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Coupled Human and Natural Systems: Interaction, Feedback, and Evolution

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Ecology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 3893

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Guanpeng Dong

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Key Research Institute of Yellow River Civilization and Sustainable Development, Henan University, Kaifeng 475005, China
Interests: spatial and multi-level modelling; regional sustainability; geo-computation
Dr. Binbin Lu

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School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Interests: spatial statistics; statistical software development; regional sustainability

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Human society is facing a number of challenges imposed by global climate change, including global warming and extreme climates. Beyond all doubts, climate change has caused tremendous and, in many situations, irreversible losses to the economy and natural systems. Achieving the UN sustainability goals would require an integrated set of solutions, and a crucial step for devising such solutions is an in-depth understanding on how human and natural systems interact and respond collectively to climate change. Disentangling and quantitatively modeling the interaction and feedback effects between human and natural systems is highly challenging due to the scope, complexities, and non-linearity of such effects. However, great progress has been made in the last two decades, including the development of conceptual frameworks and numerical mathematical models that are able to analyze coupled human and natural systems. Among these models, integrated assessment models exhibit powerful abilities to quantify and predict the impacts of climate change on human and natural systems under a wide range of policy scenarios. Nonetheless, similar to any other method, conceptual and methodological issues remain. Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on the following topics: conceptual framework development for coupled human and natural systems; advances in and novel applications of integrated assessment models in real-world applications with either a global focus or a local focus; and advances in empirical evidence on the impacts of climate change on global or local economies and ecosystems.

Prof. Dr. Guanpeng Dong
Dr. Binbin Lu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • human and natural interactions
  • climate change
  • integrated assessment models
  • economic valuation
  • spatial variability
  • temporal variability

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Effects of Human Activities on Evapotranspiration and Its Components in Arid Areas
by Yunfei Liu, Dongwei Gui, Changjun Yin, Lei Zhang, Dongping Xue, Yi Liu, Zeeshan Ahmed and Fanjiang Zeng
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(4), 2795; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20042795 - 04 Feb 2023
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With the increasing impact of human activities on the environment, evapotranspiration (ET) has changed in arid areas, which further affects the water resources availability in the region. Therefore, understanding the impact of human activities on ET and its components is helpful to the [...] Read more.
With the increasing impact of human activities on the environment, evapotranspiration (ET) has changed in arid areas, which further affects the water resources availability in the region. Therefore, understanding the impact of human activities on ET and its components is helpful to the management of water resources in arid areas. This study verified the accuracy of Fisher’s model (PT-JPL model) for ET estimation in southern Xinjiang, China by using the evaporation complementarity theory dataset (AET dataset). The ET and the evapotranspiration components (T:E) of six land-use types were estimated in southern Xinjiang from 1982 to 2015, and the impact of human activities on ET was analyzed. In addition, the impact of four environmental factors (temperature (Temp), net radiation (Rn), relative humidity (RH), and NDVI) on ET were evaluated. The results showed that the calculated ET values of the PT-JPL model were close to the ET values of the AET dataset. The correlation coefficient (R2) was more than 0.8, and the NSE was close to 1. In grassland, water area, urban industrial and mining land, forest land, and cultivated land, the ET values were high, and in unused land types, the ET values were the lowest. The T:E values varied greatly in urban industrial and mining land, forest land, and cultivated land, which was due to the intensification of human activities, and the values were close to 1 in summer in recent years. Among the four environmental factors, temperature largely influenced the monthly ET. These findings suggest that human activities have significantly reduced soil evaporation and improved water use efficiency. The impact of human activities on environmental factors has caused changes in ET and its components, and appropriate oasis expansion is more conducive to regional sustainable development. Full article
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How Do Ecological and Recreational Features of Waterfront Space Affect Its Vitality? Developing Coupling Coordination and Enhancing Waterfront Vitality
by Lihua Chen and Yuan Ma
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(2), 1196; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20021196 - 10 Jan 2023
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People are increasingly concerned with natural environment quality (NEQ) as well as recreation services (RS) as the popularity of natural experiences grows. Specifically, public spaces in ecologically sensitive areas must achieve coordinated eco-recreational development. Waterfront spaces fall into this category, providing a high-quality [...] Read more.
People are increasingly concerned with natural environment quality (NEQ) as well as recreation services (RS) as the popularity of natural experiences grows. Specifically, public spaces in ecologically sensitive areas must achieve coordinated eco-recreational development. Waterfront spaces fall into this category, providing a high-quality natural environment and facilitating various recreational activities. This paper uses two waterfront spaces, Foshan New City Riverfront Park and Nanhai Qiandeng Lake Park, as sample sites, divides 22 waterfront space samples into specific research objects, introduces dual variables for RS function and NEQ, and uses mathematical and statistical methods, such as Pearson correlation analysis, coupling coordination degree calculation, and redundancy analysis, to investigate the influence of different waterfront spaces on RS function and NEQ. Finally, we propose an optimization strategy for coupling and coordinating the development of the RS function and the NEQ of waterfront space. This paper found the following: (1) RS (number of public facilities) and natural environment quality (shoreline curvature) are the dominant factors in the vitality of waterfront space; (2) optimization of RS function will restrict the development of NEQ to a certain extent; and (3) the coupling and coordination of NEQ and RS function are positively related to the vitality of waterfront space. This study can be valuable for government officials and waterfront space planners as they develop social–ecological synergy models. Full article
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