Wetland Ecosystem Services Evaluation and Conservation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 7601
Special Issue Editors
Interests: water resource engineering; ecosystem services; water conservation; wetland ecology; nature-protected areas
Interests: soil and water conservation; ecosystem services
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Dear Colleagues,
Wetlands provide valuable ecosystem services, but they have suffered the largest losses from cropland conversion, urbanization, rising water demands, and climate change. Policymakers want to use ecosystem service values to inform sustainable wetland use. In the past two decades, scientists worldwide have begun testing a variety of biophysical and economic valuation approaches to advance ecosystem service science for wetland conservation. However, substantive progress remains elusive due to lack of coordination, weak monitoring, and poor enforcement to effectively manage wetlands for a diversity of societal needs.
Therefore, we organized a Special Issue that is open to researchers who are interested in the field of wetland evaluation and conservation. In this Special Issue, original research and review articles are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Biophysical and economic valuation methods to assess multiple wetland ecosystem services.
- Wetland ecosystem service trends and their driving factors.
- Wetland ecosystem service trade-offs across spatial–temporal scales.
- Wetland ecosystem service flow mechanisms and beneficiary needs.
- Effectiveness of management scenarios on wetland ecosystem services.
- Sustainable use of wetland resources.
- Management implications for wetland conservation.
Dr. Bo Jiang
Dr. Chong Jiang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wetlands
- ecosystem services
- sustainable wetland management
- wetland conservation
- driving factors
- flow mechanisms
- beneficiary concerns
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