Collections and calls for papers

A Sustainable Approach to Socioeconomic Development within The Context of Geopolitical and Environmental Challenges

Today, the world is heading to achieve sustainable development goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations. These SDGs stress creating a sustainable environment. Sustainable development is to utilize the availabl...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

20 June 2024

Advanced Greener Technologies in Waste Valorization for Sustainable Environment and Circular Economy

Due to a growing population and industrial expansion, one of the biggest environmental concerns facing the globe today is waste generation and its management. Constant production of hazardous chemicals from ...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Advanced Sustainable Construction Materials: Sustainability and Environmental Impact Evaluation, Reaction Mechanisms and Kinetics of Geopolymers and Geopolymer Composites

Geopolymers are inorganic polymers made of aluminosilicates that are crosslinked and connected through a network structure of amorphous materials that are potential alternatives for ordinary Portland cement ...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 August 2024

Advanced Technologies on Sustainable Building Materials, Structures and Health Monitoring

The field of civil engineering is at the forefront of innovation, as it faces the dual challenges of sustainability and technological advancement. This Collection is dedicated to exploring the latest researc...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 August 2024

Advancements in Renewable Energy Development: Innovations, Policies, and Their Contributions to SDG 7

The Topical Collection aims to highlight the latest advancements in renewable energy development and their contribution to sustainable development goal (SDG) 7 - ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sust...

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Open

Submission deadline

06 May 2024

Advances in Computational Intelligence Techniques for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Computational Intelligence Techniques (CITs), which encompasses various artificial intelligence and machine learning methods are changing landscape of human society in a variety of ways. We have witnessed it...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Advances in Internet of Things for Smart and Sustainable Agriculture

The agriculture industry has benefited from technological advancements that have streamlined procedures and made lives easier for people. Today's agriculture is synonymous with cutting-edge machinery and tec...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 September 2024

Advocating Carbon-Neutral Construction: Integrating Safety and Sustainability

There is an urgent need for transformative change within the construction sector to prioritize environmental sustainability and safety in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)....

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 July 2024

Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Sustainable Urban Land Use Planning

Remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) technology experienced rapid growth and development in recent years. It provides multiple directions to execute sustainable land use/land cover planning...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

01 October 2024

Applied AI for Sustainable Data Science and Machine Learning

In recent times, the rapid growth of data and its diversified applications in several societal problems is really a challenging task. The destruction of the environment and the climate change problem are ext...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 September 2024

Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Review Studies on Sustainable Development

Literature reviews play an essential role in academic research, by identifying existing knowledge and to base the research paths. In this regard, studies on bibliometric analysis and systematic review have b...

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Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Big Picture Sustainability

Sustainability, reverberating with tension across the digital landscape, yet etched in scientific literature, calls us to look beneath ubiquity’s surface. It is not a single thread, but a tapestry woven from...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 May 2025

Biomass Valorization into High-Value Bioproducts

This Topical Collection aims to investigate the valorization of biomass, i.e., biological wastes (biowastes) produced from forestry, agriculture, agroindustry, and wastewater treatment, which are a widely un...

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Open

Submission deadline

31 August 2024

Business Solutions for Sustainable Development

According to statistics, the business generates, on average, about 60 per cent of GDP and creates about 90 per cent of jobs and about 80 per cent of capital inflows (OECD) in developing countries. Given the ...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development

In recent years, environmental protection and sustainable development are no longer a national or regional issue, but a shared global responsibility.The realization of carbon neutrality through gradually dec...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

01 May 2024

Challenges and Opportunities of Business towards Practicing Sustainability

Sustainability practices is a strategic and survival obligation for businesses, society and nations. As a result, in today's environment, businesses' commitment to sustainability is becoming increasingly cru...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

06 May 2024

Challenges on Sustainable Urban Mobility in Cities for the 21st Century

In the last two decades, strategies and plans for the promotion of sustainable mobility have been implemented in many cities, with uneven results. Some proposals, such as the city 15 minutes from Paris, have...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

