Sustainability

Application of Artificial Intelligence in Sustainable Manufacturing

edited by

and

Navid Aslfattahi

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 18634 | Submission Open

Keywords: artificial intelligence; sustainable manufacturing; socio-ecological sustainability; green manufacturing; cleaner production; environmental sustainability; eco-friendly and energy-efficient manufacturing; energy resources; balance in energy consumption; renewable energy manufacturing

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)

Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover on Regional Sustainable Development

edited by

Kaifeng Duan

, Lei Chen,

Jiajia Li

and

Jianing Zhou

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 13 articles | Viewed by 17700 | Submission Open

Keywords: land use; land cover; urban– rural integration development; sustainable development; factor distribution

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

Sustainability: Resources and Waste Management

edited by

Henning Friege

, Simone Raatz and

Ziyang Lou

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 12746 | Submission Open

Keywords: gas and leachate management from landfills; utilization of bottom ash and fly ash from WtE facilities; reuse and recycling of separately collected end-of-life products; product design for repair or recycling; recycling of composite materials; value chains in the circular economy; comparison of alternatives for regional waste management and innovative treatment processes

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

Recycling Materials for the Circular Economy—2nd Edition

edited by

Md. Mizanur Rahman

and

Asif Iqbal

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 8978 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable construction; sustainable materials; zero waste; carbon offset

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

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Resource Governance, 2nd Edition

edited by

Huixiang Zeng

, Zhifang Zhou, Zongfeng Xiu and

Youliang Jin

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8519 | Submission Open

Keywords: corporate social responsibility; environmental resource governance; ESG; firm digitalization; sustainable development

Advancing Sustainable Cities and Urban Regions Development: New Challenges and Prospects

edited by

Qian Zhou

and Shihu Zhong

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6803 | Submission Open

Keywords: regional economics; sustainable development; resilient city; technological innovation; spatiotemporal evolutionary

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

University 4.0 Sustainable Development in the Way of Society 5.0

edited by

Joanna Rosak-Szyrocka

,

Gilberto Santos

,

Ladislav Pilař

and Markus A. Launer

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 5613 | Submission Open

Keywords: ways of promoting sustainable development by universities; sustainable society; Education 4.0; era society 5.0 in the domain of sustainable aspect; University 4.0 challenges connected with sustainable development; Universities' sustainability-related initiatives; plans; initiatives and strategy; promoting sustainable development by universities at a time of global climate action

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

Heritage Preservation and Tourism Development

edited by

Richard W. Stoffle

, Simon Larsson and

Kathleen A. Van Vlack

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5161 | Submission Open

Keywords: heritage preservation; sustainable heritage preservation; cultural groups (ethnic peoples) and their heritage; culture tourism; economic development tourism

(This special issue belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)

Low-Carbon Logistics and Supply Chain Management

edited by

Tomasz Nowakowski

and

Agnieszka A. Tubis

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4696 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable practices; low carbon emissions; green supply chain; reverse logistics; sustainable city logistics; life cycle assessment; zero-emissions engineering solution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)

Advances in Nonconventional Pollutants and Carbon Dioxide Emissions from the Combustion Process

edited by

Jiajia Gao

and Bo Jiang

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4403 | Submission Open

Keywords: coal combustion; nonconventional pollutants; heavy metals; VOCs; CO2; emission characteristics; migration mechanism; environmental risk; synergistic emission reduction

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

By-Products of the Agri-Food Industry: Use for Food Fortification

edited by

Vita Di Stefano

and

Maria Grazia Melilli

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3396 | Submission Open

Keywords: functional food; fortified food; agrifood byproducts; phenols; carotenoid; fibre; health food

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Food)

Fisheries Management and Sustainability

edited by

Jyun-Long Chen

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2940 | Submission Open

Keywords: SDGs; fisheries management; fisheries economics; marine protected area (MPA); satoumi; illegal; unreported; unregulated (IUU); ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM)

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Oceans)

