Water resources and environmental sustainability is crucial for human existence on this planet. A variety of approaches are used to measure, model, and/or manage water resources; these are often an important aspect of environmental sustainability. Assessment of uncertainty for water resources and environmental sustainability helps improve the understanding of earth systems.
This special issue of Frontiers of Earth Science is soliciting papers focusing on uncertainty in the areas of water resources and environmental sustainability in any part of the globe with a physical, ecological, or social science perspective, or any combination thereof. The goals of the special issue are to provide further insight into methods of quantifying uncertainty, the estimation of uncertainty in regions that have not been extensively studied, and the incorporation of uncertainty in models.
Guest Editors
Professor Steven R. Fassnacht, Colorado State University, <Steven.Fassnacht@colostate.edu>
Vice Dean Professor Mingguo Ma, Southwest University, <mmg@swu.edu.cn>
Dr. Ryan W. Webb, University of Colorado, <Ryan.W.Webb@colorado.edu>
Time line for the Special Issue
1. announcement circulation: December 15th, 2016
2. author expression of interest to submit (with title, author(s), key points): February 28th
3. paper submission open: March 1 to May 15
4. paper submissions are requested by June 30th
5. reviews back to authors: August 1st
6. paper revisions due: September 1st
7. notification of final acceptance: November 1st
8. final papers uploaded: November 15th
9. publication in the first issue of 2018
Submission guidelines
Before submission the authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/journal/11707, and submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript via the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fesci. When submitting your manuscript, please select the Manuscript Type as special issue.
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About the Journal
Frontiers of Earth Science is an international journal in Springer’s Earth Sciences & Geography series that started in 2007 and publishes four issues a year. The journal is viewable at <http://www.springer.com/ |
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Aims and Scope
Frontiers of Earth Science publishes original, peer-reviewed, theoretical and experimental frontier research papers as well as significant review articles of more general interest to earth scientists. The journal features articles dealing with observations, patterns, processes, and modeling of both innerspheres (including deep crust, mantle, and core) and outerspheres (including atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere) of the earth. Its aim is to promote communication and share knowledge among the international earth science communities. Thematic issues will periodically be published featuring particular areas of earth science. The scope of the journal covers a broad range of earth science topics, including, but not limited to, physical geography, geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, climatology, ecology, biology, global change, hydrology, environmental pollution, biogeochemical cycles, natural resource management, ecosystems and sustainability, land use cover and change, environmental assessment and monitoring, remote sensing, instrumentation technology, data acquisition/processing/assimilation, algorithm development, application and modeling, as well as socioeconomic drivers and societal consequences of the changing planet and its environment. Critical reviews and discussions of recently published research papers are also encouraged.
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Forest covers approximately one-third of the world’s land surface area. Extensive forest area loss and gain have occurred under diverse human activities and climate change, which have substantial impacts on terrestrial carbon and water cycles, soil erosion, weather, climate, and other ecosystem services. The increased data availability from field surveys and remote sensing and the progress in models and analytics have substantially improved the knowledge of forest cover dynamics, driving factors, and impacts. This special issue aims to highlight recent advancements in forest cover dynamics, driving factors, and impacts. We welcome submissions covering a variety of topics, including, but not limited to: 1) Novel algorithms for mapping forest cover and forest cover dynamics, such as the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, remote sensing data analysis, and model-data fusion techniques in forest cover and forest cover dynamics. 2) Forest cover dynamics in the last few decades using multiple-source datasets, such as optical satellite images, microwave satellite images, LiDAR, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data, and field inventory plots. 3) Driving factors for forest cover dynamics, such as climate, fires, insects, socio-economic factors, environmental policies, and management; and 4) The broad impacts of forest cover dynamics on the socio-environment sustainability, such as terrestrial carbon and water cycle, climate, weather, soil erosion, and biodiversity.
