Contemporary Sustainable Energy Paradigms and the Multifunctional Economy

Dear Colleagues,

The energy production and usage patterns have highly impacted numerous economic markets, including labour and touristic markets. In this context, analyzing the contemporary energy paradigms in context of the multifunctional economy represents a challenge in understanding the new economic paradigms imposed by markets’ globalization and integration processes. 

The recent changes to the global economy have imposed massive transformations on energy production and distribution systems, designing new energy paradigms. The high intensity of energy usage has triggered numerous industrial movements towards new competitive frontiers, including promoting new energy efficiency technologies and multifunctional economic activities, including a reorientation of labor resources. On the other hand, new contemporary sustainable energy paradigms have imposed a sharp relocation of existing industries and implicitly of international capital flows, which will not invest in new industrial production installations, but rather into the regions with lower energy costs and lower CO2 emissions.

The main aim of this Special Issue is to discuss and provide answers to subjects, such as, but not limited to:

• The influence of the energy paradigm changes on different economic markets (labour markets, tourism markets, etc.)
• Energy patterns and new production frontiers movements
• Energy consumptions patterns and economic development
• Energy and climate change in transitional economies
• Constraints on ensuring green energy development
• The performance of different energy paradigms in promoting sustainable investments

The topic of contemporary sustainable energy paradigms and the multifunctional economy is a research subject that has raised numerous debates in the literature. This current Special Issue intends to fill a gap between theory and practice in field of research contemporary sustainable energy paradigms and the multifunctional economy

The editors welcome contributions critically addressing these issues; both theoretical and practical papers capable of providing new insights are welcome.

Prof. Dr. Jovan Zubović
Prof. Dr. Răbontu Cecilia Irina
Prof. Dr. Anna Ivolga
Prof. Dr. Zaharia Marian
Guest Editors

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