Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES 2024)
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 222
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Interests: systems dynamics modelling; operations research; natural resource management; decision support systems; water resources engineering; geospatial information systems
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Since 2002, when the first Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) was held in Dubrovnik, the SDEWES conference series has been providing a worldwide forum for scientists and those interested in sustainability to share the state of the art of this field and its future directions and priorities. SDEWES is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies and technologies aiming to increase the sustainability of development by decoupling growth from the use of natural resources and by transitioning to a knowledge-based economy.
Considering all the economic, environmental and social pillars of sustainable development, one of the main issues of the coming decades will be to improve efficiencies by integrating various life-supporting systems, using excesses from one as a resource in another in the correct moment. Integrating electricity, heating, cooling, transport, water, buildings, waste, wastewater, industry, forestry and agriculture systems will be pivotal in terms of sustainable development. To make efficiency improvements happen, the political aspects of sustainable development must also be considered, thus implying the need for taking account of, among other things, sustainable development goals, resource and political security, long-term planning, the role of political leaders and voters, energy democracy and community and citizen participation in the energy transition.
SDEWES has maintained high publishing standards with more than 3000 research articles published in leading journals. MDPI‘s Sustainability journal has continued its cooperation with SDEWES, launching a Special Issue dedicated to the 2024 conferences. Taking this into consideration, this SI is intended to provide an opportunity for researchers in a wide range of areas to originate, discuss, share and disseminate new ideas. Sustainability also offers a perfect platform for interdisciplinary and multi-cultural evaluation of complex systems.
Dr. Oz Sahin
Dr. Russell Richards
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainability comparisons and measurements
- green economy and better governance
- sustainable resilience of systems
- environmental policy and management
- energy policy
- energy systems
- renewable energy sources
- waste and wastewater treatment
- water–energy nexus
- energy and water efficiency
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