Geographical Information Research for Eco-Environment Sustainable Development
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 10651
Special Issue Editors
Interests: GIS/RS; spatial analysis; satellite image analysis; ecosystem services evaluation; LULC monitoring; hyperspectral remote sensing
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Interests: ecological environmental assessment; industrial assessment; industrial production sustainability; extreme enviroment (aerospace, deep sea, etc.)
Interests: earth system model; GIS; hydrology; climate change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
(1) Introduction, including scientific background and highlighting the importance of this research area.
Increasing global crises, including climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and social conflicts, significantly jeopardize the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) announced by the United Nation. The world’s eco-environment is suffering unprecedented change due to accelerated socio-economic development and the enhanced impact of human activities since the last century. To mitigate this, the development of an assessment approach and the better implementation of management practice of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem system is an urgent matter.
On the global scale, an appropriate policy remains a significant challenge for each country to implement the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 targets based on the Sustainable Development Report 2022, in terms of not only technology and data themselves, but also the usage, transformation, and better integration of scientific and technological innovation and digitalization.
Remote sensing (RS) and Geographic Information Science (GIS) can help in resolving this issue. With the introduction of these technologies, the assessment of the eco-environment has undergone revolutionary changes, broadening the research ideas of geographers, ecologists, and stakeholders.
(2) Aim of the Special Issue and how the subject relates to the journal scope.
Following the rapid development of big data in eco-environment studies, RS has become a well-known technology with the ability of fast data acquisition at large scales. Nowadays, RS technology has become an important technical means in eco-environmental protection. RS and GIS technology have substantially changed the traditional monitoring approach, improving the ability and efficiency of environmental protection omnidirectionally from qualitative analysis to a quantitative perspective.
Significant research progress has been seen in this field. The scientific community constantly make new breakthroughs and innovative achievements in RS and GIS science, helping to drive global ecological environment governance. Moreover, based on meteorology, oceanography, resources, the environment, and high-resolution earth observation satellite constellations and associated application systems, mobilizing innovation in scientific research, policy formulation, and action implementation improves research and application capabilities in ecological environmental sustainability, climate change, disaster prevention and mitigation, and resilient cities. Furthermore, we encourage the open access of scientific data, technology, and knowledge to the international community, helping to construct a global ecological civilization.
This Special Issue calls for submissions dedicated to RS and GIS technology in eco-environment assessment, mainly on a local and country scale. Papers focused on applications, case studies, and georeferenced data on eco-environment sustainability development are also welcome.
(3) Suggest themes.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Ecological environmental quality assessment model.
- Spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of ecological environment analysis.
- Ecosystem services assessment.
- Estimation of ecosystem services value.
- Trade-offs and synergies of ecosystem services.
- Land use change monitoring and multi-scenario simulation.
- Analysis of driving mechanisms of ecological environmental change.
- Long-time series factor extraction and analysis.
- Evaluation of the geological environmental bearing capacity.
- Integration and innovation of spatiotemporal information and territorial spatial planning.
I/We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Xiaoai Dai
Dr. Zekun Wang
Dr. Yuanzhi Yao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ecological assessment
- ecosystem services
- remote sensing/GIS
- LULC
- sustainable development
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