Aim & Scope

Aim

Environmental Sustainability and Development provides a peer-reviewed venue for environmental sustainability and development. The journal is intended for environmental scientists, sustainability researchers, development scholars, and policy practitioners. Its editorial goal is to publish articles that make the research question, method, evidence, and limitations visible enough for readers to evaluate and reuse.

Core Scope

The journal considers manuscripts in the following areas:

• Original studies in sustainable development with transparent assumptions and evaluable evidence.
• Research on climate adaptation that explains methods, data, and interpretation limits.
• Applied work involving environmental governance where practical relevance is supported by analysis rather than assertion.
• Interdisciplinary work connecting resource systems to adjacent scientific, engineering, health, environmental, social, or policy questions.

Article Types Considered

The journal may consider field studies, modelling papers, policy analyses, geospatial studies, intervention evaluations, and reviews. Article type should be selected according to the main contribution, not according to desired length or perceived prestige.

Method and Evidence Expectations

For this field, manuscripts should pay particular attention to:

• site description
• data provenance
• environmental measurement
• model assumptions
• development and policy context

Out of Scope

The journal does not consider manuscripts that are purely promotional, lack a research question, duplicate previously published work, make unsupported clinical or policy claims, present unverifiable results, or fall outside environmental sustainability and development. Manuscripts that are technically sound but do not fit the journal's subject identity may be returned before peer review.

Editorial Standard

The journal does not require spectacular novelty. It requires a clear contribution, appropriate citations, transparent methods, relevant ethical approvals where needed, and a limitations section. Reviewers and editors should ask whether the work is trustworthy and useful for its intended readership.