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

Dr. Ronaldo E C D Gabriel
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Department of Sport Sciences, Exercise and Health, Centre for the Research and Technology in Agro-Environmental and Biological Sciences (CITAB), University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Quinta de Prados, 5000-801 Vila Real, Portugal
Interests: ecological biomechanics; healthy lifestyles; ecosystem’s health services
Prof. Maria Helena Rodrigues Moreira
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Department of Sport Science, Exercise and Health; Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD)
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
Dr. Sandra Costa
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Birmingham School of Architecture and Design, Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, Birmingham City University, Birmingham B4 7BD, UK
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
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Dr. Catarina Isabel Neto Gavião Abrantes
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Research Centre in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development, CIDESD, GERON Research Community; Department of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), Portugal
Interests: human exercise physiology; exercise and health; acute and chronic effects of exercise
Dr. Aurélio M. Faria
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Department of Sport Science / [email protected] Lab - Biomechanics Laboratory of the Human Movement / Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD)/ Universidade da Beira Interior, Bairro Nossa Senhora da Conceicão, 6200-323 Covilhã Portugal
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

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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

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Green Infrastructure Offset the Negative Ecological Effects of Urbanization and Storing Water in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(21), 8077; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218077 - 02 Nov 2020
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Land use planning usually increases the uncertainties of the ecosystem structures and functions because various human demands usually bring both positive and negative ecological effects. It is critical for estimating various land use changes and their ecological effects, but the previous studies have [...] Read more.
Land use planning usually increases the uncertainties of the ecosystem structures and functions because various human demands usually bring both positive and negative ecological effects. It is critical for estimating various land use changes and their ecological effects, but the previous studies have failed to decouple the respective and the combined effects of different land use changes on ecosystem services. Net primary productivity (NPP) could be used to indicate many ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and storage. Here, we employed a light use efficiency model to estimate the spatial and temporal dynamics of NPP in the Three Gorges Reservoir (TGR) area from 2000 to 2015, and designed four scenarios to analyze the relative roles of afforestation, urbanization and storing water on NPP dynamics. Our results documented that terrestrial NPP of the TGR area increased from 547.40 gC•m−2 to 629.96 gC•m−2, and carbon sequestration capacities were 31.66 TgC (1Tg = 1012g) and 36.79 TgC in 2000 and 2015, respectively. Climate change and land use change both could contribute to carbon sequestration with 4.08 TgC and 1.05 TgC. Among these land use changes, only afforestation could sequester carbon with 2.04 TgC, while urbanization-induced and impoundment-induced emissions were 0.12 TgC and 0.32 TgC, respectively, and other land use changes also could release 0.55 TgC of carbon. This finding suggested that although positive and negative environmental effects happened simultaneously over the past decades, green infrastructure could effectively offset the carbon emissions from urbanization and storing water in the TGR area, which provides some fundamental supports for further ecological restoration and contributes to empowering land use policies towards carbon sequestration and storage at the regional scale. Full article
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