Eco-Harmony: Blending Conservation Strategies and Social Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 April 2026 | Viewed by 318
Special Issue Editors
Interests: restoration; conservation and effective utilization of tropical rainforest; ecology
Interests: forest culture
Interests: tropical rainforest conservation; ecology
Interests: forestry; forest manager; land use; ecosystem Service; landscape patter; resources monitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The “new conservation debate” over the ethics and effectiveness of integrating conservation strategies and social development is thorny because it conflates two potentially irreconcilable and opposing truths. On one hand, strict conservation requires eliminating or at least dramatically minimizing human use of natural systems. On the other hand, conservation is almost exclusively a human endeavor that ultimately requires obtaining resource users to support conservation aims. There has been increasing recognition within systematic conservation strategies regarding the need to include social developments alongside biophysical assessments. However, in the approaches to identify potential conservation sites, there remains much room for improvement in the treatment of social data. In particular, there are few rigorous methods to account for the diversity of less-easily quantifiable social attributes that influence the implementation success of conservation sites (such as willingness to conserve) have been developed. In this context, this Special Issue of "Eco - Harmony: Blending Conservation Strategies and Social Development" welcomes research papers on developing effective innovations to nicely integrating conservation strategies and social development thereby to achieve effective and sustainable conservation strategies, addressing one or more of the following research topics:
- Research on developing effective conservation strategies for any threatened, severely damaged, or conserved plant, animal, and ecosystems;
- Research on evaluating the influences of considering soil developments on conservation strategies or actions for any threatened, severely damaged, or conserved plant, animal, and ecosystems;
- Research on forest culture for any ecosystems;
- Research on how to balance traveling demand, landscape architecture and conservation planning;
- Research on models on integrating conservation strategies and social development;
- Research on whether and how soil development will affect conservation effectiveness for any threatened, severely damaged, or conserved plant, animal, and ecosystems.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Hui Zhang
Dr. Ishibashi Seiji
Prof. Dr. Liang Tang
Prof. Dr. Wenfeng Gong
Dr. Hui Fu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- ecological conservation
- conservation strategies
- social development
- traveling demand
- landscape architecture
- conservation planning
- ecosystems
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