Sustainable and Resilient Regional Development: A Spatial Perspective

Dear Colleagues,

Sustainable and resilient regional development has received great attention in the academic literature and public policy areas under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Regional development has been simultaneously expanding over space and time, taking on path-dependent characteristics. This Special Issue of Sustainability will particularly focus on the spatial dimension of resilient and sustainable regional development. Its scope is mainly centered around the definition, measurement, assessment, and policy actions related to the resilience and sustainability of regional development from the perspective of space.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to foster spatially integrated social, economic, environmental, regional, and urban development. With the development of GIS, spatial statistics, and spatial econometrics, we have the methodologies and techniques to collect, analyze, and visualize the evolution of spatial patterns, which provide powerful toolkits in tackling the resilient and sustainable challenges in regional development.

This Special Issue will supplement the literature in spatial data analysis, spatial and policy-making perspectives in resilience, and sustainability in regional development, mitigating the vagueness and confusion in theory and practice in SDGs.

Dr. Yingxia Pu
Prof. Dr. Pingguo Yang
Dr. Qiuhao Huang
Prof. Dr. Xiujun Tai
Guest Editors

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