Energy Transition Amidst Anthropogenic Activities: Implications for Environmental Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
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Interests: energy systems; food–energy–water nexus; energy sustainability
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Energy production and consumption have environmental implications. However, anthropogenic activities have triggered environmental issues, as increased human pressure on the ecosystem has intensified climate change issues and the threat of global warming. These occurrences have raised concerns among energy economists, ecological scientists, and policymakers across the globe (Bekun et al., 2019; Nathaniel et al., 2021a; Nathaniel et al., 2021b). The extant energy literature has documented several determinants of environmental quality such as energy consumption, globalization, ecological footprint, oil, tourism, natural gas, and agricultural activities. However, there is scant evidence on the effects of natural resources on the environment. This Special Issue call for papers seeks to shed more light on the conversation for a blueprint for energy transition amidst intense anthropogenic activities without compromising economic growth and simultaneously promoting clean and responsible energy consumption. This resonates with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDG-7,8,11 and 12). Nurturing a paradigm shift to clean energies technologies is rooted in the merit of renewable energies to advance a clean energy ecosystem.
In light of the argument that there is a dynamic nexus between energy consumption and the environment with implications on environmental sustainability, this Special Issue calls for scientific and technical notes/papers that address these topics. Of particular interest are articles that leverage on state of the art econometric tools to push the frontier of knowledge on this theme for emerging, developing, and developed nations.
References
Bekun, F. V., Alola, A. A., & Sarkodie, S. A. (2019a). Toward a sustainable environment: Nexus between CO2 emissions, resource rent, renewable and nonrenewable energy in 16-EU countries. Science of the Total Environment, 657, 1023-1029.
Nathaniel, S. P., Yalçiner, K., & Bekun, F. V. (2021a). Assessing the environmental sustainability corridor: Linking natural resources, renewable energy, human capital, and ecological footprint in BRICS. Resources Policy, 70, 101924.
Nathaniel, S. P., Nwulu, N., & Bekun, F. (2021b). Natural resource, globalization, urbanization, human capital, and environmental degradation in Latin American and Caribbean countries. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 28(5), 6207-6221.
Prof. Dr. Nnamdi Nwulu
Dr. Festus Victor Bekun
Dr. Njabulo Kambule
Dr. Omoseni Adepoju
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy economics
- natural resource
- human capital
- ecological footprint
- energy transition
- renewable energy
- environmental economics
- climate change
- environmental sustainability
- sustainable development admits business dynamics
- global trade and energy consumption
- panel and time series data
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