Abstract submissions due: 30 March, 2021

Manuscripts due: 31 May, 2021

The notion of Sustainable Development has been been coined more than thirty years ago to become a dominating concept in many scientific fields and practical applications.

However, the economic, social and environmental circumstances characterising the 1980's and early 1990's have changed considerably in many different ways. Shifts in demographics and the polarization evident in many societies; the impacts of rapid technological innovation including the digitisation of the economy; the shifting centres of economic power and the spread of new business models, as well as resulting changes in lifestyles are just a few trends, which influence both how we work and how we live our everyday lives.

While new solutions have been developed to many sustainability related issues, many problems still persist and are joined by new problems, which have not been foreseen 30 years ago.

The urgency of the need to understand how these changes interact with a need for a more sustainable society has been emphasized by the UN Environment's sixth Global Environment Outlook (GEO)¹¹ https://www.unenvironment.org/global-environment-outlook
. The report published in Spring, 2019 concluded that recent, unsustainable production and consumption patterns and inequality, combined with increases in the use of resources lead to the deterioration of our Planet's health at unprecedented rates, which has serious consequences, in particular for poorer people and regions.

The report warns that “the world is not on track to achieve the environmental dimension of the Sustainable Development Goals or other internationally agreed environmental goals by 2030; nor is it on track to deliver long‐term sustainability by 2050” (GEO 6 key messages).

On the one hand, incremental change (e.g. the gradual improvement of resource efficiency) has serious limitations such as the time required to achieve significant results and the several types of rebound effects resulting from an increase in population and individual consumption. On the other hand, our understanding of the sustainability implications of current systemic changes in our transforming societies is very limited.

Thus, urgency to take action combined with the large scale societal changes call for new solutions in every sphere of our societies. To this end, we invite contributions, which either explore the sustainability implications of systemic changes in our societies and/or provide solutions to these challenges. We seek theoretical and empirical papers which may address but need not be limited to the following issues:

• What are the most important changes in transforming societies all over the world and what kind of social and environmental problems do they cause? How do they effect the implementation of Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals?
• What are the limitations of tools currently available to address these problems?
• What kind of new solutions are emerging and what are our experiences with them?
• How do current tendencies influence our understanding of the notion of Sustainable Development?
• What can be learned from sustainable or unsustainable practices in transforming societies?

All manuscripts submitted to the Special Issue will be peer‐reviewed. The Co‐Editors will be responsible for selecting papers for the Special Issue after the peer review process is concluded. For pre‐submission queries, prospective contributors are encouraged to contact the corresponding special issue Co‐Editors. While preparing the manuscript, authors are strongly recommended to follow the best practices of systematic reviews and meta‐analyses (e.g., Cooper, 2017; Cooper, Hedges, & Valentine, 2019; Higgins et al., 2019; Ringquist, 2013).

Submission Instructions:

Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 March, 2021 at e‐mail address: isdrs2020specialissue@isdrs.org

Abstracts (not exceeding 500 words) and Covering letters should be submitted for consideration by e‐mail to the Co‐Editors: isdrs2020specialissue@isdrs.org

Deadline for Submission of First Manuscript: 30 May, 2021 at e‐mail address: isdrs2020specialissue@isdrs.org

Please do not submit to the Special issue unless invited by the Co‐Editors.

Special Issue Authors should answer “Yes” when prompted at Step 1.

For further help with submissions, please contact: isdrs2020specialissue@isdrs.org.

中文翻译：

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可持续发展邀请就“转型社会的可持续性”专题发表意见

摘要提交期限：2021年3月30日

到期的稿件：2021年5月31日

可持续发展的概念是三十多年前提出的，已成为许多科学领域和实际应用中的主导概念。

但是，1980年代和1990年代初期的经济，社会和环境状况已经以许多不同的方式发生了很大的变化。在许多社会中，人口结构的变化和两极分化是显而易见的；快速技术创新的影响，包括经济数字化；经济力量的转移，新商业模式的传播以及随之而来的生活方式的改变，只是一些趋势，既影响我们的工作方式，也影响我们的日常生活。

尽管已经针对许多与可持续性相关的问题开发了新的解决方案，但是许多问题仍然存在，并且伴随着新的问题，而这是30年前所未曾想到的。

联合国环境署第六届《全球环境展望》（GEO）¹强调了迫切需要了解这些变化如何与更可持续的社会互动。¹ https://www.unenvironment.org/global-environment-outlook
。该报告于2019年春季发布，得出结论认为，近期，不可持续的生产和消费方式以及不平等现象，再加上资源利用的增加，导致地球的健康状况以空前的速度恶化，这对人类特别是贫困人口和贫困人口造成了严重后果。地区。

报告警告说：“到2030年，世界无法实现可持续发展目标或其他国际商定的环境目标的环境影响；到2050年也不能实现长期可持续性”（GEO 6关键信息）。

一方面，增量变化（例如资源效率的逐步提高）具有严重的局限性，例如取得显著成果所需的时间以及人口和个人消费增加所导致的几种反弹效应。另一方面，我们对转型社会中当前系统变化的可持续性含义的理解非常有限。

因此，迫切需要采取行动并与大规模的社会变革相结合，要求在我们社会的每个领域提出新的解决方案。为此，我们邀请做出贡献，这些贡献要么探索我们社会中系统变化的可持续性影响，要么为这些挑战提供解决方案。我们寻求可以解决但不限于以下问题的理论和经验论文：

• 在全世界转型的社会中，最重要的变化是什么？它们引起什么样的社会和环境问题？它们如何影响可持续发展和可持续发展目标的实施？
• 当前可用于解决这些问题的工具有哪些局限性？
• 什么样的新解决方案正在出现，我们在这些解决方案方面的经验是什么？
• 当前的趋势如何影响我们对可持续发展概念的理解？
• 从社会转型中的可持续或不可持续实践中可以学到什么？

提交给特刊的所有手稿都将经过同行评审。在同行评审过程结束后，共同编辑将负责选择专刊的论文。对于提交前的查询，建议潜在的撰稿人联系相应的特殊发行共同编辑。在准备手稿时，强烈建议作者遵循系统评价和荟萃分析的最佳做法（例如，Cooper，2017年； Cooper，Hedges和Valentine，2019年； Higgins等人，2019年； Ringquist，2013年）。

提交说明：

摘要提交截止日期：2021年3月30日，电子邮件地址：isdrs2020specialissue@isdrs.org

摘要（不超过500个字）和求职信应通过电子邮件发送给共同编辑，以供考虑：isdrs2020specialissue@isdrs.org

提交第一稿的截止日期：2021年5月30日，电子邮件地址：isdrs2020specialissue@isdrs.org

除非受到共同编辑的邀请，否则请不要提交本期特刊。

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