Integrate Landscape Ecology and Landscape Architecture to Approach Urban Resilience and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2021) | Viewed by 28677
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban ecology; exposure ecology; urban climate; environmental remote sensing
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: urban resilience; green infrastructure; stormwater management; planning support system
Interests: built environment and public health and well-being; environmental justice; sustainable urban landscapes
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
More than half of the world’s population reside in cities, and urban resilience and sustainability have become the focus of widespread attention from all walks of life. Making cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable has been selected as one of goals in the UN Sustainable Development Goals Report for three consecutive years (2016–2018). Landscape ecology is ready to contribute to this challenge in an interdisciplinary model, in which theoretical research is integrated with planning, design, and applications. In order to systematically discuss related research progress and thinking, this Special Issue is dedicated to integrating knowledge or methodology in landscape ecology and landscape architecture to recognize and explore factors, mechanisms or pathways better promoting and implementing sustainable development and resilience.
The Special Issue will include but not be limited to:
- Integrated frameworks or methods to address sustainability or resilience;
- Factors, mechanisms or pathways in landscape ecology or landscape architecture contributing to sustainable development;
- Mitigation and adaption to climate changes, disturbances or uncertainties in the future through resilience lenses;
- The differences of strategies and policies forming in urban and rural areas to achieve sustainable development or resilience;
- Real-world applications or cases for implementation of sustainability and resilience strategies or policies;
- Theoretical and practical research based on the framework of nature-based solutions.
Studies focusing on urban resilience and sustainability integrated the landscape ecology and landscape architecture are welcome.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zhaowu Yu
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Xin Fu
Assoc. Prof. Dr. (Tenured) Bin Jiang
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yan Zhou
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- integration
- sustainable development
- urban resilience
- blue-green infrastructure
- ecosystem services
- landscape ecology
- urban ecology
- nature-based solution
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