Regional Development, Environmental Governance, and Sustainable Transformations
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 January 2026) | Viewed by 2126
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Interests: agroforestry; agricultural and forest economics; environmental governance; ecological modelling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce a new Special Issue, ‘Regional Development, Environmental Governance, and Sustainable Transformations’, for the journal Sustainability.
Regional development, environmental governance, and sustainable transformations are essential determinants of sustainable development. At the local, state, and global scale, environmental governance focuses on the management of political, social, and economic activities linked to the use of natural resources and the environment. It relies on adequate decision-making processes, effective institutions, policies, laws, standards, and norms. Thus, it is crucial to develop ecological, economic, and social approaches at different spatiotemporal scales in order to promote the sustainable use of natural resources and the environment, as well as increasing the delivery of ecosystem services and maintaining adequate and fair profitability.
This Special Issue welcomes studies that consider ecological, social, economic, or interdisciplinary perspectives of environmental governance and sustainable development in forest, agriculture, agroforestry, and urban land uses, at any spatial scale (individual, farm, city, regional, or global scale). In particular, this Special Issue will include papers that examine one or more of the following general themes for providing a better understanding of regional development, environmental governance, and sustainable transformations issues: soil deterioration, climate change, biodiversity, water, air quality, ozone layer, nuclear risk, transgenic organisms, precautionary principle, and socioenvironmental conflicts; the main drivers of environmental degradation, such as economic growth, consumption, destruction of biodiversity, population growth, pollution, and destructive agricultural practices that lead to land degradation; and the impacts and consequences of main environmental governance agreements.
We invite original research articles and critical reviews on topics related (but not limited) to:
- Regional development;
- Environmental governance;
- Sustainable transformations.
Dr. Silvestre García de Jalón
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- environmental governance
- sustainable development
- political ecology
- public goods
- biodiversity
- climate change
- water agreement
- environmental policy
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