Recent Advances at the Frontier of Knowledge Aimed at the Sustainability of Tropical Ecosystems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 March 2023) | Viewed by 1625
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil erosion; soil science; soil physics, soil property; steam flow; tropical soils; advanced methods; simulation and modelling of complex system; contamination; environmental degradation and reclamation; agricultural and environmental instrumentation
Interests: contamination; potentially toxic metals; waste mining; environmental degradation and reclamation; biochar; compost; circular economy; soil erosion; ecotoxicological analysis and biomonitoring
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Environmental degradation is becoming increasingly intense around the world. Extreme weather events potentiate the degradation processes, causing environmental and socio-economic damage. In this way, a greater understanding of these degradation processes is necessary, especially in tropical ecosystems, in order to improve their prediction, as well as mitigate their effects. The use of complex systems modeling and advanced ecosystem assessment methods help with their prediction. Aiming at the sustainability of tropical ecosystems, the development of new materials is also essential, especially within the context of the circular economy, aiming at the recovery of degraded areas.
In this Special Issue, we are interested in contributions related to recent studies at the frontier of knowledge aimed at the sustainability of tropical ecosystems. In particular, we encourage our colleagues to submit studies exploring the following topics:
- Extreme events with an emphasis on tropical weather conditions, which may also include temperate conditions for comparison purposes;
- Degraded areas: assessment, mitigation and adaptation;
- Instrumentation and advanced methods of environmental assessment;
- Simulation/modeling of complex systems;
- New materials: remediation/recovery involving soil/water systems;
- Bio-inputs;
- Circular economy applied in the context of remediation/recovery of degraded areas.
Dr. Silvio Crestana
Prof. Dr. Valéria Guimarães Silvestre Rodrigues
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- degradation
- circular economy
- recovery
- modeling
- investigation methods
- tropical ecosystems
