United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in Land Use Systems from Resource Nexus Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, the demand for natural resources has been rapidly growing, causing serious impacts, risks, and threats to humans at different scales. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) arises more serious problems. Therefore, it is necessary to manage nature resources in a more sustainable manner, considering an integrated approach to the interdependencies of resource use to achieve SDGs. In future, the scientific concern should be the interrelationships between resources, their synergistic trade-off mechanisms with sustainable development goals, and the modeling approaches to SDGs from a policy perspective.

This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that link the following themes: The Special Issue (SI) focuses on discussing how to address the issue of land resource misallocation hindering regional sustainable development from resource nexus perspectives. We will discuss the ability of a nexus approach to assess critical interlinkages across the natural resource (water, energy, food, materials and land), along their value chains, and to enable sustainable resource use pathways, in particular with respect to the SDGs on food (SDG 2), water (SDG 6), energy (SDG 7), cities (SDG 11) production and consumption (SDG 12). This provides an opportunity for all scholars to share their knowledge from the multidisciplinary community across the world, including environmental scientist, geographer, ecologist, natural resource scientist. We encourage submissions on the integration of natural resource coupling utilization into land use transformation research, and the land use transformation regulation strategies from the perspectives of water, energy, food, materials, and ecological nexus. This not only helps to further improve the theoretical system of land use transformation, but also provides a new research perspective for land system optimization and regional sustainable development.

1. Sustainable utilization of land resources;
2. Coupled simulation of resource system;
3. Utilization of water, soil, and energy resources under SDGs;
4. The constraining relationship between the misallocation of land resources and sustainable development;
5. Contribution of reutilization of abandoned land resources to SDGs;
6. Land use optimization for sustainable development.

We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.

Dr. Jingying Fu
Prof. Dr. Dong Jiang
Dr. Gang Lin
Guest Editors

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• SDGs
• resource coupling
• resource policy
• water-energy-food-materials-land nexus
• sustainable development