Special Issue "Environmental Management Optimization"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Angel Udías Moinelo
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European Commission, Directorate D – Sustainable Resources– Joint Research Center, via E. Fermi 2749, 21027 Ispra (VA), Italy
Interests: water resources management, environmental impact assessment, decision support systems, multi-criteria analyses, heuristics, machine learning, participatory processes
Prof. Dr. Lluís Miquel Plà-Aragonès
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Guest Editor
Department of Mathematics, University of Lleida, Fac. of Law, Economics and Tourism 73, Jaume II, 25001 Lleida, Spain
Interests: operations research mainly in agriculture; herd management and markov decision models; decision models applied to farm systems; decision support systems; agrifood supply chain management optimisation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The next decade will be critical in the transition to climate neutrality and sustainable consumption and production. This transformation will require new environmental management strategies able to satisfy water, food, energy and material demands in an environmentally sustainable way. Operation research will play a key role in the search for such environmentally sustainable strategies. The perspective and approach to these problems may differ in developing countries, so we also encourage contributions emphasising this aspect. We expect that this issue will help in the understanding, dissemination, and development of solutions to the complex environmental problems that society has to solve in an adequate way in the coming years. This Special Issue intends to put together the newest studies related to optimization techniques for environmental management including energy, water, food, and other environmental issues.

Prof. Dr. Angel Udías Moinelo
Prof. Dr. Lluís Miquel Plà-Aragonès
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Environmental resources management optimization
  • Optimization approaches to food-energy-water nexus
  • Land-use planning and management
  • Environmental decision support tools
  • Multi-objective optimization
  • Sustainable supply chain 
  • Water resources management optimization
  • Sustainable forest management
  • Bioenergy supply chain optimization
  • Pollution control optimization
  • Ecosystem services management
  • Optimization models for development in the domain of environmental regulation and competition
  • OR in environment and climate change adaptation
  • Wildlife protection optimization
  • Optimization pollution monitoring network
  • Routing optimization for waste management
  • Agricultural, water, and fertilization management
  • Manure farm management
  • Agricultural sustainable land management

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Evaluation of Sustainable Forest and Air Quality Management and the Current Situation in Europe through Operation Research Methods
Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10588; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410588 - 18 Dec 2020
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Forests cover 30 percent of the Earth’s land surface, almost four billion hectares, and they are necessary to sustain human health, economic growth, and environmental health. Approximately 25 percent of the global population depends on forests for food and work. The world population [...] Read more.
Forests cover 30 percent of the Earth’s land surface, almost four billion hectares, and they are necessary to sustain human health, economic growth, and environmental health. Approximately 25 percent of the global population depends on forests for food and work. The world population is expected to reach 9.6 billion by 2050. Therefore, there is a need for urgent action plans at all levels to ensure sustainable forest management and policy collaboration among all stakeholders, in order for forests to continue to serve our ecosystem and life in the future. The study compares 30 countries using 15 indicators related to forest and air quality. This was performed with TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) and VIKOR (VIseKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Resenje, meaning Multi-Criteria Optimization and Compromise Solution), which are among the most used multi-criteria decision-making methods in the literature. According to the analysis results, Denmark, Luxembourg, Lithuania, and Germany are the best performing countries in terms of indicators, whereas Slovakia, Estonia, Turkey, Latvia, Chile, and Canada are the worst performing. The paper aims to present the current situation of some developed and developing countries and compare them to each other in terms of forest and air quality indicators. In addition, the article aims to inform all stakeholders and raise awareness to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Global Forest Goals of the United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests 2017–2030 targets. Full article
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