Sustainable Development Goals: A Pragmatic Approach

Sustainable by passion and deliberate choice, not mere interest, pragmatic sustainability is a model of sustainability that contemplates the three dimensions of environmental, economic, and social factors and does not stop at announcing this concept but ensures that it is implemented in practice and is made concrete after providing analyses that support it. Pragmatic sustainability is based on the concept of altruism, just as the morning sentinels baptized by St. John Paul II defended "life at every moment of its earthly development" to make it "ever more habitable for all". We need PEACE. Not coincidentally, the research project inspiring this Special Issue is titled PEACE (Protecting the Environment: Advances in Circular Economy) and is funded by the Ministry of University and Research under the PRIN initiative, which involves Sapienza University of Rome, University of L'Aquila, University of Ferrara, Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome, and Tor Vergata University of Rome. This Special Issue, "Sustainable Development Goals: A Pragmatic Approach", contains one editorial, nineteen articles, four reviews, and one systematic review with international authors. All papers are highly innovative and support sustainable development goals.