Regional Sustainability专刊征稿启事
Regional Sustainability
Special Issue
Sustainable development in the context of climate change: Achievements, challenges and prospects
专刊
气候变化背景下的可持续发展：成就、挑战和前景
征稿时间
2022年12月1日至2023年5月31日
Under the effect of global climate change, sustainable development is nowadays an international concern, particularly in dry lands. According to the 2020 global dry lands distribution map (FAO), about two billion people live in dry lands, 90% of them in developing countries. In addition, dry lands support a wide livestock variety and plant species essential to human food security. Indeed, despite physical constraints, agriculture has been recognized as an essential activity in these dry lands. It contributes to ensuring the supply of agricultural and food products, wealth creation, and income sources for a significant part of the rural populations.
Public development policies have played an important role in promoting sustainable development globally, particularly through the implementation of numerous integrated rural development programs and projects. The effectiveness of these programs deserves to be analyzed and assessed. Nowadays, many global phenomena have a direct impact on household livelihoods, in particular those in remote rural areas. Climate change, technological innovations (including Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), and the globalization of economy constitute major challenges for maintaining the agricultural resilience in many regions of the world. They can significantly modify the productivity of the agricultural sector and permanently affect the natural resources (water, soil, vegetation, etc.), which are the basis of agricultural production and its main chain values.
Periods of prolonged drought are becoming more common, posing new challenges to the traditional agricultural production and to the process of economic and social development. Drought increases pressure on natural resources and affects the low agricultural potential. Such pressures highlight the fragility of the global economic and social system.
The aims of the special issue are as follows:
(1) Focusing on the achievements of social science research on issues related to economic and social development, particularly in drylands, which are experiencing a new situation characterized by the globalization of economies, the acceleration of technological innovations, climate change, and the degradation of natural resources.
(2) Formulating orientations and recommendations for decision-makers and development actors to enable those establishing strategies and public policies allowing the implementation of sustainable development.
(3) Promoting networking between social science research in agricultural and rural development from a sustainability perspective.
The topics of the special issue include but are not limited to the following:
(1) Impacts and challenges of global climate change and regional ecological responses;
(2) Institutional economy and governance;
(3) Value chain and resilient agriculture;
(4) Public policies and development approaches;
(5) Agricultural development theories, methodology, and models;
(6) Resources exploitation and utilization.
Regional Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access journal publishing high-quality articles in multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary subjects relating to sustainability. The journal advances our understanding of the sustainability dimensions of environmental protection, economic development and social development from local to global scales. It publishes theoretical and experimental research papers on resources exploitation and utilization, urbanization and regional sustainable development, urbanization and informatization, human-land relationship and regional differential, population migration and society transformation, and spatial layout and optimization of human activity.
Launched in October 2020, the journal has been selected/indexed by the Scopus, DOAJ, GEOBASE, EBSCO, CNKI, etc.
Prof. Mohamed Jaouad, Arid Zone Research Institute (Institut des Régions Arides) (IRA), Médenine, Tunisia (E-mail: mjaouad63@gmail.com ).
Prof. Mongi Sghaier, Arid Zone Research Institute (Institut des Régions Arides) (IRA), Médenine, Tunisia (E-mail: sghaiermon@gmail.com ).
Aymen Frija, ICARDA, Tunis, Tunisia (E-mail: frijaaymen@yahoo.fr).
Prof. Ouessar Mohamed, Arid Zone Research Institute (Institut des Régions Arides) (IRA), Médenine, Tunisia (E-mail: ouessar@yahoo.com).
Dr. Nabil Bachagha, School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, China (E-mail: bachaghanabil@csu.edu.cn).
Prof. Rui Zhao, Southwest Jiaotong University, China (E-mail: ruizhao@swjtu.edu.cn).
Prof. Xiaobing Zhou, Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (E-mail: zhouxb@ms.xjb.ac.cn).
The Guest Editor Team invites both original research papers and review papers that fit within the scope outlined in this document. The focus of the submitted papers should lie on sustainable development, but comparative studies and methodological papers are also welcome as long as they are relevant for the topics of this special issue.
Please carefully read and follow the instructions for authors, which you may find online at:
https://www.keaipublishing.com/en/journals/regional-sustainability/guide-for-authors/.
Before submitting paper, please create a user account and then submit all relevant files online at:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/regsus.
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Regional Sustainability（REGSUS，ISSN 2097-0129，CN 65-1317/X）是中国科学院主管，中国科学院新疆生态与地理研究所主办,《区域可持续发展（英文）》编辑部出版的开放获取英文学术期刊。2019年11月成功入选中国科协等7部委联合组织的“中国科技期刊卓越行动计划-高起点新刊项目”，属于2020年2月国科发监〔2020〕37号文件中“三类高质量论文”期刊。
REGSUS以区域可持续发展研究为主要切入点，关注全球环境、经济和社会领域最新科学研究成果。刊登包括资源开发与利用、城市化与区域可持续发展、城市化与信息化、人地关系与区域差异、人口迁移与社会转型、人类活动空间布局与优化等多领域的研究成果、综合评价、政府决策及最新难点、重点问题讨论，旨在为我国乃至全世界可持续发展研究提供交流平台。
期刊优势：
* SCOPUS、GEOBASE、 DOAJ、EBSCO、 CNKI等数据库索引期刊
* 中国科技期刊卓越行动计划入选期刊
* 属于国科发监〔2020〕37号文件的“三类高质量论文”
* 创刊前三年所有文章免收出版费用，一经录用均发表在ScienceDirect平台
REGSUS正全速征集可持续发展领域的高质量原创英文文章，欢迎相关领域研究学者积极投稿。期刊论文主题包括但不限于以下内容：
* Resources exploitation and utilization
* Urbanization and regional sustainable development
* Urbanization and informatization
* Human-nature relationship and regional differential
* Population migration and society transformation
* Spatial layout and optimization of human activity
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