Special Issue "Investigation and Research of Sustainable Innovation in Built Environment"

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable innovation is a multifaceted concept increasingly embedded in interdisciplinary research on the relationship between people, the environment, and society. Sustainable innovation creates new living conditions to promote sustainable development at four levels: individual, society, environment, and economic development. This process is not limited to technological change but includes changes in processes, operational practices, social and environmental models, business systems, and individual lives. The question is whether all so-called sustainable innovations contribute to human well-being while respecting the world's natural resources and regenerative capacity.

In this Special Issue, we start from the premise that the concept of sustainable innovation opens a new research paradigm on the development of humans, society, the economy, and the environment. This paradigm challenges the traditional and neoliberal ways that have prioritized production and consumption, competition, the free market, and the over-individualization of the individual over concern for a clean environment, health, well-being, decent work, and the right to education. We state that it spreads out from the grounds of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted by all UN member states as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We are therefore interested in the extent to which sustainable innovation processes contribute to the SDGs' achievement, how they fit into the built environment, and how they relate to the promotion of social, economic, human, and environmental well-being.

Topics may include but are not limited to:

• Sustainable innovation as a new psychosocial, environmental, and economic paradigm
• Sustainable innovation concepts and approaches to the interdisciplinarity of sustainable innovation
• Sustainable innovation and environmental, social, economic, and individual growth
• The role of sustainable innovation in the built environment
• Sustainable innovation and sustainable well-being
• Policies vis à vis sustainable innovation
• Case studies of sustainable innovation in the built environment
• Investments that improve sustainable innovation processes in the built environment

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Darja Kobal Grum
Dr. Katarina Babnik
Guest Editors

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• sustainable innovation
• sustainable wellbeing
• sustainable growth
• built environment
• human behavior
• policies
• investments