Special Issue "Ecosystem Health Services and Healthy living to Face Climate Changes"
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2021.
Special Issue Editors
Interests: ecological biomechanics; healthy lifestyles; ecosystem’s health services
Interests: assessment of physical fitness and exercise prescription, particular in postmenopausal women and old people; potential role of the natural environment in human health and well-being
Interests: exploring current issues and challenges faced by landscapes and the built environment, to create resilient environments, healthy urban landscapes and long-term visions for areas identified for future housing and employment, together with strategies relating to important matters such as climate change, food urbanism and public health and wellbeing; user-based perceptions, experiences and interactions with the environment; exploring the choreographies of landscape experience through which individuals negotiate wellbeing; in-depth nature of person–place interactions and the role of places in the production of loops of “positive states of being”, “enhanced spatial awareness” and specific identities of self
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals
Interests: human exercise physiology; exercise and health; acute and chronic effects of exercise
Interests: ecological biomechanics; biomechanics of the lower limb
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The convergence between the epidemiological evidence that noncommunicable diseases are a major cause of mortality and the holistic health paradigm based on sustainable and healthy lifestyles has been the driving force for the development of a research field focused on the health benefits of human interactions with ecosystems. This research field is an important contribution for the development of socially pleasant and economically comfortable politics to efficiently face climate change, always based on the importance of human interactions with the natural environment to promote healthy lifestyles via different channels of human experience, as a response to the need to preserve the ecosystems and enhance sustainable development of local populations. Therefore, this Special Issue seeks novel scientific papers on the health benefits of human interactions with the ecosystem that, when properly chosen, can lead to improvements on climate change adaptation and mitigation. Especially, but not exclusively, papers on conceptual and methodological advances and on the improvement of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research paradigms are welcome.
Dr. Ronaldo E C D Gabriel
Prof. Maria Helena Rodrigues Moreira
Dr. Sandra Costa
Dr. Catarina Isabel Neto Gavião Abrantes
Dr. Aurélio M. Faria
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- active environment
- climate emergency
- diversity in nature
- ecosystem services
- green and blue exercise
- green and blue space quality
- healthy lifestyles
- outdoor recreation
- sensorial connections with nature