论文投稿 | SCI景观环境期刊5项征稿选题，城市绿化/气候变化/可持续发展/生物多样性等研究主题资讯

（征稿原文如下：Urbanization has led to the rapid expansion of cities, resulting in various environmental challenges such as air pollution, urban heat island effects, and biodiversity loss. In response to these challenges, there is a growing recognition of the importance of nature-based solutions (NBS) to create sustainable and resilient urban environments. Among the various NBS strategies, urban greening has emerged as a powerful tool for enhancing the ecological, social, and economic aspects of cities.

This special issue aims to explore the use of urban greening as an NBS to address urban challenges and promote sustainable urban development. It brings together a collection of research articles, case studies, and theoretical perspectives that examine the multifaceted benefits and innovative approaches related to urban greening. We welcome contributions that advance our understanding of the potential, challenges, approaches, and practices in integrating urban greening as an NBS into cities. The papers can target different forms of urban greening interventions, such as green roofs, vertical greenery systems, urban forests, and community gardens. We believe the findings presented in this special issue will contribute to the growing body of knowledge on the use of urban greening as an NBS. These findings can provide valuable insights for urban planners, policymakers, researchers, and practitioners involved in sustainable urban development.

Overall, this special issue serves as a platform for knowledge exchange and dissemination of cutting-edge research on the use of urban greening as an NBS. It underscores the importance of integrating nature into urban environments to create healthier, more resilient, and sustainable cities for present and future generations. We look forward to receiving your valuable contributions to advancing the field of the use of urban greening for NBS.

Additionally, it is an interdisciplinary field that integrates expertise from various disciplines including ecology, urban planning, landscape architecture, environmental science, public health, and social sciences. Furthermore, there are knowledge gaps and emerging research, necessitating a greater focus on optimal design, implementation strategies, and long-term impacts.

The objective of this special issue is to explore the role of NBS in urban greening in response to global climate change and biodiversity loss, and the integration of urban greening as a component of urban infrastructure in construction and management. Specifically, contributions should focus on one or more of the following aspects:

• Urban greening and climate change mitigation
• Urban greening and biodiversity conservation
• Urban greening and urban infrastructure
• Planning, design, maintenance, and assessment of the urban greening as NBS
• Policy, governance, and frameworks needed for implementing urban greening)

（征稿原文如下：Urban greenery, such as urban forests, trees along streets, in parks, in front of buildings, hedges, grassy areas and annual plants, provide various ecosystem services to municipalities.

In particular, the potential of urban areas to act as a buffer against noise and wind, to regulate temperature and water balance in cities, and to store and sequester carbon are widely recognized benefits. Plants in urban areas also increase aesthetic value and support biodiversity, act as natural stress relievers and contribute to higher property prices.

Unfortunately, they are under threat from the introduction and spread of pests and diseases, with important economic, cultural, and ecological consequences.

This special issue seeks to better understand the current and historic impacts that pests and pathogens has had on urban greening areas, the management strategies applied, and the opportunities for international policy and law to strengthen environmental protection of biodiverse urban green areas in the future. We hope that the document collection will provide a solid basis for policy makers and stakeholders for improving the quality and safety of our cities.

The special issue will provide a broad view of this topic from different perspectives, and the information gathered and the proposed directions for the sustainability of urban greenery can become a useful guide for scientists and policy makers.)

（征稿原文如下：Small Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS; aka drones) have become increasingly popular research tools in the environmental sciences, allowing scientist to generate low-cost, high quality and high-resolution imagery that are complimentary to other remote sensing data. Very-high resolution UAS image products and surface models are particularly suited for observing ecosystems at local-scales and are increasingly being used to fill a gap between field surveys and satellite remote sensing. Landscape ecologists have long depended on satellite and aerial remote sensing data to address questions about landscape patterns, structure, processes, and landscape changes. However, we have been slow to embrace and exploit UAS technologies, perhaps due to the scale mismatch between UAS data and other coarse-resolution remote sensing data typically used in studying landscape patterns and processes.

The purpose of this collection is to highlight new research and ideas presented during the symposium “Advances and Applications of Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS) Research in Landscape Ecology” held during the IALE-North America Annual Meeting—national chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology—on March 19-23, 2023; and to integrate UAS data into landscape-scale analysis. We welcome manuscripts that: 1) demonstrate innovative UAS research applications that address current knowledge gaps and span spatial scales, 2) highlight advances in UAS hardware, software, and sensor technologies, and 3) provide thoughtful discussion about the opportunities, limitations, and challenges of working with UAS data. We welcome papers across a diversity of topics and ecosystems (i.e., wildfire, drought, climate change, landcover and vegetation changes, urban landscapes, wildlife studies) as well as technological and methodological advances (i.e., applications of hyperspectral and thermal-IR data, photogrammetry, scaling from UAS to satellite, open source and cloud-based workflows). Some of the contributions will support United Nation Sustainable Development Goals 13: Climate Action and 15: Life on Land.)

（征稿原文如下：Landscape sustainability refers to “the capacity of a landscape to consistently provide long-term, landscape-specific ecosystem services essential for maintaining and improving human well-being” (Wu, 2013). Currently, urban and rural landscapes are profoundly affected by climate change, socioeconomic development, pandemics, and regional conflicts, posing huge challenges to the realization of United Nation Sustainable Development Goals 2: Zero Hunger, 3: Good Health & Wellbeing, 11: Sustainable Cities, 12: Responsible Consumption & Production, 13: Climate Action, and 15: Life on Land. In order to meet these challenges, we must better understand the impacts of environmental and socioeconomic changes on the sustainability of urban and rural landscapes, as well as learning lessons from successful and failed landscape design/planning practices. A central issue in the science and practice of landscape sustainability hinges on the landscape pattern-ecosystem services-human wellbeing nexus—which is the theme of this collection.

We sincerely invite researchers, especially Students and Early Career Researchers, to submit manuscripts on the following topics:

1. Theoretical and empirical studies on the landscape pattern-ecosystem services-human wellbeing nexus, its dynamics and associated driving mechanisms in urban/rural landscapes, urban-rural continuums, and urban agglomerations under climate change, human activities, pandemics, regional conflicts, and so forth.

2. Methodological advancements for landscape sustainability, particularly through applications of geospatial techniques, big data, machine learning, and advanced numerical simulation.

3. Case studies in landscape/urban planning, land system architecture, and geo-design for creating and maintaining sustainable landscapes.)