Special issue on mathematical models for the management of sustainable development
Article Type: Call for papers From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 20, Issue 2
Guest Editors: Roberto Sacile, University of Genova, ItalyEmmanuel Garbolino, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France
Submissions are invited for a special issue of Management of Environmental Quality exploring mathematical models for the management of sustainable development. It is widely reckoned that the field of sustainable development can be conceptually broken down into three constituent parts: environmental sustainability, economic sustainability, and sociopolitical sustainability.
Nowadays, sustainable development is the objective of most research projects and it is becoming more and more an interesting field of research since it integrates the study of the dynamics of complex systems under a multicriteria viewpoint.
Despite this, there is no common methodology addressing how to make and to keep a system sustainable, quantifying sustainability according to a proper mathematical model.
This special issue aims to start an avenue for integrated research work that takes a systemic or holistic perspective based on a mathematical formulation in relation to sustainability studies where the effects on the environment are clearly quantified.
Potential coverage
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit manuscripts that advance the science and practice of sustainable development. While papers in any area(such as, for example, environment, transport, energy ...) of sustainable development are welcome, the Editors are especially interested in those dealing with identification, control and decision support system techniques allowing one to quantify in an objective way how decisions can affect the sustainability of a system, from an environmental as well as from an economic, risk and social viewpoint. Papers which provide guidelines on how to support decisions on a mathematical basis only will be considered.
The coverage includes, but is not limited to:
Decision-making techniques and territorial management.
Decision support systems for sustainable development.
Identification of sustainable system indicators.
Multicriteria decision making for sustainability development.
Planning, measurement, control of system sustainability.
Safety and security of human and societal dynamics.
Case studies are welcome on, but are not limited to, the following topics:agriculture, logistics, energy systems, tourism, transport, water management.
Submission guidelines and further information
Papers describing an insight which is not based on a mathematical approach to decision making and/or the identification and/or the control of the system sustainability or which cannot, in general, provide a quantitative approach to support decision makers in their path towards sustainability and the related effects on the quality of the environment will not be considered. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All manuscripts should be prepared according to the author guidelines located at: http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/ author_guidelines.htm?id=meq
All papers will be double blind reviewed following the journal's normal review procedure.
Submission deadlines
The special issue is expected to be published in October 2009.Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to the Guest Editors by 15 March 2009.Final papers will be required by 15 June 2009.
Please e-mail submissions to the Guest Editors:Roberto Sacile (roberto.sacile@unige.it);or Emmanuel Garbolino (emmanuel.garbolino@crc.ensmp.fr)
