Advancing geospatial methods for addressing global resource and sustainability challenges

IF 10.9 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENGINEERING, ENVIRONMENTAL

Resources Conservation and Recycling Pub Date : 2025-07-16 DOI:10.1016/j.resconrec.2025.108517

Yongze Song , Petra Helmholz , Fenzhen Su , Chenghu Zhou , Aynaz Lotfata , Motti Zohar , Miguel González Leonardo , Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka

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Abstract

Rising demands on global resources and ecosystems require advanced geospatial methods to support monitoring, modeling, and sustainable management. However, challenges remain in integrating remote sensing, environmental process models, machine learning, spatial statistics, and hybrid systems to capture nonlinear processes and multi-scale interactions. The Special Issue on “Advancing geospatial methods for sustainable resource management” presents recent studies addressing biodiversity conservation, carbon and land use, urban material flows, waste monitoring, and supply chain equity. This editorial introduces a structured framework that connects geospatial methods from data acquisition to complex system modeling to five key resource and sustainability challenges. The framework identifies new directions for methodological innovation, multi-source data integration, and interdisciplinary applications that inform policy and advance circular economy transitions. Strengthening geospatial integration through advanced methods and cross-sector collaboration remains essential for effective sustainable resource management within complex socio-ecological systems.

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推进地理空间方法，应对全球资源和可持续性挑战

对全球资源和生态系统日益增长的需求需要先进的地理空间方法来支持监测、建模和可持续管理。然而，在整合遥感、环境过程模型、机器学习、空间统计和混合系统来捕捉非线性过程和多尺度相互作用方面仍然存在挑战。“推进可持续资源管理的地理空间方法”特刊介绍了最近关于生物多样性保护、碳和土地利用、城市物流、废物监测和供应链公平的研究。这篇社论介绍了一个结构化框架，将从数据采集到复杂系统建模的地理空间方法与五个关键资源和可持续性挑战联系起来。该框架确定了方法创新、多源数据集成和跨学科应用的新方向，为政策提供信息并推动循环经济转型。通过先进方法和跨部门合作加强地理空间整合，对于在复杂的社会生态系统中进行有效的可持续资源管理仍然至关重要。

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Resources Conservation and Recycling 环境科学-工程：环境

CiteScore

22.90

自引率

6.10%

发文量

625

审稿时长

23 days

期刊介绍： The journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling welcomes contributions from research, which consider sustainable management and conservation of resources. The journal prioritizes understanding the transformation processes crucial for transitioning toward more sustainable production and consumption systems. It highlights technological, economic, institutional, and policy aspects related to specific resource management practices such as conservation, recycling, and resource substitution, as well as broader strategies like improving resource productivity and restructuring production and consumption patterns. Contributions may address regional, national, or international scales and can range from individual resources or technologies to entire sectors or systems. Authors are encouraged to explore scientific and methodological issues alongside practical, environmental, and economic implications. However, manuscripts focusing solely on laboratory experiments without discussing their broader implications will not be considered for publication in the journal.