Remote Sensing of Human-Environment Interactions

Dear Colleagues,

We are calling for papers for a Special Issue on “Remote Sensing of Human-Environment Interactions”. Due to the rapid increase in the global human population, its re-distribution through migration, and associated economic growth, the direct and indirect human footprint on the natural environment has never been larger and it is increasing in areal extent and intensity, seriously threatening the welfare of future generations. Humans are extracting increasingly more resources from the environment, including, but not limited to, unprecedented use of fertile land for urban expansion, agricultural land extensification and intensification for food production, timber harvesting, freshwater usage, and mineral, gas and oil excavation, all of which have profound environmental and social consequences. On the other hand, the waste matter coming out of the human system in solid, liquid or gaseous forms, and entering into the atmosphere and/or water system, further compromises the vital ecosystem services that the natural environment provides and the health and well-being of humans require. At the same time, tremendous efforts have been invested by national and international agencies and government organizations in conservation of the existing vital ecosystems, restoration of the degraded environments, and creative management for sustainable use of key natural resources. Remote Sensing provides an indispensable tool to monitor, visualize, analyze, and model human-environment interactions for better understanding of what has happened in the past and the consequences of the future. Linking geospatial data to remotely sensed data to characterize people, environment, and their interactions is vital to implementing and accomplishing sustainable development involving the integration of policy actors across multiple sectors and levels of government. To stimulate more research on human–environment interactions using remotely sensed data in both the continental and island settings and its international dissemination, we call for papers on a range of topics in this Special Issue, such as

(1) Urban-agricultural land use dynamics and the social-ecological consequences.
(2) Natural resource management programs or environmental policies.
(3) Deforestation and reforestation and other environmental restoration programs.
(4) Mining, fracking and other forms of extraction of underground natural resources.
(5) Social-ecological impacts of tourism and population migration.
(6) Island ecosystems and challenges to their sustainability.

Prof. Stephen J. Walsh
Prof. Conghe Song
Guest Editors

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