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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022.
Special Issue Editor
Interests: financial management of industrial companies; earth resources evaluation; economic evaluation of investment to mining industry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The basic strategy of the EU results from the need to provide sustainable growth with respect to social and economic impacts of earth resources evaluation and waste treatment. Earth resources, alternative energy sources and not recycled waste must provide alternatives for energy usage with the aim to meet circular economy goals and the protection of the living environment.
The aim of the Special Issue of Sustainability is to find alternative energies to replace standard energetic sources from the phase of research, mining, processing, logistics and business with energetic sources. Such alternatives can be hydrogen or nonrecycled waste using sophisticated technologies—for example, e-fusion drills, etc. Especially, waste as a material and energetic source has very low importance in the eyes of society, but effective waste use can decrease carbon footprint and replace traditional mining, then becoming a unique source of materials and circular economy pillar.
This Special Issue results from European goals to recycle 65% of materials, to attain 20–25% of maximal energy, and 10% energy stocking by 2035. There is the possibility to recycle 80% of waste, but presently only 60% of waste is recycled. The solution is to develop new technologies, increase the effective use of earth sources, energies, and waste through intensive scientific research, which could replace the import of resources through increasing effective energy production from earth resources, alternative energy resources and nonrecycled waste. However, the research must be orientated to the resulting outputs of the process with the aim not to damage the living environment, including new technologies, presenting a green solution. In this way, countries could be self-sufficient and secure. The task is also to have the support of environmentalists and the legislation to find out unique solutions for stocking energy and the industrial use of energy resources. The solution could also be in the frame of energy mixes from various energy sources with the aim to be self-sufficient.
Dr. Katarína Čulková
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- sustainable development
- circular economy
- economic evaluation of effectiveness
- waste and earth resources management