Exploring the Social, Economic, and Environmental Dimensions of Sustainable Food Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Environmental issues are of increasing significance for nations engaging the population and firms in mitigating climate change to bring economic, social and environmental findings. In fact, the United Nations General Assembly established the sustainable development goals (SDGs) to set out a blueprint of 17 global goals ensuring the Earth’s sustainable future. In particular, the twelfth Sustainable Development goal seeks to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns. This goal emphasizes that sustainability is the responsibility of both producers and consumers—and all stakeholders in between. In this framework, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is by now an important component of the dialogue between firms and their stakeholders. In fact, the firms embrace responsibility for its actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities and stakeholders. On the other hand, stakeholders can only make sustainable choices, be they lifestyles, behaviors, or purchases. This requires a concerted and coordinated change by all stakeholders to bring about change as well as an understanding of what drives consumers and or other stakeholders to initiate or maintain sustainable behaviors.

This Special Issue seeks to advance the current state of research on CSR, sustainable behavior, production and consumption. The overarching aim is to explore new perspectives on sustainability, sustainable production and consumption, by focusing on behaviour change (at firm and consumer level) on sustainability-related topics. Thus, interdisciplinary contributions are encouraged, and submissions may relate to the following broad theme examples:

• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Green business models
• Circular economy
• Farms and Sustainable productions
• Marketing and facilitating sustainable consumption choices
• Promoting green behavior, awareness, and mindfulness
• Sustainable consumers and lifestyles
• Green behaviors
• Consumer behaviour

Prof. Dr. Flavio Boccia
Dr. Nadia Palmieri
Guest Editors

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• corporate social responsibility
• economic, environmental and social aspects of firms
• sustainable production
• green models
• green economy
• circular economy
• behaviour change
• sustainable marketing
• sustainable consumption
• sustainable behaviour