Sustainability

Educational Research in the Era of 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (2nd Edition)

edited by

Athanasios Mogias

,

George Malandrakis

and

Panayota Koulouri

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 243 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental education; education for sustainable development; environmental literacies; agenda 2030 sustainable development goals; elementary education; secondary education; tertiary education; students; teachers; citizens

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)

Pro-environmental Behavior and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Disclosure in Sustainable Business Management

edited by

Tai Ming Wut

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 147 | Submission Open

Keywords: pro-environmental behavior; ESG disclosure; sustainability; corporate social responsibility

(This special issue belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

Territorial Management and Urban Regeneration: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability

edited by

Miguel Amado

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 141 | Submission Open

Keywords: territorial management; regenerative environment; urban regeneration; resilience; sustainable cities; rural development; circular economy; climate changes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)

Thermal Comfort and Energy Use in Sustainable Transportation and Buildings

edited by Byung-Wook Kim, Qilong Cheng and Xin He

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 124 | Submission Open

Keywords: thermal comfort; energy efficiency; environmental design; energy harvesting; smart building; heat transfer; reliability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Resource Utilization of Solid Waste for Sustainable Circular Economy

edited by

Haoqi Yang

, Ganyu Zhu and Jun-Ye Zhang

submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 47 | Submission Open

Keywords: waste recycling; resource recovery; innovative technologies in waste treatment; electronic waste; industrial waste; waste management; building waste; wastewater treatment; CO2 sequestration; renewable energy

Sustainable Food Preservation

edited by

Hugo Miguel Lisboa Oliveira

and Ana Paula Trindade

submission deadline 21 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 135 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable food preservation; food waste reduction; eco-friendly packaging; natural preservatives; modified atmosphere packaging; cold plasma in food preservation; pulsed-light technology; hurdle technology; nutritional quality maintenance; environmental impact of food preservation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Food)

Quality Management in Manufacturing, Industrial, and Systems Engineering for Green Sustainability

edited by

Nita Yodo

and

Arup Dey

submission deadline 22 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2175 | Submission Open

Keywords: quality management; sustainability; industrial engineering; manufacturing processes; system integrations; Industry 4.0/5.0; supply chains; lean and six sigma; operation research; standards and policies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)

Sustainable Agriculture and Restoration of Agroecosystem Affected by Climate Change

edited by

Aniruddha Sarker

and

Tofazzal Islam

submission deadline 22 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 537 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable agriculture; biochar; carbon sequestration; green remediation; environment restoration; agro-food waste; biotechnology; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

Digital Teaching and Development in Sustainable Higher Education

edited by Naser Sedghi

submission deadline 22 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 268 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainability integration; online learning; digital pedagogy; virtual reality; augmented reality; open educational resources

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)

Fostering the One Health Approach in Environmental Education: Innovations, Challenges, and Opportunities

edited by

José Manuel Pérez Martín

and

Tamara Esquivel-Martín

submission deadline 22 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 180 | Submission Open

Keywords: comprehensive literacy; early childhood education; educational transfer; environmental citizenship; environmental education; one health; primary education; scientific practices; secondary education; teaching training

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)

Navigating Sustainability Business: Environmental and Social Sustainability and Related Strategies

edited by

Jooh Lee

submission deadline 22 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental greening; social responsibility; economic performance of firms

(This special issue belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

Sustainable Aviation Fuels and Bioenergy

edited by

Nikolaos Kokkinos

submission deadline 22 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 149 | Submission Open

Keywords: waste-to-energy; biojet; biofuels; decarbonization; GHG emissions; sustainable aviation fuels; sustainable waste management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Building Resilience and Green Building Construction for Environmental Sustainability

edited by Anna Marzo and

George Wardeh

submission deadline 22 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 102 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable constructions; reuse of building materials; seismic protection; sustainable interventions; bio-based materials; zero-damage constructions; quick vulnerability assessment; durability; concrete; rupture; masonry; modeling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Green Building)

Cutting-Edge Research in the Building Information Modelling (BIM) Application for Sustainable Construction

edited by

Sonia Lupica Spagnolo

and Alberto Pavan

submission deadline 23 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 243 | Submission Open

