Risk Control, Rational Decision-Making, Sustainable Industrial Development, and Insurance Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Based on the United Nations' 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with the title of "Technologies and Strategies for Sustainable Industrial Development: Common Opportunities and Challenges", it explores how key transformational aspects can be accelerated through digital technologies, tools, and mechanisms. Industrial development achieved high success in the early 21st century. The dependence of human life on industrial development is unprecedented, including many aspects that require and affect human life (environment, water, transportation, communication, sustainable management and economic and business aspects, etc.). New research and experiments continue to reveal the interconnectedness between industrial technology application, development, financial management, sustainable management, and the surrounding environment, including the impact on other uses like the environment, energy, and urban development.  A range of frameworks are being developed to include this new knowledge of interactions for sustainable management to assess industrial development sustainability more holistically. Yet this is challenging due to the complexity of interconnections.

However, the interconnection of systems and environments is more complex and challenging due to changes in industrialization (such as Industry 4.0) management. The context and spatial scale of different industrial systems also make the general definition of sustainable industrial development more challenging. Nonetheless, a robust and consistent approach will allow comparisons between systems and provide opportunities to improve sustainability (such as risk control, rational decision-making, sustainable industrial development, and insurance sustainability) on a larger scale. This Special Issue focuses on different technologies and overall industrial-scale management of industrial process settings, the impact of various industrial technologies on natural resources, to define technologies and strategies for sustainable industrial development (TASFSID). This question will identify best practice examples of TASFSIDs ready to be upgraded; propose new frameworks, methodologies, and principles for evaluating TASFSIDs; and highlight key knowledge gaps and future research agendas.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas from different industries may include (but not limited to) the following:

• Insurance sustainability;
• Financial management;
• Intelligent systems in accounting;
• Information technology auditing;
• Financial markets and models;
• Product design and planning;
• Competitive strategy;
• Digital applications of Industry 4.0;
• Big Data for Industry 4.0;
• Artificial intelligence applied to industrial development;
• Smart IoT applied to industrial development;
• Image processing for industrial production;
• Application of communication technology in industrial development.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. You-Shyang Chen
Jieh-Ren Chang
Dr. Hueh-Chen Lin
Guest Editors

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