, IF 3.031) is pleased to announce the launch of a new Special Issue entitled “Climate Change and Human Activities Impact on Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau”.
Climate change and human activities are the most defining concerns of today’s world, and have greatly reshaped, or are in the process of altering, Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems. As the highest natural geographical unit and the “third pole” on Earth, the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau is particularly vulnerable to climate change and human activities. In the context of ongoing climate and anthropogenic changes on the plateau, social-ecological feedbacks had profound impacts resulting in a series of environmental and ecological problems. Moreover, economic development and ecological conservation are still in conflict on the plateau due to climate change, human activities and their synergistic interactions. Therefore, exploring socio-ecological systems dynamics and their driving factors may provide scientific knowledge to better manage the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau’s natural ecosystem. This Special Issue aims to bring together multidisciplinary scientists and specialists to develop ecological and/or social approaches that can improve our understanding of the impacts of climate change and human activities on terrestrial ecosystems, and therefore contribute to the sustainable ecological management of the plateau.
Prof. Dr. Tao Lu
Prof. Dr. Jie Gong
Prof. Dr. Shuai Wang
Prof. Dr. Lynn Huntsinger
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- anthropogenic disturbance
- land use/land cover change
- ecological and environmental effects
- driving factors
- sustainable development goals
- nature–human interactions
- ecosystem services
- infrastructure development
- urbanization process
- livestock grazing
- risk assessment
