Sustainability and Ecosystem Health: How to Balance Development and Conservation with Rapid Global Changes?
This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
A healthy ecosystem is essential to provide the services that humans and the natural environment require and has tremendous social and economic values. With a rapid change in global natural and socioeconomic environments, achieving and maintaining ecosystem health while balancing development is a key future challenge. Therefore, the journal Sustainability has issued an open call for paper on”Sustainability and Ecosystem Health: How to Balance Development and Conservation with Rapid Global Changes?” for an upcoming Special Issue.
This Special Issue will disseminate papers that study the value of ecological services, impact of global environmental change and human activities on ecosystems, and sustainable development policies. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. How conservation and development can be balanced is a key focus.
The Special Issue will consider all aspects of sustainability and ecosystem health. Indicative topics for this Special Issue could be but are not limited to the following:
- Climate change and ecosystem
- Conservation management
- Natural park conservation
- Poverty alleviation and ecosystem
- Agricultural ecosystem management
- Ecological services management
- Multifunctionality of agriculture
- Agriculture green transition
- Technological progress, information and communication technology (ICT), social capital, and agricultural productivity
- Inclusive growth between conservation protection and agricultural development
- COVID-19 and its impact on the sustainability and ecosystem health
- Water resource protection
- Sustainable soil use
- Forestry resource and sustainability
- Sustainability and behavioral change
- Ecosystem health and biodiversity
Prof. Dr. Xiaohua Yu
Prof. Dr. Shuanping Dai
Dr. Liqun Tang
Dr. Qiyan Zeng
Guest Editors
Keywords
- Climate change and ecosystem
- Conservation management
- Natural park conservation
- Poverty alleviation and ecosystem
- Agricultural ecosystem management
- Ecological services management
- Multifunctionality of agriculture
- Agriculture green transition
- Technological progress, information and communication technology (ICT), social capital, and agricultural productivity
- Inclusive growth between conservation protection and agricultural development
- COVID-19 and its impact on the sustainability and ecosystem health
- Water resource protection
- Sustainable soil use
- Forestry resource and sustainability
- Sustainability and behavioral change
- Ecosystem health and biodiversity
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Published Papers
Sustainability - ISSN 2071-1050