Using the Climate Smart Communities Approach to Achieve Resilient Communities and Landscapes
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land–Climate Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 10633
Special Issue Editors
Interests: landscape assessment and monitoring; mapping and valuation of culture ecosystem services; mapping techniques including ubiquitous technology tools and participatory workshops
Interests: communicating satoyama initiatives or socio-ecological production landscapes and seascapes (since 2012); walking research; rural development; disaster risk reduction and management; climate change; environmental advocacies; human-nature interaction; solid waste management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate-smart communities, as defined by the National Wildlife Federation (2016), are communities that are equipped to meet new challenges presented by climate change, such as extreme weather events, including heat waves, drought, water shortages, flooding, sea level rise, economic losses, and more. Climate-smart communities use nature-based and adaptive approaches to prepare for the impacts of climate change in ways that support people, wildlife, and habitats. For example, integrated landscape management in agriculture aims to support food production, ecosystem conservation, and rural livelihood across entire landscapes. Climate-smart agricultural landscapes, on the other hand, operate on the aforementioned principles but also integrate adaptation and mitigation into management objectives. Integration is key in climate-smart concepts, encompassing the integration of complex systems such as natural and social systems and the interaction between these two complex systems.
Dr. John Martin
Dr. Joane V. Serrano
Prof. Dr. Lois Mansfield
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- landscape
- climate-smart communities
- landscape management
- climate change
- communities
- climate change adaptation
- integrated landscape management
- climate-smart
- natural and social systems
- natural-based solutions