Spatial Econometrics Analysis of Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

A spatial perspective has become increasingly relevant to our understanding of sustainability, both on the global scale and at the scale of regions and cities. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), which encompass environmental, cultural, economic, social, and health sustainability, have emphasized the importance of geographical analysis. Spatial discrepancies in sustainable development within cities and regions are important subjects and have long been the focus of policy initiatives by national, regional, and local governments.

Furthermore, spatially-referenced data add important contextual and locational information to social, economic, and behavioral sciences, disclosing issues like externalities, interactions, spatial concentration, spatial heterogeneity, and spatial dependence that need to be properly addressed in data analysis and in the specification and estimation of regression models. Techniques to analyze and model spatial data have registered considerable improvements in recent years and simultaneously they have been applied to a wide variety of fields. Spatial econometrics are common in regional science, education, economics, the housing market, natural resources, and healthcare, among others.

This Special Issue aims to bring together innovative empirical research in spatial econometrics and spatial statistics applied to sustainability including studies with spatial data analysis, linear and nonlinear spatial regression models, spatial panels, spatial multilevel modeling, spatial interaction models (gravity models), and spatial nonparametric techniques.

Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, a broad range of topics on sustainability are expected to be covered, including, but not limited to the following:

1. Economic growth sustainability
2. Education sustainability
3. Energy sustainability
4. Environment sustainability
5. Healthcare sustainability
6. Innovation and knowledge sustainability
7. Migration sustainability
8. Trade sustainability

Dr. Isabel Proença
Prof. Dr. Felipa Sampayo
Guest Editors

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