Welfare Implications of Environmental Change and Policy

Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to announce a call for submissions to a new Special Issue in the journal Sustainability.

This Special Issue will focus on examining how environmental changes influence the distribution of welfare in societies in countries beyond the OECD. This is particularly salient in our world today where local environmental conditions and policies have increasingly impactful welfare ramifications at home and abroad. Typically, the poorest and most vulnerable among us in developing countries are most affected by environmental changes and, consequently, have to bear the social consequences. Both environmental changes and welfare are broadly defined for this Special Issue. For example, environmental changes may encompass climate change, environmental degradation, environmental externalities of economic activity of multinational corporations, and environmental policies, whereas welfare may include topics such as income inequality, poverty, public goods and services, and social mobility or opportunities. This Special Issue seeks to explore interconnections across such phenomena. We encourage submissions to explore both domestic and international sources of environmental change and policy.

The following are examples of topics of interest for this Special Issue:

• Effect of pollution and other environmental externalities of globalized production and trade on welfare distributions in host nations
• Impact of global environmental policies and practices, such as in treaties, on welfare conditions in signatories
• Role of climate change on human development and welfare in developing countries

This Special Issue aims to contribute to a more systematic understanding of the influence of environmental changes on the distribution of welfare in societies typically belonging to the marginalized regions of the world.

We look forward to your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Carina Schmitt
Dr. Ida Bastiaens
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 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 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.

• welfare distribution
• poverty
• developing countries
• north–south relations
• climate change
• environmental externalities
• environmental policy