Coupled Human and Natural Systems Driven by Innovation in Geospatial Technologies
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2023) | Viewed by 4069
Special Issue Editors
Interests: geographic information science; spatial cyberinfrastructure; agent-based modeling; land use and land cover change; complex adaptive spatial systems
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Interests: remote sensing for bridge monitoring; forensic investigation; power transmission structures; carbon storage in geological formations
Interests: archaeology; social-ecological systems; social complexity; urban landscape
Interests: carbon sequestration; infrastructure; greenhouse gas diffusion.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our coupled human and natural systems have been experiencing significant change driven by such events as climate, deforestation, disasters, and pandemics. Coupled human and natural systems here broadly consist of multiple spatial systems in different dimensions such as environmental, ecological, social, political, urban, and rural dimensions. Complex dynamics of coupled human and natural systems are affected by a multitude of factors from across multiple spatial, temporal, and decision scales. Over the years, geospatial technologies such as geospatial sensing, GIS, and GPS provide substantial support for the collection, analysis, and visualization of geospatial data with considerable computing support from cyberinfrastructure. Recent innovations in geospatial technologies—represented by LiDAR, unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs, also known as drones), etc.—have played an increasingly important role in the study of complexity in coupled human and natural systems. This is particularly the case with advancements in cyberinfrastructure-enabled computing technologies (high-performance computing, cloud computing, web-based and mobile computing), artificial intelligence, and virtual reality or augmented reality. As a result, these geospatial technologies have been extensively applied to a variety of scientific and engineering domains with common interest in the study of coupled human and natural systems. These domains include, but are not limited to, agriculture, archaeology, business, ecology, environment, energy, geology, geography, hydrology, infrastructure, meteorology, public health, transportation, and urban or urban–rural studies. This Special Issue concentrates on identifying the state of the applications of innovative geospatial technologies and advanced cyberinfrastructure in the study of coupled human and natural systems and, thus, providing suggestions for and insights into the next step for the exploration of spatial complexity and sustainability of these spatial systems.
Dr. Wenwu Tang
Prof. Dr. Shen-En Chen
Prof. Dr. Akinwumi Ogundiran
Dr. Peng Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- social–environmental sustainability
- coupled human and natural systems
- geospatial technology
- advanced cyberinfrastructure
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