Sustainable Systems Analysis for Enhanced Decision Making in Business/Government
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 3459
Special Issue Editors
Interests: lifecycle sustainability analysis; decision making; circular economy; LCA
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that I have been given the opportunity to edit a Special Issue in Sustainability on the topic of sustainable systems analysis for enhanced decision making.
The SDGs and Planetary Boundary construct have highlighted the need for integrated system level analysis that places equal weighting on multiple and diverse topics, but as yet, there is significant variation on how these significant issues can be brought together to support decision making for business/government. The complexity is further compounded, since not all of these issues can be easily or quantifiably measured, and solutions may well suggest opposing courses of action depending on stakeholder viewpoint and assigned priorities.
The issue will be an equal mix of research on new or improved methods that are appropriate to measure sustainability such that it can be effectively integrated into decision making processes, and case studies applying sustainable systems analysis at product/industry/national levels. This could include, for example, such topics as: how CSR can be used to influence traditional business decision making or product design; how to define and measure value or disvalue that supports sustainable decision making; where responsibility for sustainable business decision making lies within the value chain, or between business and government; and how responsibility and influence can be brought together throughout a value chain and what impact this would have.
The emphasis is very much on sustainability, rather than the environment, or the circular economy, and I am looking for papers that challenge the existing norms in this increasingly important topic area.
Dr. Jacquetta Lee
Dr. Xiaobo Chen
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- systems
- sustainability
- methods
- case studies
- SDGs
- Planetary Boundaries
- decision making
