Special Issue "Frontier Technologies and Methods in Sustainable Development Research"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Geography and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Kamil Maciuk
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AGH University of Science and Technology, Adama Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Interests: industrial development; urbanization; sustainable development; renewable energy sources; land use; land use policy; cadastre; GIS; GNSS; positioning; navigation; geography; tourism
Dr. Michal Apollo
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Pedagogical University of Krakow, Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, Poland
Interests: human impact; environmental impacts; socio-cultural impacts; regional studies; climate change; tourism; mountaineering; mountain environment; human waste; development; agricultural development; inequality; poverty; sustainable development goals
Dr. Paulina Lewińska
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1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, Deramore Lane, Heslington, York YO10 5GH, UK
2. AGH University of Science and Technology, Adama Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, Poland
Interests: industrial development; urbanization; remote sensing; Structure-from-Motion; mapping of remote regions; integration of 3D data; visualisation; computer graphics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Improvement and advances in frontier technologies present new and unique chances and challenges at the same time. While promising prosperity, they also present risks of inequality, and thus raise new ethical and moral dilemmas. However, the current world is focusing on 'emerging technology' and its impact on sustainable development. This can be observed at every level of our life.

Development of new technologies has led to developments in science and scientific methodology. Currently, we are able to use frontier technologies and techniques to describe reality; we can reach deeper and deeper in order to describe in great detail current problems and prospects. After all, generally speaking, frontier technology is the intersection where futurological forward thinking and real-world implementation and execution meet. For better understanding of that relationship, in recent years, modern measurement techniques have been increasingly used to describe problems around the globe.

This Special Issue concentrates on the impact and usage of modern measurement techniques for sustainable development in the Global North and Global South. The advances in frontier technologies have a huge influence on analyses of their economic, social and environmental impact. These technologies possess immense potential for fostering growth, prosperity and environmental sustainability and accelerating the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

This Special Issue is looking for original research papers and reviews that utilise data that is provided or processed by modern measurement techniques and focus on the proposal and the application of methods and policies to promote and measure sustainable development. Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, economic and social development, urban development, land planning, sustainable investments, land use, geomatics, geodesy, GIS, geography, geology and others.

Overall, we seek papers that describe reality using modern techniques. Thus, with the use of frontier technology/techniques, they will describe current issues related to sustainable development.

Dr. Kamil Maciuk
Dr. Michal Apollo
Dr. Paulina Lewińska
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • environment
  • sustainability
  • urban development
  • land planning
  • sustainable investments
  • land use
  • geomatics
  • geodesy
  • GIS
  • GNSS
  • geography
  • geology

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Tactile Architectural Drawings—Practical Application and Potential of Architectural Typhlographics
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6216; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116216 - 31 May 2021
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The subject of research conducted by the team from the Bialystok University of Technology is architectural typhlographics—a kind of specialised tactile drawings dedicated to people with visual impairments. The aim of the publication is to present the specificity of this type of architectural [...] Read more.
The subject of research conducted by the team from the Bialystok University of Technology is architectural typhlographics—a kind of specialised tactile drawings dedicated to people with visual impairments. The aim of the publication is to present the specificity of this type of architectural graphics and to indicate the areas of its usefulness. Based on professional experience, available thematic literature, as well as specialist consultations, the authors made a multi-criteria analysis and valorisation of the obtained set of examples of architectural typhlographs. The result of the research is to indicate the main fields of current application, and to outline the potential and possible directions of further development of tactile architectural drawings. The specifics of the examined graphics are also presented, including their functionality, possible forms of representations and differences from typical architectural representations. The historical background of the typhlographics as well as the main principles of their creation are presented, as the supplement and basis for the author’s considerations. The research also showed the broad utility and social values of architectural typhlographs and the priorities for their further development. Full article
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