Theory and Technology of Watershed Ecological Restoration

Dear Colleagues,

A Special Issue on the theory and technology of watershed ecological restoration, in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, is being organized. For detailed information on the journal, I refer you to https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph.

The 21st century is a century in which humankind really needs to rethink on our relationship with nature. At present, the precious buffers for humankind's future survival, development and adaptation to global change are shrinking rapidly. It is urgent for us to start from the concept of ecological protection and explore ecological technological solutions.

Due to human activity in size and strength, improving the social-economic system has deeply influenced watershed resource systems and ecological systems. The important goal of the protection and restoration of the watershed is to maintain and enhance the regional ecosystem services. Watershed ecosystems include various environmental elements such as mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes, and grasslands. Based on the analysis of ecological-environmental conditions, and the importance of regional ecological functions of the watershed, propose the ecological security pattern composed of the river, riparian zones, and ecological barriers to related threats, such as river pollution, riparian hillside soil erosion, forest barriers, and biodiversity degradation. Reflecting the integrated and systematic requirements and intrinsic logic for watershed protection and restoration, and provides referable indices and quantitative analysis methods for identifying the important areas of watershed ecological protection and restoration, as well as thoughts and ways for constructing ecological security patterns at the watershed scale to realize the systematic protection and restoration of the ecosystem.

Researchers and practitioners in this field have also been looking at advances in watershed ecological restoration, including theoretical systems, technique systems, method systems and multiscale-restoration patterns. Developing strategies for reducing the risk factors, the acute and long term environmental damages, and understanding the cost of watershed ecological restoration in terms of the value realization of ecological products and enhancing the regional ecosystem services.

This Special Issue is open to the subject area of Theory and technology of watershed ecological restoration. The keywords listed below provide an outline of some of the possible areas of interest.

Dr. Shuanning Zheng
Dr. Ye Tian
Guest Editors

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