Health, Nature-Based Strategies, and Resilience
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 1364
Special Issue Editors
Interests: public health; community resilience; equity; sustainability; planetary health; nature-based solutions; greenspace and bluespace
2. Marine Microverse Institute, Kittery, ME, USA
Interests: bluespace; marine science; planetary health; marine molecular ecology; One Health
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The relationship between human health, nature-based strategies, and resilience have emerged as a central theme within transdisciplinary research. For example, research pertaining to nature-based strategies (including nature-based solutions (NbS), nature-based therapies, and interventions that mimic or support health-promoting ecosystem processes), bluespace, greenspace, and forestry initiatives, community agricultures and alternative food markets, vulnerability/resilience, adaptive capacity, adaptive governance, indigenous knowledge, transformative social learning, emergent structures, planetary health, and the exposome are just a few examples of the cross-cutting dialogs that are engaging stakeholders across many different fields. Creating resilient, healthy, and sustainable communities requires work at the policy, systems, and planetary levels that is collaborative, contextual, and solution-oriented.
This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality papers that explore how collaborative partnerships have contributed to addressing the vital conditions of health and root causes of chronic diseases, shaped policy, confronted grand challenges, and provided a foundation for collective action in an effort to establish resilient communities.
This Special Issue will supplement the existing literature, focusing on the themes of relationships between nature-based strategies, human health, and resilience. Themes may relate to greenspace, bluespace, access to nature, nature connectedness, nature-based interventions/therapies, pre-environmental behavior, citizen science initiatives, climate change adaptation/mitigation, sustainable food systems, natural products, environmental justice, creative equity, and indigenous knowledge, among others.
In this Special Issue, original research articles, reviews, case studies, participatory action research, community-based participatory research, and practice-based research contributions are welcome. Contributions from transdisciplinary teams are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Semra A. Aytur
Dr. John Bucci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nature-based solutions
- public health
- planetary health
- resilience
- greenspace
- bluespace
- nature connectedness
- nature-based interventions
- nature-based therapy
- pre-environmental behavior
- citizen science
- eco-anxiety
- climate change
- adaptation
- mitigation
- sustainable food systems
- natural products
- environmental justice
- indigenous knowledge
- One Health
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