Balancing Regional Economic Development and Environmental Impact in the Context of Globalization
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (21 November 2023) | Viewed by 6063
Special Issue Editors
Interests: economy development; regional economics; global value chains
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the twentieth century, regional economic development was often regarded as the polar opposite of environmental effect, placing humans in the position of having to make tough choices between the two. However, the problem appears to be unnecessary in the case of China, which demonstrates that environmental impact may be efficiently applied with regional economic growth. China is witnessing an energy transition from fossil fuel to renewable energy, which is not only cutting costs and pollution but also spawning new technologies, markets, and job opportunities. Regional economic growth and environmental effect are not mutually exclusive in the context of globalisation; rather, they coexist in a win-win situation. Indeed, environmental preservation has the ability to increase environmental quality, industrial upgrading, and a variety of other advantages. Low-carbon-emitting industry contributes to the green transition of regional economic structures by facilitating clean production, encouraging green innovation, accelerating the growth of low-carbon industry, fostering new edges in renewable energy, green manufacturing, carbon capture, utilisation, and storage, and so on, thereby improving global competitiveness in industry and economy.
To achieve high-end and sustainable growth in the regional economy, a detailed awareness of the problems and possibilities, as well as their link to the continuing process of addressing environmental change, is urgently required. All of these factors inspired the idea for this Special Issue, which attempts to compile empirical investigations and theoretical contributions on the balance between regional economic growth and environmental effect in the context of globalisation. We invite submissions that include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Regional economy, environmental science, and urban studies.
- Economic development quality under environmental restrictions.
- Regional economic growth and environmental control.
- Carbon neutrality and peak carbon dioxide emissions.
- Environmental policy evaluation.
- Economic stability.
- Environmental impact.
- Economic and environmental growth must be coordinated.
Prof. Dr. Yongming Huang
Prof. Dr. Chunjiao Yu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- regional economic development
- environmental impact
- ecological footprint
- globalization
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