Sustainable and Renewable Thermal Energy Systems

edited by

Ahmed Amine Hachicha

and

Essam Abo-Zahhad

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2746 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainability; thermal energy storage; solar thermal; biomass; hybrid system; optimization; artificial intelligence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Climate Change and Sustainable Agricultural System

edited by

Rameshwar Kanwar

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2720 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable agricultural production systems; soil; air; and water pollution from agriculture; climate mitigation technologies and agricultural practices; management of forest lands to minimize GHG emissions and increase carbon sequestration; soil health; carbon sequestration and GHG emissions in agriculture; land management systems for agriculture and biodiversity; recycling of drainage water for agriculture; innovations in irrigation systems for rice and other crops of future innovative policies to implement technologies for mitigating climate change and pollution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

Sustainable Consumption in the Digital Economy

edited by

Bożena Gajdzik

,

Magdalena Jaciow

and

Robert Wolny

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2408 | Submission Open

Keywords: consumer; digitalization; sustainability; digital economy; sustainable consumption; e-consumer behavior; digitization of the economy; sustainable quality of life; consumer environmental behavior; e-services

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

Safety and Risk Analysis of Industrial Processes from the Perspective of Sustainability

edited by

Paolo Mocellin

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2357 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable processes; safety; hazards and risks; environment; industrial processes; integrated framework; industrial accidents; responsibility; prevention; mitigation

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

Sustainable and Innovative Agriculture in Issues of Energy Production and Food Safety

edited by

Bogdan Saletnik

,

Marcin Bajcar

and

Grzegorz Zaguła

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2095 | Submission Open

Keywords: innovations in agriculture; sustainable agriculture; food production; food safety; food preservation methods; biochar; pyrolysis; waste management; carbon sequestration; soil fertilization; magnetic fields

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

AI for Sustainable Real-World Applications

edited by

Dhiya Al-Jumeily OBE

, Jamila Mustafina and Manoj Jayabalan

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2067 | Submission Open

Keywords: AI applications in social domains; machine learning; big data; Internet of Things (IoT); Industry 4.0

Sustainable Consumption and Tourism Market Management

edited by Oana Mihaela Stoleriu and Alexandra Cehan

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1968 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable tourism consumption; tourist experience; responsible tourism; sustainable tourism management; sustainable tourist behavior; sustainable destinations

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

Rural Social Work and Social Perspectives of Sustainability

edited by

Charles C. Fonchingong

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 1790 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural social work; agency; social welfare; relational networks; resilience; sustainability; practice; service delivery; social perspectives; rural communities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Social Ecology and Sustainability)

Sustainability of the Agricultural System and Agro-Ecological Environment

edited by

Elena Brunori

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1510 | Submission Open

Keywords: agricultural ecosystem services; ecological functional areas; agroecological indicators; natural capital; Sustainable farming system; Agricultural ecological environment

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

Integrative Waste Management and Circular Economy: Addressing Climate Change and Enhancing Sustainability

edited by

Yui-Yip Lau

and

Mark Ching-Pong Poo

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1371 | Submission Open

Keywords: waste management; circular economy; climate change; sustainable development

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

Waste Management for Sustainability: Emerging Issues and Technologies

edited by

Justyna Rogowska

, Grazyna Galezowska and Eros Mossini

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1279 | Submission Open

Keywords: waste management; circular economy; environmental; health and social impacts of waste management; technologies for waste management; sustainability; recycling

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

Sustainable and Green Economy Transformation

edited by Tien Sing, Yang (Zoe) Yang and Zhenyu Gao

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1203 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable development; renewable energy transition; smart cities; ESG (environmental; social; and corporate governance); climate change

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

Critical Issues in Ocean and Coastal Engineering

edited by

Ching-Piao Tsai

, Pohung Yeh and

Wei Po Huang

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1124 | Submission Open

Keywords: extreme weather events; sea-level rise; climate change; adaptation and resilience; coastal infrastructure; renewable energy; eco-engineering; sustainable development

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Oceans)