06 May 2024

Charting a Sustainable Future: Pathways to Net Zero and Carbon Neutrality

The pursuit of sustainability in an era of climate change and environmental degradation has never been more critical. As the world grapples with the urgent need for a cleaner and more sustainable future, the...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 July 2024

Circular Economy and Sustainable Development: Endorsing Circularity in the Production System to Achieve the SDGs

The concept of sustainable development is considered an important scientific area of consideration which plays a critical role in organizing modern economies and societies. It is a normative concept which hi...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Circular Economy Approaches for Sustainable Textile Composites: A Focus on Recyclable Materials

This research endeavors to revolutionize sustainable material development by examining the integration of vitrimers, rubber, and dynamic covalent chemistry in textile composites. Vitrimers, as dynamic and re...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 April 2024

Circular Economy for Promoting Energy Recovery

The Circular Economy (CE), or named Resource Circular Economy, is an economic development mode characterized by resource conservation, recycling and harmony with the environment. The main point of CE is orga...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 August 2024

Circular, Sustainable, and Resilient Future: How Energy, Environment, and Informatics Research is Shaping Our Tomorrow?

A circular, sustainable, and resilient future refers to a vision of a future society that operates within the limits of the planet's resources, where waste is minimized and resources are used in a circular m...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Clean and Low-Carbon Development Strategies in the Era of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

The intersection of big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and environmental sustainability represents a burgeoning field of research and innovation. This Topical Collection in Discover Sustainability seeks...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 April 2024

Climate Change and Human Behavior: Society’s Challenges towards Sustainable Futures

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges for the society nowadays that requires a response not only from a political perspective, but also from a collective and individual perspective. The society ha...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Climate Change, Uncertainty in the Global Context: Accessing the Mediating Role of Green Innovation and Regulation

Two major global issues have emerged in the 21st century: climate change and uncertainty. These issues have shaped governments' sustainable development and economic growth strategies. Human-caused climate ch...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

01 June 2024

Decarbonization of Industries and Transport Sector: Opportunities, Challenges, Strategies and Policies

This Topical Collection aims to delve deeper into opportunities, challenges, and prospects of decarbonisation in Industries and transport sector. Decarbonisation has been receiving increased attention from t...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Digital Green Innovation Economic and Management for Industry 5.0

With the huge impact of the global epidemic outbreak in 2020 on the economic development, industrial chains, and supply chains of countries around the world, the ability of the global industrial system to co...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

15 June 2024

Digital Transformation in Business and Education for Sustainable Futures

The intersection of digital transformation, business, and education presents a promising avenue for advancing sustainable development and shaping a more inclusive and resilient future. As technology continue...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

01 September 2024

Discover Sustainability in Food Processing

Sustainability in food processing is of crucial importance. There is great concert of the impact of food loss and waste in the food supply chain. It is important to secure food supply chain, in line with sus...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

01 August 2024

Discover Sustainability in Regional Economics and Tourism Administration

Sustainable development has emerged as a crucial objective for regions all over the world as the global landscape keeps changing. The purpose of this Topical Collection is to examine the complex interactions...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 October 2024

Discover Sustainable Development Technology through Green Innovation

In the present world, anthropogenic activities, including burning fossil fuels (coal and oil), are widely recognized as the primary contributors to global warming. Environmental protection is becoming more c...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 August 2024

E-Mobility Era: A Future Perspective for Sustainable Development

We invite researchers and scholars from around the world to contribute their valuable insights and research findings to our upcoming publication focusing on the 'E-Mobility Era: A Future Perspective for Sust...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 May 2024

Eco-Innovation, CSR, and Beyond: Catalyzing Sustainable Change Through Green Technologies

In the world of burgeoning industrialization, the uncountable sustainability issues have upturned the need for innovative solutions. Climate change and related issues have greatly threatened the agenda of gr...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 June 2024

Emerging Challenges and Progress in Urban Overheating: Health, Environment, and Energy Implications

