Optimizing the Production-Living-Ecological (PLE) Space for Achieving SDGs at Regional and Global Scales

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable development is now a global consensus. On September 15, 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit held in New York formulated 17 categories of global development goals for 2015–2030. To achieve SDGs, social, economic, and environmental issues must be addressed in an integrated manner. A scientific challenge that obviously exists in sustainable issues is trade-offs and compensation. The achievement of one SDG is often at the cost of sacrificing or assisting another, leading to new development problems. There are matches between 17 SDGS development goals from the perspective of economy, society, environment with production space, living space, ecological space, respectively. Based on land space, it is convenient for experts in geography, resource science, ecology, and other fields to carry out comprehensive research towards sustainable development at different temporal and spatial scales.

This Special Issue focuses on the latest theories, methods and research results in the fields of multi-approach utilization of land resources, multi-system coupling of energy–water–food, conflict identification and collaboration of “production-living-ecological “ system, multi-index coupling of SDGs, as well as typical cases at regional, national, and global scales.

Prof. Dr. Dong Jiang
Prof. Dr. Lei Liu
Dr. Gang Lin
Dr. Lamin R. Mansaray
Guest Editors

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