Sustainable Development: Water, Energy and Food

Dear Colleagues,

Since the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was unanimously endorsed worldwide in 2015, it has been of prime importance and necessity to achieve sustainable water, energy, and food security in accordance with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets. Assessing the exposure and resilience of society to water, energy, and food risks aids in the interpretation of how water, energy, and food security are impacted by industrial and demographic transition. It thus supports policy making in the trade-offs among economic competitiveness, social welfare, and environmental sustainability.

This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality research papers on the inter-, multi-, and transdisciplinary field of new theory, methods, technologies, as well as policy implementation and scenarios apropos of sustainable water, energy, and food security. The corresponding research questions to be addressed include but are not limited to (1) how to identify and tackle water, energy, and food risks in terms of SDGs 2, 6, and 7; (2) how to identify the interlinkages and interdependencies among water, energy, and food risks as well as other environmental challenges across the 2030 Agenda; and (3) how to examine which policies of water, energy, and food security have worked best in which circumstances, under what governance arrangements, and whether that experience is transferable to other contexts.

Dr. Jialiang Cai
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• water–energy–food nexus operationalization
• sustainable water, energy, and food security
• Sustainable Development Goals assessment
• spatiotemporal modelling and prediction
• policy effectiveness assessment
• policy-sensitive indicator assessment