Digitalization Leading the Way for a Sustainable Future
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2024) | Viewed by 12475
Special Issue Editors
Interests: digital transformation; information and communication technologies; e-skills; digital divide; digital dividend
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Interests: Energy Economics, Sustainability, Environmental Economics
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Digitalization is having a substantial impact on the economy and society and making our daily activities dependent on innovativeness and use of digital technologies. Digital transformation has the potential to foster the economies to shift to a more sustainable development and low carbon economies. Digital technologies are being applied in socioeconomic, environment, climate change, and sustainable problems in order to cope with the given problems and to increase their efficiency. New patterns of production and consumption and new business models are created due to digitalization. However, there is a need for technologies and processes to be designed in line with the criteria of digitalization to foster the transition to a more sustainable economy. This requires focus and efforts not only on digitalization, but also in the environment, economy, and society. To shift to a more sustainable economy through digitalization requires the involvement of many actors, including academia.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect theoretical and practical analyses of the digitalization of the economy and sustainability for different actors (individuals, workers, firms, regions, countries…). It aims to understand how digitalization can foster a sustainable development of the economy of different countries or regions and what are the solutions to shift to a more sustainable economy through digitalization. This Special Issue also welcomes contributions at the methodological level presenting new ways of capturing the digitalization and sustainability of different sectors of the economy. It is also open to case studies (policies at country level, management at the firm level, local policies, etc…).
Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Digitalization and sustainable economy ;
- Digitalization and ecological transition ;
- Digitalization as a way to sustainable future;
- Convergence of digitalization and sustainability ;
- Digitalization sustainability ;
- Artificial intelligence and sustainability ;
- Internet of things and sustainability ;
- Digitalization and environment sustainability ;
- Industry 4.0 and sustainability ;
- 3D printing and sustainability ;
- Digitalization and climate change ;
- Digitalization and circular economy ;
- Digitalization and pro-environmental behavior;
- Digitalization and eco-efficiency ;
- Digitalization and low carbon economy;
- Digital Technologies and adaptation to climate change ;
- Digital Technologies and mitigation of climate change ;
- Case studies.
Prof. Dr. Adel Ben Youssef
Dr. Khalid Kisswani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digitalization
- sustainability
- environment
- digital transformation
- eco-efficiency
- low carbon economy
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