Sustainability

Recent Development of Nanomaterials for Wastewater Treatment and Sustainable Environmental Protection

edited by Liliya Frolova and Butyrina Tetiana

submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1781 | Submission Open

Keywords: photocatalysis; synthesis and application of nanomaterials; green energy; microplastic; adsorbents; recycling

(This special issue belongs to the Section Environmental Sustainability and Applications)

Economic Geography, Regional Development and Climate Policy in the AI and Innovation Era

edited by Ahoura Zandiatashbar

submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1195 | Submission Open

Keywords: innovation ecosystems; industry clusters; AI economy; climate policy and economic resilience; equitable growth

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)

Wildfire Hazards and Sustainable Risk Prevention and Control

edited by

Adélia de Jesus Nobre Nunes

, Fátima Velez de Castro and Luciano Lourenço

submission deadline 28 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 555 | Submission Open

Keywords: wildfires; vulnerability; risk; prevention; mitigation; resilience; education; sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Hazards and Sustainability)

Sustainable Rural Resiliencies Challenges, Resistances and Pathways

edited by

Angel Paniagua Mazorra

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 13806 | Submission Open

Keywords: resistance; rural; local; resiliences; spatial processes

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)

Carbon Neutral Society and Sustainable Development: Challenges and Solutions

edited by Ehsan Jorat

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5337 | Submission Open

Keywords: carbon neutrality; sustainable development; societies; challenges; solutions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)

Decarbonization of Energy and Materials for Sustainable Development

edited by Yasukazu Kobayashi

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3789 | Submission Open

Keywords: photovoltaic; hydrogen; energy storage devices; recycling; wastewater treatment; membrane technology; healthcare applications; electronics; life cycle assessment; machine learning and AI for decarbonization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Sustainable Energy: Circular Economy and Supply Chain Management

edited by

Koichi Murata

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3552 | Submission Open

Keywords: circular supply chain strategy/methodology; analysis and evaluation to realize circular economy/supply chain; performance measurement/management to circular economy/supply chain; philosophy for circular economy and supply chain; circular energy dynamic model and practical methodology

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)

Sustainable Management: Economic and Business Development

edited by

Ferda Halicioglu

and

Dragana Radicic

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2073 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable development goals of the United Nations; environmental; social; and governance goals; business sustainability; financial sustainability; economic sustainability; green finance; optimal investment; sustainability of natural resources; circular economics; zero waste; quality of life; eco-taxes; eco-labeling; eco-resource management; eco-feminism and women’ s economics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

Advances in Mineral Resources, Hydrogeology and Environmental Sustainability

edited by

Guiping Ren

,

Xinglan Cui

and

Xiaobin Gu

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1749 | Submission Open

Keywords: mineral resources; mine environmental restoration; hydrogeology; microbial technology; resource sustainability; geomicrobiology; environmental mineralogy; microbial metallurgy; solid waste recycling and processing; mineral– microorganism interactions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)

Monitoring and Control of Air Pollution for Sustainability

edited by

Pedro José Pérez-Martínez

and

Regina Maura De Miranda

submission deadline 30 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 525 | Submission Open

Keywords: anthropogenic activities; information technologies; geography and urban air pollution; human health and exposure; climate change; urban planning; sustainable cities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)

Sustainable Product Design, Manufacturing and Management

edited by

Diego Castro Fettermann

and Marcia Elisa Soares Echeveste

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 44263 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital products and services; Industry 4.0; sustainable products and services; product service systems; smart manufacturing; renewable energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Products and Services)

Intelligent Transportation Systems towards Sustainable Transportation

edited by

Keshuang Tang

,

Ashish Bhaskar

and Hong Zhu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 43633 | Submission Open

Keywords: intelligent transportation systems; connected vehicles; big data; artificial intelligence; autonomous driving; traffic signal control

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)

Green Logistics and Intelligent Transportation

edited by Feifeng Zheng and

Ming Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 17 articles | Viewed by 32183 | Submission Open

Keywords: scheduling optimization; green logistics; intelligent transportation; heuristic algorithm; machine learning; game theory

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)

