Towards the Supply Chain Sustainability and Urban Sustainable Development: Risk, Assessment and Technological Advance in Digital Age

Dear Colleagues,

Maintaining supply chain sustainability and urban sustainable development is one of the greatest challenges faced by economies worldwide. Recently, the global supply chain has faced unprecedented difficulties, resulting in a downward trend of the manufacturing industry, sharp fluctuation of total world trade volume, and an imbalance in the supply of international logistics services. These issues expose the vulnerability of the global supply chain. In order to adapt to the new environmental developments, the global supply chain should establish a new development model and embrace future technological advances, as well as the growing digital economy. Therefore, the relationship between supply chain sustainability and urban sustainable development, along with the related health, social and economic consequences of the digital economy and corresponding policies and measures, needs to be further identified in the perspective and process of global urbanization in order to explore sustainable development paths worldwide, which is of paramount importance for the development of mining towns, resources-based cities, and other resource-dependent regions.

Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to):

1. Relationship among supply chain sustainability, urban sustainable development, and digital economy.
2. Measurement of coupling coordination among the manufacturing industry, the logistics industry and the supply chain.
3. The influence of the digital economy on rural labour
4. Restructure and reallocation of enterprises and supply chain under market integration and the environment impact.
5. Influencing factors of urban industry agglomeration for supply chain and logistics.
6. Assessment of environmental and health consequences of urban supply chain and logistics
7. Assessment of measures and policies for supply chain sustainability, urban sustainable development, and digital economy

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Bo Li
Dr. Qian Liu
Guest Editors

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