United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Land-Use Systems from Resource-Nexus Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, the demand for natural resources has been rapidly growing, causing serious impacts, risks, and threats to humans on different scales. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address the more serious problems. Therefore, it is necessary to manage nature resources in a more sustainable manner, considering an integrated approach to the interdependencies of resource use to achieve the SDGs. In future, scientific concerns should include the interrelationships between resources, their synergistic trade-off mechanisms with the Sustainable Development Goals, and modeling approaches to the SDGs from a policy perspective.

This Special Issue (SI) focuses on discussing how to address the issue of land-resource misallocation hindering regional sustainable development from a resource-nexus perspective. We will discuss the ability of a nexus approach to assess critical interlinkages across natural resources (water, energy, food, materials, and land), along their value chains, and to enable sustainable resource-use pathways, particularly with respect to the SDGs concerning food (SDG 2), water (SDG 6), energy (SDG 7), cities (SDG 11), and production and consumption (SDG 12). This provides an opportunity for scholars around the world, including environmental scientists, geographers, ecologists, and natural resource scientists, to share their multidisciplinary knowledge. We encourage submissions on the integration of natural-resource coupling into land-use transformation research, and land-use transformation regulation strategies from the perspective of the water–energy–food–materials–ecological nexus. This not only helps to further improve theoretical land-use transformation systems, but also provides a new research perspective for land-system optimization and regional sustainable development.

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

1. Sustainable utilization of land resources;
2. Coupled simulation of resource systems;
3. Utilization of water, soil, and energy resources under the SDGs;
4. The constraining relationship between the misallocation of land resources and sustainable development;
5. Contribution of the reutilization of abandoned land resources to the SDGs;
6. Land-use optimization for sustainable development.

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

Dr. Jingying Fu
Prof. Dr. Dong Jiang
Dr. Gang Lin
Guest Editors

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