Special Issue "Urban Forest, Climate Change, Human and Ecosystem Health: An Inextricable Nexus"
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Climate Change".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2024 | Viewed by 1502
Special Issue Editor
Interests: understanding ecological patterns and processes; biogeochemical cycling; climate change; atmospheric pollution; nature conservation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human-induced climate change is causing widespread and dangerous disruptions to nature and affecting the lives of billions of people around the world, despite efforts to reduce climate-related risks. Human-inhabited areas and ecosystems are becoming less able to deal with the consequences of this mounting problem, despite representing the most severely affected entities.
Variations in climate patterns have been directly associated with physical and mental health, also having a strong relationship with natural disasters that pose risks to human and ecosystem health. In addition, the proliferation of vectors and the rise of epidemiological diseases, i.e., arboviruses, will threaten millions of people.
Moreover, there is an urgent need to create mechanisms for adaptation to and mitigation of the ongoing climate change scenario. The IPCC's sixth report showed that the impacts of human actions on Earth's climate are already being felt, highlighting that countries have done little to counteract or mitigate the effects of this crisis. The the need to adapt cities to this future scenario with higher socio-environmental challenges, as well as to promote of environmental and social agendas allied to the Sustainable Development Goals, are emerging issues, especially in low-income countries.
In this sense, urban and peri-urban forests are essential elements in strategic environmental planning aimed at seeking social equality, democratizing the use of green spaces, maintaining biodiversity, and adapting to and mitigating climate change in cities. As such, we invite scholars who work within this field of knowledge to submit their work to this Special Issue and join us in presenting high-level research and publication of new methods to help bring advances in this filed.
Dr. Maurício Lamano Ferreira
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- urban green space
- human well-being
- air pollution
- sustainable cities
- Agenda 2030
- urban biodiversity
- ecosystem processes
- territorial planning
- adaptation to climate change
- human health
