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Euro-Mediterranean Journal for Environmental Integration - Call for Paper

Sustainable Production and Consumption

Building on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the cornerstone of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, allocated by the UN as “An Agenda of unprecedented scope and significance.” The seventeen ambitious goals, which are intended to be reached by 2030, are conceived as integrated, indivisible, and as balancing the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. Sustainable production and consumption can be defined as production and use of products and services in a manner that is socially beneficial, economically viable and environmentally benign over their whole life cycle. 

This special issue will collect all the relevant papers from the Mediterranean Areas dealing with at least one of the SDGs. 

This special issue will collect papers that were presented in CEMEPE2022 conference (https://cemepe9.civil.auth.gr (this opens in a new tab)), CEST2023 (https://cest.gnest.org/e/cest-2023 (this opens in a new tab)) (18th International Conference and Environmental Science and Technology) as well as from other Mediterranean Regions (even they didn't participate in the conference) and highlighted within important and relevant issues. The special issue will remain open until December 2023.


Highlights: 

The Special Issue aims at presenting high-quality research studies on the following topics

  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • The impact of European Green Deal 
  • Circular Economy Strategy
  • Research on Wastewaters
  • Clean technology/cleaner production
  • Climate change mitigation
  • Consumer engagement and communication
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Eco-efficiency
  • Ecosystem services
  • Ethical investment and consumption
  • Green/sustainable chemistry 
  • Industrial ecology
  • Intra/Intergenerational equity
  • Life cycle management
  • Life cycle thinking
  • Life cycle sustainability assessment
  • Producer responsibility
  • Sustainable energy systems
  • Food waste
  • Digitalization and gamification approach
  • Sustainable cities
  • Soil Science, Soil pollution


Deadlines and key dates:

Final manuscript submission deadline: 31 December 2023
Notification of Acceptance: less than 60 days after submission date
Publishing date of the issue: 30 April 2024 ( * )

( * ) Each accepted paper will be published online and indexed in the Web of Science shortly after the acceptance date without waiting for building the full special issue.

The submission link (this opens in a new tab) .


Submission and Evaluation:

Interested authors can submit on or before the deadline. All papers will be evaluated carefully through a double-blind peer-review process. Accepted papers will be published immediately and indexed in the Web of Science without waiting for building the full special issue. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submitting manuscripts are available on the journal’s “Submission Guidelines” page. In particular, authors should carefully read the section “Instructions for Authors / Before Online Submission (this opens in a new tab)” .


Lead Guest Editor:

Associate Professor Dr. Antonis A. Zorpas 
Open University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Laboratory of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Sustainability P.O.Box 12794, Giannou Kranidioti 33, 2220, Latsia, Nicosia, Cyprus antonis.zorpas@ouc.ac.cy, antoniszorpas@yahoo.com Cell Phone: +357-22411936 

Research Interest:  strategic planning development in the framework of waste management; circular and bio-economy; waste valorization; waste to energy; European green deal; biosolids treatment and management; hazardous waste treatment; end of waste criteria; waste minimization; zero waste approach; waste prevention; social behavior; household and solid waste management; life cycle analysis and environmental risk analysis; SDGs; green entrepreneurship. 


Guest Editors: 

Dr Irene Voukkali 
Open University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Laboratory of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Sustainability Giannou Kranidioti 33, 2220, Latsia, Nicosia, Cyprus
Email:  voukkei@yahoo.gr 

Research Interest: city metabolism, climate resilient cities, food waste, agri waste, environmental management systems, circular economy. 


Dr. Marinos Stylianou
Open University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Laboratory of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Sustainability Giannou Kranidioti 33, 2220, Latsia, Nicosia, Cyprus
Email: marinos.stylianou@ouc.ac.cy

Research Interest: Environmental Science; Green Practices and Technology; Instrumental Chemical Analysis; Oil and Natural Gas Engineering – Environment; Design of Remediation processes; Electrochemistry; Climate change; Indoor air quality; Abandoned mines; Environmental indicators and Archaeology 
 

Iliana Papamichael 
Open University of Cyprus, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, Laboratory of Chemical Engineering and Engineering Sustainability Giannou Kranidioti 33, 2220, Latsia, Nicosia, Cyprus
Email: iliana.papamichael@gmail.com

Research Interest: environmental performance approaches, monitoring tools, unified waste metrics, gamification and digitalization approach, key performed indicators, chemical engineering. 

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