Permafrost Landscape Response to Global Change II

Dear Colleagues,

Since the last Special Issue "Permafrost Landscape Response to Global Change" was launched, it has received active attention from many of our colleagues. Permafrost landscapes, which occupy about a quarter of the world's land area, have now changed their appearance and structure due to global changes in recent decades. Studying the characteristics of the reaction of permafrost landscapes to modern climate changes and anthropogenic impacts is an urgent problem in the contemporary world. Human adaptation to modern permafrost landscapes is necessary for the development of northern regions with a peculiar economy and culture. The solution to this problem is impossible without scientific research on theoretical aspects and new methods of studying the dynamics and response of permafrost landscapes, including monitoring observations, retrospective analysis, and predictive modelling of future development.

The new Special Issue still aims to provide a collection of papers on the following topics:

• Theory and methodology of permafrost landscape studies.
• Remote sensing and geographical information system (GIS) modelling in permafrost landscapes dynamics studies, including a new mapping method.
• Monitoring, successions, transformation, and degradation of permafrost landscapes.
• The current status of permafrost landscape change and related environmental issues, land use change.
• Permafrost landscape sensitivity to climate change and anthropogenic impacts.
• Retrospective analysis of permafrost landscape conditions in late Pleistocene and Holocene. Modelling of permafrost landscapes development in the future.
• The adaptation of people to environmental changes in permafrost landscape.

Dr. Alexander N. Fedorov
Dr. Yoshihiro Iijima
Guest Editors

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• permafrost landscape
• classification and mapping
• remote sensing and GIS analysis
• sensitivity to climate change
• transformation and degradation
• retrospective analysis and modelling
• adaptation