Socio-Ecological Systems Sustainability and Resilience
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (4 November 2023) | Viewed by 1714
Special Issue Editors
Interests: coupled human–natural systems; environmental footprint; sustainability; telecoupling
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: sustainability; coupled system analysis
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is a complex coupling relationship between humans and the natural environment. As social development, economic growth and population growth proceed, human society is burdening the Earth’s ecosystem considerably. Globally, we are facing challenges around water scarcity, air pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change and the energy crisis. Inevitably, a deteriorating natural environment and a changing climate are reverberating back to threaten human survival, for example, by increasing the risks related to agricultural production, exacerbating both poverty and inequality, and multiplying the likelihood of conflict.
These complicated socio-ecological systems are products of the close interactions between human beings and nature, which are influenced by internal and external disturbances. The problem has been made even more sophisticated by globalization and distant interactions across the world induced by trade, migration, investment, technology transfer, etc. Building more stable socio-ecological systems and improving their sustainability and resilience will help achieve the sustainable synergistic development of the economic, social and environmental ecology. To achieve this, it is necessary to fully understand the connotation and telecoupling mechanism of socio-ecological systems. We, therefore, propose solutions to enhance the sustainability and resilience of these socio-ecological systems.
This Special Issue solicits both original research and review studies, and research works using interdisciplinary approaches will be most welcome.
Dr. Li Chai
Dr. Shanghong Li
Dr. Li Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- socio-ecological systems
- coupled human–natural systems
- telecoupling
- sustainability
- resilience
- environmental footprint
- climate change
