Social Ecology and Sustainability
A section of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Section Information
Social ecology is an inter- and transdisciplinary field of science concerned with the analysis of society–nature interaction on all relevant organizational, spatial, as well as temporal levels and scales. By combining expertise from social and natural sciences as well as the humanities, and by integrating knowledge from practitioners, social ecology aims at providing the knowledge basis for efforts to move towards sustainability. Transitions between different socioecological regimes—for example, hunter-gatherers, agrarian societies and industrial society—as well as possible socio-ecological transformations toward sustainability represent key areas of inquiry.
Thematically, social ecology includes:
- the analysis of resource use patterns, including materials, energy, water and land;
- the management of these resources;
- their institutional, social, cultural and economic dimensions;
- implications of resource use for climate change, biodiversity, ecosystems and other environmental aspects;
- established and emerging issues, such as food production, circular economy, sharing economy or other concepts for reorganizing physical economies;
- the role of power relations in society;
- trade-offs and synergies of options for moving toward sustainability;
- and leverage points for, as well as barriers to sustainability transformations.
Accordingly, the section “Social Ecology and Sustainability” is interested in:
- research articles,
- conceptual articles,
- review articles,
- and commentaries,
covering the whole breadth of social ecology related to sustainability concerns.
In particular, “Social Ecology and Sustainability” welcomes contributions by early career researchers and propositions for special issues on a single, particular theme in the field of social ecology and sustainability.
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Special Issues
Following special issues within this section are currently open for submissions:
- Urban Governance, Citizenship and Social Vulnerability (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Towards a Net Zero-Carbon Built Environment: Metrics and Pathways (Deadline: 31 August 2021)
- Sustainable Rural Futures (Deadline: 15 September 2021)
- Nutrient Recovery from Wastewater: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Prospects (Deadline: 21 September 2021)
- Placing Climate Action (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Public Food Procurement: A Transformative Instrument for Sustainable Food Systems (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Sustainability and Ecosystem Health: How to Balance Development and Conservation with Rapid Global Changes? (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Landscape Analysis, Planning and Regional Development (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Climate Change and Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Social Ecology, Climate Resilience and Sustainability in the Tropics (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Circular Economy for Sustainable Manufacturing (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Social-Ecological Systems and Marine Plastic Pollution (Deadline: 30 September 2021)
- Exploring Relationships between Digitalization and Sustainability (Deadline: 1 October 2021)
- Ecosystem Services Modelling, Assessment and Management under Changing Environment (Deadline: 10 October 2021)
- Social, Cultural, and Ecological Resilience for Sustainability (Deadline: 11 October 2021)
- Sustainable Water Use (Deadline: 15 October 2021)
- Bringing Governance Back Home — Lessons for Local Government regarding Rapid Climate Action (Deadline: 15 October 2021)
- Circular Economy: Unravelling the Business Model of Resource Recovery (Deadline: 23 October 2021)
- Frontier Research on Sustainable Coastal Wetland Ecosystem (Deadline: 30 October 2021)
- Crop Management: How to Affect the Greenhouse Gases and the Regulation of Plant Metabolism (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Air Quality: Sustainability of Human Society (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Toward a Next-Generation Biomonitoring of Ecological Systems in the Framework of Sustainability (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Marine Benthic Ecology and Climate Change (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Sustainable Industrial Systems—from Theory to Practice (Deadline: 31 October 2021)
- Tropical Dry Forest Restoration in an Era of Global Change: Ecological and Social Dimensions (Deadline: 12 November 2021)
- Regional Ecology and Sustainability (Deadline: 15 November 2021)
- Sustainable Marketing and Consumers’ Food Preference (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Sustainable Ecological Environment Restoration (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Environmental Development and Sustainability: Monitoring, Assessment, and Adaptation (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Sustainable Urban-Industrial Symbiosis (Deadline: 30 November 2021)
- Social Impact Assessment: Methodology and Practice for Sustainable Value Chains (Deadline: 15 December 2021)
- Sustainable Urban Development and Growth Management (Deadline: 15 December 2021)
- Ecosystem Services from Natural Resources Managed by the Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (Deadline: 15 December 2021)
- Sustainable Land Management for Forests under Climate Change (Deadline: 15 December 2021)
- Sustainable Ecological Efficiency (Deadline: 15 December 2021)
- Industrial Ecology for Sustainable Development (Deadline: 20 December 2021)
- Close to Nature Forestry – Hope for the European Green Deal (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Sustainable Agri-Food Systems: Environment, Economy, Society and Policy (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Mediatization of Social Sustainability: Paradigm of Explication and Understanding of the Environment, Society and the Economy (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Assessment of Ecosystem Services at Different Scales (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Rural-Urban Transformation of Asian Megacities from a Social-Ecological Systems Perspective (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Urban Management Based on the Concept of Sustainable Development (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- The Application of AI, Big Data and Remote Sensors in Sustainable Agricultural Irrigation (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- From Waste to Value-Added Products: Environmental Challenges, Potentialities, and Perspectives for a Circular Economy (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Environmental Sustainability Assessment of Crop-Livestock Production System (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Green Infrastructure and Resilient Stream Ecosystems (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Mangrove Ecosystem Ecology, Conservation and Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- The Role of Social Life Cycle Assessment in Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Assessing Sustainability by a Life Cycle Approach (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Food Systems to Address Climate Challenges (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Industrial Symbiosis and Sustainability (Deadline: 31 December 2021)
- Sustainability of Retrofit Actions in Great Buildings (Deadline: 15 January 2022)
- Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability in the Anthropocene (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Community and Collaboration in Fashion and Textiles Practice and Education (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Sustainable Conservation Planning and Wildlife Management (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Mapping Marine Ecosystem Services for Sustainable Spatial Planning (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Sustainable Sea and Land Use and Regional Planning of Coastal Ecosystems (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Sustainability, Energy, and Environmental Policy: Humanity at a Crossroads (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Pollution in Urban Water and Soils (Deadline: 31 January 2022)
- Urban Forestry and Ecology (Deadline: 15 February 2022)
- Biodiversity and its Function and Global Change in Alpine Ecosystem (Deadline: 28 February 2022)
- Climate-Sensitive Urban Planning and Design in the Warming World (Deadline: 28 February 2022)
- Sustainability of Socio-Ecological Paradigms in the Marine Environment (Deadline: 28 February 2022)
- Understanding and Improving Coastal Restoration: Considering Social Dimensions, Ecosystem Services, and Biodegradable Materials (Deadline: 28 February 2022)
- Sustainability and Circular Economy: Frontier Research on Water Treatment and Purification (Deadline: 21 March 2022)
- The Natural and Technical Aspects of Water Management with Special Attention to Protected Areas (Deadline: 21 April 2022)
- Soil Health Restoration and Environmental Management (Deadline: 30 April 2022)
- Environmental Water Monitoring for Sustainable Development in Urban and Rural Areas (Deadline: 31 May 2022)
- Sustainable Finance: New Trends, Environment and Social Changes (Deadline: 15 July 2022)
- Crop Diversification for Soil, Nutritional, Economic and Environmental Security (Deadline: 31 July 2022)
- Research on Turbulent Flows in Marine and Fluvial Environments (Deadline: 31 July 2022)
- Frontiers on Ecological and Environmental Risk Assessment and Remediation (Deadline: 31 August 2022)
- Sustainable Agricultural Development: The Impact of New Technology on Farm Ecology (Deadline: 30 December 2022)
- The Impact of Industry 4.0 on Sustainability and the Circular Economy (Deadline: 31 January 2023)