Sustainability Transformations in the Energy, Water and Agri-Food Sectors

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your paper to the Special Issue of Energies dedicated to “Sustainability Transformations in the Energy, Water, and Agri-Food Sectors”.

Tackling climate change, which is closely linked to the sustainable development of our societies, requires large-scale, systemic, and long-term change in all sectors and emphasizes a number of interrelated issues:

• Transition from fossil to renewable energy that will be included in smart energy systems;
• Interlinkages of resources as water, energy, and land, and resilient production of food;
• Implementation of the circular economy approach to reduce waste keeping products and materials at the highest value at all times and extracting all possible byproducts from resources, reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions;
• Enhanced sustainable competitiveness by implementing low-carbon economy solutions;
• Rapid developments in IT and digitalization providing access to data and delivering data-driven solutions; and
• Discourses, narratives, and frames used to communicate climate change, support sustainability transitions, and achieve social engagement in the changing political, economic, and environmental contexts.

The aim of this Special Issue is to discuss relevant studies on the topics formulated above to observe and highlight trends, drivers, and challenges for sustainable transformations in the energy generation and supply, water and wastewater management, agriculture, and food supply sectors, as well as at the cross-sectoral level. Original research papers presenting theoretical insights and/or empirical analyses related to environmental, economic, social, and technical dimensions of sustainability transitions and transformations are welcome. Submissions employing quantitative methods or qualitative analyses, as well as review articles are strongly encouraged.

Dr. Elina Dace
Dr. Jelena Ziemele
Guest Editors

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 submissions that pass pre-check are 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 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

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-anonymized 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 2600 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.