This special issue examines how supply chains can advance sustainable development across Africa by integrating resilience, inclusivity, and digital innovation. The focus encompasses strategies to manage disruptions in volatile environments, approaches to include SMEs and local communities in value chains, and the application of artificial intelligence and data-driven technologies to enhance efficiency and transparency.

The issue welcomes rigorous, peer-reviewed contributions from academics, practitioners, and policymakers addressing digital transformation, risk management, sustainability, and sector-specific applications in healthcare and agribusiness. The goal is to develop equitable, robust supply chain systems that support Africa's sustainable development objectives.

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Potential topics

• Building resilient and risk-responsive supply chains
• Inclusive supply chain models for local economic participation
• Sustainable and green supply chain practices
• Artificial intelligence and digital transformation in African supply chains
• Sector-specific innovations in critical industries

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• January 29, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Senija Causevic, Université Internationale de Rabat

Manuel Alector Ribeiro, University of Surrey

Aaron Yankholmes, Nottingham Trent University

Africa's coastal regions remain significantly underrepresented in global tourism research despite comprising 38 coastal nations with extensive marine biodiversity. The gap reflects both historical legacies of colonialism and contemporary academic inequities, leaving African coastal communities marginalized in planning and governance processes. This special issue seeks contributions that move beyond critique toward co-creating regenerative coastal tourism models grounded in vernacular knowledge and local spatial politics.

Coastal tourism planning currently privileges aesthetic conservation and tourist interests over equitable resource distribution and environmental sustainability, often resulting in economic leakage, spatial exclusion, and increased climate vulnerability for local communities. The special issue invites research on governance frameworks, community-led approaches, and planning instruments that address spatial injustices, strengthen local value chains, and balance competing coastal uses including fisheries, conservation, and port development.

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Potential topics

• Coastal tourism planning and development at the land–sea interface
• Planning instruments for coastal tourism (zoning, development controls, permitting, enforcement, accountability)
• Institutional coordination, planning capacity, and multi-level governance (local–regional–national)
• Data gaps, indicators, and monitoring systems for coastal destination performance and carrying capacity
• Cross-sector trade-offs in port and coastal cities (tourism–ports–fisheries–conservation–urban development)
• Spatial justice in coastal tourism development (land tenure, coastal access, displacement, and enclosure)
• Economic leakage, benefit-sharing, and strengthening local value chains (procurement, SMEs, labour linkages, etc.)
• Investment, public-private partnership, ownership, and concession models (including FDI) and implications for local livelihoods
• Financial planning for regenerative coastal tourism, i.e. public finance, climate finance, carbon markets
• Climate risk, adaptation planning, and resilience for coastal tourism infrastructure, ecosystems, and livelihoods
• Water security, resource pressures, and demand management in coastal and island destinations
• Nature-based solutions and coastal ecosystem restoration linked to tourism development (mangroves, dunes, reefs, etc.)
• Community participation, co-management, and community-led coastal governance innovations
• Indigenous knowledge in tourism planning, monitoring, and coastal management
• Tourism linkages with other sectors, i.e. fisheries, marine agriculture, etc. (livelihoods, resource conflicts, governance responses)
• Coastal and maritime heritage tourism (interpretation, ethics, memory, community partnership, connected heritage landscapes, etc)
• Destination diversification beyond enclave resort models (culture, conservation, science-based tourism, etc.)
• Domestic, diaspora/VFR, and intra-African tourism mobilities and their implications for coastal destination planning
• Relational and comparative research
• Connected-place and relational coastal tourism development across sea basins (Africa–Europe, Western Indian Ocean, Africa–Middle East, Africa-West Indies, etc.)
• Political conflict, power relations, and contested governance in coastal tourism development

Timeline

• July 27, 2026: Publication of special issue call for papers and submission portal opens
• October 1, 2026: Webinar
• September 20, 2027: Submission deadline

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Timeline

• March 31, 2027: Full paper submission deadline