Nature-Based Solutions and Ecosystem-Based Adaptations to Climate Change and Natural Disasters
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2024) | Viewed by 3027
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change economics; energy transition; greenhouse gas emission reduction; environmental management; natural resource economics; sustainability; environmental economics
Interests: climate variabilty and change; disaster risk assesment; social vulnerability assessement; applied GIS; open-source computing
Interests: wetland management; water and wastewater treatment; optimization; soil and water quality monitoring and assessment
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Interests: wetlands conservation and management; environmental health and engineering; circular economy; water and sanitation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change is an inevitable and the greatest challenge facing the world today. With the increasing global temperature and precipitation patterns, there is an increase intensity and frequency of natural disasters and extreme events such as hurricanes, storm surge, floods, forest fires, heat waves, droughts, and winter storms. With the global commitment to address this problem, responding to climate change involves a two-pronged approach: the “mitigation” that reduces the sources of GHG emissions and/or enhances the sinks and the ”adaptation” that anticipates the adverse impacts of and takes appropriate action to prevent or minimize the damage caused by climate change.
Nature-based solution (NBS) is one of the proposed strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change. NBS involves a suite of actions or policies that harness the power of nature. NBS involves the restoration, protection, and sustainable management of ecosystems to safeguard biodiversity and improve human wellbeing. Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) harnesses NBS and ecosystem services with sustainable socio-economic development to help people adapt to the impacts of climate change and reduce the risk of natural disasters.
This Special Issue aims to publish an overview of the most recent advances in natural disaster and climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies using NBS and EbA. It will cover interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary solutions to addressing climate change including environmental, economic, technical, social, legal, and political perspectives from the point of views of scholars, policy makers, civil society, and practitioners.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- climate change mitigation
- greenhouse gas emission reduction
- climate change adaptation
- nature-based solutions
- disaster risk reduction and management
- ecosystem-based adaptation
- ecosystem restoration, rehabilitation, and management
- environmental resource planning and management
- sustainable land use planning
Dr. Casper Boongaling Agaton
Dr. Arnold R. Salvacion
Dr. Cybelle Concepcion M. Futalan
Dr. Ma. Catriona E. Devanadera
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural disasters
- climate change
- adaptation
- mitigation
- nature-based solutions
- ecosystem-based adaptation
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