Ecosystem Service Flows and Human Well-Being Links Under Landscape Change

Dear Colleagues,

Ecosystem services (ESs) are the benefits that people obtain from natural and managed landscapes, encompassing provisioning, regulating, and cultural and educational values. Landscape change driven by climate shifts, land use/land cover change, urbanization, and socio-economic dynamics alters the production, distribution, and flows of these services, with direct implications for human well-being, health, and livelihoods. Integrating ecological processes with social, governance, and health dimensions—through frameworks such as ecosystem health, ES cascades, and landscape zoning—enables better prediction of trade-offs, synergies, and tipping points, and supports evidence-based decision-making for resilient futures. This field is increasingly important for guiding sustainable development, biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, and the equitable distribution of benefits among communities.

The goal of this Special Issue is to collect papers (original research articles and review papers) to provide insights about how landscape change reshapes ecosystem service flows and, in turn, influences human well-being across scales and contexts.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes:

• Landscape change drivers and ecosystem service flows;
• Ecosystem health, well-being, and policy integration;
• Methods, frameworks, and case studies on ES–EH coupling.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Chenwei Shang
Dr. Honglei Jiang
Dr. Lumeng Liu
Dr. Xuening Fang
Guest Editors

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