Urban Greening Strategies and Sustainable Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 5444
Special Issue Editor
Interests: coastal environmental change and ecological restoration; urban biodiversity; ecological planning and evaluation; carbon emission estimation and sustainable development
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to the aims of the Paris Agreement (IPCC 2018), we should limit global climate change to below 2 °C above pre-industrial temperatures. The impacts of climate change on human health and welfare as well as natural ecosystems are ubiquitous. The severity of future impacts will increase with large carbon emissions from some ecosystems.
Green spaces including parks, street trees, urban nature preserves, urban forests, green roofs, and pocket gardens are of great importance for habitability and environment quality of cities.
Vegetation in urban areas can sequester and store a large amount of carbon. However, it is different from natural vegetation such as forests and grasslands; human activities have strong and increasing influences on urban vegetation (e.g., management, pruning and energy use) which can further affect carbon source/sink dynamics. Thus, urban vegetation maybe become a net carbon source because of the highly intensive use of resources (e.g., water, energy, fertilizer, pesticides, and labor).
Therefore, it is urgently required to make more sustainable urban greening strategies and sustainable solutions for climate change adaptation, both to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for climate change mitigation and to adapt to climate change.
The aim of this Special Issue is to show sustainability in urban greening, focused on the planning, design, policy and management of urban green space. The purpose of this research collection is to add information on:
- Strategies of urban greening to further reduce carbon emissions.
- Sustainable solutions for urban greening for climate change adaptation.
- More low-carbon and sustainable urban landscape planning and design.
- More resilient and adaptive management measures.
- Improving environment quality and human health.
The keywords listed below provide an outline of some of the possible areas of interest.
Papers selected for this Special Issue will undergo a rigorous peer-review process with the goal of the rapid and broad dissemination of research findings, developments, and applications.
Prof. Dr. Weiqing Meng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- climate change
- urban greening
- landscape architecture
- sustainable solutions
- carbon emissions
- urban forestry
- urban ecology
- urban health
- landscape planning
- urban planning and design
- management of urban vegetation
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