Energy Saving and Emission Reduction from Green Transportation

edited by

Wenbo Li

, Shanyong Wang, Xiu Cheng and

Jun Li

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1114 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy saving; emission reduction; green transportation; life cycle assessment; transportation electrification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Sustainable Urban and Rural Land Planning and Utilization

edited by Jing Cheng, Shanshan Wu and

Miaojuan Peng

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1111 | Submission Open

Keywords: land planning; land utilization; mathematical modelling; data analysis; complex network; deep learning; software; land policy

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

Patterns and Drivers of Urban Greenspace and Plant Diversity

edited by

Huafeng Wang

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 932 | Submission Open

Keywords: patterns; drivers; urban greenspace; plant diversity; ancient and old trees

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

ESG, Sustainability and Competitiveness: A Serious Reflection

edited by

Matteo Rossi

and Ashutosh Kolte

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 892 | Submission Open

Keywords: ESG; sustainability; competitiveness; financial performance; business models; CSR

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

Heterogeneous Catalytic Technology in Pollutant Degradation

edited by

Janaína Oliveira Gonçalves

, Mery Luiza Garcia Vieira and Anelise Christ Ribeiro

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 836 | Submission Open

Keywords: heterogeneous catalysis; pollutant degradation; environmental remediation; advanced oxidation processes; sustainable technologies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)

Explore Sustainable Development in Multiple Dimensions for Human Well-Being

edited by Kalterina Shulla and Bernd Friedrich Voigt

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 711 | Submission Open

Keywords: human well-being; sustainable development; environmental psychology; resilience; AI; interdisciplinary; subjective well-being; language; sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Health, Well-Being and Sustainability)

Biomass Energy Technologies and Sustainable Agricultural Waste Utilization

edited by

Juan F. Saldarriaga

, Julián E. López and Fabio Bentes Freire

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 678 | Submission Open

Keywords: biomass; energy; agriculture; technologies; waste utilization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

Sustainable Solutions for Wastewater Treatment Management—Microbial Ecology and Biotechnological Applications in the Context of Circular Economy

edited by

Nikolaos Remmas

,

Cristina Sousa Coutinho Calheiros

and Petros Gikas

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 630 | Submission Open

Keywords: wastewater management; bioremediation; microbial ecology; constructed wetlands; water & wastewater treatment; circular economy

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

Sustainable Food System Transition and Healthy Diet: The Contribution of Food Studies

edited by

Jean Pierre Poulain

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 585 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable food system; food system transition; health diet; sociology of food; anthropology of food; food studies; environmental concerns

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Food)

Application of Remote Sensing and Machine Learning in Sustainable Agriculture

edited by Mihai Valentin Herbei,

Ana Cornelia Badea

, Aleksandar Ristić and

Paul Sestras

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 567 | Submission Open

Keywords: remote sensing; artificial intelligence; machine learning; crop monitoring; smart agriculture; UAV; sensors; spatial– temporal analysis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

Digital Supply Chain and Sustainable SME Management

edited by Mohamed Aboelmaged

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 511 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital transformation/technologies/collaboration/financing mechanisms; SMEs (small and medium enterprises); sustainable supply chains and networks; IoT (Internet of Things)/Blockchain/AI (artificial intelligence)/machine learning/RFID (radio-frequency identification); supply chain efficiency/resilience/visibility; green sourcing/circular economy/sustainable development goals (SDGs); responsible/omni-channel logistics; environmental/social impacts; collaboration benefits/risk management/performance metrics; case studies/data analytics; stakeholder perspectives/consumer behavior; ethics/ethical sourcing; E-commerce; workforce development; well-being

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)

Sustainable and Regenerative Ecologies for the Management of Mountain Forestscapes

edited by

Fausto Sarmiento

, Barbaros Gönençgil and

Pankaj Kumar

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 483 | Submission Open

Keywords: mountain forests; sustainable forestry; regenerative forests; silviculture; restoration; regenerative development; mountainscapes; mountain forestscapes

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

Sustainable Tourism: Climate Change Effect on Tourist Behaviour

edited by

Ren-Fang Chao

, Yi Fu and

Shang-Pao Yeh

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 452 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable tourism; climate change; tourist behavior; environmental impact; behavioral adaptation; socio-economic impacts; sustainable practices; tourism industry; climate resilience; tourism management

