Landscape, Water, Ground, and Society Sustainability under Global Change Scenarios (2nd Edition)

Dear Colleagues,

Due to the success of the first Special Issue of Sustainability entitled: “Landscape, Water, Ground, and Society Sustainability under Global Change Scenarios”, we would like to invite you to contribute to the second similar Special Issue of Sustainability entitled: “Landscape, Water, Ground, and Society Sustainability under Global Change Scenarios”.

Proposal: In this second Special Issue, we accept manuscripts focusing on sustainability; study cases and opinion papers about initiatives, definitions, policies, programs and ideas; traditional knowledge and new applications; criticism and new proposals; natural resource uses, threats, risks, conflicts, and growth problems, management; and issues related to global change (changes in, for example, climate, biogeography, uses, needs, air–soil–water occupation, society, public opinion, species composition, habitats, and ecosystems).

Aim and scope: Contributions should focus on separate or integrated complex terrestrial and aquatic landscape and ecosystem elements and societal characteristics dynamics under global change scenarios.

The landscape is the visible feature of land: it integrates natural and man-made features (cultural, social, and economic) and dynamics at different scales. Terrestrial and aquatic complexes of ecosystems and society primarily determine the characteristics of the landscape. When at least one of these features changes, the landscape changes and induces significant complex changes in a cascade. Anthropic dynamics on the landscape are intended as the human past, present, and future or mixed activities that influence the planet as a whole and its regions and forms, terrestrial and aquatic elements, and ecological systems, including biodiversity or the natural dynamics of biological associations, communities, and populations.

Integrated, multi-, or interdisciplinary analyses or considerations are highly encouraged.

One or more of Earth’s regions and characteristics should be the object of study. These may be analyzed in a single integrated context or along gradients (spatial, temporal, geographic, biological, ecological, cultural, etc.) focusing on present, past, or future reasonable global change scenarios in terms of natural, anthropic, or mixed dynamics, considering the possible positive and negative impacts or interaction issues and outlooks (i.e., alien and native species issues; strategies, policies, and in situ management; conservation and preservation; habitat restoration; uses and policies changes; adaptations, resilience, and resistance; wildfire and post-fire issues; energy supply issues; eco-friendly molecules and techniques; land and water use conflicts; economic and population growth; urbanization and land abandonment; society development; etc.).

Dr. Doru Bănăduc
Dr. Kevin Cianfaglione
Dr. Angela Curtean-Bănăduc
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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