Aviation and Climate Change Mitigation: From Theory to Practice
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Air, Climate Change and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 589
Special Issue Editor
Interests: air traffic management; sustainable aviation; air navigation service providers; current issues in air transport management; aviation business models; performance indicators in aviation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This is a call for papers for the Topic ‘Aviation and Climate Change Mitigation: From Theory to Practice’, which has been devised to inform both the body of knowledge and practice on aspects of sustainability in the aviation industry. Despite its benefits for economic development and accessibility at different spatial levels, rapid air transport growth since the 1960s has created negative externalities and raised environmental concerns, such as climate change. Aviation has externalities that cannot be overlooked. Technological improvements, fleet renewal, and increased operational efficiency have partially counterbalanced the impact of recent growth, but there has still been an increase in overall emissions since 2014. Efficiency gains are insufficient to counterbalance the increase in CO2 emitted due to the growth in the number of flights, aircraft size and flown distance. Externalities mitigation is critical with some actions being implemented such as sustainable aviation fuels, airspace optimisation, aircraft technologies, carbon offsetting, carbon taxes, and market based measures. This topical collection brings together the state-of-the-art literature and practices that help us understand the scale of the problem and the most promising solutions for climate change mitigation in the whole spectrum of the aviation industry (e.g., airports, airlines, Air Traffic Control, etc.). The Special Issue welcomes papers that use qualitative and/or qualitative research methodologies. I cordially invite you to submit your cutting-edge research for consideration. Suitable topics related to aviation can be:
- Sustainable aviation fuels;
- Emissions trading scheme;
- Carbon offsetting and reduction scheme for international aviation;
- Carbon taxes;
- Carbon capture;
- Airport’s energy reduction;
- Airspace optimisation;
- ANSPs and climate change;
- Green aircraft technologies;
- Sustainable governance for mitigation;
- Aircraft leasing and SDG;
- COVID-19 and sustainable aviation;
- Carbon offsetting;
- Flight Shame/Flygskam.
Dr. Marina Efthymiou
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable aviation fuels
- emissions trading scheme
- carbon offsetting and reduction scheme for international aviation
- carbon taxes
- carbon capture
- airport’s energy reduction
- airspace optimisation
- ANSPs and climate change
- green aircraft technologies
- sustainable governance for mitigation
- aircraft leasing and SDG
- COVID-19 and sustainable aviation
- carbon offsetting
- Flight Shame/Flygskam
