Sustainability in Uncertain Times: Pandemic, Climate, Economy and Urban and Rural Systems
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Urban and Rural Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 3714
Special Issue Editors
Interests: local economic development; urban disaster management; social justice; community and rural development
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Interests: economics of integration; European Union; U.S./Canada relations; urban economies and globalization
Interests: urban planning and topics of sustainability; urban regeneration; policy design; urban resilience; climate change and strategies of mitigation and adaption (climate proof design and planning)
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability is anchored in the concept of a steep decline in the Earth’s capacity to deal with human interventions to the environment. Massive interventions are attempted in human systems in the latest phase of the unparalleled rapid transformation of the global system, while intrusions of macrobiotic agents have unleashed global pandemics that are transforming human and animal life across the world. In this time of accumulating and unrelenting uncertainty that thwarts intervention in the physical form of our settlements, the capacity of our economies, and the social systems in which we live, the question becomes: How and what kind of sustainable research, sustainable economic assessments, and sustainable urban and rural sustainability theory, planning, and practice can guide us?
In this Special Issue, we are asking authors to move beyond straightforward linear analysis to use data, ideas or arguments that might guide research and practice across various disciplines and intervention practices.
Prof. Emeritus Edward Blakely
Prof. Dr. Peter Kresl
Prof. Dr. Francesco Musco
Prof. Dr. Richard Hu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- uncertainty
- urban systems
- climate change
- urban and rural systems
- economic and social sustainability
- sustainable development
- socio-economic changes
- pre- and post-pandemic sustainability
- post-disaster sustainability
- sustainable human fabric post-pandemic
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