The Spatial Characteristics and Interactions of Landscape Patterns and Ecosystem Services

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue entitled, The Spatial Characteristics and Interactions of Landscape Patterns and Ecosystem Services, aims at preparing a volume of homogeneous studies, addressing the relationship between different types of landscapes—natural, semi-natural, cultural, preserved and subject to natural and anthropogenic changes. We are interested in research studies, analyses, reports on ecosystem and landscape services provided by various types of landscapes and natural ecosystems, as well as anthropogenic ecosystems, including the methods for assessing landscape changes and the methods for evaluating the implemented remedial programs and also the programs, which revitalize the surrounding spaces characterized by the diverse saturation of anthropogenic elements.

The observations regarding the driving forces causing changes in ecosystems and landscape services, as well as social assessments and the analyses of the importance and social perception of landscape and ecosystem services, will be important. The studies presenting the analyses focused on the social dimension of landscapes related to providing benefits for human well-being will also be valuable, along with the research covering natural landscapes, composed urban landscapes and suburban landscapes, subject to intense changes, resulting from social, economic and environmental transformations (climate change), also in the context of the undertaken planning decisions. We are particularly interested in the area of Central and Eastern Europe, as the one that has been experiencing reinforced, cumulative and multifactorial economic and spatial changes, including other regions of the world, characterized primarily by intensified landscape changes caused by human activity. We hope that this special edition will deepen our understanding of the problems of changing Europe and Eastern Europe, particularly in the context of global change, and enable us to identify patterns and interrelationships between social, economic and environmental changes.

Scholars and practitioners are warmly invited to submit their original research or review articles.

Prof. Dr. Beata Raszka
Prof. Dr. Maria Hełdak
Dr. Iga Kołodyńska
Guest Editors

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