Environmental Risks, Sustainability Challenges and Anthropogenic Impacts in Natural and Industrial Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Environmental systems are increasingly shaped by interactions among natural processes, climate variability, and anthropogenic pressures. A deeper understanding of environmental risks, the effects of industrial and extractive activities on ecosystems, and the development of technical approaches for sustainability assessment has become essential across many scientific and engineering domains.

This Special Issue welcomes methodological, analytical, and application-oriented studies addressing environmental risks, sustainability indicators, anthropogenic impacts, and their inter-relationships within natural, industrial, rural, and extractive environments. Interdisciplinary contributions integrating environmental sciences, engineering, sustainability assessment, and risk analysis are particularly encouraged.

The suggested topics related to this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Environmental risk assessment in natural, industrial, and extractive systems;
• Quantification of anthropogenic impacts on air, water, soil, and ecosystems;
• Environmental changes driven by industrial, mining, or energy-related activities;
• Sustainability indicators and technical approaches for environmental evaluation;
• Climate–environment interactions affecting natural and industrial processes;
• Environmental pressures associated with land use, resource extraction, or waste generation;
• Methods and technologies for environmental monitoring and early-warning systems;
• Chemical, thermal, or mechanical impacts of industrial processes on the environment;
• Assessment of environmental hazards related to fluids, heat transfer, and mass transport;
• Impacts of contaminated sites, mine tailings, and industrial residues on environmental quality;
• Technical strategies for reducing environmental risks in industrial or extractive operations;
• Data-driven or computational methods for analyzing environmental risks and impacts;
• Physical and chemical processes governing environmental pollution and degradation.

Dr. Ricardo Castedo Ruiz
Guest Editor

Dr. Marta Fernandez-Hernandez
Guest Editor Assistant

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