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Guest Editors: Yuanwei Qin Professor College of Geography and Remote Sensing, Hohai University Senior Researcher School of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma Email: qinyuanwei001@163.com; yuanwei.qin@ou.edu Jia Wang Professor College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University Email: wangjia2009@bjfu.edu.cn Jun Ma Associate Professor School of Life Sciences, Fudan University Email: ma_jun@fudan.edu.cn Fang Liu Senior Research Scientist College of Surveying and Geo-Informatics, Tongji University Email: fang.liu@ou.edu Xiangming Xiao Professor School of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma Email: xiangming.xiao@ou.edu
Important Dates Submission Deadline: December 30, 2025 Expected Publication: June 30, 2026 Submission Guidelines To submit to the special issue, please visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fesci and select the “Type” as “Special Issue: Forest cover dynamics, drivers, and impacts under diverse human activities and climate change” while submitting your manuscript. Please visit https://www.springer.com/journal/11707/submission-guidelines for submission guidelines. Contacts If you have any questions regarding submission, please feel free to contact the Editorial Office of Frontiers of Earth Science via: fesci@re.ecnu.edu.cn. |
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Frontiers of Earth Science ISSN 2095-0195 CN 11-5982/P Online Submission: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fesci |
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Content Online: https://www.springer.com/journal/11707
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Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment, Integrated Mitigation Techniques, and Urban Resilience |
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The increasing frequency and intensity of natural and human-induced hazards present significant challenges to urban areas worldwide. Multi-hazard risk assessment and integrated mitigation strategies are crucial for enhancing urban resilience. Understanding the interactions between various hazards, their cumulative impacts, and the vulnerabilities of urban systems is essential for developing effective risk reduction strategies. Recent advancements in data availability, computational power, and digital technologies provide new opportunities to improve risk assessment and mitigation practices. However, addressing the complexities of multi-hazard environments remains a significant challenge. This special issue aims to gather high-quality research papers that contribute to the advancement of multi-hazard risk assessment, integrated mitigation techniques, and urban resilience by exploring innovative approaches and best practices. It will highlight recent advancements, novel methodologies, and practical applications that address the complexities of managing multiple hazards in urban environments. By fostering an exchange of knowledge among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers, this special issue seeks to advance the understanding and implementation of comprehensive risk management strategies and promote interdisciplinary collaboration. The topics of this special issue will cover, but are not limited to: · New and emerging methods and techniques for multi-hazard risk assessment at various spatial and temporal scales. · Approaches to integrated mitigation strategies for managing multiple hazards and their cascading effects. · Urban resilience frameworks and models for enhancing the capacity of cities to withstand and recover from multi-hazard events. · Case studies on the application of integrated risk management practices in urban settings. · Advances in data integration, modeling, and simulation for multi-hazard risk assessment. · The role of digital technologies, including AI and IoT, in improving multi-hazard detection, forecasting, and early warning systems. · Socioeconomic and policy dimensions of multi-hazard risk reduction and urban resilience. · Community engagement and participatory approaches in developing and implementing integrated multi-hazard mitigation strategies. · Evaluation of the effectiveness of current urban resilience measures and identification of gaps and areas for improvement. · Comparative studies on multi-hazard risk management practices across different regions and cities.
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Guest Editors: Prof. Jun Wang (jwang@geo.ecnu.edu.cn) School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University Prof. Jie Yin (jyin@geo.ecnu.edu.cn) School of Geographic Sciences, East China Normal University Prof. Fubao Sun (sunfb@igsnrr.ac.cn) Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof. Shaohong Wu (wush@igsnrr.ac.cn) Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Prof. Jiquan Zhang (zhangjq022@nenu.edu.cn) School of Environment, Northeast Normal University Prof. Weihua Fang (weihua.fang@bnu.edu.cn) Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University Important Dates Original Submission Due: December 31, 2024 Expected Publication: September 2025 Submission Guidelines To submit to the special issue, please visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fesci and select the “Type” as “Special Issue: Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment, Integrated Mitigation Techniques, and Urban Resilience” while submitting your manuscript. Please visit https://www.springer.com/journal/11707/submission-guidelines for submission guidelines. Contacts If you have any questions regarding submission, please feel free to contact the Editorial Office of Frontiers of Earth Science via: fesci@re.ecnu.edu.cn. |
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Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Science and Management: New Frontiers of Research |
