Energy Sustainability, Vulnerability and Resilience

Our society is demanded to deal with increasing ecological, inequality, political and economic concerns. Energy is a key aspect to be addressed when facing sustainability challenges. Undertaking sustainable energy pathways implies considering a number of intertwined problematics, including energy vulnerability and energy resilience. Energy sustainability is also a priority in the current development agenda and countries are required to foster action plans oriented towards cleaner, more sustainable and renewable energy. Households and individuals are also asked to follow energy adaptation and mitigation strategies. Virtuous energy policies will facilitate energy resilience targets, suggesting protection patterns for the most vulnerable socioeconomic groups.

The Topical Collection aims to receive contributions tackling energy sustainability, energy vulnerability and energy resilience aspects, as well as papers related to these subjects. Any of these three topics may be approached. These include:

- Energy sustainability;

- Energy vulnerability;

- Energy resilience;

- Climate change mitigation and adaptation;

- Energy and ecological transition;

- Energy metrics;

- Energy prices analysis;

- Energy policy and regulation.

- Further energy sustainability topics (energy justice, security, poverty, emergy, etc.).

Interdisciplinary, pluralistic and holistic research is encouraged. Research fields include economics, business, management, finance, regulation, policy and history perspectives. Contributions from hard and soft sciences, using any kind of methodological approach will be welcome. We seek to receive research papers, research notes, reviews, perspectives, technical notes and additional types of contributions.

Expressions of interest to contribute to this Topical Collection, initially consisting of 200 words abstract with the title of the paper and the full names and complete contact details of the authors should be sent to Prof. Dr. Andrea Gatto, at: a.gatto@greenwich.ac.uk, with the editorial office DiscoverSustainability@springernature.com cc’d. The details on how to submit, will be shared with the authors. The deadline for submissions of abstracts is 15th January 2023. Full papers are due by 15th April 2023.

The keywords are: Energy; sustainability; resilience; vulnerability; sustainable development; energy policy; environmental policy; energy security; energy indicators; development economics.