Special Issue "Circular Economy and Sustainability: Practices and Strategies in the Wine Sector"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Barbara Campisi
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Guest Editor
Department of Economics, Business, Mathematics and Statistics (DEAMS), University of Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
Interests: sustainability; environmental management and reporting; environmental certification schemes; quality approaches and techniques for product improvement
Prof. Dr. Gianluigi Gallenti
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Assistant Guest Editor
Department of Economics, Business, Mathematics and Statistics (DEAMS), University of Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
Interests: sustainability in the agri-food system; agri-food demand and consumer behavior; agricultural risk management; agricultural policy and rural development
Dr. Federico Nassivera
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Assistant Guest Editor
Department of Agricultural, Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, I-33100 Udine, Italy
Interests: agro-food marketing; consumer behavior; management of agro-industrial firms

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Economic and business aspects of circular economy and sustainable practices and strategies are crucial worldwide issues for the wine sector.

Intensive winegrowing, industrialized wine production, modern transportation, and logistics and distribution systems are known to negatively affect natural resources. In recent decades, several environmental problems connected with the wine sector have emerged, such as biodiversity loss, landscape degradation, soil erosion, groundwater contamination, air pollution, water overconsumption, GHG emissions, and waste production.

Furthermore, climate change is aggravating these environmental problems whose solution can no longer be postponed.

Smart and precision viticulture, the circular economy approach, and sustainability practices and strategies are defining new business models for farms and wine companies in the worldwide wine sector. On the demand side, consumers are increasingly paying attention to the environmental attributes of the product and sustainable production and trade practices. They are often willing to pay a premium price for sustainable attributes of perceived quality of wine. Environmental and agricultural measures and regulations try to drive the wine sector toward the adoption of approaches and strategies that respect the environment and provide positive externalities (cultural ecosystem services, rural heritage, vineyards landscape, etc.).

At the same time, globalization, international trade, new wine producers, and changes in wine consumption patterns have increased market competitiveness. Thus, sustainable wine production and consumption must integrate environmental goals with economic and business objectives, such as competitiveness and profitability, along the whole value chain.

This Special Issue mainly covers the assessment of economic and business performance in the wine sector from a sustainability perspective.

Potential topics include but are not limited to:

  • Climate change and winegrowing adaptation strategies;
  • Vineyards and wine landscape;
  • Agroecology and regenerative agricultural winegrowing systems;
  • Precision and smart viticulture;
  • Competitiveness and environmental sustainability of farms;
  • Circular economic models in the wine chain production;
  • Organic and biodynamic wine;
  • Life cycle assessment applied to the wine sector;
  • Wine’s carbon footprint and water footprint;
  • Asymmetric information, certification, and labeling of sustainable wine production;
  • Relationship between globalization and sustainability in the wine sector;
  • Transportation, logistics, and distribution systems and sustainability of the wine supply chain;
  • Bottling and packaging and waste management in the wine supply chain;
  • Consumer attitude toward the environmental attributes of wine;
  • Market segmentation, marketing, and communication strategies in the sustainable wine sector.

Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused severe effects in the agri-food supply chain worldwide, including the wine industry. This pandemic can also create new opportunities for promoting sustainability at a global level. Therefore, this volume also aims to collect research focused on new business models for sustainability in the wine industry in the post-COVID-19 era.

Literature reviews, theoretical explorations, research articles, experimental or case study analyses in agricultural economics, commodity science, economics, management and marketing, geography, rural sociology, viticulture, agroecology, environmental studies, and related fields, as well as interdisciplinary studies, are sought and encouraged. All studies should include meaningful assessments of the economic and commercial aspects in the context of sustainability approaches for the wine market.

Prof. Barbara Campisi
Prof. Gianluigi Gallenti
Dr. Federico Nassivera
Guest Editors

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.

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Keywords

  • circular economy
  • sustainability approaches
  • wine supply chain
  • climate adaptation strategies
  • sustainable consumption
  • LCA
  • carbon and water footprints
  • eco-labeling
  • quality perception
  • willingness to pay
  • environmental communication
  • organic wine
  • vineyard landscape
  • cultural ecosystem services
  • rural heritage

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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