The Role of Communication in Sustainable Development
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 December 2023) | Viewed by 7535
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our concerns as citizens nowadays are broadly and globally extended in many areas, such as social changes, health, economy, evolutions in technology, environment, education, etc. As a field of study, communication is applied in all of these areas as a bridge between the audience and the information, and it appears in many different contexts. Sustainability, on the other hand, is a medium to connect the present with the needs of tomorrow and is related to each and every form of human activity.
The interconnection of public issues and the need to create resilient communities demands respectful and ethical handling via sustainable communication. Raising public awareness is essential, and new forms of digital communication that involve audience engagement may effectively aid a focus on sustainability-related issues. Different forms of communication in relation to context and presentation are deployed to deliver messages of trustworthiness and transparency within an increasingly powerful framework to promote sustainable development. The ultimate purpose raised from this endeavor is to strengthen the information challenges to ensure long-term impacts on human, social, and environmental issues rather than short-term gains.
This Special Issue examines the role of communication in providing sustainable development in areas of global societal progress and of individual interest in the current era. In this framework, original theoretical and research works are welcome. The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited, to the following:
- Media sustainability;
- Public awareness;
- Audience engagement;
- Communicating sustainability in economic sectors (corporate, tourism, etc.);
- Environmental awareness;
- Education;
- ICT in sustainable development;
- Communicating social issues (i.e., reducing inequalities);
- Communicating health-related and well-being issues.
Dr. Maria Matsiola
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable communication
- public awareness
- audience engagement
- ICT in communication
- social–environmental–economic–health-related issues
