A Multidisciplinary Approach to Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2024 | Viewed by 21399
Special Issue Editor
Interests: environmental protection; water treatment; wastewater treatment; water quality monitoring
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Dear Colleagues,
During the past century, anthropogenic activities have caused tremendous changes in the environment, and the depletion of natural resources has never been faster in the history of humankind.
Although the 21st century has brought rapid technology, medicine, and social development, a parallel increase in industrial activities and increase in the global population to over 8 billion people reveals that humans cannot change the rules and principles of nature.
The rapid increase in industrial activities, technological development, and population growth poses problems in the obtainment of the basic resources needed for food production, i.e., the availability of safe water, agricultural land, and energy.
All of the abovementioned is also the reason that the 21st century transferred environmental protection from the status of an activist movement to the status of basic development strategy of all international organizations, most county governments and non-governmental organizations, and the leading economies of the world. This new relationship inevitably advocates a multidisciplinary approach to environmental protection, achieving sustainability and sustainable development, the goals of which are defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Plan as would be realized in an economically, technologically, and socially acceptable way.
As Guest Editor for a Special Issue entitled "A Multidisciplinary Approach to Sustainability", I have the honor of inviting scientists from all scientific fields to publish a feature paper in this Issue as their contribution to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the European Green Deal.
With this Special Issue, we would like to cover issues of environmental protection from social, technological, economic, and legal aspects, respectively.
Within this framework, for this Special Issue, I would like to invite original research contributions, review articles, and short communications that emphasize and give an overview of the novel and multidisciplinary approach to environmental protection, sustainable development, and a healthier way of life.
Prof. Dr. Mirna Habuda-Stanić
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental protection
- sustainable agriculture and food production
- environmental engineering and impact assessment
- environmental monitoring
- environmental regulations and laws
- forestry and urban forestry
- green architecture and construction
- green chemical engineering
- green biotechnology
- renewable energy
- green economy
- green education
- green technology
- green and biomedicine and medicine
- green and society
- sustainable tourism
- water and wastewater treatment and reuse
- waste management
- water management
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