Keywords: building information modelling (BIM); digital transformation; built environment; sustainable construction; data management; digital twins; digital building logbooks

Geological Engineering and Sustainable Environment

edited by Francisco Javier Torrijo,

Olegario Alonso-Pandavenes

and Julio Garzón-Roca

submission deadline 23 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 213 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable engineering; geological engineering; resilience; geomaterials; climate change; applied AI; environmental impact; natural hazards

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)

Sustainable Polyester Fibers

edited by

Laetitia Marrot

submission deadline 23 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 66 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable polyester fibers; recycled polyester; biosynthetic polyester; sustainable textiles; sustainable polyester fibers composites; polymer concrete; properties of sustainable polyester fibers and composites; environmental assessment of sustainable polyester fibers and composites

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Materials)

Aerosol Science: Chemistry, Sources, and Formation for Sustainable Air Quality

edited by

Jingsha Xu

,

Shanshan Tang

and

Lei Liu

submission deadline 25 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 153 | Submission Open

Keywords: aerosol pollution; physical characteristics; chemical properties; source apportionment; formation mechanism; atmospheric chemistry; secondary organic aerosol; health effects; climate change

(This special issue belongs to the Section Air, Climate Change and Sustainability)

Global Hydrological Studies and Ecological Sustainability

edited by

Magdalena Toporowska

and

Beata Ferencz

submission deadline 25 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 150 | Submission Open

Keywords: water resources; water cycle; watershed sustainability; climate change; human pressure; resilience and vulnerability; ecosystem functioning; ecosystem services; sustainable ecosystem management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)

Agroforestry Engineering and Sustainability

edited by Pablo Vidal-López and

José Ramón Villar-García

submission deadline 26 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 75 | Submission Open

Keywords: agroforestry systems; sustainable forest; regenerative agriculture; ecosystem services; sustainable energies; sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Forestry)

Sustainable Development of Agricultural Systems

edited by Henrietta Moore and Jacqueline McGlade

submission deadline 27 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 204 | Submission Open

Keywords: agroecology and native vegetation; agroforestry; regenerative agriculture; carbon sequestration; livelihood security; agricultural and environmental sustainability; soil health; decolonisation; agri-food systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

Green and Sustainable Separation of Natural Products from Plant-Derived Waste

edited by

Daniel Pecoraro Demarque

submission deadline 27 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 130 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable separation; plant-derived waste; green extraction; circular economy; bioactive compound recovery

(This special issue belongs to the Section Waste and Recycling)

Circular Economy and Frugal Innovation Business Models for Sustainable Development

edited by Paul Agu Igwe and

Mahfuzur Rahman

submission deadline 28 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 226 | Submission Open

Keywords: circular economy; frugal innovation; circular economy business model; frugal business model; sustainable waste management; sustainable production and consumption

(This special issue belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

Geo-Digital Technologies for Sustainable Building and Facility Management

edited by

Ana Paula Falcão

and

Alexandre B. Gonçalves

submission deadline 28 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 132 | Submission Open

Keywords: BIM; sustainable facility management; lifecycle management; space utilization; building performance; digital twins; facility operations; building cost optimization

Sustainable Agriculture and Biological Science

edited by

Juan Pablo Hernandez

,

Helber Enrique Balaguera López

and Joaquín Guillermo Ramírez-Gil

submission deadline 29 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 375 | Submission Open

Keywords: agroecology; soil health; biodiversity conservation; crop production; ecological resilience; climate change adaptation; organic farming; integrated pest management; genetic diversity; food security; sustainable development; ecosystem services; socio-economic impacts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

Water Environmental Control of Pollutants and Environmental Sustainability

edited by Pei Lei,

Sheng Guo

and Zhineng Hao

submission deadline 29 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 116 | Submission Open

Keywords: pollutant; environmental management; sustainability; aquatic systems

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)

Interdisciplinary Research on Soil Sustainable Management in Different Agroecosystems: Management of Agriculture–Ecology–Land-Management-Planning Interactions

edited by

Jonas Volungevičius

and

Kristina Amalevičiūtė-Volungė

submission deadline 30 Jan 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 4889 | Submission Open

