Socio-Environmental Vulnerability Assessment for Sustainable Management

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