15.03.2025 | Special Issue: "Potential for Nature-Based Solutions in Urban Green Infrastructure"
Manuscripts for a special issue of the scientific Journal Land can be submitted until 31 July 2025. Prof. Petra Schneider from the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal, Germany, is guest editor.
Ecological engineering, as the synthesis of ecology and engineering, deals with the sustainable design and operation of ecosystems heavily influenced by humans and uses nature-based solutions (nbS) to do so. The overarching engineering–ecological goal is to ensure sustainability in order to allow designed ecosystems to function permanently for the benefit of society and ecology. This Special Issue, on the one hand, uses findings from ecology and ecosystem research, material cycle management in the system with small material losses, the lowest possible proportion of technical energy, as well as the effective use of energy and materials. On the other hand we aim to outline the characteristics of these technologies, including multifunctional use, the integration of different spatial levels and the creation of both networks and decentralized, redundant decision-making structures, while at the same time using the best possible ecological construction methods and treatment processes.
Ecological engineering uses nature-based solutions (nbS) to create and develop coherent networks of green and blue infrastructure in rural and urban areas. The overview and definition of the World Conservation Union (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, IUCN, 2016) are helpful for determining the dimensions of nbS: “Measures for the protection, sustainable management and restoration of natural or modified ecosystems that address the societal challenges effectively and adaptively while providing benefits for human well-being and biodiversity” (IUCN, 2016). The IUCN refers in particular to nbS for overcoming societal challenges and specifically names climate change, food security, water security, disaster risks, risks to human health and risks to economic and social development.
This Special Issue deals with the potential for nbS in urban green infrastructure at all levels. The key issues addressed are:
- Sustainable settlement ecosystems and urban green infrastructure
- Multifunctional structural elements executed as nature-based solutions
- Strategies and measures to promote biodiversity in urban areas
- Sustainable landscape development in rural areas
- Circular green and blue systems
- Land recycling and land conversion
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