New Insight into Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (26 January 2024)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: energy technologies and demand management; systems thinking and education for sustainability; integrative methods and trans-disciplinary skills; modern methods of construction; trust and knowledge in socio-technical systems
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Interests: Greenhouse gas accounting, climate change mitigation, analysis of industrial energy use, resource efficiency, behavioural change, stakeholder engagement
Interests: sustainability project evaluation research; the use of language analytic methods to contribute to evaluation research; practitioner learning and sense-making; evaluation research methods and theory development
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Special Issue Information
Climate change poses a significant and pressing environmental challenge that necessitates urgent and widespread decarbonization efforts, as well as the enhancement of adaptive capacity to cope with extreme climate events. This is particularly important for those geographical regions, technical sectors and socio-ecological groups that are most vulnerable to the phenomenon. The response capacity to climate change (mitigation and adaptation) is highly dependent on societal development pathways or trajectories that are defined by complex combinations of technological, institutional and cultural characteristics.
This Special Issue will focus on research which explores the form that these adaptive socio-technical pathways are taking and might take into the future. It will pay particular attention, but will not be restricted to, how vulnerable communities might engage with, and benefit from, these climate related mitigation and adaptation pathways. While the focus of the Special Issue will be on case based research, theoretical articles relating to socio-technical systems and climate change will be welcome providing it is clear how they might contribute to that research.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- More efficient community use of water, land, forests or other natural resources.
- Management of natural resources to sustain livelihoods.
- More efficient energy use and use of renewables to promote local development.
- Urban planning, building design and waste recycling have benefits for both mitigation and adaptation.
- Research into the socio-cultural dimensions that can promote or inhibit mitigation and adaptation.
- Management of socio-ecological systems that enhance local resilience.
- Technological, institutional, environmental and geophysical dimensions of WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene).
Prof. Dr. Mark Lemon
Dr. Leticia Ozawa-Meida
Dr. Andrew Mitchell
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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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
- • Climate change responses
- • Mitigation and adaptation
- • Sustainable development
- • Climate resilience
- • Decarbonisation
- • Renewable energy and energy efficiency
- • Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)
- • Low-carbon innovation