Sustainable Development in Urban and Rural Tourism

edited by

José Ramón-Cardona

,

María Dolores Sánchez-Fernández

and

José Álvarez-García

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 24770 | Submission Open

Keywords: corporate social responsibility (CSR); cultural landscape; economic impacts; environmental impacts; gastronomy; hospitality management; local; rural and urban tourism; mature destinations; overtourism; regional development; residents’ attitudes; social impacts; sustainable development; tangible and intangible heritage; tourism development; tourism planning

(This special issue belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)

Farmland Soil Pollution Control and Ecological Restoration

edited by

Jiulan Dai

and

Jing Liu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 23615 | Submission Open

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

Analysis on Real-Estate Marketing and Sustainable Civil Engineering

edited by

Natalija Lepkova

and

Laura Tupėnaitė

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 22985 | Submission Open

Keywords: real-estate marketing; real-estate marketing strategy; real-estate industry; sustainability; sustainable civil engineering; natural resources; green design

Urban Planning and Sustainable Land Use—2nd Edition

edited by

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and

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 15 articles | Viewed by 20635 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban planning; land use; sustainable development; public policy analysis; urban vibrancy; big data; spatial optimization

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)

A Systems Approach to Urban Greenspace System and Climate Change

edited by Yizhao Yang and

Yawei Chen

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 17815 | Submission Open

Keywords: urban green spaces (urban greenspaces); urban greenspace system; climate change; climate change adaptation; climate change mitigation; livability; urban resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)

Digital Marketing and Sustainable Circular Economy

edited by Alfonso Siano,

Iza Gigauri

,

Maria Palazzo

and

Francesca Conte

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 15940 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital marketing; digital consumer behavior; digital transformation; sustainable development; sustainable marketing; circular economy; circular business models

(This special issue belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

Sustainable Consumption and Tourism Market Management

edited by Oana Mihaela Stoleriu and Alexandra Cehan

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 15353 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable tourism consumption; tourist experience; responsible tourism; sustainable tourism management; sustainable tourist behavior; sustainable destinations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

Municipal Solid Waste Management (2nd Edition)—Innovative Solutions and Sustainable Strategies

edited by

Carlos A. Teixeira

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 13812 | Submission Open

Keywords: circular economy; waste management; sustainable urban infrastructure; resource optimization; industrial symbiosis

(This special issue belongs to the Section Waste and Recycling)

Organic Matter Degradation, Biomass Conversion and CO₂ Reduction

edited by

Qiang Wang

and

Cheng-Chao Jin

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 12846 | Submission Open

Keywords: solar energy conversion; photocatalytic degradation; CO2 photoreduction; electrocatalytic CO2 reduction; biomass conversion; HMF; FDCA; persistent organic pollutants; volatile organic compounds; dyes; antibiotics; solar fuel production; heterojunction; nanocomposites; porous nanomaterials; single-atom catalysts; DFT calculation; in situ/operando characterizations

(This special issue belongs to the Section Waste and Recycling)

Regional Economics, Policies and Sustainable Development

edited by

Andrzej Cieslik

and Tomasz Misiak

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 8 articles | Viewed by 12801 | Submission Open

Keywords: innovation; regional development; regional policy; sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

Environmental Protection and Sustainable Ecological Engineering

edited by

Slobodan B. Mickovski

, Olavo F. Santos Jr.,

Alejandro Gonzalez-Ollauri

and Jovan Br. Papić

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 9 articles | Viewed by 12619 | Submission Open

Keywords: environmental protection; sustainability; ecological engineering; green infrastructure; nature-based solutions; resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)

Sustainable E-Learning and Educational Technology

edited by

Salvador Otón Tortosa

,

Sergio Luján-Mora

,

Ricardo Mendoza-González

and

Abdelhamid Tayebi Tayebi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10594 | Submission Open

Keywords: e-learning; educational technology; accessibility; inclusion; sustainable education; AI; STEM and STEAM education; gamification

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Education and Approaches)

Energy Transition Amidst Climate Change and Sustainability

edited by

Kentaka Aruga

,

Md. Monirul Islam

and

Arifa Jannat

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 10311 | Submission Open

Keywords: renewable energy; energy transition; climate change; sustainable development; energy efficiency; energy policy; environmental impact; energy storage; smart grids; sustainable energy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Sustainable Transport Using Inland Waterways

edited by

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submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10151 | Submission Open

