Building on the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the cornerstone of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, billed by the UN as “An Agenda of unprecedented scope and significance.” The seventeen ambitious goals, which are intended to be reached by 2030, are conceived as integrated, indivisible, and as balancing the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. As a member of the SDGs Publishers Compact, Frontiers is committed to accelerating progress to achieve the goals.
The seventeen SDGs are organized around five core pillars:
• People: ending poverty and hunger and ensuring that all human beings can lead fulfilling lives in a healthy and dignified environment.
• Planet: protecting the environment while ensuring sustainable use and management of natural resources.
• Prosperity: ensuring environmentally sustainable economic growth, mutual prosperity, and decent work for all.
• Peace: building societies that are peaceful, just and inclusive, and in which human rights and gender equality are respected.
• Partnership: strengthening global solidarity to address inequalities within and between countries, by focusing on the needs of the most vulnerable.
This Research Topic will address Sustainable Development Goal 9, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure. The aim of this goal is to ‘build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation’. During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, transport and manufacturing slowed resulting in a reduction in GDP generated by these industries. As economies rebound from the economic crisis triggered by Covid-19, the importance of resilient and sustainable infrastructure and supply chains is as important as ever and, looking towards 2030, it is vital that rising rates of industrialization provide equitable and sustainable levels of development to the world’s poorest.
This Research Topic will address SDG9 from a Sustainable Cities perspective, focusing on the progress towards the goal in urban environments. We welcome multidisciplinary and diverse studies that explore themes including, but not limited to:
• Sustainable infrastructure in cities
• Sustainable industrialization in cities
• Access to financial services for small-scale industries in cities
• Retrofitting and upgrading of infrastructure in cities
• Resource-use efficiency in cities
• Research and development in cities
• Infrastructure funding in developing cities
• Access to technology in cities
Building on the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the cornerstone of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, billed by the UN as “An Agenda of unprecedented scope and significance.” The seventeen ambitious goals, which are intended to be reached by 2030, are conceived as integrated, indivisible, and as balancing the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. As a member of the SDGs Publishers Compact, Frontiers is committed to accelerating progress to achieve the goals.
The seventeen SDGs are organized around five core pillars:
• People: ending poverty and hunger and ensuring that all human beings can lead fulfilling lives in a healthy and dignified environment.
• Planet: protecting the environment while ensuring sustainable use and management of natural resources.
• Prosperity: ensuring environmentally sustainable economic growth, mutual prosperity, and decent work for all.
• Peace: building societies that are peaceful, just and inclusive, and in which human rights and gender equality are respected.
• Partnership: strengthening global solidarity to address inequalities within and between countries, by focusing on the needs of the most vulnerable.
This Research Topic will address Sustainable Development Goal 9, Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure. The aim of this goal is to ‘build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation’. During the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic, transport and manufacturing slowed resulting in a reduction in GDP generated by these industries. As economies rebound from the economic crisis triggered by Covid-19, the importance of resilient and sustainable infrastructure and supply chains is as important as ever and, looking towards 2030, it is vital that rising rates of industrialization provide equitable and sustainable levels of development to the world’s poorest.
This Research Topic will address SDG9 from a Sustainable Cities perspective, focusing on the progress towards the goal in urban environments. We welcome multidisciplinary and diverse studies that explore themes including, but not limited to:
• Sustainable infrastructure in cities
• Sustainable industrialization in cities
• Access to financial services for small-scale industries in cities
• Retrofitting and upgrading of infrastructure in cities
• Resource-use efficiency in cities
• Research and development in cities
• Infrastructure funding in developing cities
• Access to technology in cities