Soundscape in Urban Forests - 2nd Edition
A special issue of Acoustics (ISSN 2624-599X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 225
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soundscape; biophilic design; public health; urban forests; quiet habitat
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Interests: soundscape and landscape planning and design; landscape ecology; ecological planning; landscape resource management
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Interests: forest management; forest policy; land-use change; conservation; ecosystems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The World Health Organization (WHO) has the goal of reducing citizens' exposure to community noise in urban and suburban areas. Urban forests contribute to a healthy environment for the public in high-density cities. Soundscapes play a positive health-related role in urban areas, especially in natural soundscapes in urban forests. The effects are not limited to psychological and physical rehabilitation but also have ecological significance, such as protecting the acoustic environment for animal communication in forested areas. Additionally, soundscape perception is closely related to other perceptions, contributing to the visiting experience in urban forests. These facts demonstrate that soundscapes in urban forests have profound connotations worth further exploration.
Thus, we propose this Special Issue, “Soundscape in Urban Forests - 2nd Edition”. We welcome submissions of original research articles, reports, technical notes, reviews, and mini-reviews covering topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Ecological patterns and processes of forest soundscapes;
- Boundary effects and perceptual topology;
- Natural soundscape and human health;
- Experience of multi-sensory interactions;
- Environmental behavior and cognitive disposition;
- Soundscape resource management in forests.
You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Forests.
Dr. Xin-Chen Hong
Prof. Dr. Jiang Liu
Dr. Guangyu Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural soundscape
- ecological pattern of soundscape
- multi-sensory interaction
- soundscape resource management
- environmental behavior
- environmental health
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