Leveraging on Blockchain's Disruptive Potential to Maximize Environmental Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 312
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue on blockchain and its potential to help environmental sustainability is part of a mini-series of three Special Issues around blockchain and sustainability. Blockchain is a technology commonly defined as being distributed, disruptive and decentralized. On the other hand, sustainability is typically classified in three axes; these being the environmental, economic and social pillars. Research shows that blockchain can effectively empower the three classical pillars of sustainability in a highly differentiated way, while the disruptive nature of blockchains has a complex system behaviour in its ecological sense and it is, therefore, capable of boosting environmental sustainability; the distributed nature of blockchains has network connotations, being able to empower economic sustainability. Furthermore, blockchain’s decentralized features can imprint a positive societal impact and, hence, enhance social sustainability. Accordingly, the titles suggested for these issues in this mini-series around blockchain and sustainability are: "Leveraging on Blockchain's Disruptive Potential to maximize Environmental Sustainability", "Using Blockchain's Distributed Nature to boost Economic Sustainability", and "Capitalizing on Blockchain's Decentralized Capabilities to enhance Social Sustainability".
The first Special Issue of this mini-series is aimed at covering the potential benefits of the disruptive features of blockchain technology to bolster environmental sustainability. A token or even a mere blockchain transaction are very simple but extremely disruptive blockchain tools. Other more complex blockchain instruments such as crowdsales and stakeholder organizations provide distribution capabilities and thus can serve to help improve the sharing of resources and the economic side of sustainability in its broader sense. Decentralized autonomous organizations, blockchain’s most sophisticated instruments, can help communities to self-regulate by providing them with a bottom-up approach to social sustainability management. Accordingly, this first Special Issue "Leveraging on Blockchain's Disruptive Potential to maximize Environmental Sustainability” seeks use cases, projects, implementations, frameworks and models exploring the benefits of using the simplest blockchain toolkits, that is transactions and tokens, for the benefit of environmental sustainability.
We encourage the researcher and practitioner communities from all fields related to sustainability and blockchain to submit original contributions that prove there is a correlation between the disruptive nature of blockchains and environmental sustainability.
Dr. Maria Lluïsa Marsal-Llacuna
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- blockchain
- environmental sustainability
- disruptive technology
- complex systems
- ecology
- tokens
- blockchain transaction
- communities
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