Green Innovation: Scaling Sustainable Environmental Management Solutions
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 513
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Interests: environmental management; sustainable development; sustainable development goals; design for environment; green marketing; environmental risk management; circular economy
Interests: innovation management; innovation projects; new product development; sustainable innovation; intellectual property; open innovation; servitization
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The impacts of environmental issues are hard to ignore today as they continue to grow rapidly. Not only is the environment challenged, but pressure is mounting on the economy as international organisations, agreements, and regulations all over the globe have been mobilised to address such environmental problems.
Many authors believe that the best solution is the adoption of an adequate innovation strategy, in this case, one that is focused on green innovation. Green innovation represents an integral aspect of the agenda of organisations, decision-makers, researchers and scientists; it is considered a means to meet the needs of the present and future by tackling environmental, economic and social issues.
This Special Issue focuses on how green innovation addresses key challenges and delivers scalable solutions for sustainable environmental management, thereby facilitating the achievement of sustainable development through management systems that align with sustainable development goals and their targets.
We invite papers with relevant theoretical or empirical contributions—including research articles, reviews, case studies, reports, and communications. Inter- and multidisciplinary submissions are welcome and encouraged.
Dr. Damjan Maletic
Prof. Dr. Nataša Petrović
Prof. Dr. Biljana Stošić
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- green innovation
- sustainable environmental management (SEM)
- environmental management systems (EMS)
- sustainable development goals (SDGs)
- circular economy (CE)
- life cycle assessment (LCA)
- sustainability metrics and KPIs
- net-zero transition
- climate adaptation and resilience
- industrial symbiosis
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