Special Issue —
Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation
Deadline of submission 31 July 2024 (closed).
About this Special Issue
This special issue will monitor the—overt and covert—interlinkages of growth and environmental degradation in which nature-driven risks are revealed on socioeconomic development and vice versa. We invite state-of-the-art papers on all aspects related to socioeconomic growth and environmental degradation, especially solutions on how to alleviate pressures on ecosystems and to promote biodiversity protection.
Moreover, we encourage scientists to submit their concerns on issues like circular economy, energy trends, biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation or adaptation, sustainable development, and ESG. Ultimately, the core aspects of SDGs are specially intertwined with the scope of the current special issue.
The special issue will delve into the extent to which economic mechanisms hamper environmental stability through negative externalities and their spillover effects. Furthermore, central scope would be the investigation of—growth and degrowth—policies based on study cases: either through regional initiatives, or national-driven frameworks and international pathways.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Economic Growth and Environment: Environmental Problems (Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, Acid Rain, Biodiversity, Desertification, Liquid and solid waste—Marine Pollution)
- Economic Environmental Assessment
- Natural Resources and Energy Management
- Green Economy, Sustainability, Innovation
- Business and Sustainable Development
- Technology, Industry and the Environment
- Sustainable Transport, Sustainable Tourism
- Estimation and management of (environmental) risk, environmental impact assessment
- Urban and Regional Development
- Environmental sociology and psychology
References
- Halkos, G. E., & Bampatsou, C. (2019). Economic growth and environmental degradation: a conditional nonparametric frontier analysis. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, 21(2), 325–347. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10018-018-0232-y
- Halkos, G. E., & Polemis, M. L. (2017). Does Financial Development Affect Environmental Degradation? Evidence from the OECD Countries. Business Strategy and the Environment, 26(8), 1162–1180. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.1976
- Halkos, G. E. (1996). Incomplete information in the acid rain game. Empirica, 23(2), 129–148. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00925336
- Halkos, G. E., & Tsionas, E. G. (2001). Environmental Kuznets curves: Bayesian evidence from switching regime models. Energy Economics, 23(2), 191–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-9883(00)00063-3
- Halkos, G. E. (1994). Optimal abatement of sulphur emissions in Europe. Environmental & Resource Economics, 4(2), 127–150. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00692200
- Halkos, G. E. (1993). Sulphur abatement policy: Implications of cost differentials. Energy Policy, 21(10), 1035–1043. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0301-4215(06)80006-6
Special Issue Editor
Laboratory of Operations Research, Department of Economics, University of Thessaly, Volos 38333, Greece
Research Keywords:
applied statistics and econometrics; simulations of economic modeling natural resource and environmental economics; applied micro-economics with emphasis in welfare economics; air pollution; game theory; mathematical models (non-linear programming)
Editorial Board Member of Highlights of Sustainability
Submission Information
All the manuscripts submitted to this Special Issue must be within both the scope of this Special Issue and the journal.
Manuscripts should be submitted online (Click here to submit, registration and login required). All the manuscripts will undergo a rigorous single-blind peer-review process.
Please prepare your manuscript following the Instructions for Authors, and make sure it is submitted in grammatically correct English.
Please refer to the Editorial Process and Article Processing Charge for more information about manuscript process and publishing fees.
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Article 1 November 2024
Francesco Scalamonti
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 4, pp. 354–373
Volume 3 (2024), Issue 4, pp. 354–373
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Article 1 November 2024
Francesco Scalamonti
This paper aims to enhance the formulation of the Sustainable Development Index (SDI) by introducing a further correction term, governance lack (GL) index, in additional to the ecological impact index (EII). The GL considers a country’s
This paper aims to enhance the formulation of the Sustainable Development Index (SDI) by introducing a further correction term, governance lack (GL) index, in additional to the ecological impact index (EII). The GL considers a country’s governance lack by calculating a governance index (GI) with the World Governance Indicators (WGIs) starting from 1996. The SDI(g) retains the original formula of the SDI, thus remaining an indicator of strong environmental sustainability but adequately considering in its formulation the differences significant in countries’ governance climate. Finally, graphical relationships between DI and GI, and DI and (EII + GL) are shown, and the existence of these relationships are tested with WLS and nonparametric regressions. Our findings show that significant differences in country ranking were found; the graphical relationships are empirically proven; and countries with a worse GI have been further penalized in the SDI(g) ranking.
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