When multi-functional landscape meets Critical Zone science: advancing multi-disciplinary research for sustainable human well-being

• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（2）
• 页码范围: 349-358
• 页数: 10页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwy003

摘要

Environmental degradation has become one of the major obstacles to sustainable development and human well-being internationally.Scientific efforts are being made to understand the mechanism of environmental degradation and sustainability.Critical Zone (CZ) science and research on the multi-functional landscape are emerging fields in Earth science that can contribute to such scientific efforts.This paper reviews the progress,similarities and current status of these two scientific research fields,and identifies a number of opportunities for their synergistic integration through functional and multi-functional approaches,process-based monitoring,mechanistic analyses and dynamic modeling,global long-term and networked monitoring and systematic modeling supported by scaling and deep coupling.These approaches proposed in this paper have the potential to support sustainable human well-being by strengthening a functional orientation that consolidates multi-functional landscape research and CZ science.This is a key challenge for sustainable development and human well-being in the twenty-first century.