Green Development: Rural Communities, Resilience and Sustainability—Second Edition

Dear Colleagues,

As complex whole systems, rural communities all have their own natural ecology, economic production, and social life. Rural communities are defined as areas with close interaction between humans and nature. Here, humans change the natural environment through their actions, and the environment responds to the impacts of the humans occupying it. However, climate change is posing enormous challenges for the world’s rural development. Disasters, famines, and diseases are all closely connected to climate change. The above scenarios force us to reflect on the development paradigm established after the Industrial Revolution and necessitate the development of a more efficient methodology for building resilient villages. Rural areas around the world are rapidly being transformed by industrialization, which is a process accompanied by climate change, environmental pollution, and reduced comfort. Rural communities are part of a complete and complex ecosystem consisting of humans, animals, crops, resources, the environment, the climate, and other elements, which form an energy cycle. For example, farming and planting are mutually supportive activities: animal manure can be used as fertilizer for planting, and plants can be used as animal feed. However, the industrialization model manages these elements separately, resulting in the energy cycle breaking, resulting in a series of ecological and environmental problems. A new development paradigm to improve resilience and achieve sustainability for rural communities is thus urgently needed. Green development is a mode of economic growth and social development that aims to achieve efficiency, harmony, and sustainability and provide a foundation for the harmonious coexistence of human and nature in rural communities. Therefore, for this Special Issue, we invite the submission of papers addressing green development, rural communities, and resilient villages.

Dr. Xin Deng
Guest Editor

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• green development
• rural community
• resilient countryside
• rural vulnerability
• rural development risk
• ecological restoration
• sustainable land use
• digital village
• climate change and response
• ecological agriculture

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