Urban Ecological Security in the Era of Climate Change
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 6450
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban ecological security; river ecology; coastal biogeochemical processes; impacts of climate change
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Interests: urban ecological pattern; processes and influencing mechanisms; landscape ecology and ecological environment planning and management; ecological remote sensing and sustainable urban development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As centers of human production, activity, and life, urban areas are one of the main driving forces of economic and social development. However, they are also zones that contribute emphatically to global climate change and disaster risk. At present, more than half of the world's population live in urban areas where carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are the dominant form of energy use (75%), with significant knock-on effects on the global biogeochemical cycle and climate change. At the same time, climate change has dramatically reinforced stresses on urban eco-environment systems and brought tremendous challenges to urban ecological security, governance systems, and sustainable development. Consequently, urban areas around the world have become actively engaged in responding to natural changes, implementing strategies to both mitigate and adapt to climate change. Urban areas must be comprehensively engineered to improve resilience, enhance adaptive capacity, and construct urban ecological security patterns. This not only involves new technical means, spatial planning, and control, but also involves social organization and governance, among many other aspects. The important topics of urban ecological security in the era of climate change are as follows: ecological security diagnosis or the assessment of urban areas and urban agglomerations; the simulation and prediction of ecological risk; early warning and emergency response technologies for ecological risk; the remediation and improvement of ecological service functions in climate-fragile areas; trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services in urban areas and urban agglomerations; the resilience of ecological security patterns of urban areas and urban agglomerations; the improvement of climate change response mechanisms and governance capabilities. Thus, this Special Issue invites papers on the above topics.
Prof. Dr. Wenzhi Cao
Prof. Dr. Lina Tang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban forms
- climate change
- ecological security and patterns
- resilience
- adaptive capacity
- ecosystem services
- sustainability
- ecological paradigm
- risk assessment and early warning
- nature-based solution
- urban landscape
- coastal zone
- ecological remediation
- modeling and scenario building
- monitoring and assessment
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