Special Issue "Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy Trends"

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy and Environment".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022.

Special Issue Editor

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) principally encompasses humanity and our planet’s challenges, consisting of 17 main goal and 169 sub-targets. Herein this Special Issue calls for papers about important interactions' responsibilities for ensuring an in-depth analysis of renewable energy strategies that enable young researchers of the parties to get involved, and to be fully on boarded for future direction of renewable energy strategies in these countries.

In like manner, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is another cross-boundary collaborative effort to be achieved. Despite the accepted agreement that still the world we are living is steadily polluting air and the greenhouse gas emissions are continuing in an umpteen quantity; the renewable energy is the only hope for a sustainable energy resource for a greenhouse gases free atmosphere. Considering the aforesaid global accountability, this joint research is a viable opportunity to reform strategies, combat climate change, and provide sustainable energy for socio-economic development in order to fulfill the international agreements as a prior-global contributor.

Formulation of a renewable energy sector’s strategy requires a set of factors to be investigated within multi-dimensional approaches to ensure the energy mix is well addressed; to recognize a viable strategic roadmap (realized, shared, learning, false and hidden types of strategy); to align nature of strategies with scope (competitive strategy, corporate strategy, business strategy, functional strategy, and operating strategy), to define model of application (entrepreneurial model, adaptive model, planning model, and etc.), and finally to realize an effective relationship among sustainability pillars (environmental, technical, economic, institutional and social).

This Special Issue aims to gather recent advances in the field of sustainable development and trade of energy. These challenges are related to technology but also environmental, societal, economic and financial tools as well as process management are also of interest for this Special Issue.

Dr. Alexey Mikhaylov
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Energies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • machine learning
  • sustainability
  • renewable energy
  • financial markets
  • energy

Published Papers (2 papers)

Order results
Result details
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

Article
Sustainable Development According to the Opinions of Polish Experts
Energies 2021, 14(17), 5325; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14175325 - 27 Aug 2021
Viewed by 144
Abstract
The idea of sustainability has been exerting an impact on public awareness for nearly five decades. However, representatives of various sciences interpret it in many different ways, and there were several hundred definitions of it already at the end of the 20th century. [...] Read more.
The idea of sustainability has been exerting an impact on public awareness for nearly five decades. However, representatives of various sciences interpret it in many different ways, and there were several hundred definitions of it already at the end of the 20th century. There is no doubt that a proper understanding of the essence and meaning of sustainable development by opinion leaders representing various scientific disciplines determines transformations in particular sectors of the economy, especially in the energy sector. Economics, which considers the relationship between the economy and the environment, seems to have a special role with regard to this issue. Models and concepts of managing limited environmental resources are considered based on this science. Thus, economists have a kind of greater responsibility for the shape and direction of development, and especially for whether it will be durable and balanced. With these issues in mind, the aim of this paper is to review and systematize the opinions of Polish experts on the concept of sustainable development and to indicate the most important parameters that define it. The paper presents the results of an opinion survey of 105 experts affiliated with a wide variety of institutions. Respondents represented economic, technical, social, and natural sciences. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy Trends)
Show Figures

Figure 1

Article
Users’ Perceptions of Local Public Water and Waste Services: A Case Study for Sustainable Development
Energies 2021, 14(11), 3120; https://doi.org/10.3390/en14113120 - 27 May 2021
Viewed by 552
Abstract
Access to safe drinking water is essential to good health, a basic human right, and a component of effective policy for health protection. Improving the quality of local public water and waste services is one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Goal [...] Read more.
Access to safe drinking water is essential to good health, a basic human right, and a component of effective policy for health protection. Improving the quality of local public water and waste services is one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation). This study aims to know the degree of satisfaction of domestic users who receive services related to water and waste in municipalities with less than 20,000 inhabitants in the province of Badajoz (Spain). We carry out this research because the perception of municipal services provided by the public administration is usually negative and deficient. The case study PROMEDIO, the consortium formula, is described as a successful partnership to improve the quality of local public water and waste services. For this purpose, a detailed analysis of the different aspects involved in the relationship between the users and the services provided is carried out. The consortium was found to increase citizens’ satisfaction with the services provided, given the close relationship between the municipality and the users. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy Trends)
Show Figures

Figure 1

Back to TopTop