Theoretical Understanding and Institutional Arrangement of Efficient Use of Natural Resources under Sustainable Development Goals
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (23 September 2023) | Viewed by 8625
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Interests: energy economics; sustainability; environmental management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In 2015, the UN Sustainable Development Summit introduced the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which outlined a number of Sustainable Development Goals (SGDS). In 2017, the UN General Assembly reviewed and adopted the global indicator framework for SDGS. SDGS, as developments that meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of future generations, have become among the important goals of global development. In particular, in order to realize SDG, we must organically unify theory with practice and implement the institutional arrangement of the efficient utilization of natural resources.
Throughout history, the public nature of natural resources has meant that human beings obtain natural resources with their labor, meeting the needs of survival and development through the use of resources. Therefore, in the abundance of natural resources, owing to their common nature, human beings seem to have no need to use natural resources sparingly, let alone have use for the concept of efficient use of natural resources. Even though human labor can result in natural resource being used and gradually form the institutional arrangement of private ownership of natural resources. However, human beings do not seem to have eliminated the phenomenon of overuse of and competition for natural resources, but in order to seize natural resources will even adopt cruel means of war. In theory, to establish the institutional arrangement of private ownership of natural resources, their owners will allocate the resource utilization at the same level as the marginal cost and marginal income, determined from the perspective of cost and benefit, to maximize the economic benefits of resource utilization.
This Special Issue will focus on managing and designing a system of natural resource utilization rights in countries around the world. In view of the current practical problems in the utilization of resources, we aim to study the system of intensive and economical utilization of resources, the clean utilization of coal resources and the development of a plan for clean energy under the ongoing energy revolution. Additionally, we aim to establish a scientific basis and practical significance for a natural resource utilization system and management system to realize the rational protection and utilization of natural resources and optimize their allocation, while accelerating the realization of SDG.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following topics:
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Xin Zhao
Dr. Yuping Shang
Dr. Umer Shahzad
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural resources
- sustainable development goals
- efficient utilization
- theoretical understanding
- institutional arrangement
- resource exploitation
- environmental protection
- efficient use of energy
- renewable energy
- low-carbon transition
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