Keywords: decarbonization strategies for inland waterway transport (IWT); external costs and impact measurement of IWT; new infrastructural developments in IWT; innovative solutions for low-water periods; digitalization and automatization of IWT; mental shift: awareness and knowledge of IWT; multimodal supply chains: integration of IWT in logistics chains; inland ports: sustainable developments and digitalization; IWT in multimodal routing / IWT and GIS data availability; IWT and the eco-system of rivers; optimization and decision making in IWT; intermodality and synchromodality in IWT; revenue management in IWT

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)

Smart Charging and Grid Integration for Sustainable Electric Transportation

edited by

Damir Jakus

and Josip Vasilj

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 9056 | Submission Open

Keywords: charging station power supply; charging management; V2B; V2H; V2V; V2G; V2X; ancillary service provision; grid integration; charging pricing models; machine learning in EV load forecasting and charging control; RES energy management; modelling and control; mathematical programming; reinforcement learning; capacity allocation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis for Monitoring and Assessing Landscape and Ecosystem Sustainability

edited by

Chao Zhang

, Ziqi Meng and Nanshan You

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8888 | Submission Open

Keywords: spatial analysis; remote sensing; landscape sustainability; ecosystem services; natural resource management; climate change; ecological resilience; land use change; environmental monitoring

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainability in Geographic Science)

Leisure for Sustainable Future: Exploring Sustainable Environmental Leisure Activities

edited by

María de los Ángeles Valdemoros-San-Emeterio

, María Jesús Monteagudo and Cristina Medrano Pascual

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 8878 | Submission Open

Keywords: leisure; sustainability; society; culture; economy; communities; governance; tourism; intergenerational

(This special issue belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)

Inclusive Tourism and Its Place in Sustainable Development Concepts

edited by

Zygmunt Kruczek

, Katarzyna Gmyrek and Karolina Korbiel

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 7992 | Submission Open

Keywords: inclusive tourism; sustainable tourism; “ design for all” ; development and planning; accessibility; accessible tourism; responsible tourism; social tourism; integrative tourism; health dysfunction; people with disabilities; people with special needs; barriers; tourism without barriers; tourism for all; sustainable construction; motives and preferences; tourism and recreation activity; rehabilitation; seniors

(This special issue belongs to the Section Tourism, Culture, and Heritage)

AI-Powered Virtual Assistants in Sustainable Marketing: Enhancing Customer Experience Through Innovation Technologies

edited by

Carolina Herrando

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 7926 | Submission Open

Keywords: digital marketing; artificial intelligence; customer experience; e-commerce; privacy; personalization; ethics; loyalty; innovative technologies; emotions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

Green Innovations for Sustainable Development Goals Achievement

edited by

Alireza Fathollahi

and

Rui Zhao

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7326 | Submission Open

Keywords: clean technologies; green chemistry; sustainable industry; bio-based chemistry; bio-based materials; sustainable engineering; renewable energy; waste valorization; eco-friendly synthesis; circular economy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Development Goals towards Sustainability)

Sustainable Engineering and the Emerging Technologies: Application, Policy Development and Innovation

edited by

Martin Wynn

and

Kamal Bechkoum

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6898 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable engineering; emerging technologies; sustainable development; manufacturing efficiency; energy management; digitalization; pollution reduction; technology convergence

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)

Towards Sustainable Business: Business Models Innovation for Circular Economy

edited by

Sajid Anwar

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 10 articles | Viewed by 6493 | Submission Open

Keywords: circular economy; business models; environmental practices; innovation; supply chains; sustainable operations; green innovation; sustainability; global commerce dynamics

(This special issue belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)

Sustainable Risk Management

edited by An Chen and Baoguang Xu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6468 | Submission Open

Keywords: disaster risk management; risk assessment; public risk perception; risk resilience

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)

Rural Social Work and Social Perspectives of Sustainability

edited by

Charles C. Fonchingong

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 6092 | Submission Open

Keywords: rural social work; agency; social welfare; relational networks; resilience; sustainability; practice; service delivery; social perspectives; rural communities

(This special issue belongs to the Section Social Ecology and Sustainability)

