Socio-Environmental Vulnerability Assessment for Sustainable Management

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: acoustic space; adaptability; aging; Aksu-Jabagly nature reserve; analytical hierarchy process; ArcGIS; assessment; climate; climate analogues; climate change; cluster; clustering; community-based assessment; cross-sectoral partnerships; cycling; cycling routes; dataset; decision support system; eco-environmental risk assessment; ecological restoration; ecological vulnerability; education; energy from biomass; environmental flow; environmental hazards; Factor Analysis on Mixed Data (FAMD); farm management; flood risk; fortified landscape; geospatial analysis; geospatial information; GIS; green infrastructure; green roofs; healthcare facilities; heritage protection; hydropower production; impact; impact perception; indicators; indigenous peoples; integrated environmental assessment; integrated planning index; inter-municipal cooperation; Jiuqu stream; Kazakhstan; land use planning; local development; meteorology; mineral resources; mountain region; multidimensional statistical analysis; municipal waste; municipalities; municipality; n/a; national park; natural environment; nature protection; Nepal; noise; Nysa Kłodzka sub-basin; open-source software; pellets; performance system; periodization; place-based and integrated development; Poland; political environment; preventive healthcare; quality of runoff water; questionnaire survey; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; renewable energy; Research and information: general; resource-based economy; SDG implementation; slow cities; society; socio-ecological system; socio-environmental vulnerability; soil water retention; solar energy radiation; spatial policy; stakeholders; Support Vector Machines; sustainable development; sustainable economy; sustainable management; sustainable mobility; sustainable tourism; synanthropic flora; SYNOP; Tableau; technical infrastructure; technogenic soil; tourism impact; traffic safety; urban planning; urban vegetation; vulnerability and adaptation assessment; Ward’s method; water resources; watershed management; wood waste; world heritage
• ISBN: 3039436511; 9783039436514; 9783039436521; 303943652X
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03943-652-1

This Special Issue explores the cross-disciplinary approaches, methodologies, and applications of socio-environmental vulnerability assessment that can be incorporated into sustainable management. The volume comprises 20 different points of view, which cover environmental protection and development, urban planning, geography, public policymaking, participation processes, and other cross-disciplinary fields. The articles collected in this volume come from all over the world and present the current state of the world’s environmental and social systems at a local, regional, and national level. New approaches and analytical tools for the assessment of environmental and social systems are studied. The practical implementation of sustainable development as well as progressive environmental and development policymaking are discussed. Finally, the authors deliberate about the perspectives of social–environmental systems in a rapidly changing world.