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Nature-Inspired Sustainable Development
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Special Issue "Nature-Inspired Sustainable Development"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Abhishek Tiwary
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Guest Editor
School of Engineering and Sustainable Development, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK
Interests: engineering sustainability; systems operation management for sustainability; engineering project management; environmental management and policy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The industrial revolution saw humanity moving away from nature over the last two centuries, leading to rampant exploitation of the finite natural resources and severance of our essential ecosystem services. This has posed a global challenge for sustainable development in the 21st century in a largely urban world, where we are now faced with issues of climate change, infrastructure resilience, resource depletion, energy poverty, air/water/soil pollution, etc. Nature-inspired solutions have been considered climate-resilient in terms of enabling resource-efficient technologies (e.g., construction, energy harvesting, manufacturing), as well as offering ecologically and culturally adaptive interventions across different global context.

The Special Issue is dedicated to capturing the growing body of knowledge in the emerging field of nature-inspired/nature-based innovations for sustainable development. Suitable themes within its scope would include (but not be limited to) natural and applied sciences/engineering, architecture, environmental management, design, green project management, public policy, etc.

Dr. Abhishek Tiwary
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • biophilic
  • green energy
  • nature-inspired
  • nature-based solution
  • sustainable development

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Strategies for Building Environmental Transparency and Accountability
by
Christina W. Y. Wong
,
Chee Yew Wong
,
Sakun Boon-itt
and
Ailie K. Y. Tang
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9116; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169116 - 14 Aug 2021
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How do nature-inspired enterprises be accountable to the natural environment formed? Natural environment is one of the basic elements of the business. Firms should be sensitive to environment, so they should develop environmental transparency and accountability. This paper develops a framework to understand [...] Read more.
How do nature-inspired enterprises be accountable to the natural environment formed? Natural environment is one of the basic elements of the business. Firms should be sensitive to environment, so they should develop environmental transparency and accountability. This paper develops a framework to understand how environmental transparency and stakeholder governance create environmental accountability, following an “action cycle” informed by four accountability criteria—identifiability, awareness of monitoring, expectations of evaluation, and social pressure. The paper analyzes the environmental transparency practices of 50 companies listed in the annual Best Global Green Brands report, the Global RepTrak 100, and The Climate A-List of the CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project). The results show that exemplar firms improve the “what”, “how”, and “how much” factors in terms of environmental information to identify what will be disseminated to whom when the information follows the criteria of accountability, which allow stakeholders to effectively adopt a governance role. This paper provides a 2 × 2 matrix for firms and stakeholders to better understand how accountability leadership is driven by environmental transparency, stakeholder governance and accountability criteria. The practical implications of environmental transparency are highlighted, specifically in terms of strategies for building accountability to meet the growing expectations of transparency and accountability. Full article
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Planned Papers

The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.

Emerging perspectives on solutions to sustainability: Is it nature-inspired or nature-based?

Abhishek Tiwary, xyz co-authors

Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK

 

Abstract:

Rampant industrialisation and unplanned urbanisation over the last century have brought us at the cross road of an imminent climate crisis and mounting human needs. This has led to a refreshed outlook to multifunctional, solution-oriented approaches to increase sustainability while simultaneously addressing both these aspects, with a greater emphasis on incorporating nature. This paper first takes stock of the range of initiatives that are emerging in the recent literature (e.g. construction, energy harvesting, manufacturing, process industry, etc.), essentially partitioning them into two broad categories: nature-inspired or nature-based (NI/NB). Thereafter, some of these are discussed in greater details, considering the trade-offs of their real-world implementations, mainly in terms of their management costs and benefits of offering ecologically and culturally adaptive interventions across different global context.

 

Keywords: climate solutions; innovation; nature-based; nature-inspired, sustainability

 

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