Keywords: tillage; agroecology; soil organic matter; agrosystem; agroecosystem; sustainable soil management; landscape; spatial planning; humification; mineralisation; natural framework; ecological uses; land management; circular chains of energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Soil Conservation and Sustainability)

Circular Economy and Green Innovation for Sustainable Business Development

edited by

Dolores Gallardo Vázquez

, Inna Choban de Sousa Paiva and Cristina Nuevo-Gallardo

submission deadline 30 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 231 | Submission Open

Keywords: circular economy; green innovation; sustainable business models; economic performance

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)

Green Chemistry and Sustainable Chemical Processes: From Advanced Material Preparations to Benign-by-Design Recycling of Critical Raw Materials

edited by

Zara Cherkezova-Zheleva

submission deadline 30 Jan 2025 | Viewed by 95 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable chemical processes; design of advanced materials; benign-by-design methods for material synthesis and recycling; mechanochemistry critical raw materials (CRMs); CRM substitution and sustainable recycling; eco-friendly and efficient chemical reactions; reduction in the use of hazardous chemicals and water; renewable energy production; pollution control; circularity and sustainability of materials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology)

Sustainable Development of Construction Engineering

edited by

Lingkun Chen

,

Nan Zhang

and

Qinghua Zhang

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 14 articles | Viewed by 35692 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Green Building)

Managing Sustainable Development: Technology, Modelling & Applications

edited by

V. Ravi.

,

Suresh Subramoniam

and

Bijulal D.

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 32809 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable development; triple bottom line; sustainability framework; modelling sustainability; sustainability metrics; conceptual framework; sustainable practices.

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)

Sustainable Education and Technology Development

edited by

Chih-Hung Wu

and

Yen-Chun Jim Wu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 28700 | Submission Open

Keywords: e-learning; education technology; artificial intelligence; metaverse; AR/VR/XR; affective computing; non-fungible token (NFT); blockchain

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)

Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

edited by Md Romij Uddin and

Uttam Kumer Sarker

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 25432 | Submission Open

Keywords: food availability; safe food; environmental soundness; food marketing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

Sustainable Road Transport System Planning and Optimization

edited by

Yusheng Ci

,

Lina Wu

and

Ming Wei

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 24155 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable transportation; transport planning; public transport; fuel consumption and emission; spatiotemporal analysis; big data; traffic safety; resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)

Innovation and Sustainable Development of Seamless Education and Teaching Methods

edited by

Ebba Ossiannilsson

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 8843 | Submission Open

Keywords: education systems; new social contract; new normal; OER; OER recommendation; open education; open pedagogy; sustainability; quality; teaching methods

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)

Research Advances in Sustainable Materials and Structural Engineering

edited by

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,

,

and

Keerthan Poologanathan

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6890 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable materials; design of sustainable structures; resilient structural engineering; structural retrofitting and rehabilitation; energy-efficient building; building materials

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Materials)

Green Microbiology: Advancing Sustainability through Microbial Innovations

edited by

Helen Onyeaka

, Adenike A. Akinsemolu and

Taghi Miri

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 6603 | Submission Open

Keywords: green microbiology; microbes; sustainability; bioremediation; biofertilizers; innovation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

Sustainable, Resilient and Smart Manufacturing Systems

edited by

Alessandro Silvestri

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4930 | Submission Open

Keywords: process modeling; optimization; performance; optimization; transformation; intelligent technologies; human-centric; Industry 4.0; Industry 5.0

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)

Green Supply Chain Management for Sustainable Development

edited by Adolf Acquaye and Sharfuddin Ahmed Khan

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4502 | Submission Open

Keywords: green supply chain management; sustainable development; circular economy; lifecycle assessment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)

Energy Efficiency and Management in Sustainable Food Industry

edited by

Miriam Benedetti

and

Lorena Giordano

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3652 | Submission Open

Keywords: food industry; industrial energy uses; energy performance benchmarking; energy efficiency; sustainable food production; waste heat recovery and valorization; industrial symbiosis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Resources and Sustainable Utilization)

Sustainable Waste Management and Recycling for Achieving a Circular Economy

edited by

Jeongsoo Yu

, Kazuaki Okubo and Xiaoyue Liu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3638 | Submission Open

