Shared Ecologies: Integrating Urban Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Into Regional Planning
A Special Issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X) belonging to the section "Landscape Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027
Editors
Interests: Urban ecology, Urban physics, Climate adaptation planning, Socio-ecological governance, Urban informality, Nature-based solutions
Interests: Architectural Design and Theory of Regionalism with Digital-Intelligent Technology Support
Interests: Sustainable environmental design, Urban renwewal and ecological planning, Urban morphology studies
Interests: housing affordability; real estate market; urban regeneration; urban planning valuation; landscape accounting and assessment; historic city preservation; multiple criteria decision aid; housing vulnerability and property prices; human vulnerability and human capital
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Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
The harmonious coupling of human and natural systems is a core research theme for sustainable landscape development and regional spatial governance. Driven by intensifying global climate change, frequent extreme heat events and ongoing high-density urbanization, urban built environments and natural landscapes have become increasingly intertwined and mutually interrelated, a trend which exerts growing stress on urban ecosystems, leading to widespread challenges such as biodiversity decline, ecological functional degradation and insufficient climate resilience. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promote the construction of synergistic human settlement systems integrating physical spaces, social dimensions and ecological environments. Such frameworks support the implementation of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) and provide essential guidance for the innovative transformation of regional spatial planning.
Centered on the core values of “Sharing,” “Adaptation,” and “Co-creation” encapsulated by the framework of shared ecologies within human settlement ecosystems, this Special Issue adopts a multi-scale landscape and regional planning perspective to re-examine the evolving connotations, practical challenges, and sustainable transition pathways of urban ecosystems amid ongoing societal and ecological transformation. It aims to explore actionable mechanisms and planning strategies that enable built environments and natural ecological systems to collaboratively cope with intensifying climate risks and high-density urban pressures, thereby enhancing human settlement resilience and advancing the achievement of SDGs. This Special Issue welcomes the submission of both original research articles and review papers from around the globe. We invite international scholars to contribute cutting-edge theoretical insights, empirical findings, technical innovations, and practical case studies.
Relevant topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Nature-based solutions for urban ecosystem adaptation and resilience;
- Ecological performance assessment and optimization of urban blue–green infrastructure;
- Ecological restoration and natural integration in high-density urban contexts;
- Urban biodiversity conservation and community ecological co-creation;
- Urban–rural ecological planning and cross-regional collaborative governance;
- AI-powered techniques and innovative methods for ecological planning and landscape design;
- Policy frameworks, evaluation systems and institutional innovations for urban ecological transitions.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Wenjian Pan
Dr. Xiaoyu Lin
Dr. Han Wang
Dr. Maria Rosa Trovato
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- • Ecosystem-based Adaptation • Urban–rural Ecological Governance • Nature-based Solutions • Regional Ecological Planning • Blue–green Infrastructure • Urban Resilience
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