Special Issue — Green Economic Growth and Energy Consumption
Deadline of submission 30 September 2023.
About this Special Issue
In 1989, Perce et al. (1989) first introduced the term "green economy" to refer to the need to couple economic growth to available natural resources. Recently, the most relevant world organizations are making important efforts to highlight the need to move towards more environmentally friendly economic models, to preserve nature and curb the rise in temperatures caused by climate change. This momentum is resulting in the adoption of concrete commitments by most of the world's countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the aim of achieving climate neutrality. Therefore, government departments, enterprises, and scholars have been interested in understanding how to simultaneously promote the economic growth and the environmental protection (Lee et al. 2022). To achieve these commitments and decarbonize the economy, changing the energy mix and adopting energy measures is particularly important, as energy production and consumption are responsible for most of the harmful emissions. Promoting the use of renewable energies, moving towards more electric economic systems and seeking alternatives that allow the generation of heat and non-polluting fuels are among the measures recently implemented to achieve the proposed objectives.

The objective of this Special Issue is to assess the progress that is being made in the field of energy in order to achieve sustainable economic growth at the global, regional or national level, and the difficulties that arise in this process. The analysis of how the processes of promoting renewable energies, electrification and the use of alternative fuels, at a global or sectoral level, are enabling a more sustainable economic growth are especially welcome. But also, analyses that focus on providing the difficulties of certain sectors/economic activities to undertake or continue on the path towards the zero emissions target are also interesting, in order to better understand the relationship between energy consumption needed to generate production and carbon neutral economic growth.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

  • Economic growth and renewable energies
  • Effects and limits of the use of renewable energies
  • Economic growth and electrification. Limits of electrification
  • Fossil energy intensive economic sectors 
  • Energy related factors influencing the green economic growth
  • Relationship between economic growth and energy consumption: energy demand and energy production functions
  • Energy mix: global, regional and national changes
  • Policies and measures to change the energy mix

References
  • Pearce, D., Markandya, A., & Barbier, E. B. (1989). Blueprint for a green economy. Earthscan, London.
  • Lee, C.-C., Zeng, M., & Wang, C. (2022). Environmental regulation, innovation capability, and green total factor productivity: new evidence from China. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29, 39384–39399. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-18388-0
Special Issue Editors
María del P. Pablo-Romero
María del P. Pablo-Romero
Department of Economic Analysis and Political Economy, Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences, Universidad de Sevilla, 41018 Sevilla, Spain
Research Keywords: economic growth; energy economics; renewable energy; sustainable economy transition
Antonio Sánchez-Braza
Antonio Sánchez-Braza
Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, 41018, Spain
Research Keywords: economic growth; energy economics; renewable energy; sustainable energy transition
Javier Sánchez-Rivas
Javier Sánchez-Rivas
Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, 41018, Spain
Research Keywords: energy economics; tourism; sustainable cultural heritage
Submission Information
All the manuscripts submitted to this Special Issue must be within both the scope of this Special Issue and the journal.
Manuscripts should be submitted online (Click here to submit, registration and login required). All the manuscripts will undergo a rigorous single-blind peer-review process.
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Article    2 May 2023
Floros Flouros
This article is part of the Special Issue Green Economic Growth and Energy Consumption.
Highlights of Sustainability  Volume 2 (2023), Issue 2, pp. 62–74
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Article    2 May 2023
Floros Flouros
Sustainability and conditions that support a country to achieve its strategic goals are usually considered a critical priority for the international community. This paper examines the case of Greece, a country that was called upon to Sustainability and conditions that support a country to achieve its strategic goals are usually considered a critical priority for the international community. This paper examines the case of Greece, a country that was called upon to face successive crises during the last dec-ades which in almost all cases posed serious risks to the security of the country and its citizens. In crisis events that Greece faced lately, these were imported from abroad and they affected all levels of society: the global financial crisis that started in the US in 2008, the pandemic crisis that first appeared in China in late 2019, and finally the energy crisis that intensified from the beginning of 2020. Greece has tried to respond with internal balancing strategies at home with a series of measures and actions, while at the same time acting with external balancing strategies, as a member of the EU and the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO). The country has tried to deal with the successive crises having a positive result so far, but at a heavy price that has negatively affected the country’s development, often causing setbacks and delays in many areas of the economy, environment, and social life. As a result, the Greek economic crisis followed which affected all aspects of the social life in the country, making worse the economic parameters, affecting the relationship between the citizens and the state, and putting the normality of life into question. There are several studies published during the last years highlighting various aspects of the Greek economic crisis that provided specific answers regarding the main causes of the eruption of the Greek economic crisis as well as the proposals to deal with it. The purpose of this study is to highlight the impact of successive crises, which are due to both exogenous and endogenous factors, and that Greece has recently faced and identified the main effects on the Greek economy and its sustainability. The analysis adopts the time series of crises: economic, pandemic, and energy. or Access Full Article
This article is part of the Special Issue Green Economic Growth and Energy Consumption.
Highlights of Sustainability  Volume 2 (2023), Issue 2, pp. 62–74
110 Views39 Downloads
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