**Preface to "New Approaches in Social, Environmental Management and Policy to Address SDGs"**

The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) are principles created by the UN, with the ultimate goal of guaranteeing well-being on and off the planet. The importance of these objectives is essential, not only for promoting environmental education and citizen science, but also for the commitment to the solutions at different levels of governments, companies, and civil society.

Among the SDGs, there are goals that both public and private organizations must meet before 2030, all with the aim of causing a positive impact on society. Policy makers, companies, and organizations are challenged to cooperate to define new regulations, change business models, and promote the adaptation of society to the challenges posed by the 17 SDGs.

This Special Issue has welcomed papers, research works, and investigations on new approaches to address SDGs from a more macro perspective—environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria.

For this purpose, the book comprises a selection of papers addressing some of the most relevant challenges and opportunities for addressing SDGs from many different perspectives. Papers in this collection cover the most recent lines and approaches of research in addressing SDGs and are all novel propositions that deepen the analysis of environmental, social and governance strategies in the adaptation of the society to meet the 17 SDGs.

In total, a selection of 14 papers forms this book, covering topics such as ecosystem services, urban-industrial systems, governance, institutional quality, waste shipment and disposal, sustainable urban drainage systems, green infrastructures, entrepreneurship, European funds, forestry, wood production, carbon storage, forest biodiversity, agro-food system, environmental performance of small and medium enterprises, business incubators, maturity models, regional and local planning, project management, public infrastructures, local level SDGs implementation, stakeholders synergies, ecological footprint, community empowerment, rural depopulation, etc.

Contributors to the book represent a wide spectrum of nationalities from all over the world. Papers come from Canada, China, Estonia, Finland, Japan, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Thailand and the United States of America (presented in alphabetical order).

Therefore, this book represents an excellent forum and contribution to present some of the latest lines of research about the impacts of SDGs in society.

Finally, the Guest Editors are grateful to all the people that have helped us to complete this Special Issue. We would like to thank all the authors who answered our invitation and submitted their papers to this Special Issue and also to those authors that have made the effort to complete a paper, but it was impossible for them to submit it. We would like to send a special thanks to Mavis Li, our Special Issue's Managing Editor, for her continuous support and assistance, kindness and patience, she is part of the successful completion of this Special Issue. Another special thanks go to the academic editor of *Sustainability* that have supported each submission as well as the reviewers who have generously dedicated part of their valuable time to reviewing papers for this Special Issue.

#### **Margarita Martinez-Nu ˜nez, Mª Pilar Latorre-Mart´ınez**

*Editors*
