Sustainable Development of Water, Energy and Environment Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Ever since 2002, when the first Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SDEWES) was held in Dubrovnik, the SDEWES Conference series has been providing a worldwide forum for scientists and those interested in sustainability to share the state of the art, future directions, and priorities in this field. SDEWES is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies, and technologies for increasing the sustainability of development by de-coupling growth from the use of natural resources and by transitioning to a knowledge-based economy.

Considering all the economic, environmental, and social pillars of sustainable development, one of the main issues of the coming decades is to improve efficiency by integrating various life-supporting systems and using excess from one as a resource in another at the right moment. Integrating electricity, heating, cooling, transport, water, buildings, waste, wastewater, industry, forestry, and agriculture systems will be pivotal toward sustainable development. To achieve efficiency improvements, political aspects of sustainable development must also be considered, thus implying the need for taking account of the Sustainable Development Goals, resource and political security, long-term planning, the role of political leaders and voters, energy democracy, and community and citizen participation in the energy transition, among other things.

SDEWES has maintained high publishing standards, with more than 2500 research articles published in leading journals. MDPI’s Water journal is pleased to support SDEWES by launching a Special Issue dedicated to the 2024 19th SDEWES Conference (https://www.rome2024.sdewes.org/). This Special Issue seeks to provide an opportunity for researchers in a wide range of areas to originate, discuss, share, and disseminate new ideas. Water also offers a perfect platform for the interdisciplinary and multi-cultural evaluation of complex systems.

Dr. Oz Sahin
Guest Editor

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• water management
• sustainability comparisons and measurements
• green economy and better governance
• climate resilient water systems
• environmental policy and management
• transformative water governance
• water and wastewater treatment
• water–energy nexus
• energy and water efficiency
• water demand management
• water systems in rural, regional, and island communities