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The 2030 Agenda SDGs. How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Affected the Process towards Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 3917

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Annunziata Palermo

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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata, Rende CS, Italy
Interests: urban and territorial planning management and assessment tools; sustainable development of “marginal” areas; strategic territorial cohesion and tourism systems; urban regeneration of areas disused and of historical centers; urban risk and resilience in emergency planning
Prof. Dr. Maria Francesca Viapiana

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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata, Rende CS, Italy
Interests: urban and territorial planning; sustainability of urban transformations; relationship between urban spatial planning and emergency planning; new vocations for the smaller historical centers
Dr. Lucia Chieffallo

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Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata, Rende CS, Italy
Interests: urban and regional planning; territorial cohesion; inner areas; marginality; GIS analysis and mapping

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Five years have passed since the official launch of the 2030 Agenda at the beginning of 2016. Its aim is lead the world on the path towards sustainability until 2030 by referring to a set of priority and shared development issues. In the meantime, all the countries of the world have been overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic, which inevitably affected the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to different extents.

In light of the COVID-19 crisis, where are we on the path towards sustainability traced by the 2030 Agenda? Which SDGs were particularly affected by COVID-19? Can they represent an opportunity to respond to the crisis?

The Special Issue aims to collect and promote the dissemination of experiences and research conducted around the world in relation to the thematic focuses identified by the 2030 Agenda. We invite theoretical contributions and empirical research concerning local, national, or international initiatives,  focusing on one or more SDGs. We expect to receive a significant number of quality manuscripts that will allow us to reschedule the path towards sustainability in the medium-long term.

Prof. Dr. Annunziata Palermo
Prof. Dr. Maria Francesca Viapiana
Dr. Lucia Chieffallo
Guest Editors

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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. Sustainability 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 2400 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

  • SDGs
  • Agenda 2030
  • COVID-19
  • sustainability
  • urban planning

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Strategies for China’s Historic Districts Regeneration in Responding to Public Health Emergencies
by Qiyu Gai, Zijia Li and Huifeng Hu
Sustainability 2022, 14(21), 14020; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142114020 - 27 Oct 2022
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Most of China’s historic districts are located in urban centers with excessive building density and possess rich historical, cultural, scientific and aesthetic value. However, historic districts lack infrastructure and specific plans for emergency response compared to modern residential areas in cities, creating a [...] Read more.
Most of China’s historic districts are located in urban centers with excessive building density and possess rich historical, cultural, scientific and aesthetic value. However, historic districts lack infrastructure and specific plans for emergency response compared to modern residential areas in cities, creating a social inequity trap for the residents in both. In addition, as valuable material cultural heritage, the usual conservation of local culture and the ecological environment conflict with anti-epidemic requirements. This study proposes a system of strategies for responding to public health emergencies that can address the above issues. Through the methods of policy refinement and the application of the concept of normal and disaster time conversion, the strategic system was constructed, including five major aspects: emergency preparedness programs at the planning level, installation of modulized variable devices, environmentally friendly health protection, disaster prevention preparation at the spatial level, and plant configuration. It is beneficial to improve the disaster prevention system for special urban communities and provide a reference for emergency planning in the future regeneration process of historic districts. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The 2030 Agenda SDGs. How the COVID-19 Pandemic Has Affected the Process towards Sustainability)
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Callous Optimism: On Some Wishful Thinking ‘Blowbacks’ Undermining SDG Spatial Policy
by Philip Cooke
Sustainability 2022, 14(8), 4455; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14084455 - 08 Apr 2022
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Established students and studies of sustainable urban planning and broader regional varieties of spatial evolution have been seized with ambitions to ‘make the world a better place’. To criticise that ambition would be more than churlish, except that it tends to betray a [...] Read more.
Established students and studies of sustainable urban planning and broader regional varieties of spatial evolution have been seized with ambitions to ‘make the world a better place’. To criticise that ambition would be more than churlish, except that it tends to betray a certain ‘cognitive dissonance’. For what they wish to ‘make better’ was already in a bad, even ‘parlous state’ by the aspirations of their predecessor students, studies, and tellingly, actions. Of course, there are exceptions. Some urban actions seem to have ‘worked’ historically. Barcelona’s Eixample by Ildefons, Haussmann’s questionably motivated but now widely admired re-design of Paris, and Vienna’s Ringstrasse vilified by early modernist Adolf Loos, mentor of Richard Neutra, originator of the domestic International Style. These were a mixed bag of architects, by turns municipal, militaristic, and radical, albeit thwarted in Neutra’s case by McCarthyite blacklisting of his Elysian Fields 3300 dwelling public housing project at Chavez Ravine, Los Angeles. Clearly, the top-down tendency persists in the image of the ‘heroic architect’ that can still be found. As well as much-vaunted ‘starchitecture’, it also persists in the failed imagery of ‘garden bridges’, ‘urban Vessels’, ‘smart cities’ and London’s ‘urban mound fiasco’. This article acts as a corrective advocating more collective than individualistic crafting of ‘solutions’ constructed upon wishful thinking if not callous optimism in efforts at mitigation of global heating. The article consists of a brief account of ‘seeing like a city’ rather than a ‘sovereign state’ in sustainability policy-pledging and its origins. It then combs through some five exemplars—from green city planning to ambient heating, food waste, plastic waste and water eutrophication—of ‘callously optimistic’ wishful thinking in SDG proposals for urban and regional climate change moderation. Modest new communicative governance methodology is proposed in the cause of SDG policy learning. Full article
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