Environmental and Natural Resources Policy for the 21st Century

Dear Colleagues,

We find ourselves today in the most challenging time yet for protecting the planet and its inhabitants. We face an uncertain future and dangers we could not have imagined just half a century ago. Even throughout the years of substantial new environmental legislation, just a few decades ago, the problems were more straightforward and could be addressed with some effort. Now the problems require a combination of effort and hope or faith—the potential that we will try and still not do enough to make it through the challenges of climate disruption, biodiversity loss, and global energy needs. How does this uncertainty impact policy? Does it elevate the value of the precautionary principle, not yet utilized in all countries, or does it result in political roadblocks to sustainability?

This Special Issue seeks articles that focus on any law, policy, regulatory, or theoretical aspect of the 21st century challenges for environmental and natural resources policy. What might we do to improve our prospects, both domestically and internationally? How might we address such wicked problems without increasing human economic suffering? How do we weigh one potential for human suffering (lack of development) against another (climate refugees)? These and other related questions may be addressed through this call for papers.

Please feel free to forward this call for papers to anyone who might be interested in submitting a paper.

Prof. Kalyani Robbins
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Laws is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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• Environment
• Energy
• Biodiversity
• Natural resources
• Ecosystem
• Climate