Public Marketplaces Promoting Resilience and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (2 February 2021) | Viewed by 41308
Special Issue Editor
Interests: community-based economic planning; marketplaces and vendors; social theory; social change
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Marketplaces have changed the world. One example is how marketplaces facilitated cosmopolitanism in European history. Since the late 1960s, marketplaces in the U.S. have enjoyed a substantial resurgence triggered, in part, by middle-class interest in local food and economic changes that restructured consumption practices by introducing the cycle of product development and discount retail to sell new but older products. However, this purpose of marketplaces is complemented today by many other purposes, such as local food systems and food security, reducing food miles, enhancing public places, and increasing pedestrian access to retail, tourism, etc.
This Special Issue of Sustainability offers authors the opportunity to reflect on changes in marketplaces and on how, recently, they are being used to support a variety of public and private purposes, from immigrant households to corporate practices; and from fostering civil society to promoting individual opportunity while at the same time providing for community resilience. The issue welcomes empirical works and conceptual essays from anywhere in the world, which demonstrate how authors or their partners are leveraging multi-functional public marketplaces for a variety of purposes.
I encourage researchers and practitioners to submit original research articles, case studies, reviews, critical perspectives, and viewpoint articles on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Methodological aspects of urban marketplaces;
- Marketplaces fostering resilience in the face of public health problems and catastrophic events;
- The processes of assessing marketplace contributions to sustainability;
- Stakeholder involvement in urban marketplaces;
- The evolution of marketplaces, their history, and contemporary organization;
- Lessons learned from research and practice of public markets;
- Households and individual dynamics and the social/regulatory construction of marketplaces;
- Conceptual connections of inclusion, resilience, and other ideas to marketplaces;
- Organizational coordination in developing marketplaces;
- Case studies of marketplaces, covering successes and failures as appropriate;
- The evolution and future of urban marketplaces.
Dr. Alfonso Morales
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- value(s)
- ethics
- resilience
- marketplace
- regulation
- economic
- political
- social Sustainability
- household
- development
- growth
- social change