Sustainable Energy Efficiency and Use
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 8542
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The large dependency on nonrenewable energy sources and the related carbon impacts has been largely defined as the driving factor compromising the socioeconomic and environmental stabilities of countries. During the last few decades, an increasing range of policies have been promoted and new business opportunities have emerged both across renewable and nonrenewable energy sources. Despite the common agreement considering energy efficiency and use as important sustainability factors, extensive literature has been recently analyzing the spillover and transboundary effects generated across sectors and countries. The definition of the SDGs and the inclusion of the global partnership highlighted in Goal 17 has, for example, pointed out the need for an integrated perspective across targets and goals. In this context, the side-effects of efficient energy and use would need to be considered together with the potential benefits and costs. In line with this framework, the main objective of this Special Issue is to extend the analysis on energy efficiency and use by discussing sustainability implications across sectors, countries, and policy initiatives.
The research topics could be focused on but not limited to:
- Sustainable energy efficiency and use: definitions and perspectives;
- Sustainable energy efficiency and use in the context of SDGs;
- Sustainable energy efficiency and use: implication for consumption and business initiatives;
- Sustainable energy efficiency and use: socioeconomic and environmental impacts;
- Sustainable energy efficiency and use: spillover effects across sectors and countries;
- Sustainable energy efficiency and use: drivers of changes and policy implications;
- Sustainable energy efficiency and use from renewable, nonrenewable, and nonconventional energy sources;
- Sustainable energy efficiency and use: top–down and bottom–up initiatives;
- Sustainable energy efficiency and use: partnerships across developed and developing countries and across the private and the public sectors;
- Sustainable energy efficiency and use: metabolism of countries and socioeconomic and environmental implications.
Envisioned contributions include original research, review papers, and conceptual and empirical analysis.
Dr. Valeria Andreoni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- energy efficiency and use
- spillover effects
- nonrenewable and renewable energy sources
- energy policies
- SDGs
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