Sustainable Growth and a Resilient Environment: Theory, Application and Practice
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (24 March 2024) | Viewed by 1311
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ethics and environment
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability is an ethical issue (as Zagonari, 2020, suggests: “Environmental sustainability is not worth pursuing unless it is achieved for ethical reasons,” Nature—Palgrave Communications 6), and secular and religious ethics offer complementary strategies to achieve sustainability in the short and long run, respectively (Zagonari, 2021: “Religious and secular ethics offer complementary strategies to achieve environmental sustainability,” Nature—Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8). Thus, theoretical models are essential to identify the ethical assumptions and ethical implications of any sustainability paradigm that is chosen to solve an ethical problem (Zagonari, 2022, Environmental Ethics, Sustainability and Decisions: Literature Problems and Suggested Solutions, Springer Book). Furthermore, sustainability is a practical issue. Indeed, the observed failures of international pacts on climate change (e.g., the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement) suggest that it is not enough for a technological improvement to be possible or a cultural change to be intended to move the world away from unsustainable practices; new technologies and values must also be feasible (i.e., theoretically successful) and reliable (i.e., trustworthy in practice) to achieve realistic equilibrium sustainability conditions. In summary, numerical insights from the application of theoretical models based on real data are essential to solve practical and ethical problems.
This Special Issue aims to support and spread a methodology rather than focus on a specific sustainability topic or paradigm. In other words, all papers are welcome, so long as they offer practical insights into sustainability policies or projects based on the numerical application of a theoretical model, regardless of the sustainability paradigm adopted or the practical problem analyzed, by clearly highlighting both ethical assumptions and ethical implications. We aim for this Special Issue to act as a precise methodological reference for the wide range of literature on sustainability.
Dr. Fabio Zagonari
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- model
- data
- sustainability
- ethics
- insights
