Sustainability Assessment

Dear Colleagues,

In order to achieve sustainable development, assessment of initiatives must be considered as a decision-making strategy on all levels. Sustainability assessment procedures, sustainability assessment indicators, and other tools can be powerful decision-supporting tools able to foster sustainable development by addressing the main economic, social, and environmental challenges. Sustainability assessment is often described as a process through which the implications of an initiative on sustainability or option are being evaluated. These initiatives can be policies and measures, plans, programs, projects, legal acts, specific practices, etc. There have been various approaches of sustainability assessment developed in recent scientific literature. These approaches include examples of assessment for sustainability, integrated assessment, derived from environmental impact assessment (EIA) and strategic environmental assessment (SEA), which have been extended by incorporating social, economic and environmental considerations, reflecting a ‘triple bottom line’ (TBL) approach to sustainability, etc.

This Special Issue is dedicated to the analysis of sustainability assessment theories and practices at various levels, including global, national, sectoral, regional, industry, enterprise, project, processes, and products levels. The SI welcomes original and review papers dealing with concepts, frameworks, techniques, and tools and their applications for specific fields, including energy, agriculture, industry, etc.

Prof. Dr. Deepak Sharma
Prof. Dr. Dalia Streimikiene
Prof. Dr. Tomas Baležentis
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.