Preface to the topical collection on the 16th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology
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Preface to the topical collection on the 16th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology Dimitra Vagiona1 · Georgia Pozoukidou1
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Cities and regions are highly complex systems in terms of their spatial organization and function, as well as their development, management, governance, and policy. They must cope with major urban and economic developments, the challenges posed by climate change, different types of crises (e.g., health, energy, food, financial, and immigration crises), and increasing environmental vulnerability. Interventions, policies, and management should therefore not only accommodate future urban growth but also guarantee environmental sustainability. In recent years, ecological resilience as well as environmental issues arising from conflict and exposure have received considerable attention both inside and outside of academia. This special issue aims to increase our understanding of urban and regional environmental pressures, conflicts, and vulnerabilities. It focuses on particular environmental issues encountered at a variety of geographical scales, discussing cases of management and possible policy and planning solutions. The special issue contains extended versions of scientific papers that were presented at the 16th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology (CEST2019) in Rhodes, Greece, as well as a few invited papers from thematic fields relating to environmental spatial planning and management. These thematic fields resulted from an attempt to promote a synthetic approach and highlight the complementarity and synergy of natural resource management and planning, natural disaster and environmental threat planning and management, the management and planning of marine environments, green spatial planning strategies, and environmental policy instruments. Therefore, this issue has been organized into three distinct sections: * Georgia Pozoukidou [email protected] Dimitra Vagiona [email protected] 1
marine spatial planning, environmental performance of urban areas, and spatial planning as a physical design and societal process, and contains nine papers in total. The first three papers focus on a critical issue for the Mediterranean area: the management and planning of marine environments with onshore spatial planning. The paper by M. Papageorgiou, E. Beriatos, O. Christopoulou, M.-N. Duquenne, D. Kallioras, S. Sakellariou, Th. Kostopoulou, A. Sfougaris, E. Mente, I. Karapanagiotidis, S. S. Kyvelou, E. Tzannatos, K. Kanellopoulou, and A. Papachatzi focuses on the issue of effective place-based marine spatial planning. Lessons learnt from the study of a pilot marine area in Greece indicate that there are several aspects that are critical to effective marine spatial planning, such as strengthening cross-border cooperation, engaging the maritime regime and stakeholders in governance schemes, and possessing the tools, data, and methodologies needed to apply place-based approache
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