Development Trends of Environmental and Energy Economics

Dear Colleagues,

As governments and the general public become more keenly aware of the critical issues arising from how humans use their environment and energy, this Special Issue provides a forum for the discussion and analysis of environmental and energy problems around the world and for the presentation of management results. It is aimed not only at the environmental and energy managers, but at anyone concerned with the sustainable use of environmental and energy resources. Moreover, under the current background of global environmental degradation and energy shortage, it is more imperative to promote the development of environmental and energy economics, providing theoretical and practical support for decision and policy makers. Therefore, investigations on the environmental and energy economics topics will be conducted in Sustainability.

Contributions to this Special Issue are expected to bring new knowledge and insights to environmental and energy economics. Themes include but are not limited to the following areas:

• Development of the traditional topics on environmental and energy economics (exploitation, conversion, and use of energy, environmental and energy policy, regulation and taxation, international trade, monetary policy, etc.);
• Development of emerging topics on environmental and energy economics (clean energy, carbon finance, green production and consumption policy system, markets for energy commodities and derivatives, etc.);
• Methods and approaches of the environment and energy economics, including but not limited to econometric models, grey system models, fuzzy theory, machine learning, artificial neural networks, deep learning, and other advanced analytical models;
• Environmental and energy-related analysis and assessment (risk assessment, development trends analysis, life cycle analysis, life cycle costing, emission accounting and forecasting, etc.);
• Social, economic and policy aspects of environmental and energy systems.

Prof. Dr. Zhengxin Wang
Dr. Song Ding
Dr. Xin Ma
Dr. Wendong Yang
Guest Editors

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