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As the Earth’s climate undergoes global climate changes, understanding terrestrial carbon cycling has become increasingly vital. This special issue seeks to serve as a forum for discussing the latest advances in terrestrial carbon cycling research, particularly within the context of global climate change. We welcome submissions covering a variety of topics, including, but not limited to: 1) Innovative Approaches in Carbon Cycle Research: Exploring the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analysis and model-data fusion techniques in carbon cycle research under global climate change. 2) Modeling and Predictive Insights: Developing models and providing predictive insights into carbon and nutrient cycles in terrestrial ecosystems under global climate change. 3) Microbial Influence on Carbon and Nutrient Cycles: Investigating the role of soil microorganisms in carbon and nutrient cycles and their responses to global climate change. 4) Soil Carbon Dynamics: Analyzing the responses of diverse soil carbon reservoirs to global climate change, including responses from deep soil layers. 5) Ecosystem Multifunctionality and Biodiversity: Assessing the impact of ecosystem multifunctionality, vegetation dynamics, and plant biodiversity on the carbon cycle in response to changing climate conditions. 6) Integrative Ecological Processes: Linking aboveground and belowground ecological processes to enhance our understanding of the soil carbon cycle under global climate change. |
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Guest Editors: Prof. Ji Chen Institute of Earth Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences Email: chenji@ieecas.cn Prof. Yuanyuan Huang Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Email: huangyy@igsnrr.ac.cn Prof. Xia Xu State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture Zhejiang A&F University Email: xuxia.1982@outlook.com Important Dates Submission Deadline: December 31, 2024 Expected Publication: July 2025 Submission Guidelines To submit to the special issue, please visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fesci and select the “Type” as “Special Issue: Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Science and Management: New Frontiers of Research” while submitting your manuscript. Please visit https://www.springer.com/journal/11707/submission-guidelines for submission guidelines. Contacts If you have any questions regarding submission, please feel free to contact the Editorial Office of Frontiers of Earth Science via: fesci@re.ecnu.edu.cn. |
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Frontiers of Earth Science
Electronic ISSN 2095-0209
2.031 (2020) Impact factor
Online Submission: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fesci
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Call for Papers, Special Issue on Holocene Climate Changes and Paleoecology on the Tibetan Plateau The Tibetan Plateau, known as the “Third Pole” and the “Asian Water Tower”, is a unique geographic unit on the Earth, with high elevation, sensitive response to climate forcings, fragile ecosystems, and harsh environment. The security of climate, environment, and water resources are extremely important for regional ecosystem, economic and social stability. Multi-spheric interactions is one of the key aspects in the recently proposed theme of Tibetan Plateau Earth System Sciences, which requires in-depth understanding of past changes and interactions among different spheres. This Special Issue will focus on changes in climate, environment, and ecology, which mostly occur in Earth surface spheres. We are soliciting studies on spatiotemporal patterns of climate, environment, ecosystem, and their interactions with human activities, aiming to providing scientific basis for ecosystem management and protection on the Tibetan Plateau. This Special Issue will include, not limited to, the following topics: 1) Verification and development of proxies for changes in climate, environment, and ecology for the Tibetan Plateau. 2) Records of changes in climate, environment, and ecology on the Tibetan Plateau. 3) Prehistoric and historical human-environment interactions on the Tibetan Plateau. Guest Editors: Prof. Juzhi Hou Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Email: houjz@itpcas.ac.cn Prof. Xianyong Cao Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research Chinese Academy of Sciences Email: xcao@itpcas.ac.cn Prof. Duo Wu College of Earth and Environmental Sciences Lanzhou University Email: dwu@lzu.edu.cn Dr. Mingda Wang School of Geography Liaoning Normal University Email: mdwang@lnnu.edu.cn Schedule for this special issue The schedule for the submission, review, and publication of articles for this special volume is as follows: Call for Paper: Starting from 15 April 2022 Submission closed on: 31 October 2022 Special Issue Publishing: Issue 2, 2023 Online Submission: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fesci *Please noted to choose the ‘Type’ as ‘Special Issue: Holocene Climate Changes and Paleoecology on the Tibetan Plateau’ when submitting the manuscript. |
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? Theory for the Digital Earth vision.
? Construction methods and implementing techniques for Digital Earth systems.
? Impacts of typical Digital Earth systems.
? Multi-dimensional modeling, visualization and quality assurance for Digital Earth systems.
? Digital Earth as the platform for urban, environmental, atmospheric, aerospace, geographical, geological, and educational applications.
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Guest Editors Prof. Jianfang Fei National University of Defense Technology, China feijf@sina.com Dr. Jun A. Zhang Univieristy of Miami and NOAA/AOML/HRD, USA jun.zhang@rsmas.miami.edu Online Submission https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fesci |
Time Line for the Special Issue 1.Announcement circulation: January 20th, 2020 2.Paper submission open: January 20th to May 20th, 2020 3.Papers due: May 20th, 2020 4.Reviews back to authors: June 30th, 2020 5.Paper revisions due: July 31st, 2020 6.Notification of final acceptance: August 31st, 2020 7.Publication in Issue 4, 2020 |
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Prof. Xiaofan Li Zhejiang University, Chinaxiaofanli@zju.edu.cn Prof. Liguang Wu Fudan University, Chinalwu2009@gmail.com Prof. Jiong Shu East China Normal University, Chinajshu@geo.ecnu.edu.cn |
1.Announcement circulation: January 15th, 2019 2.Paper submission open: January 15th to March 31st, 2019 3.Papers due: March 31st, 2019 4.Reviews back to authors: April 30th, 2019 5.Paper revisions due: May 31st, 2019 6.Notification of final acceptance: Jun 15th, 2019 7.Final papers uploaded: Jun 30th, 2019 8.Publication in Issue 3, 2019
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Water resources and environmental sustainability is crucial for human existence on this planet. A variety of approaches are used to measure, model, and/or manage water resources; these are often an important aspect of environmental sustainability. Assessment of uncertainty for water resources and environmental sustainability helps improve the understanding of earth systems.
