Introduction to Regional Sustainability

Using examples from the COVID-19 pandemic, this paper reviews the contribution a City Region Food Systems (CRFS) approach makes to regional sustainability and resilience for existing and future shocks including climate change.

The question regarding the state and capacity of early warning systems has been brought to the fore, challenging improvements to ensure climate resilience and regional sustainability.

The regular monitoring of slope stabilities in the Himalayan Mountains and beyond is urgently needed for regional sustainability.

We propose a comprehensive eco-efficiency framework based on emergy theory, green gross domestic product (GGDP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA) to get a thorough assessment of regional sustainability.

This process is conducive to biomethanol production in dispersed, small plants using local biomass for end-users from the same geographical area, thus contributing to regional sustainability.

Its pursuit is developing policies for regional sustainability.

Place-based and cross-level research must be conducted to provide realistic and context-specific pathways to regional sustainability.

Some risks indicated by these conversion features can be identified as follows: (1) unsuitable reclamation of cropland in flat areas causes ecological damage, (2) the invasion of sparsely populated construction land on cropland in steep areas has a dramatic impact on the local area, (3) excessive greening in Northwest and Northeast China, and insufficient greening in Southwest China are not healthy for regional sustainability, (4) cropland’s upslope reclamation and downslope loss pose potential risks for food security.

By integrating land use allocation and spatial mismatch analysis, this methodology provides a feasible way to align ES supply and demand to advance urban and regional sustainability.

Both BR and GP increased the awareness and knowledge of regional sustainability and served as educational platforms to integrate the local government and communities inside the academic curriculum.

Regional sustainability and transportation sustainability have been intensely discussed and analyzed in recent decades.

Spatially quantifying ecosystem services (ES) supply, demand and balance dynamics and exploring their relations with socio-economic factors are very significant for regional sustainability.

Further influencing indicator analysis suggested that the fundamental indicator that limits the regional sustainability of the PRD is the urban ecological elasticity (the “Prominence” value is 4.

Groundwater quality is critical for regional sustainability and human well-beings in coastal regions, because groundwater is an important water resource for these areas facing water scarcity.

Our findings provide useful information for the protection of ecosystem services and the enhancement of regional sustainability.

In this study, a water resources allocation and food production (WF) optimization is developed for regional sustainability under multiple uncertainties.

Six scenario archetypes for the region are described in terms of their driver assumptions and impacts on nature (including biodiversity) and its contributions to people (including ecosystem services): business-as-usual, economic optimism, regional competition, regional sustainability, global sustainable development, and inequality.

Regional Sustainability: Rurban Linkage on the Context of Minapolitan Activity in Malang Regency A rurban linkage is one of the aspects to achieve sustainable regional development, which emphasizes on balancing functions and interrelationships between rural and urban.

The findings could improve airline performances in southern Africa, and improve the regions’ potential for tourism growth and regional sustainability.

Increased use of built up land in urban areas can cause urban sprawl which can have serious impacts that will damage the structure and function of urban area ecosystems, thus hampering the development of regional sustainability.

The main goal of the research is to explore new determinants of work motivation, such as regional sustainability and also individual factors related to individual expectations.

These results are useful to optimize cropping systems for regional sustainability with consideration of both arable crop production (potato) and provision of fodder for animal husbandry (vetch).

Owing to the limitations of overall capacity and scattered allocations against marine environment, archipelago is always regarded as the typical area of high-level conflicts between human settlement and regional sustainability.

The list of topics include: natural environment, agriculture and livestock farming, urban environment and well-being, infrastructures and mobility, cultural heritage, tourism and public use, landscape and territorial models, regional sustainability, socio-demography and local economy.

Energy, water and carbon flows are highly intertwined in economy and influence urban and regional sustainability.

Therefore, this paper evaluated the sustainability dynamics of the BTH urban agglomeration from 2000 to 2015 at the city scale using the Human Sustainable Development Index (HSDI) and discussed the major drivers of the changes in regional sustainability.