Highlights of Sustainability

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Deadline of submission 31 July 2024.

Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation

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:

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

George E. Halkos

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.

Published Articles (4)

Review 25 March 2025

Green Growth or Degrowth? Possible Outcomes for Climate and Society

Phoenix Eskridge-Aldama, Aden Stern, Anna Vaughn and Diana Stuart

https://doi.org/10.54175/hsustain4020005

As global temperatures continue to rise, those in favor of rapid climate mitigation face critical questions regarding maintaining current levels of economic growth. On a global scale, there remains a clear positive correlation between economic growth

Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 2, pp. 69–94

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Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 2, pp. 69–94

359 Views87 Downloads

Article 22 February 2025

The Impact of Fossil Fuel Consumption, Renewable Energies, and Economic Growth on Environment Change in Lithuania

Assitan Diaby, Mehdi Seraj and Huseyin Ozdeser

https://doi.org/10.54175/hsustain4010004