With the rapid rate of urbanization and population growth, cities are experiencing unprecedented levels of urban overheating, leading to environmental, societal, and local economic burdens on cities and coun...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

15 May 2024

Emerging Sustainability Challenges and Progress - A Global Perspective

In a world grappling with a burgeoning global population, the aftermath of one of the most profound pandemics in recent history, and a myriad of pressing sustainability issues, the need for innovative soluti...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 July 2024

Enterprise Social Media and Business Performance: Accomplishment and Cessation Through Organizational Capabilities & Sustainable Technological Advancement

The world has entered the 21st century with disruptive technologies such as Social Media, Big data, Robotics, Renewable energies and new forms of additive manufacturing, which have a long-term effect on ever...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 July 2024

Environmental Sustainability Needs Humanities

As demonstrated in the Sustainable Development Goals, the three main pillars of sustainability are environment, economy, and society. For achieving social and economic sustainability, environmental sustainab...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

15 August 2024

Environmental Sustainability, Economic Viability, And Social Welfare in The Era of the Climate Crisis at the Interface of Ecosystem Services and Quality of Life

Environmental sustainability still attracts the interest of many researchers who seek ways to optimize processes and resources within socio-economic systems. Interestingly, social welfare status (e.g., prosp...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 July 2024

Environmental, Social, and Governance and Sustainable Development Goals

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are two main frameworks that are relevant to responsible business practices and sustainable development. ESG key factors i...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

01 May 2024

Evaluating Sustainable Business Initiatives: Strategies, Challenges, and Impact

In our contemporary world, where sustainability has become a paramount concern, businesses are increasingly being called upon to play a crucial role in achieving global sustainability goals. The concept of s...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

10 January 2025

Exploring the Role of Startups in Shaping a Sustainable Future

The Topical Collection is dedicated to examining the intersection of sustainability and entrepreneurship, with a focus on startup ventures. Startups have emerged as key drivers of innovation, and their role ...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 October 2024

Financing the Green Revolution: Strategies and Innovations for Sustainable Economic Growth

In the wake of growing environmental challenges and the urgent need for sustainable development, the intersection of finance and sustainability has never been more critical. This Topical Collection, titled “...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

01 October 2024

Functional Carbon for Environmental Pollution Treatment

Functional carbon (e.g. biochar, hydrocar, carbon nanotubes etc.) are one of the best environment-friendly candidates that have been used in the environmental pollution treatment process such as wastewater t...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 March 2025

Geospatial Information Science for Sustainable Development

Geospatial Information Science experienced significant development and growth over the past two to three decades, and provides a multitude of approaches and tools to support the implementation of sustainable...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 May 2024

Global Environmental Sustainability: Challenges and Solutions

Environmental sustainability is one of the defining challenges of our time, with implications for businesses, society, and the planet as a whole. Additionally, it is a global imperative, transcending geograp...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Global Industrial Processes and Sustainable Development

The manufacturing world faces increasing competition in terms of productivity and environmental sustainability. This Topical Collection aims to contribute to sustainable development by examining the impact o...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Green and Smart Engineered Cementitious Composite

In recent years, the concept of green and smart material has attached the world-wide attention, especially in the field of marine infrastructures. Engineered Cementitious Composite (ECC) has emerged as a wid...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

03 September 2024

Green Innovation in Circular Economy: Promoting Resource Efficiency and Sustainable Production

Increasing levels of global warming and environmental pollution have forced economies to adopt mechanisms that ensure the protection of natural resources. A circular economy means adopting a regenerative mod...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2024

Green Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture: From Farm to Fork

Climate change and increased food needs make sustainable agriculture more important. "Green Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture: From Farm to Fork" is a Topical Collection that explores innovative techn...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 September 2024

High-Value Utilization and Sustainable Development of Agricultural Food By-Product Resources

Regarding the theme of "High-Value Utilization and Sustainable Development of Agricultural Food By-Product Resources", we focus on transforming by-products generated in the agricultural and food industry int...

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

30 September 2024