STRATI Journal of Sustainable Development

STRATI Journal of Sustainable Development is an interdisciplinary, peer reviewed, international journal covering policy and decision-making relating to sustainable development in the broadest sense. Uniquely, its specific aim is to strengthen sustainable development research focusing on integration of interdisciplinary input in planning, designing, and evaluation and enhancing the competence in sustainable policy analysis. The focus of the STRATI Journal of Sustainable Development is on the three pillars of sustainable development: inter-linkages, intergenerational equity, and dynamic efficiency.

STRATI Journal of Sustainable Development welcomes the research papers in the areas of human activity and resource use and human needs, the carrying capacity of natural systems, the social challenges facing humanity, environmental sustainability, economic sustainability, and socio-political-cultural sustainability. The paper should focus on inter-linkages between economic development, environmental degradation, and population pressure, linkage between the economy and the environment, environmental valuation, intergenerational equity, climate change economics, renewable and non-renewable resources, and efficient policies and human welfare.

The journal aims to provide a forum for imaginative and creative thinking around the theoretical and empirical foundations of sustainable development research. The contribution to the STRATI Journal of Sustainable Development should also focus on interactions, management and complementarities among natural capital, social capital and economic capital, sustainable agriculture, agro-forestry, land management, ecological and economic interactions, sustainable resource use and management, sustainable living and sustainable yield, etc.

The contribution to the STRATI Journal of Sustainable Development should broadly focus on following themes (but are not restricted to):

Broader Themes

1. Sustainable development, society, economy, and environment
2. Sustainable development and human prosperity
3. Reducing poverty, ensuring equality, and eliminating hunger
4. Mitigating climate change, managing resources, and protecting environment
5. Effective implementation of policies and sustainable development
6. Multi-faced vulnerability and sustainable living
7. Sustainable development, healthcare, education, and social protection
8. Regional and global value chains and international production networks
9. Tourism, financial markets, energy resources, and environmental protection
10. Sustainable living and rebuilding in a more sustainable and equitable way of life
11. Role of multiple policies and achieving sustainable development
12. Challenges and opportunities to policy makers to achieve sustainable development
13. Societal transformation for sustainability
14. Contribution to the survival and prosperity of humanity
15. Critical thinking skills and rebuilding more resilient systems
16. Addressing social and economic vulnerabilities
17. Achieve sustainable recovery, integrated policies and charting a robust roadmap
18. Sustainable development and comparative performance of countries
19. National, regional and global efforts to achieve sustainable development
20. Multilateral cooperation to achieve sustainable development
21. Contemporary geopolitical crises and sustainable development
22. Trade wars between China and the United States
23. Russia-Ukraine war and intimidated food and energy security
24. International cooperation to foster sustainable development
25. Financing economic recovery and achieving the SDGs
26. Sustainable development and regional and global cooperation

Sub-Themes

I. Challenges of Inclusive Growth

1. Recent growth trajectory and future prospects
2. Drivers of future economic transformation
3. Addressing multiple risks and challenges
4. Inclusion and reducing inequalities
5. Education and human capital development
6. Youth and demographic dividend
7. Increasing access to quality infrastructure services
8. Addressing urban inequality
9. Rural development and agriculture
10. Gender and inclusive growth
11. Digital economy and inclusion
12. Financial economy and inclusion

II. Financial Transformation

1. Financial assets, banking sector, equity and bond markets
2. Transforming the financial systems
3. Averting future financial crisis and recession
4. Development of indigenous financial model
5. Avoiding overreliance on self-regulation by markets
6. Central government control of banking and financial systems
7. Institutional innovation for financial transformation
8. Development of novel financial instruments
9. Digital financial development and currencies
10. Enabling environment for financing massive infrastructure
11. Public-private partnerships and public financial markets
12. Regional financial integration

