Special Issue "Shaping Sustainability as a Lifestyle through Designing Agile Energy Strategies: Acting Responsibly and Thinking Sustainably"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Mir Sayed Shah Danish
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Strategic Research Project Center, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, 903-0213, Japan
Interests: energy strategy; energy policy; sustainable development; environmental science; strategic management; renewable energy deployment; energy technologies; socioeconomic studies
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Prof. Dr. Tomonobu Senjyu
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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
Interests: high-efficiency energy conversion system; renewable energy in small islands; optimization of power system operation and control
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is time for all of us to do our bit to support global sustainability in action.

At the age of political diversity and economic anarchy, deploying agile strategies and reaching viable long-term sustainability seem to be very difficult endeavors, particularly considering the near-constant increase in energy demand in the global context and the burden of climate change, which is anticipated to worsen with time. Sustainability strategies rely on a series of disciplines: technical, technological, social, political, environmental, ecological, economic, institutional, and global restrictions that make viable decision-making particularly hard.

Thus, this issue welcomes original research and review papers related to energy strategy, policy, acts, regulation, politics, economics, and other topics which are connected to Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This Special Issue aims to compile a conceptual framework for designing a strategic roadmap for sustainable energy deployment within lifecycle analysis in smart city appraisal. This will deliver a systematic process to exhaustively explore all influential factors. Therefore, this issue calls for papers to propose analyses, tools, techniques, methodologies, procedures, and best practices that assemble challenges in a hierarchy of uncertainties within a viable risk plan priority from initiation to compilation of a strategy.

Additionally, this Special Issue offers the opportunity to engage in practical application of theory through the framing energy strategy and policy within political transitions considering the sustainability dimensions along with energy accessibility, affordability, disparity, safety, security, use efficiency, supply and production efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and environmental impact factors. Various scenarios will be explored to draw a sustainable energy strategy to fit today’s demand (citizens expectation), resources (optimum utilization with high efficiency), and management (government) factors.

Dr. Mir Sayed Shah Danish
Prof. Dr. Tomonobu Senjyu
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • sustainable development
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  • sustainable energy
  • energy strategy
  • energy policy
  • energy politics
  • energy justice
  • energy regulation
  • eco-energy
  • green energy
  • climate change
  • energy environmental impact
  • greenhouse gases
  • green architecture, low carbon energy production
  • energy strategic management
  • energy technologies
  • energy sustainability indicators
  • Sustainable Development Goal 7
  • smart city

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A Forefront Framework for Sustainable Aquaponics Modeling and Design
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9313; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169313 - 19 Aug 2021
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Aquaponics systems and technologies are growing primary industries in many countries, with high environmental and socio-economic advantages. Aquaponics is a closed-loop system that produces aquatic animals and plants in a new way using recirculated water and nutrients. With a growing world population expected [...] Read more.
Aquaponics systems and technologies are growing primary industries in many countries, with high environmental and socio-economic advantages. Aquaponics is a closed-loop system that produces aquatic animals and plants in a new way using recirculated water and nutrients. With a growing world population expected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, food production sustainability is a primary issue in today’s world agenda, and aquaponics and aquaculture systems can be potential contributors to the challenge. Observing the climate changes and global warming’s impact on the ecosystem, decreasing aqua animal stocks, and responding to increasing demand are turning points in the sustainability era. In the past 15 years, fish production has doubled, thus denoting that aquaponics transforms into commercial scales with a revolutionized production, high efficiency, and fewer resources’ utilization, thus requiring proper operation and management standards and practices. Therefore, this study aims to shape a new framework for sustainable aquaponics modeling and utilization as the all-in-one solution platform covering technical, managerial, socio-economic, institutional, and environmental measures within the suitability requirements. The proposed model in this study offers a systematic approach to the design and implementation of sustainability-efficient aquaponics and aquaculture systems. Through an exhaustive coverage of the topic, this research effort can be counted as a practical reference for researchers, scholars, experts, practitioners, and students in the context of aquaponics and aquaculture studies. Full article
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