Advancing Landscape Ecology Within Sustainability and Resilience Perspectives
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 1488
Special Issue Editors
Interests: landscape ecology; ecosystem services; GIScience
Interests: regional resilience; spatial planning; GIScience
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With humankind facing increasingly complex and diverse environmental and socio-economic challenges, comprehensive insights from across fields and disciplines are becoming necessary to achieve the goals of resilient and sustainable development. Landscape ecology is not only born out of multi-disciplinary intersections, but also provides a targeted framework for cutting-edge and urgent resilience and sustainability research. This framework, which encompasses multi-purpose and multi-scale perspectives and approaches, is aligned with the sustainable development goals of the United Nations. It enables researchers, practitioners and policy makers to harness the power of landscape ecology to contribute to the realization of resilient and sustainable environmental-social systems and to provide effective interventions, measures for management and planning options.
In this regard, we are pleased to present the Special Issue on "Advancing Landscape Ecology Within Sustainability and Resilience Perspectives". The purpose of this issue is to present the contribution of sustainability and resilience perspectives to the conceptual and methodological study of landscape ecology. In addition, by emphasizing the role of landscape ecology in sustainability and resilience, this Special Issue also aims to deepen the understanding of sustainability and resilience in order to facilitate the use of landscape technologies, providing insight and inspiration for design, planning and management.
This Special Issue encourages original research papers and reviews from various fields to provide new insights and implications for the following, but not limited to, topics:
- Conceptual and methodological advances in landscape ecology within sustainability and resilience perspectives;
- How landscape interactions and teleconnections contribute to sustainable development goals;
- The impact of landscape form, composition and configuration on resilience;
- Assessment, patterns, drivers and simulation of landscape risk;
- Landscape design practices with low carbon constraints;
- Implications of multi-scale features for effective landscape management.
Prof. Dr. Yonghua Zhao
Dr. Tong Cheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- landscape ecology
- sustainable development
- resilience
- environmental-social systems
- multi-scale
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