Sustainable Development and Coordinated Governance of Urban and Rural Areas under the Guidance of Ecological Wisdom

Dear Colleagues,

The goal of ecological civilization construction is to reshape the values of human social development—to position the relationship more accurately between human beings and nature. In the process of human social evolution, the premise of achieving sustainable development is to ensure the health of the population, which must deal with the temporal and spatial distribution of environmental resource utilization among human beings and other organisms, different human communities, and human generations. We should rationally treat the realistic predicament of human beings, evaluate the health of the human settlement environment, reduce morbidity and mortality, and realize the harmony between development and nature. This process not only needs to absorb ideas from the precious traditional culture in ecological wisdom but also needs to find methods and expand ways in combination with modern science and technology and health policy to create an era of sustainable development with ecological wisdom.

The ecosystem is not immutable; it is always in a delicate dynamic balance. The natural ecosystem is changing all the time. The same is true for urban and rural ecosystems. The benign succession means the improvement of "efficiency", and the optimization of ecosystem operation means higher resource, time, space, and system efficiency. In the future, urban areas, towns, villages, and nature will no longer be independent of one another but will be combined into a more complex global system based on the urban ecosystem network. As the most critical species in this evolution process, what kind of "wisdom" should human beings use to guide this complex system with science and technology? These are related to the common future of human beings as a whole and the human-centered ecosystem. This topic will integrate ecology, climatology, geography, land science, environmental science, health informatics, and other disciplines, promote urban and rural integration and regional coordinated development, accelerate the flow of urban and rural elements, improve urban and rural human settlement environments, promote high-quality development, create high-quality life, promote the harmonious coexistence of human beings and nature, promote the construction of a community for the shared future of mankind, and create a new form of human civilization from the policy system, technical specifications, research practice, and other aspects.

In this topic, we will focus on and are interested in receiving manuscript contributions in one or more of the following areas:

• Urban and rural spatial planning and construction under the guidance of ecological wisdom
• Urban renewal strategy
• Interaction and coordination of urban and rural ecology
• Urban and rural ecological security pattern maintenance
• Physical space construction strategy based on "ecological wisdom"

• Urban and rural environmental system optimization under the guidance of ecological operation mechanisms
• Ecological adaptability of urban and rural human settlements
• Sustainable and organic renewal of urban and rural human settlements
• Construction of urban and rural human settlement environment mechanisms based on multi-system coordination

• Technical optimization of urban and rural planning under the guidance of the benign operation demand of urban and rural ecosystem functions
• Update of urban and rural planning theory and technology systems under the guidance of optimization of material circulation mechanisms
• Update of urban and rural planning theory and technology systems guided by the energy structure revolution and transmission technology reform
• Update of ecological city planning theory and technology systems under the guidance of information dissemination mechanism reform
• Transformation of urban and rural spatial construction modes based on technology system integration

• Urban planning spatial strategy guidance and technology system construction under the guidance of the healthy city concept
• Evaluation of "health risk", "quality", and "fairness"
• Planning integration and optimization of pollution control and resource integration
• Health impact assessment
• Healthy community planning and healthy city design

• Theoretical change and technological innovation of urban resilient governance driven by multi-source big data
• Strategic change comparison and paradigm innovation of multi-regional urban resilient governance
• Systematic assessment and improvement strategy of urban and rural social spatial resilience
• Establishment and improvement of urban emergency response mechanisms for complex disaster events
• Application strategy and integration scheme of big data in the new era of urban resilience governance

• Monitoring and coordination of urban and rural construction and sustainable development with modern technology
• High-resolution remote sensing mapping of urban and rural areas
• Remote sensing monitoring of urban renewal
• Applying GIS technology to analyze the coordinated development of urban and rural areas
• Prediction and evaluation of artificial intelligence technology in urban and rural construction
• Progress and application of health informatics and healthcare materials

Prof. Dr. Jun Yang
Prof. Dr. Bing Xue
Dr. Zhi Qiao
Prof. Dr. Wei Sun
Prof. Dr. Xiangming Xiao
Dr. Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia
Dr. Heiko Thomas
Topic Editors