New Frontiers in the Interdisciplinary Research of Sustainable Development

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Sustainability aims to advance interdisciplinary research in the fields of sustainable development and ESG, and to cultivate an academic sensitivity to the plurality of approaches that sustain related research. The guest editors invite submissions that provide cutting-edge insights regarding new areas of finance which can benefit from interdisciplinary engagement. Topics can include, but are not limited to:

• Big data in sustainable development;
• Education of sustainability in the digital era;
• The application of machine learning in sustainability;
• Climate change and carbon neutrality policy;
• History and sustainable development;
• Historical epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic and sustainable development;
• ESG, gender equality and sustainable development;
• Law, finance and economic growth.

A virtual workshop will be organized to provide a platform for a sustained conversation about the changing horizons of sustainability research. We particularly encourage the participation of early career researchers from different subjects such as accounting and finance, economics, management, history, political science, sociology, etc. There is no registration fee and attending the conference is not a condition for submission to the Special Issue; likewise, presentation in the workshop does not guarantee final publication. 

Prof. Dr. Wenxuan Hou
Dr. Yizhe Dong
Prof. Dr. Jiandong Chen
Dr. Chen Wang
Prof. Dr. Yun Zhang
Prof. Dr. Wenlong Zhang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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