Ecology and Sustainability: The Path to a Sustainable Future
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 1289
Special Issue Editor
Interests: carbon and water biogeochemical cycles; ecosystem ecology; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
On Earth, at least two variables are changing in a non-sustainable way: the atmospheric chemical composition and species richness. These changes are both induced by human activities, either through the use of fuels or the increasing amount of land exploited, particularly in tropical regions, for agriculture, pastures, and forest harvesting.
Contrasting perspectives are currently expressed in the scientific and societal communities: some, including the United Nations, suggest that the trend toward greenhouse gas concentration increase and the depletion of the terrestrial genetic richness can be stopped or even reversed with technical solutions, based on increased efficiency in the home or in food, transport, and industrial systems. Others believe that the economic pillar of sustainability must be reconsidered, and that continuous global growth cannot be maintained in the long term.
This Special Issue aims to collect existing and new ideas and perspectives to set out on a path toward long-term sustainability, beyond the current attention to the processes leading to the ecological transition away from fossil fuel consumption. It aims to delineate which conditions, in terms of the human population, individual gross production, and consumption, can be foreseen in the future, for instance in the year 2100, to attain sustainable societal conditions at a global level.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions, including reviews and novel ideas, from a technical, sociological, economical, and ecological perspective, with the aim of shepherding our planet towards a sustainable future.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Leonardo Montagnani
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ecology: greenhouse gasses
- population
- future
- growth
