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Social-Economic Inequity, Climate Change and Innovation for Sustainable Development

Journal: Current Social Sciences
Guest Editor(s): Dr. Wei Li
Submission closes on: 24th January, 2026

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Introduction

Persistent and extreme social-economic inequity often have political and economic consequences. It has also hindered efforts to cope with climate risks. What are the explanatory factors for the increasing social and economic inequity globally and domestically? These factors often include structural and institutional ones-such as the shift from manufacturing to services, global competition and disorganized labor, the disparity in government fiscal capacity and quality of public service provision, and the mismatch of government regulation with the need to manage risks related to disruptive technology, digital economy, and ecological crisis. The social-economic inequality might also be related to the uneven distribution of harms caused by climate change and eco-environmental deterioration. What are the institutional, social, and technological innovations to facilitate sustainable development?

Keywords

Social-economic inequality, digital economy, climate change, institutional innovation, social innovation, sustainable development

Sub-topics

  • Provide evidence-based and theory-informed explanations for various types of social-economic inequity, and discuss implications for sustainable development.
  • Discuss the impact of social-economic inequity on people’s well-being, political system and economic development, and eco-environment.
  • Investigate the impact of institutional and social innovation that could narrow the global, regional, and local social economic inequity.
  • Identify the relations between social economic inequity and eco-environmental deterioration, and discuss theoretical and practical implications.
  • Critically examine the ideology and norms underlying the policy design that reinforces the social-economic inequity.
  • Construct theories, frameworks, institutional, and social innovation agendas that support sustainable development. 
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