(This special issue belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)

Ground Source Heat Pump and Renewable Energy Hybridization

edited by

Charles Yousif

and Javier M. Rey Hernández

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 412 | Submission Open

Keywords: ground source heat pump; hybrid heat pump energy systems; geothermal energy; renewable energy integration; energy efficiency; thermal energy storage; system optimization; environmental impact assessment; economic feasibility; energy sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Marine Chemistry and Marine Pollution Research for Sustainable Oceans

edited by

Chen-Tung Arthur Chen

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 398 | Submission Open

Keywords: nutrients; organic matter; trace metals; persistent organic pollutants; emerging pollutants; marine chemistry; marine pollution

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Oceans)

Advances in Sustainable Energy Technologies and Energy Systems

edited by Ascensión López-Vargas and Natalia Pichel

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 396 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable energy technology; renewable energy sources; smart energy management; climate change mitigation; technological advancements

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Water Resources and Irrigation Management for Sustainable Agroecosystems

edited by

Suren Kulshreshtha

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 383 | Submission Open

Keywords: holistic approach to water management; irrigation water management; other water management; water management under scarcity; interrelationships between water management and ecosystem sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Water Management)

Indoor Environmental Quality and Green Energy: Towards Sustainable Building Energy Development

edited by

Eziaku Onyeizu-Rasheed

, Priya Vishnu and

Wajiha Mohsin Shahzad

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 339 | Submission Open

Keywords: green energy; indoor environment quality; climate change; building occupants; building operations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Green Building)

Immigrants, Food Insecurity and Sustainable Society: The Changing Foodscapes between Culture, Health, and Diet

edited by

Liliana Dumitrache

,

Olaf Kühne

and

Mariana Nae

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 321 | Submission Open

Keywords: migration; foodscapes; food insecurity; ethnic deserts; immigrant communities; food practices; cultural diversity; health; diet; sustainable society

(This special issue belongs to the Section Social Ecology and Sustainability)

Sustainable Energy: Circular Economy and Supply Chain Management

edited by

Koichi Murata

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 301 | Submission Open

Keywords: circular supply chain strategy/methodology; analysis and evaluation to realize circular economy/supply chain; performance measurement/management to circular economy/supply chain; philosophy for circular economy and supply chain; circular energy dynamic model and practical methodology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)

Full Metal Circularity by 2050

edited by Janet Godsell,

Fabrizio Ceschin

, Alessio Franconi, David Harrison and Alvaro Calzadilla

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 286 | Submission Open

Keywords: circular metal economy; CO2 emissions reduction; fully metal circularity transition by 2050; decarbonisation; resource efficiency; sustainable production and consumption systems; industry pathways

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Products and Services)

Modeling Application and Sustainable Management of Urban Growth and Land Use

edited by

Bin Zhang

,

Luyi Tong

and Haoran Zeng

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 276 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban land use; spatiotemporal analysis; urban modeling; urban planning; sustainable management

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

Technologies for Green and Sustainable Mining

edited by

Piotr Celary

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 263 | Submission Open

Keywords: net-zero mining; low-carbon processing; circular economy; waste valorization; waste-to-resource innovations; dry processing technologies; carbon capture and storage; responsible mineral sourcing; rare earth elements

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

Seepage and Erosion in Soils and Rocks: Challenges for Environmental Sustainability and Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering

edited by

Yao Tang

and Yingtao Hu

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 243 | Submission Open

Keywords: seepage; internal erosion; contaminant transport; scouring; surface erosion; soils; rocks; porous media; fractured media; geotechnical engineering; environmental sustainability

Smart Manufacturing for Sustainability and Net Zero Transition

edited by Vasiliki C Panagiotopoulou, Emanuele Pagone,

Konstantinos Salonitis

and

Panagiotis Stavropoulos

submission deadline 30 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 243 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainability; manufacturing; energy efficiency; process optimisation; raising awareness; sustainability readiness; training; reskilling and upskilling; social sustainability; financial sustainability; environmental sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Products and Services)

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