Special Issue "Sustainability and Ecosystem Health: How to Balance Development and Conservation with Rapid Global Changes?"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Xiaohua Yu
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Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Interests: agricultural economics; behavioral economics; environmental economics
Prof. Dr. Shuanping Dai
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School of Economics, Jilin University, Qianjin Street. 2699, 130012, Changchun, Jilin Province, China; the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen, Geibelstr. 41, 47057, Duisburg, Germany.
Interests: developmental economics; technological innovation; institutional theory
Dr. Liqun Tang
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College of Economics and Management, China Jiliang University, Hangzhou 310018, China
Interests: agricultural economics; environmental economics; climate change and agricultural production
Dr. Qiyan Zeng
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College of Economics and Management, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou 311300, China
Interests: agricultural economics; health economics; behavioral economics

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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The Impact of Water and Soil Scarcity and Pollution on Industrial Agglomeration: Evidence from China
Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5428; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105428 - 12 May 2021
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Water and soil scarcity and pollution have become more severe problems in China in recent years. On one hand, rapid economic growth has led to increasing environmental problems. On the other hand, the environmental problems resulting from human economic activities can impose new [...] Read more.
Water and soil scarcity and pollution have become more severe problems in China in recent years. On one hand, rapid economic growth has led to increasing environmental problems. On the other hand, the environmental problems resulting from human economic activities can impose new constraints on industrial agglomeration, making economic development unsustainable. In the present study, an individual fixed-effect model was constructed based on the framework of the new economic geography and the provincial-level data of China. The model estimated its parameters with OLS in order to analyze how the mechanisms of industrial agglomeration are affected by resource security and environmental factors. In addition, this study also used Hausman statistical tests and Fisher–PP unit root tests to analyze the endogenous problems and robustness of the model, respectively. The results showed that water and soil scarcity and environmental pollution have negative effects on industrial agglomeration. The negative effects were observed to significantly increase with levels of local government competition, but did not vary with the regional market segmentation. Full article
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Better Understanding the Catastrophe Risk in Interconnection and Comprehensive Disaster Risk Defense Capability, with Special Reference to China
Sustainability 2021, 13(4), 1793; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041793 - 07 Feb 2021
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Catastrophe risk governance has become one of the key issues affecting global sustainable development. As great changes have taken place in the global social ecosystem, the degree of interconnection between different regions in today’s society is much greater than ever before. Various types [...] Read more.
Catastrophe risk governance has become one of the key issues affecting global sustainable development. As great changes have taken place in the global social ecosystem, the degree of interconnection between different regions in today’s society is much greater than ever before. Various types of contact networks, e.g., the production chain and supply chain, have been created, which provide diversified channels for the spread of catastrophe risk across time and space. In the context of interconnection, this paper first analyzes the drastic changes of the current disaster risk system. Severe catastrophe risk has posed a great threat to the highly growing international trade, and has also tested the capabilities of national comprehensive disaster defense. Thus, this paper analyzes the main characteristics of China’s comprehensive disaster defense capability, including physical, social, and humanistic defense capability. Finally, this paper puts forward the key points to resolve catastrophe risk from the perspective of decision-makers, including improving the decision-makers’ ability to study and judge the catastrophe chain and the impact of catastrophe, and the national resource reserve capacity to cope with the catastrophe. Full article
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The Influence of Nontimber Forest Products Development on the Economic–Ecological Coordination—Evidence from Lin’an District, Zhejiang Province, China
Sustainability 2021, 13(2), 904; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13020904 - 18 Jan 2021
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The influence of the nontimber forest products (NTFPs) on the coordinated economic and ecological development has received considerable attention, where the results are mixed. This study took Lin’an District in Zhejiang Province of China as an example for analysis. Using long-term (more than [...] Read more.
The influence of the nontimber forest products (NTFPs) on the coordinated economic and ecological development has received considerable attention, where the results are mixed. This study took Lin’an District in Zhejiang Province of China as an example for analysis. Using long-term (more than 40 years) data, system coupling and autoregressive distributed lag models were combined to analyze the effect of NTFP development on coordinated economic–ecological development. The results show that large-scale commercial NTFP development positively affected coordinated economic–ecological development, and a long-term stable equilibrium relationship between them existed. The degree of regional economic–ecological coupling increased from 0.05 in 1978 to 0.98 in 2019, and both area and value of NTFP had a significant effect on the coupling degree at the 5% level. These findings indicate that NTFP development is an effective method to promote the coordinated development of the economy and ecological environment especially in mountain areas, and the government should encourage NTFP development by ecological management, strengthening policy guidance, and providing technological innovation support, etc. Full article
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