Environmental Sustainability as a Fundamental Contribution to the Mitigation of Climate Change
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 August 2023) | Viewed by 11526
Special Issue Editors
Interests: atmospheric physics (mainly related to ozone and aerosols); solar radiation (mainly related to global and UV component and to solar energy use); climate change
Interests: solar radiation resource (site-adaptation) and forecasting (time series and satellite images); reverse-osmosis water desalination; photovoltaic and thermal solar electricity generation
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Interests: solar energy; climate change; biological effects of solar radiation; biomedical engineering.
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is devoted specifically to the environmental pillar of sustainability. Other pillars on economic and social aspects are not included. A basic contribution of environmental sustainability to the mitigation of global warming is the replacement of non-renewable energy sources with sustainable energies. These energies include renewables and also energy efficiency. The last one is actually not an energy source, but it is assumed that the obtained reduction in energy is equivalent to a “virtual” energy source. Other environmental aspects to be taken into account are the reductions in the use and in the contamination of all natural resources (air, water, soil, flora and fauna).
The scope of this Special Issue is very wide, since all types of natural resources (if they are sustainable) and of mitigation measures for global warming can be considered.
Its main purpose is to provide information based on scientific research on the subject of the title of the present Special Issue.
This Special Issue will usefully supplement the existing literature, where studies are usually disconnected, since there is a large number of journals, books, etc., devoted to sustainable energies and on the other side to climate change, but they are not integrated and normally they do not include greenhouse gas emissions inventories and how these contaminant gases can be reduced.
Dr. Rubén D. Piacentini
Dr. Olga De Castro Vilela
Dr. Graciela M. Salum
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environmental sustainability
- climate change
- global warming
- mitigation
- sustainable energy
- solar energy
- wind energy
- water energy
- geothermal energy
- renewable fuels
- efficiency
- energy intensity
- water desalination
- greenhouse gas emission
