Land, Ageing, Gender and Environment: Problems and Challenges from Different Disciplines II

Dear Colleagues,

Recent studies argue that we are facing a silent and relatively longstanding socio-environmental crisis. This is based on the evidence, and confirms the need to continue the evaluation and research in several key aspects of land, from different approaches and disciplines. That is, some research exists which is linked to land and gender, but there are fewer studies about older people and green societies. Therefore, the main aim of this Special Issue, in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is to bring together researchers from different fields and open a dialogue regarding some gaps of the land, including ageing and gender relationships.

As a continuation of the last Special Issue on "Land, Ageing, Gender and Environment: Problems and Challenges from Different Disciplines", this second volume Special Issue is open to the submission of previously unpublished works on all aspects of the land, focused on the following:

• Land and environment from sociological, health, psychological, political, technological, economic, communication and engineering sciences.
• Active ageing and dependent old age, i.e., studies on older people’s role in relation to environment and land, with special reference to older women.
• Gender studies regarding environmental issues, land, green economy impacts and different social-spatial habitats (rural–intermediate–urban and residential environments) which favor inclusion, and reflect a feminist and non-ageist perspective.
• Evaluation of programs and initiatives at different levels (education, health, climate change and social climate action, technology, work, circular economy, etc.) whose purpose is related with reducing ageism and the gap between the land and older people and/or promoting sustainable development and public policies.
• Social health addressing land interactions and impacts on health (physical and psychosocial), circular economy and quality of life, from generational and gender perspectives and/or in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and current crisis scenarios.
• Images, stereotypes and attitudes from the different socio-political agents—population, education, employment, mass media, etc.—around any mentioned area, mainly the relationship between environment, land, ageing and gender.
• New technologies and technological and economic approaches contributing to land and the improvement of environmental management, among others. This includes emerging technologies such as agriculture machinery, vertical farming and intelligence applied to land. 

Dr. Vanessa Zorrilla-Muñoz
Prof. Dr. Maria Silveria Agulló-Tomás
Prof. Dr. Eduardo Fernandez
Prof. Dr. Sonia de Lucas Santos
Prof. Dr. Jesus Cuadrado Rojo
Guest Editors

Blanca Criado Quesada
Guest Editor Assistant

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