Sustainability Pathways at the Intersection of Law, Digital Transformation, and Territorial Development

Larbi SAFAA is full Professor at Cadi Ayyad University, Pr. Larbi SAFAA holds a PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Angers (France, 2012). His academic and research career has been guided by a strong commitment to the management of sustainable development, with a particular focus on tourism as a field of application and transformation. Over the years, he has developed a multidisciplinary research agenda that explores the dynamics of supply and demand in tourism destinations and organizations, addressing key themes such as sustainable tourism, creative tourism, and organizational performance. Currently, he chairs the Resilience Center for Tourism Researchers and Experts, an initiative fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange across disciplines. He is also the founder and president of the Marrakech International Conference on Tourism Research (MICTR) and the International Congress on Innovative Territories (CITI), two flagship events designed to advance scientific dialogue and innovation in tourism and territorial studies.Walter Leal Filho is a distinguished "Euro-Professor", holding professorial posts at Universities in Germany (Chair of Climate Change Management at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences), United Kingdom (Manchester Manchester Metropolitan University), Sweden (University of Uppsala) and Poland (Merito University). He has two main research interests. The first is in the field of sustainable development, where he holds a world record of publications. The second is climate change, to which he has been providing a key contribution to the literature, also including aspects of climate change and health.Dalia Perkumienė is associate professor at the Faculty of Bioeconomy Development, Agriculture Academy, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. At the University of Ghent (Belgium), he defended a doctoral thesis in law in the field of private international law in 2014. She also gave lectures under ERASMUS, later ERASMUS+ teacher exchange programs at various universities around the world: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, France, Hungary, Colombia, Peru, United Arab Emirates, China, Morocco, etc. A member of several scientific societies: the Nordic Environmental Law Society NELN (Nordic environmental law), GIDEPA Grupo de Investigación de Estudios del Derecho de España, Portugal y América Latina. Maria Alzira Pimenta Dinis, Habilitation, PhD, MSc is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal. Graduated in Metallurgical Engineering (1992) and Master Science in Materials Engineering (1995) at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal. PhD in Earth Sciences (2010) and Habilitation in Ecology and Environmental Health (2023) at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal. Co-Coordinator of the Earth Sciences doctoral program. Researcher at Fernando Pessoa Research, Innovation and Development Institute (FP-I3ID) and Centro de Ciências do Mar e do Ambiente/Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE), University of Coimbra in environment-related topics. Experienced author, editor and reviewer. Sustainability expertise.

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