Ecological Footprint and Sustainable Natural Resources
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Resources and Sustainable Utilization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 22420
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The scope of the Special Issue is to take care of the global natural resources that are primarily affected by increasing human footprints on the arable land. Natural resource management is the optimal solution to conserve natural and environmental resources to achieve environmental sustainability. The cost of carbon pollution hinders achieving healthcare sustainability while also affecting the flora and fauna of the country. The resource curse hypothesis is mainly evident across different economic settings (see Anser et al. 2020, 2021; Salahuddin et al. 2020, Dogan et al. 2020, Yasmeen et al. 2021). The important aspect of ecological footprints in natural resource management is a new policy concept that can be utilized for the resource conservation agenda. The structural shift from the agriculture sector to the industrial sector increases the country’s economic growth at the cost of carbon pollution and natural resource depletion. Hence, it is highly needed to improve sustainable consumption and production behavior to achieve clean and green economies. The call for this Special Issue is designed to fill the existing literature gap by evaluating the nexus between ecological footprints and resource conservation agenda, which is essential for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The issue includes but is not limited to the following key themes:
- Ecological footprints and natural resource management;
- Carbon emissions and environmental sustainability agenda;
- Green development;
- Sustainable production and consumption of natural resources;
- Natural resource extraction and green growth;
- Resource curse hypothesis and governance reforms;
- Ecological resources and economic development;
- Natural resources and sustainable development agenda;
- Arable land and resource degradation, and;
- Industrialization and natural resource rents.
References
Anser, M. K., Yousaf, Z., Zaman, K., Nassani, A. A., Alotaibi, S. M., Jambari, H., ... & Kabbani, A. (2020). Determination of resource curse hypothesis in mediation of financial development and clean energy sources: go-for-green resource policies. Resources Policy, 66, 101640.
Dogan, E., Altinoz, B., & Tzeremes, P. (2020). The analysis of ‘Financial Resource Curse’hypothesis for developed countries: Evidence from asymmetric effects with quantile regression. Resources Policy, 68, 101773.
Yasmeen, H., Tan, Q., Zameer, H., Vo, X. V., & Shahbaz, M. (2021). Discovering the relationship between natural resources, energy consumption, gross capital formation with economic growth: Can lower financial openness change the curse into blessing. Resources Policy, 71, 102013.
Anser, M. K., Khan, M. A., Zaman, K., Nassani, A. A., Askar, S. E., Abro, M. M. Q., & Kabbani, A. (2021). Financial development, oil resources, and environmental degradation in pandemic recession: to go down in flames. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15067-y
Salahuddin, M., Habib, M. A., Al-Mulali, U., Ozturk, I., Marshall, M., & Ali, M. I. (2020). Renewable energy and environmental quality: A second-generation panel evidence from the Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. Environmental research, 191, 110094.
Dr. Khalid Zaman
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ecological footprints
- natural resource management
- carbon pollution
- resource degradation
- GHG emissions
- resource curse hypothesis