This special issue of Frontiers of Earth Science is soliciting papers focusing on methods to assess water systems, with an emphasis on water resources and environmental sustainability in any part of the globe with a physical, ecological, or social science perspective, or any combination thereof. The main goal of the special issue is to provide further insight into the variety of methods that are being used to describe water systems. Papers are especially sought that use more than one method and/or non-traditional methods to quantify and describe water resources and water systems.
Frontiers of Earth Science publishes original, peer-reviewed, theoretical and experimental frontier research papers as well as significant review articles of more general interest to earth scientists. The journal features articles dealing with observations, patterns, processes, and modeling of both innerspheres (including deep crust, mantle, and core) and outerspheres (including atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere) of the earth. Its aim is to promote communication and share knowledge among the international earth science communities. Thematic issues will periodically be published featuring particular areas of earth science. The scope of the journal covers a broad range of earth science topics, including, but not limited to, physical geography, geology, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, climatology, ecology, biology, global change, hydrology, environmental pollution, biogeochemical cycles, natural resource management, ecosystems and sustainability, land use cover and change, environmental assessment and monitoring, remote sensing, instrumentation technology, data acquisition/processing/assimilation, algorithm development, application and modeling, as well as socioeconomic drivers and societal consequences of the changing planet and its environment. Critical reviews and discussions of recently published research papers are also encouraged.
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Special Issue: Frontiers of Urban Geoscience with Urban Sustainability Concerns
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To date, the world is undergoing the largest wave of urban growth in human history. According to the United Nations, around 50% of the world’s population currently lives in an urban environment, and more than 70% of world population is expected to live in cities by 2050. A positive consequence of urbanization may be stronger economic growth due to the higher concentration of economic activities driven by economies of scale. However, continuous population growth and migration during the urbanization process will contribute to reliance on more water, energy, ecological, and environmental resources. Urban metabolism is intimately tied to the geological, environmental, hydrological, ecological, public health and social dimensions in the food-water-energy-waste nexus. As a consequence, rapid urbanization normally ends up significant discharge of wastewater and stormwater, consumes more food, energy and drinking water, emits more greenhouse gases, as well as generates more solid/hazardous waste harmful to human health and the global environment. These urban communities are all vulnerable to natural hazards, climate variability, and unexpected environmental/industrial incidents given the current sociotechnological complexity.
This special issue focuses on the development of urban geoscience with urban sustainability concerns, a new subject area of importance in sustainability science, to perform thorough investigation of basic physical, chemical, biological, ecological, hydrological, geological, and environmental processes with the state-of-the-art earth observations and cyber-innovated numerical simulation, to explore urban geoscience from unique sustainability characteristics, and to disclose novel research results based on case studies with major sustainability factors.
Submission guidelines
Before submission the authors should carefully read over the journal’s Author Guidelines of Frontiers of Earth Science, which are located at the web site http://www.springer.com/earth+sciences+and+geography/journal/11707, and submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript via the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fesci. When submitting your manuscript, please select the Manuscript Type as special issue.
Important dates
Paper due: May 31, 2017
Final version due: December, 2017
Publication: March, 2018
Guest Editors
Dr. Kaixu Bai
Key Laboratory of Geographic Information Science
Ministry of Education
East China Normal University
Shanghai 200241, China
E-mail: kxbai@geo.ecnu.edu.cn
Dr. Lutz Weihermüller
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
Institut für Bio- und Geowissenschaften
IBG-3: Agrosphäre, Germany
Email: l.weihermueller@fz-juelich.de
Dr.ir. Marie-claire ten Veldhuis
Department of Civil Engineering & Geosciences
Technical Univeristy of Delft
PO Box 5048, 2600 GA Delft
The Netherlands
Email: j.a.e.tenveldhuis@tudelft.nl
Dr. Ni-Bin Chang
Stormwater Management Academy
University of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32816, United States of America
E-mail: nchang@ucf.edu
Prof. Ni-Bin Chang, Associate Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of Earth Science, has been awarded the Blaise Pascal Medal in Earth and Environmental Sciences.
This Blaise Pascal Medal in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the European Academy of Sciences represents the highest recognition of research achievements in an academic discipline. The citation is "In recognition of his outstanding contributions to Environmental Sustainability, Green Engineering, and Systems Analysis." Three scholars in chemistry, material science, and earth/environmental science received the medal worldwide this year. The ceremony was held in the headquarter of the European Academy of Sciences in Brussels, Belgium on Nov. 18 and 19, 2016.
For more information, please see
http://www.eurasc.org/ and http://www.eurasc.org/medals/pb_medals_16.asp
