Special Issue "Sustainable and Measurable Well-Being and Economy in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic"

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

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Paola Cerchiello
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Guest Editor
Department of Economics and Management, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: financial risk assessment; textual data analysis; explainable artificial intelligence
Dr. Branka Hadji Misheva
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Guest Editor
School of Engineering, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, 8400 Winterthur, Switzerland
Interests: new financial technologies; cryptocurrencies; explainable artificial intelligence; deep learning
Dr. Shatha Qamhieh
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Guest Editor
Department of Finance, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
Interests: new financial technologies; Islamic financial system

Special Issue Information

Dear colleagues,

The COVID-19 pandemic has been deeply affecting all the aspects of human life, forcing us to re-organize daily activities and short–medium-term plans.

This Special Issue is specifically devoted to the assessment of sustainability from a socio-economic perspective. Indeed, to measure sustainability, statistical indicators should incorporate economic, social, environmental and governance aspects, which can be subsumed under the general umbrella of SDGs and the related targets and indicators. A key link between well-being and sustainability is visible in existing frameworks, such as the Swedish EQOs, which are directly related to the SDGs.

Scientists are being asked to produce research able to combine different country-specific well-being and economic objective measurements, and their time dynamic profile,  into sustainable development measures.

As example, we consider the “objective” frameworks of well-being that are being used, such as the one adopted in New Zealand (source: NZ Treasury), where the so-called “Four Capitals” (Natural Capital, Human Capital, Social Capital and Financial and Physical capital) are factored into the framework. This way, the focus on well-being ends up being conflated with a more long-term perspective on sustainability, which in turn prevents the most evident problem of well-being frameworks based on reported life satisfaction, i.e., the incorporation of short-term approaches, methodological individualism and behavioral biases into the overall measurement and evaluation framework.

The approach in the articles included in this Special Issue are also encouraged to be multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral, addressing how different disciplines and sectors can be brought together to develop inclusive sustainable well-being and economy in response to the pandemic.

Prof. Dr. Paola Cerchiello
Dr. Branka Hadji Misheva
Dr. Shatha Qamhieh
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Keywords

  • sustainable well-being
  • objective framework
  • summary indexes
  • SDG indicators

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.
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