Landscape Ecology for Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability, Biodiversity and Conservation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 22622
Special Issue Editor
Interests: Forest Ecology; Landscape Ecology; Applied Remote Sensing; Spatial Analysis; Biodiversity Conservation; Restoration Ecology; Fire Ecology; Urban Landscapes
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Dear colleagues,
Although the need for the sustainable use and management of natural resources has long been recognized, their implementation poses a great challenge to conservationists, managers, and policy makers. Most environmental issues are of global nature, thus requiring large scale analyses and, most importantly, multidisciplinary approaches for developing effective solutions that would benefit both humanity and the environment. The principles and methods of landscape ecology offer a ground where different disciplines can cooperate for a deeper understanding of the consequences of human-induced impacts on the spatial arrangement of landscape elements and their effect on ecological processes.
Land abandonment, as observed in Europe over the last few decades, is a process driven by socioeconomic factors, often with contradictory effects on biodiversity and ecosystem integrity. Large-scale deforestation, currently mostly observed in the tropics and also driven by socioeconomic factors, forms the opposite extreme with detrimental effects for the natural environment, both locally and globally. Urbanization, the progressive conversion of humans into an urban species, was followed by a rapid development of cities, often without the necessary provision for green infrastructures, presenting another socioenvironmental issue that needs to be urgently addressed.
All the above paradigms stress the need for reconciling socioeconomic development with nature conservation and environmental protection. In this Special Issue, we seek scientifically sound manuscripts with relevance in at least one of the following topics: (1) methods and approaches for creating sustainable landscapes, (2) sustainable urban planning and design, (3) drivers and effects of land use/landcover change, (4) wildlife conservation and socioeconomic development, (5) historical and contemporary ecosystem services in a changing climate, and (6) landscape fragmentation, connectivity, and their effects on ecological processes.
Dr. Panteleimon Xofis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Sustainable landscapes
- Urban Landscapes
- Land use/land cover change
- Landscape scale wildlife conservation
- Ecosystem services and landscape change
- Spatial analysis and ecology
- Human-Wildlife conflicts
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