Special Issue "Emerging Technologies for Sustainability and Safety"

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Jiamei Deng
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Guest Editor
School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing, Leeds Beckett University, Headingley Campus, Leeds LS6 3QS, UK
Interests: energy; data analytics; artificial intelligence; control system design for different applications; biomedical engineering; civil engineering; automotive engineering; nuclear power plants; other energy systems
Dr. Ah-Lian Kor
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Guest Editor
School of Built Environment, Engineering and Computing, Leeds Beckett University, Headingley Campus, Leeds LS6 3QS, UK
Interests: sustainability; cognitive systems; knowledge-based systems
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Dr. Akbar Sheikh Akbari
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Guest Editor
Engineering and Computing, School of Built Environment, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds LS1 3HE, UK
Interests: biometric identification techniques; image source camera identification; hyperspectral image processing; colour constancy techniques; image resolution enhancement methods; multiview image/video processing; medical image processing; assisted living technologies; standard and non-standard image/video codecs; H.264 and HEVC; compressive sensing; camera tracking using retro-reflective materials

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Emerging technologies play a pivotal role in revolutionizing sustainability to support the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This Special Issue theme will address the following SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals):

Society and human needs SDG2 Zero Hunger—(i) smart  and precision agriculture technologies to increase productivity and reduce waste; (ii) water safety innovation for consumption and flood preventions; (iii) food safety innovation to maintain good health;  SDG3 Good Health and Well Being—(i) smart and personalized health to improve quality of life and wellbeing; (ii) health care safety and quality;  SDG4 Quality Education—(i) smart  and personalized educational technologies to support self-regulatory learning, critical thinking and creativity; (ii) safe learning environment innovations;  sustainable amenities and utilities for the environment SDG7 Affordable and Clean Energy—(i) smart grid, smart microgrid, smart renewable energy management system to reduce carbon footprint and safe transmissions; SDG13 Climate Change via Low Carbon Growth—(i)  smart technologies to reduce energy as well as resource consumption and waste emissions; (ii) safety innovations for nuclear power plants; SDG11 Sustainable Cities and Communities—(i) smart  sustainable cities and infrastructure;  sustainable industry SDG9 Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure—(i) smart technologies to support Industry 4.0; (ii) safe working environment; SDG12 Responsible Consumption and Production—smart technologies for resource optimization, energy efficiency, and waste reduction.  

  • I encourage you to contribute a research or comprehensive review article for consideration for publication in Sustainability, an international open access journal which provides an advanced forum for research findings in areas related to sustainability and sustainable development. The journal publishes original research articles, reviews, conference proceedings (peer-reviewed full articles) and communications. The Special Issue, entitled “Emerging Technologies for Sustainability and Safety”, is calling for emerging technology-enabled research (position, theoretical, or applied) which address relevant SDGs across the following sectors (listed in GESI’s Smarter 2020 initiative): business, power, transportation, manufacturing, services (education and health), agriculture, and buildings.

Prof. Dr. Jiamei Deng
Dr. Ah-Lian Kor
Dr. Akbar Sheikh Akbari
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 papers will be 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 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

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 1900 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.

Keywords

  • emerging technology
  • sustainability
  • safety

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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