Urban Landscape Ecology and Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Ecological and socio-economic processes intertwine in urban ecosystems, producing complex multi-scale spatial organizations that primarily determine ecosystem functioning and the interactions of the urban tissue with the surrounding environment. Coherently, spatially explicit approaches borrowing from landscape ecology principles have recently been raised to form the backbone of current attempts at understanding, modeling and ensuring sustainability of urban ecosystems. The latter is rapidly becoming the ultimate goal of urban landscape ecology, upon the recognition of the key role of building sustainable urban ecosystems in ensuring the global sustainable development of human society. In this context, urban landscape ecology provides a unique combination of shared concepts for ecologists, geographers, social scientists, planners and engineers and a set of methodologies borrowing from diverse disciplines, fostering the efficient and trans-disciplinary effort in addressing urban ecosystem challenges.

This Special Issue, “Urban Landscape Ecology and Sustainability”, aims to become a prominent platform for sharing novel findings, ideas, opinions and critical revisions of consolidated concepts in the field of urban ecology, with a special focus on approaches considering the spatial patterns and scales of urban ecosystems and aiming at evaluating or promoting their sustainability. Toward this end, relevant articles, commentaries and reviews from all branches of urban ecology and related disciplines dealing with every type of human settlement are welcome, from rural centers to megacities all over the world.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Alessandro Bellino
Dr. Daniela Baldantoni
Guest Editors

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