The planet faces a strong degradation of ecosystems due to factors such as global climate change, over-exploitation, and transformation of land use, among others. Society’s survival depends on the sustainability of natural resources that are the basis of ecosystemic service flows, which are currently sustaining human wellbeing. The field of economics studies the process of resource management, the production of goods and services, wealth creation and distribution, etc. Researchers in this discipline are therefore called upon to make contributions to the sustainability of natural resources. The topic of this Special Issue embraces all natural resources—water, earth, minerals, metals, etc.—as well as different types of ecosystems such as those present in agriculture, forests, or rivers. This Special Issue of Sustainability is open to studies embracing a varied range of themes related to environmental economics, education for sustainability, and the construction of resilient societies. The main objective of this Special Issue is to include all questions related to the economy and the sustainability of natural resources. Therefore, works on education devoted to creating more responsible and conscious generations or those analyzing taxation, urban planification, and energetic transition are welcome. Publications addressing the achievement of sustainable development, legal measures to mitigate environmental impacts, sustainable management practices, circularity processes in value chains, or necessary methodology changes to face the challenge of natural resource sustainability from an economic point of view are also of interest.
Keywords: environment and citizenship; education in sustainability; environmental economics; waste management; circular economy; sustainable development; sustainable energy; environmental taxation.