Special Issue

Climate Change and Its Impacts on Ecosystems, Society, and Human Health: Adaptation, Resilience, and Sustainable Solutions

Submission Deadline: October 31, 2027 (Open) Submit Now

Guest Editor

Kuok Ho Daniel Tang, PhD, Professor

Department of Environmental Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA

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Research Interests: Climate change; occupational safety and health; environmental impact assessment; phytoremediation; microplastics.

About This Topic

Climate change is reshaping natural ecosystems, human societies, and public health through increasingly complex and interconnected environmental, social, and economic challenges. Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, biodiversity loss, changing disease dynamics, food and water insecurity, pollution, and climate-induced migration highlight the urgent need for interdisciplinary research that advances both scientific understanding and practical solutions. This Special Issue welcomes original research, reviews, perspectives, and case studies that investigate the drivers, impacts, and mitigation or adaptation strategies associated with climate change across terrestrial, freshwater, marine, and urban environments. Particular emphasis is placed on ecosystem resilience, nature-based solutions, climate justice, planetary health, environmental risk assessment, sustainable resource management, low-carbon transitions, and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, remote sensing, digital environmental monitoring, and climate modeling. Contributions integrating environmental, ecological, social, engineering, public health, and policy perspectives are especially encouraged. By bringing together diverse disciplines, this Special Issue aims to provide evidence-based insights that support resilient ecosystems, healthier communities, informed policymaking, and progress toward global sustainability and climate adaptation goals.

Keywords

Adaptation; Resilience; Planetary health; Nature-based solutions; Sustainable development; Carbon neutrality; Mitigation; Sustainable development

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted through the LIDSEN Submission System. Detailed information on manuscript preparation and submission is available in the Instructions for Authors. All submitted articles will be thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process and will be processed following the Editorial Process and Quality Control policy. Upon acceptance, the article will be immediately published in a regular issue of the journal and will be listed together on the special issue website, with a label that the article belongs to the Special Issue. LIDSEN distributes articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License in an open-access model. The authors own the copyright to the article, and the article can be free to access, distribute, and reuse provided that the original work is correctly cited.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). Research articles and review articles are highly invited. Authors are encouraged to send the tentative title and abstract of the planned paper to the Editorial Office (aeer@lidsen.com) for record. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office.

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