Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Sustainability: Announcements

Call for Papers: Call for Papers

Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:31:07 -0500

The Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Sustainability

Call for papers for the Special Issue on “Sustainable Development Goals and Practices towards Future Cities”

Submission deadline 20^th of March, 2021

Special Issue Editor: Prof. B. Aysegul Ozbakir / Yildiz Technical University / aozbakir@yildiz.edu.tr

We would like to invite you to publish in the second issue of the Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Sustainability (JMRS). The Journal aims to promote sustainability across a wide range of disciplines. This special issue will be dedicated to the “Sustainability Development Goals and Practices towards Future Cities”.

On 1 January 2016, the global community has started marking its path to 2030, the target year for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that Member States of the United Nations (UN) adopted in September 2015(UN,n.d.). All partners – governments at all levels, academia, civil society, private sector, development agencies – have already defined SDGs at global and national strategy documents. In parallel with such efforts, urban areas still are the places of conspicuous consumption, rapid population growth with inequality, climate change and natural resource degradation. Consequently, enhancing the lives and prospects of people as well as the whole ecosystem at the local level is at the core of internationally-agreed development goals(UNHABITAT,n.d).

In this context, we would like to invite for our second special issue articles with a research focus on an array of perspectives and knowledge on interventions and approaches that anchor global and national development strategies in distinct realities at the local level with a special reference to the future cities of our universe (GFC,n.d.). Some topics -but not limited to- are as follows:

Operational methods to apply SDGs at local and/or city level
New generation local governance and participation models and/or empirical research
Innovative solutions for climate change and adaptation process at city level
Nature friendly urban design and ecological settlement models for neighbourhoods
Innovative technological solutions and frameworks such as urban analytics/open data platforms/shared community network structures for sustainable communities
Case studies that provide insight into the implementation and operationalization of SDGs at city and neighbourhood levels from different perspectives such as design thinking, political and financial domains.

Submission process

Papers should be submitted online using the JMRS paper submission system. Papers should comply with the JMRS submission guidelines (http://jmrs.org.uk/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions). No late submissions will be accepted. Papers will be double blind peer reviewed.

References

GFC( n.d) Global Future Cities Programme [online] Available at: https://www.globalfuturecities.org/global-future-cities-programme

UN(n.d) The 17 goals [online] Available at: https://sdgs.un.org/goals

UNHABITAT(n.d) Planning and Design [online] Available at: https://unhabitat.org/topic/planning-and-design

Extension of deadline for submission

Tue, 31 Jan 2017 16:47:46 -0500

The submission deadline for the first issue of the Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Sustainability has been extended to 28th February 2017.

We look forward receiving your submissions on the following themes:

• New economic and financial methods to limit the consumption of nonrenewable natural resources

• New energy production and consumption models

• New cyclical models of recycling of industrial waste

• Nature friendly architectural design and ecological settlement models

• Analysis of technical and legal regulations for the protection of international-national natural boundaries

• New conservation and mitigation models

• New technological solutions for green urbanism

• Similar multidisciplinary subject areas

• Case studies that provide insight into the implementation of international and national projects.

Papers should be submitted online using the JMRS paper submission system. (http://jmrs.org.uk/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions).

Please do not hesitate to contact our guest editors for your queries on the issue. You can find their contact details on our website: http://jmrs.org.uk/index

Call for Papers: First Issue on Ecological Planning and Sustainability

Mon, 31 Oct 2016 09:08:32 -0400

The Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Sustainability

Call for Papers for the Honorary Issue on

Ecological Planning and Sustainability

Submission Deadline: January 31^st, 2017

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Dietwald Gruehn / TU Dortmund University / dietwald.gruehn@tu-dortmund.de

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aysegul Ozbakir / Yildiz Technical University / aozbakir@yildiz.edu.tr

We would like to invite you to publish in the first issue of the Journal of Multidisciplinary Research in Sustainability (JMRS). The Journal aims to promote sustainability across a wide range of disciplines. Each issue will be dedicated to the sustainability dimension of a single discipline. The topic of the first issue has been chosen as “Ecological Planning and Sustainability”.

Conspicuous consumption is one of the most important problems of the 21^st century, augmented by the rapid population growth. Consumption of non-renewable natural resources generates extensive air, water and soil pollution due to industrial emissions and therefore results in large scale ecological crises.

Such outcomes have driven the research into the models of adoption of an eco-centric awareness and ethics.

A sustainability agenda indicates that the only survival path for humanity is to seek new paradigms and policies based on a balanced ecological and economic ethics.

In this context, we would like to invite for our first issue articles with a research focus on:

New economic and financial methods to limit the consumption of non-renewable natural resources
New energy production and consumption models
New cyclical models of recycling of industrial waste
Nature friendly architectural design and ecological settlement models
Analysis of technical and legal regulations for the protection of international-national natural boundaries
New conservation and mitigation models
New technological solutions for green urbanism
Similar multidisciplinary subject areas
Case studies that provide insight into the implementation of international and national projects.

Submission process

Papers should be submitted online using the JMRS paper submission system.

Papers should comply with the JMRS submission guidelines (http://jmrs.org.uk/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions). No late submissions will be accepted. Papers will be double blind peer reviewed.