Call for papers for Special Volume of the Journal of Cleaner Production on Cross-disciplinary approaches to accelerate the transition towards Smart, Resilient and Sustainable Community
摘要截稿: 2018-05-15
全文截稿: 2018-06-01
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中科院JCR分区:
• 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 1区
• 小类 : 工程:环境 - 1区
• 小类 : 环境科学 - 1区
• 小类 : 绿色可持续发展技术 - 1区
Overview
1. Introduction
Fast-developing countries and cities are facing the challenges of achieving substantial economic growth without compromising the deteriorated environmental conditions. Those countries are confronted with various limitations such as the insecurity of resources (energy, water, natural resources), traffic congestion and air pollution. GHG emissions have gained substantial attention in the past decades to accelerate the transition towards smart, resilient and sustainable community. However, besides GHG, the harmful emissions are including the contribution to smog/haze and compromising the population health.
This Special Volume (SV) addresses the recent research trends for the key sectors contributing to this transition. The major keywords are "low GHG emissions city”, “intelligent and smart”, “development and implementation of green technology” and “policy for sustainable development". UN adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has launched the17 Goals (UNDP-SDGs, 2015). The new goals have been including key areas such as climate change prevention, clean air and water, economic equality, innovation, sustainable consumption, peace and justice. The achievement of the goal of sustainable development to improve the quality of life without compromising the economic growth and the environment is at the heart of current research for the formation of smart, resilient and sustainable community. The community is not just confined to the society, but also consider various sectors (i.e. energy, waste to resources leading to a circular economy, smart urban planning, etc.). This should be acceptable to different levels of stakeholders from the public and business, industrial, residential, pre-urban and rural areas.
The special issue comprised of extended papers from the ICLCA 2017 conference (The 3rdInternational Conference of Low Carbon Asia and beyond), November 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. The ICLCA conference addressed a wide range of topics relevant to low-carbon emission development. The special issues of the past ICLCA series are available at .
This Special Volume (SV) is open for the submissions from a wide range of research areas contributing to the transition towards the smart, resilient and sustainable community. The coordinated efforts offered by the cross-disciplinary players, i.e. public-private partnership, feasibility studies of green technology, enabling policies and the supportive role of the local industries, are anticipated. This SV accepts and reviews a wide range of green initiatives with the goal to reduce the environmental impacts, promoting low-carbon emission economy, enable sustainable development and improving the quality of life.
The key topics cover the feasibility and impact analysis of the current cleaner technologies in the key sectors of energy, waste and transportation, sustainable built environment, and enabling policies and strategies.
Journal of Cleaner Production has been traditionally serving as a platform to encourage multidisciplinary research and sectors to present innovative solutions for cleaner production. In addition to the conventional solutions that are more sector-based, this SV anticipates the submission of cross-disciplinary research work to provide more holistic approaches.
2. Topical areas
This “Call for Papers” (CfPs) for the SV of the Journal of Cleaner Production (JCLP) provides opportunities for scholars, industrialists, business and governmental officers to collaborate and accelerate the transition towards the smart, resilient and sustainable community. Papers should be based on comprehensive most recent literature reviews combined with theoretical and empirical investigations.
Potential topics for this SV may include, but will not be limited to, the following topics:
(1). Low Carbon Emissions Cities Developments
Many fast developing countries such as China has been promoting a great wave of low-carbon emissions cities construction where haze and smog pose the serious issue. The construction of smart, resilient and sustainable cities requires efficient government, the technological innovation of enterprises, and professional scholars, and public participation (Feng et al., 2015).
The low carbon emissions cities concept has arisen over the past decade and associated with urban planning. Many cities are moving fast and adopting low-carbon emissions actions to reduce the environmental emissions while promoting the low-carbon economy. Such transition remains a challenge for the practitioners such as the local authorities and industry to implement and measure the level of sustainable development. Many frameworks of the low-carbon city (LCC) indicator have been established to evaluate the various perspectives of the LCC including the economic, energy pattern, social and living, carbon and environment and urban mobility (Tan et al., 2017). The challenge has been to provide indicators that could be easily implemented. The clear indicators could serve as a guideline for the standardisation of LCC and to facilitate the on-going monitoring of LCC.
Cross-disciplinary research, for instance, incorporating efficient energy, water and waste management in the architecture design and urban planning, is desirable.
(2). Sustainable Management of Energy, Waste, Water and other Materials
Urbanization and industrialisation contribute to pollutions and deterioration of environmental quality for the air, water and land. Smog and haze pose a serious issue in major cities in China and Asia. It is crucial to minimise the pollutants and to convert waste into useful products. A circular economy is an alternative to a traditional linear economy (make, use, dispose of) in which resources in use for as long as possible (Wrap UK, 2018). Circular economy aims to promote economic prosperity, environmental quality Kirchherr et al. (2017). Authors could submit papers relevant to the implementation of circular economy and sustainable consumption and production (SCP) to report on their impact on social equity, business models and future generations.
Energy is an important element for social and economic development. It is vital to address the issues of sustainability and the economic and environmental implications in establishing sustainable energy systems. Intensive planning and optimisation studies have been reported for the conventional energy as well as the renewable energy. A low rate of renewable energy (3 %) implementation highlights the on-going challenge to optimise the economic feasibility of the renewable energy (BP, 2017). Problems remained to bridge the gaps of the economic and technical viability of the renewable energy and the need of other non-technical drivers such as policy.
Solid waste and wastewater management are the serious issue in many fast-growing cities that require radical behaviour change, viable technology and policy intervention. Modelling studies are essential to present various scenarios where efficient solutions could be adopted in different countries. Challenges remained to improve the logistic and treatment viability for the organic wastes such as the food waste (Wen et al., 2018) and the agricultural biomass (Li et al., 2017).
Authors are invited to submit papers regarding the minimisation of pollution (air, soil, freight, urban or industrial area) and resource conversation at all levels that could improve the environmental, materials and energy efficiency. Cross-disciplinary and innovative studies focusing on the effective management of energy, water and waste are encouraged.
(3). Holistic Sustainability Assessments Tools
A range of sustainability management tool is available to allow companies to pursue their sustainability objectives while maintaining their business operations (Iraldo et al., 2009). For example, Cucchiella et al. (2017) revealed that company would report the increase in demand, as well as improvement in productivity when the firms conduct excellent GHG management.
Sustainability assessment techniques are also developed at city-, regional- and global levels to guide an effective long-term policy for the mitigation of GHG. These tools could guide future actions to steer regions towards self-sufficiency based on more efficient processes and to develop a mechanism with a shared market of virtual resources flow among the regional trading partners (Liu et al., 2017).
Sustainability assessment tools including life-cycle analyses (LCA), e.g. LCA assessment integrated with the GIS and others are the on-going methods to measure sustainability. Challenges remained to simplify the sets of streamlined boundaries when evaluating the sustainability impacts of different sectors. Authors may present standardised assessment and management tools to monitor the long-term sustainability of the multi-stakeholders.