Urban Social-Ecological Systems for Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2020) | Viewed by 2616
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban resilience; social-ecological systems; environmental governance; social networks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The changing climate, rapid land-use change, and the projected population increase of 2.5 billion humans over the next 25 years has created a new social-ecological paradigm in which urban and metropolitan systems are key to a sustainable future. As growing and critical dimensions of global stewardship, cities need to provide better governance of social-ecological systems both inside and outside their physical and administrative boundaries. This Special Issue is focused on Urban Social-Ecological Systems for Sustainability, and we invite papers from a range of topics that address the grand challenges for understanding the complex relationships between humans, nature, and urban systems.
Topics may include:
- Urban planning, management, and policy-making around nature-based solutions and green infrastructure;
- Urban water and watershed planning, modeling, and policy;
- Urban biodiversity and wildlife;
- Governance of social-ecological systems;
- Urban resilience, including spatial and temporal dimensions and trade-offs;
- Conceptual or empirical papers advancing a social-ecological-technological systems (SETs) framework;
- Articles that address linkages between cities, cities and their support systems, actors and sectors.
Papers addressing methodological developments in assessing urban social-ecological systems, including quantitative, qualitative, modeling, or network approaches are welcome. Through this Special Issue, we aim to advance urban resilience science by advancing our knowledge of how urban systems can proactively deal—across scales—with increasing uncertainty.
Dr. R. Patrick Bixler
Dr. Katherine Lieberknecht
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- cities
- social-ecological systems (SESs)
- urbanization
- resilience
- urban sustainability
- social-ecological-technical systems (SETs)