Inter-urban Zero-Emission Rail Technology: Analyses of Emerging Passenger and Freight Transportation System Retrofits

edited by

Gord Lovegrove

, Holger Busche and Mohamed Hegazi

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5889 | Submission Open

Keywords: rail transport; retrofit; de-carbonized; zero emissions; hydrogen fuel cell; hydrail; battery electric; passenger rail; freight rail; low-density; inter-urban; affordable

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)

Sustainable and Innovative Agriculture in Issues of Energy Production and Food Safety

edited by

Bogdan Saletnik

,

Marcin Bajcar

and

Grzegorz Zaguła

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 7 articles | Viewed by 5561 | Submission Open

Keywords: innovations in agriculture; sustainable agriculture; food production; food safety; food preservation methods; biochar; pyrolysis; waste management; carbon sequestration; soil fertilization; magnetic fields

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

Inclusive and Sustainable Marketing and Business Performance

edited by

João Manuel da Silva Carvalho

and Sílvia Faria

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 5508 | Submission Open

Keywords: inclusive and sustainable marketing; sustainable business performance; artificial intelligence and marketing sustainability; sustainable products and business performance; distribution impact on business sustainability; new inclusive and sustainable distribution approaches; inclusive communication and business performance; inclusive and sustainable digital marketing transformation; new inclusive and sustainable pricing strategies; new inclusive and sustainable marketing competencies

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)

Advances in Efficient and Sustainable Transport Using Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage in Transport

edited by

Chengjiang Li

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 5392 | Submission Open

Keywords: electric vehicles; energy storage; intelligent transportation systems; vehicle-to-grid; energy sustainability; efficient electric propulsion systems; smart grids

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Sustainable Project, Production and Service Operations Management

edited by

Georgios K. Koulinas

and

Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4988 | Submission Open

Keywords: project management; manufacturing process; service delivery; operations research; circular economy; lean manufacturing; resource utilization; life cycle considerations; environmental impact reduction; supply chain

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Products and Services)

Energy Efficiency and Innovative Material Application in Sustainable Buildings

edited by

Víctor Yepes

and Lorena Yepes-Bellver

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 4898 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy efficiency; innovative materials; sustainable buildings; smart buildings; green construction; circular economy

(This special issue belongs to the Section Green Building)

Impact and Adaptation of Climate Change on Natural Ecosystems

edited by Sunkee Hong

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4507 | Submission Open

Keywords: ecosystem management; biodiversity loss; climate adaptation; terrestrial ecosystem; marine ecosystem; island ecosystem; nature-based solutions; natural ecosystems climate change; ecosystem services; ecosystem-based adaptation

(This special issue belongs to the Section Air, Climate Change and Sustainability)

Sustainability in Sensory and Consumer Science

edited by

Julia Low

,

Matthew McSweeney

, Charles Diako and Penny Brotja nee Oliver

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 4183 | Submission Open

Keywords: sensory and consumer science methodologies; sustainable practices in sensory and consumer science; plant-based; sustainable foods; sustainable diets; sustainable packaging

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)

Advances in Industrial Engineering and Management Towards Sustainable Development Goals

edited by Yanjie Zhou

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4033 | Submission Open

Keywords: industry engineering; sustainable manufacturing; circular economy; supply chain management; sustainable decision-making

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)

Sustainable Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management

edited by

Chieh Yu Lin

and Syed Shah Alam

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3815 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable operations; green logistics; circular supply chains; sustainable sourcing; innovation in logistics; supply chain resilience; eco-friendly practices; resource efficiency

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Management)

Adoption of New Technologies and Practices for Sustainable and Smart Agriculture

edited by

Yang Li

and

Jing Nie

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3796 | Submission Open

Keywords: smart agriculture; decision support; green computing; data fusion; pattern recognition

(This special issue belongs to the Section Sustainable Agriculture)

Energy Price Forecasting and Sustainability on Energy Transition

edited by

Jian Chai

and

Quanying Lu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3672 | Submission Open

Keywords: energy price forecasts; energy consumption forecasts; sustainable energy transition; sustainable development; carbon emissions

(This special issue belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)

Advances in Energy Systems for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

edited by Nathan Williams and June Lukuyu

submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3609 | Submission Open

Keywords: sustainable development goals; energy systems; climate resilience; transdisciplinary; energy access; energy policy; sustainability

(This special issue belongs to the Section Development Goals towards Sustainability)

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