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Green Economy, Ecosystems and Climate Change

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2021) | Viewed by 10929

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Stanislav Shmelev

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Environment Europe Foundation, Fluwelen Burgwal 58, the Hague Humanity Hub, 2511CJ, the Hague, The Netherlands
Interests: ecological economics; sustainable cities; ecosystems; evidence-based policy assessment; macroeconomic modeling; environmentally-extended input–output analysis; multi-criteria decision aid; ESG investment; new sustainable business models
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of Sustainability will be devoted to cutting-edge research addressing the issues of green economy, macroeconomic sustainability and resilience in the light of climate change at the macro level. The world is approaching the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference observing the CO2 concentrations above 414ppm. Each year the world produces 380+ million tonnes of plastic waste, only 9% of which gets recycled and at least 8mln tonnes are entering our oceans each year. According to the WWF Living planet report we have lost 68% global biodiversity since 1970.

A lot of the top sustainability issues are being addressed at the international and ultimately national level through an intertwined set of policies, including sectoral policies, resource, carbon, water and waste taxation, adaptation measures, innovation. We need a better understanding of key intervention points and transformation mechanisms, creative policies and new forms of regulation as well as mitigation and adaptation strategies.

The papers addressing the following topics will be considered: sustainable development indicators, performance assessments, sustainable development across economic sectors, governance for sustainability, climate change mitigation and adaptation, decarbonization, food security. Particular emphasis will be given to empirical studies with a clear policy focus. Articles are invited from a broad range of regions from all across the world, including Africa, North and South America, Oceania, Asia, and Europe.

Dr. Stanislav Shmelev
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainable development;
  • green economy;
  • macroeconomic sustainability;
  • sustainable development indicators;
  • performance assessment;
  • input-output analysis;
  • econometric modelling;
  • governance for sustainability;
  • climate change mitigation;
  • climate change adaptation;
  • decarbonization;
  • food security

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Macro Sustainability across Countries: Key Sector Environmentally Extended Input-Output Analysis
by Stanislav Shmelev and Harrison Roger Brook
Sustainability 2021, 13(21), 11657; https://doi.org/10.3390/su132111657 - 21 Oct 2021
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When formulating economic development strategies, the environment and society must be considered to preserve well-being. This paper proposes a comparative sustainability assessment method using environmentally extended input-output analysis and multi-criteria decision aid. Using symmetric input-output tables and sectoral CO2 emissions and employment [...] Read more.
When formulating economic development strategies, the environment and society must be considered to preserve well-being. This paper proposes a comparative sustainability assessment method using environmentally extended input-output analysis and multi-criteria decision aid. Using symmetric input-output tables and sectoral CO2 emissions and employment data for six countries, linkage coefficients are calculated for 163 sectors in each country. Multi-criteria decision aid tool, ELECTRE III, is used to derive outranking relationships among each country’s sectors using these coefficients as criteria, resulting in a hierarchy of sectors ordered by sustainability. Sectors that frequently appear at the top of the six hierarchies included education, health care, construction, and financial intermediation. China’s results differ significantly because of its concentration of economic activity on the primary/secondary sectors. The results can enable identification of key intervention pathways along which sustainable development could be stimulated. Country-specific recommendations and reflections on economic and sustainability policy initiatives are discussed. Full article
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Climate Change and Food Security: The Impact of Some Key Variables on Wheat Yield in Kazakhstan
by Stanislav E. Shmelev, Vitaliy Salnikov, Galina Turulina, Svetlana Polyakova, Tamara Tazhibayeva, Tobias Schnitzler and Irina A. Shmeleva
Sustainability 2021, 13(15), 8583; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158583 - 31 Jul 2021
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In such drought-prone regions as Kazakhstan, research on regional drought characteristics and their formation conditions is of paramount importance for actions to mitigate drought risks caused by climate change. This paper presents the results of research on the spatio-temporal patterns of atmospheric droughts [...] Read more.
In such drought-prone regions as Kazakhstan, research on regional drought characteristics and their formation conditions is of paramount importance for actions to mitigate drought risks caused by climate change. This paper presents the results of research on the spatio-temporal patterns of atmospheric droughts as one of the most important factors hindering the formation of crop yields. The influence of several potential predictors characterizing teleconnection in the coupled “atmosphere–ocean” system and cosmic-geophysical factors affecting their formation is analyzed. The spatial relationships between atmospheric aridity at the individual stations of the investigated area and the wheat yield in Kazakhstan as well as its relationships with potential predictors were determined using econometric methods. High correlation was shown between wheat yield fluctuations and Multivariate El-Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), galactic cosmic radiation, solar activity, and atmospheric drought expressed through the soil moisture index, which in turn depends on precipitation levels and temperatures. The model could be modified further so that the individual components could be forecasted into the future using various time series in an ARIMA model. The resulting integration of these forecasts would allow the prediction of wheat yields in the future. The obtained results can be used in the process of creating effective mechanisms for adaptation to climate change and droughts based on their early diagnosis. Full article
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On the Creation and Destruction of National Wealth: Are Financial Collapses Endogenous?
by Stanislav E. Shmelev and Robert U. Ayres
Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7352; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137352 - 30 Jun 2021
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This paper traces US national wealth from 1914 through 2015 and constructs a multivariate econometric model that combines elements of short-term and long-term dynamics. We find that US wealth depends on a range of macroeconomic variables, including the wealth itself observed in the [...] Read more.
This paper traces US national wealth from 1914 through 2015 and constructs a multivariate econometric model that combines elements of short-term and long-term dynamics. We find that US wealth depends on a range of macroeconomic variables, including the wealth itself observed in the previous period, change in market capitalization, change in US house price index and inflation. Less impactful, statistically significant factors included unemployment, changes in oil price, and change in debt-to-GDP ratio. Another significant result is that the Glass–Steagall Act, which prohibited commercial banks from speculative activity in the stock market after 1933, had a statistically significant positive impact on wealth in the US. We test the model by asking whether it could have anticipated the actual collapse in 2008, given prior data up to 2000, 2005 and 2010. All three tests forecasted a sharp wealth decline starting in 2008, followed by a recovery. These results suggest the possibility of forecasting future financial collapses. We have found our model to be slightly more accurate in the short run than in the long run. Full article
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