Call for contributions: "Intelligent Rural Areas—Novel Solutions for Sustainability and Livability"

This Special Issue will focus on how the future of rural areas depends on the way in which local and regional actors are able to embrace new opportunities with a focus on sustainability. We address a wide range of approaches for exploring and addressing these questions, including case studies all over the world encompassing both quantitative and qualitative empirical research as well as original theoretical contributions. We think you could make an excellent contribution, based on your expertise.

For further reading, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/Intelligent_Rural_Areas

The submission deadline is 15 September 2020. You may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (sustainability[at]mdpi.com or crystal.cheng[at]mdpi.com).

Sustainability is fully open access. Open access (unlimited and free access by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their institutes. Article Processing Charges of CHF 1800

(APC) apply to accepted papers.

For further details on the submission process, please see the instructions for authors at the journal website (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/instructions).