The Role of Economic Activities, Governance, Energy, and Environmental Economy to Achieve Sustainable Economic Growth

This Special Issue of Sustainability aims to reflect on the current role that energy transition and environmental emergencies to attain sustainable economic growth, mainly through the nexus among energy, environment and economic growth. Without discarding this main objective, this Special Issue also aims to highlights the impacts of energy efficiency and environmental friendly policies not only on sustainable economic growth, but also to extend its consequences on social, health and sustainability issues. Lastly, as proved through number of empirical studies that industrialization, urbanization and nonrenewable energy are essential for economic growth, but at the cost of environmental degradation. However, this Special Issue gathers the new evidences to eliminate the environmental externalities through shift in energy mix, industrial waste treatment activities, urban relocations planning to achieve green environment goals, as well as to attain sustainable economic growth. Therefore, the Special Issue aims to invite the contributions which address the structure of indicators of sustainability, such as sustainable development goals (SDGs) related indicators, energy reforms, ecological footprint, sustainable welfare and quality of life. Additionally, the Special Issue focus on two critical issues covered by the papers are governance and management control issues in social and environmental perspectives; the role of organizations and universities to promote sustainable innovations will also be included.