III. Managing Substantial Urbanization

1. Urban transformation and development
2. Urbanization, higher education, and technological innovation
3. Urban buildings and transportation
4. Energy consumption and carbon emissions
5. Quality and efficiency of urban centers
6. Energy-efficient, safe and livable cities
7. Urbanization and reliance on mass transit
8. Urban risks linked to inequality, slums and social breakdown
9. Urban financing and management
10. Long-term urban planning and vision
11. Urban governance and decentralization
12. Urban local governments and accountability
13. Market financing of urban capital investments

IV. Tackling Energy Intensity and Natural Resource Use

1. Reducing excessive reliance on energy imports
2. Energy efficiency and diversification programs
3. Eliminating energy subsidies
4. Switching from fossil fuels to renewable energy
5. Water resilience and land sustainability for food security
6. Technological breakthroughs and food consumption patterns
7. Synergy between energy efficiency and total factor productivity growth
8. Improving the efficiency of natural resource use
9. Low carbon economy and carbon neutral future

V. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technological Development

1. Harnessing technology, innovation and entrepreneurship
2. Frontier entrepreneurship and innovation
3. Breakthroughs in science and technology
4. Frugal innovation to meet the needs of poor
5. Novel technologies and future of labor markets
6. Quality education, skills development and entrepreneurship
7. Skilling, upskilling and reskilling the labor force
8. Bolstering the technical and vocational education
9. Future of educational digitalization
10. Novel business development models

VI. Governance and Institutions

1. Good governance and transformation of institutions
2. Improving quality and credibility of institutions
3. Tackling rising corruption
4. Stronger institutions for sustained economic growth
5. Compatible institutions for urbanization and sound financial sector
6. Effective governance for fostering entrepreneurship and innovation
7. Transparency, accountability and enforceability of institutions

VII. Switching from Growth to Welfare

1. Novel policies to promote broader social well-being
2. Achieving self-satisfaction and happiness
3. Improving women and child welfare
4. Welfare of the ageing society
5. Welfare of the disadvantaged social groups
6. Social inclusion, social cohesion and political stability
7. Personal satisfaction and harmony with nature

VIII. Priorities for States

1. Increasing growth performance of laggard states
2. Promoting faster and more inclusive growth
3. Reducing inequalities through better education for all
4. Infrastructure development and transformation of institutions
5. Developing business environment and openness for trade promotion
6. Reducing inequalities in fast growing states
7. Skills development of existing and future labor force
8. Developing credible and predictable institutions

IX. Interstate Cooperation and Economic Integration

1. New vision to transform financial systems
2. Promoting stability and minimizing volatility in the markets
3. Addressing challenges of rapid urbanization
4. Improving efficiency of energy use and natural resources
5. Promote innovation and entrepreneurship
6. Enhancing productivity and competitiveness
7. Reducing vulnerabilities to external shocks
8. Stability of financial system
9. Addressing climate change, and peace and security
10. Promoting trade and investments
11. Interstate labor mobility across states
12. Reducing interstate disparities in income and opportunities
13. Collaboration in technological development and energy security
14. Facilitating free interstate trade and investment flows

X. Sustainable Development and Economic Recovery

1. Cross-country and regional comparative performance of sustainable development
2. Regional cooperation and integration in addressing the economic crisis
3. Integrated policies in achieving sustainable development
4. Policies and sustainable development

XI. Political Crises, Sustainable Development and Regional and International Cooperation

1. Regional and global synergies for economic recovery
2. Multilateral and global partnerships to improve aid funding for sustainable development
3. Regional and international support for economic recovery and development
4. Regional and global economic cooperation and technological innovation
5. Regional economic collaboration and partnerships to support supply chains resilience
6. Regional cooperation in sustainable trade and investment
7. South-South and regional cooperation in financial technology
8. Development of regional digital markets
9. Regional cooperation in transport connectivity and trade promotion
10. Regional integration for resilience and green economic recovery
11. Monetary and financial coordination for economic recovery and sustainable development

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