Management Countermeasures of Ecosystem Degradation
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2023) | Viewed by 3606
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecosystem service value; land use chage; carbon sources/sinks analysis; resource use and environment policy
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Interests: remote sensing; water resources; machine learning; data fusion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the increasingly prominent global environmental problems and the introduction of the "Anthropocene" at the beginning of the 21st century, ecosystem degradation has become a hot topic of global change research. With natural and human-induced disturbances, the imbalanced state of ecosystems has seriously threatened the provision of ecosystem services, which are the basis of production and livelihood, and may further affect human survival and public health. The increasing risks of land use change, food security, water shortage, air pollution, soil erosion, etc., have unpredictable consequences for a series of ecosystems and social sustainability. Ecosystem degradation further leads to reductions in biodiversity and endangers human health and well-being. In the context of the new era, it is urgent to promote the cognitive and adaptive management of complex ecosystems and the building of a community of human destiny by studying the degradation processes of terrestrial, aquatic, and atmospheric ecosystems and their impacts on regional socio-economic and natural environment changes.
This Special Issue invites papers on the following topics, especially those that combine high academic standards and practice focusing on providing ecosystem degradation solutions:
- Assessment and monitoring of complex human–natural ecosystems;
- Assessment of ecosystem service value;
- Water scarcity and management;
- Ecosystem restoration and reconstruction;
- Urban ecosystem health assessment;
- Impact of environmental policies on ecosystem degradation;
- Carbon sequestration and sink enhancement in terrestrial ecosystems.
Dr. Pengyan Zhang
Dr. Wenlong Jing
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ecosystem degradation
- complex human–natural ecosystem
- water scarcity
- urban ecosystem health
- environmental policies
- assessment
