Environmental Development and Sustainability: Monitoring, Assessment, and Adaptation

Dear Colleagues,

Concerned with the complex nature of human–environment interactions, this Special Issue aims to bring together multi-disciplinary insights to seek ways and means for achieving the sustainability of both human society and the environment. Within this context, as the guest editors of this Special Issue, we welcome contributions that advance the methods and techniques for characterizing environmental development and its socioeconomic impacts.

Through your interesting research work, we expect some of the key questions to be answered. For example, how various types of environmental development can be monitored in urban and rural contexts. Human activities have become a key factor that drives environmental change; approaches and technologies from different fields could be used to monitor and track such activities and changes. The impacts of environmental development also vary. How can we quantify and assess such impacts on local and regional scales and on the different populations within society? Lastly, what should be done in response to such impacts in order to guarantee environmental sustainability?

Overall, this Special Issue is open to a diverse set of perspectives with a common goal of providing the key information, technologies, and strategies for the sustainable development of the environment. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: infrastructure, green areas, public spaces, land use/cover, new energies, agriculture and forestry, climate change, environmental management, environmental quality, environmental impact assessment, and policy practice and adaptation. Review papers are also welcome.

We are looking forward to your valuable contributions.

Dr. Long Li
Dr. Yu Zhang
Guest Editors

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