Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Ecosystem Services and Community Well-Being
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 March 2027 | Viewed by 101
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ecology; environmental management; social-ecosystems; sustainability; sustainable land and territory management; landscape economics
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Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, maintaining, protecting, restoring, and sustaining the use of ecosystem services is basic to preserving all life, and, from an anthropocentric point of view, achieving the well-being of local human communities is highly relevant, too. We need to look for a recovery of the nature–human relationship. This is a broad field of research, with both methodological and topical interests. By this, all research about preservation, protection, and restoration of ecosystem services in relation to their sustainable use and their impact on local community well-being will be welcome. And perhaps the novelty of this call is the bilateral connection established when we consider community well-being like an ecosystem service, and then, promoting this well-being should be accepted as a sustainable use/application of ecosystem service, too. Because if the local community feels that some human action works opposite to their legitimate interests or damages their way of life, the pattern or process that can contribute to sustainable use of ecosystem services would fail and, practically, be unviable.
Possible topics in relationship with community well-being (local community engagement) may include the following:
- Economic development from tourism activity;
- Agricultural development;
- Urbanization and green infrastructure;
- Environmental protection.
Dr. Emilio V. Carral Vilariño
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ecosystem services
- local community well-being
- tourism
- agriculture
- forestry
- fishing
- mining
- environment protection
- visions of sustainability
- ethics
- lifestyles
- behavior change
- paths to sustainability
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