Editorial: Wind and solar energy sources: Policy, economics, and impacts on environmental quality

The world continues to experience significant environmental issues such as global warming, air pollution, water-sea pollution, and deforestation as well as associated health, social, and economic problems due to environmental problems. In the face of these threats, solutions have been discussed intensively since the 1990s on various national and international platforms and summits such as the COP21 Summit in Paris (1997), the Kyoto Protocol (1997), and the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit (1992). The summits point to two main outcomes: (i) the inevitability of catastrophic climate change and global warming, and (ii) the need for governments to enact contingency plans to prevent environmental degradation and increase environmental quality. The outcomes were mainly to recommend that authorities implement public-government regulations that can be effective, i.e., in the reduction of CO2 emissions to increase the environmental quality. This Research Topic aims to analyze the potential positive or negative contributions of wind/energy sources to environmental quality. This Research Topic brings together 7 relevant articles fundamentally fulfilling the research aims. The papers written by the authors belong to different disciplinary sectors. Specifically, the papers probe the research from various geographical places, such as China, Canada, India, Malaysia, and Oman. The first article Avotra et al. has the objective to find out the significant relationship between CSR and green construction and sustainable development. The data has been collected from 319 respondents working on different projects in the construction industry OPEN ACCESS