Our Future Earth and Sustainable Ecological Environment and Society—2nd Edition
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 49
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human geography and urban-rural planning; eco-geography; land use/cover change and eco-environmental effects; application of remote sensing and geographic information technology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: disaster-causing mechanism of mountain disasters such as debris flow; risk dynamic; research on disaster information system
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: landscape architecture; urban climate change
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: landscape ecology; green infrastructure; landscape architecture planning and design
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the context of global climate change, anti-globalization and the new coronavirus pandemic, rapid environmental changes pose urgent challenges to sustainable development, causing increased difficulty in achieving goals such as justice, poverty eradication and environmental protection. Environmental, resource use and sustainable development issues are becoming major challenges to the future of our Earth; the mission of our time is to effectively undertake sustainable development. Therefore, we believe that this is a perfect time to explore the intricate issues, assumptions and themes of this field with new theoretical perspectives, interdisciplinary methods and multi-source data.
In response to the Future Earth Initiative and the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, we invite you to share your innovative research in the field of the ecological environment and society by submitting to this Special Issue of the journal Sustainability by MDPI, entitled "Our Future Earth and Sustainable Ecological Environment and Society—2nd Edition”. The main purpose of our Special Issue is to discuss trends, driving mechanisms and interactions between environmental and social systems, as well as the major issues of food, water, energy and health for sustainable human development. We would like to focus on the interrelationship between humans and the Earth's environment, as advocated by the Future Earth Initiative, by incorporating human ecology. With a methodological emphasis on the intersection between the natural and social sciences, new theoretical perspectives are encouraged, in addition to the wide us of field surveys, in-depth interviews, participatory methods, experiments, remote sensing and GIS, geostatistical techniques, intelligent computing, prediction and simulation. We hope that the findings and policy implications of this research will help us to highlight the latest advances in the field of the sustainable ecological environment and society and outline possible issues that need to be further explored. Ultimately, this research will lay the groundwork to provide a solid scientific basis and technological support for global and regional sustainable development.
Dr. Wei Shui
Prof. Dr. Qiang Zou
Dr. Xianhui Feng
Dr. Feng Yue
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.
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. Sustainability 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 2400 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.
Keywords
- social ecology
- human environment
- ecosystem services
- biodiversity
- ecological products
- food–energy–water
- livelihoods
- immigrants
- risk management
- resilient society
- climate change
- monitoring and assessment
- simulation
