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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">The open access journal Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050, IF 2.576) is pleased to announce that we have launched a new
 Special Issue entitled "Geospatial Technologies and Geographical Information Systems for Sustainable Development."
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Given the depth of your expertise in this field, I would like to cordially invite you to contribute an article to the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Papers may be submitted from now until 31 August 2021 as papers will be published on an ongoing basis.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (<a href="mailto:aria.hou@mdpi.com" target="_blank"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">aria.hou@mdpi.com</span></a>).
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">In the hope that this invitation receives your favourable consideration, we look forward to our future collaboration.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span class="d2edcug0"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505">Devanjan Bhattacharya, </span></b></span><span class="d2edcug0"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"inherit",serif;color:#050505"><a href="mailto:d.bhattacharya@ed.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">d.bhattacharya@ed.ac.uk</span></a>, <b>Kriti
 Mukherjee </b><a href="mailto:kriti.mukherjee@unbc.ca" target="_blank"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">kriti.mukherjee@unbc.ca</span></a> <b>Atanu Bhattacharya </b><a href="mailto:atanu.bhattacharya@jisuniversity.ac.in" target="_blank"><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">atanu.bhattacharya@jisuniversity.ac.in</span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif;color:#050505"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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