Keywords: waste management; circular economy; recycling; carbon-neutral; SDGs; eco-design; sharing; reuse; data science; international cooperation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Waste and Recycling)

Advances in Stability Control, Optimal Operation and Modeling Analysis of Power System with High-Level Renewable Energy

edited by Bo Zhang, Jiaoxin Jia and Sen Cui

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3273 | Submission Open

Keywords: renewable energy; active distribution network; distributed energy; smart grid; energy storage; optimal operation; stability control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Urban Green Areas: Benefits, Design and Management Strategies

edited by

Andreea-Loreta Cercleux

,

Alexandru Bănică

,

Elena Bogan

and

Marinela Istrate

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3110 | Submission Open

Keywords: green areas; urban pollution; climate change; urban planning; public spaces; accessibility; participatory approaches; social interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)

Sustainable Management and Design of Renewable Power Systems

edited by

Hansang Lee

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2578 | Submission Open

Keywords: renewable energy; sustainable generation; grid inertia with renewable energy; frequency regulation against RE output fluctuation; energy storage system

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)

Smart Cities and Smart Villages and the Global Digital Transformation: Strategy and Community Engagement—2nd Edition

edited by

Anna Visvizi

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2276 | Submission Open

Keywords: global digital transformation and smart cities research; global digital transformation and smart villages research; “ AI for good” and smart city/smart village development; smart city/villages and the UN’ s SDGs; ICT and community engagement in smart city/village development; ICT and the digital transition of cities/villages into smart city/smart village; challenges; caveats and problems relating to smart cities/villages development and functioning; smart cities/villages in the era of platform economy; smart cities/villages; competitiveness and economic growth; ICT and the provision services in smart cities/villages; e.g. healthcare; education; etc.; energy communities and smart cities/villages; data cooperatives and smart cities/villages; smart city strategy and community enegagement; smart village and community engagement; services provision and community engagement in smart city/village context; smart cities/villages in the global south/north contexts

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)

Intelligent Systems and Consciousness Society: Sustainable Transportation and Decision Making

edited by Yorgos Stephanedes and

Nikos Karacapilidis

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2177 | Submission Open

Keywords: Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) ; C-ITS • Artificial Intelligence ; Machine Learning (ML) ; Natural Language Processing (NLP); decision/policy making; dynamic transport; traffic systems; traffic management; safety and security; logistics; digital data management; sustainability; smart cities; impact

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)

Sustainable Perspective on Power Systems and Renewable Energy

edited by

Zhixiong Tan

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2000 | Submission Open

Keywords: power systems; renewable energy; grid integration; energy storage; policy frameworks; technological innovations; economic analysis; environmental impact assessment; energy transition

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)

Global Sustainability: Good Governance, Dynamism in Ecosystems, and International Business

edited by

Esi A. Elliot

,

Nnamdi O. Madichie

, Robert Ebo Hinson and Charles Blankson

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1602 | Submission Open

Keywords: good governance; ecosystems; emerging markets; dynamism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

Sustainable Transport Research and Railway Network Performance

edited by

Svetla Stoilova

and

Borna Abramović

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1120 | Submission Open

Keywords: railway network performance; railway corridors performance; sustainable railway transportation; sustainable railway system; railway traffic; railway management; railway passenger transport; railway freight transport; timetabling; intermodal transport; multimodal transport; urban rail transport; metro systems; connectivity; mobility; risk assessment; mathematical modelling and optimization; MCDM

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)

Geological Resources and Climate Change: Impacts and Adaptation Strategies

edited by

Seyed Kourosh Mahjour

, Shahram Danaei and Seyed Mahmood Mousavi

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 944 | Submission Open

Keywords: geological resources; climate change impacts; mineral resources; fossil fuels; groundwater resources; resource exploration; resource extraction; adaptation strategies; sustainable resource management; climate change mitigation; environmental impacts; low-carbon transition; resource policies; resource economics; carbon capture; utilization and storage (CCUS)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Resources and Sustainable Utilization)

New Advances in Biomass Conversion and the Environmental Implications-2nd Edition

edited by

Peng Liu

and

Dongze Niu

submission deadline 31 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 935 | Submission Open

Keywords: biomass conversion; energy production; pollution control; environmental implications; biomass biochemical conversion

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Materials)

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