Climate Resilience Solutions: Integrating Science into Decision-Making

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite submissions to this Special Issue of the MDPI journal Climate, entitled “Climate Resilience Solutions: Integrating Science into Decision-Making”.

Climate change, manifested in the form of change in rainfall patterns, temperatures, expansion of droughts, and extreme climatic events across space and time may lead to numerous consequences in human-environment systems (HES). This may weaken society’s ability to sustain human well-being. Emerged in the field of ecology, resilience thinking recognizes that the HES should evolve to manage for change and disturbances and maintain its original state. There is an increasing interest in the concept of resilience within the context of climate change. It bridges the social and environmental sciences to society’s capacity to adapt and respond to change in climatic condition across space and time. So, understanding the factors that promote resilience, along with the linkages and feedback in HES, is crucial to informing public policies that aim to build resilience.

The aims of this Special Issue is to contribute to an ongoing discussion on climatet resilience, including strategies, choices and actions to reduce the negative consequences of climate change impact on HES. Specifically, this Special Issue aims to assess climate change impacts and generate cutting-edge knowledge, methods, and procedures of climate resilience solutions at the local levels. Papers with focus on specific challenges in dealing with surprises, uncertainty and shocks in urban, coastal, agricultural, and natural systems will be of interest to this Special Issue. We will also welcome papers that examine the relationship between specific ecological, socio-economic and institutional factors that collectively help build resilience of a system in quesrtion.

Dr. Netra Chhetri
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Climate is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.