Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy is an open access journal that publishes research about environmental challenges and sustainability transformations of societal systems.
Papers published in SSPP recognize that global climate change and other socio-environmental challenges require system-scale reinvention to ensure universally sufficient availability of energy, mobility, housing, and food. This undertaking calls for the development of new production methods, business models, distributional logistics, consumer routines, and lifestyles. The journal encourages contributions that support these objectives while simultaneously striving to enhance global justice, to reduce unequal access to resources, and to enable all people on the planet to lead flourishing lives. The aim is to formulate novel scientific and political perspectives and to foster transdisciplinary engagement and associated forms of social change involving researchers, policy makers, civic entrepreneurs, and others.
Themes/challenges that we encourage authors to address include:
- Evaluations of social experimentation to identify pathways for sustainability transformations of large-scale systems based on cooperativism, mutuality, interdependence, and solidarity.
- Speculative considerations of the future of work, consumption, leisure, housing, and mobility that highlight emerging demonstrations of, and accelerate transitions toward, more sustainable lifestyles.
- Scenario exercises that envisage alternative modes of social organization and anticipate ecologically secure and globally equitable futures.
- Analyses premised on post-growth economics, alternative indicators of individual and societal well-being, and inclusive and sufficient prosperity.
Contributions should:
- Open up original theoretical and empirical lines of inquiry on initiatives to activate and accelerate sustainable system innovations.
- Demonstrate socially affirming and ecologically beneficial outcomes that empower individuals and organizations and facilitate social learning.
Peer Review
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. The journal operates a double anonymized peer review policy.
Manuscript Types Considered
- Research articles
- Brief reports
- Reviews
- Short or rapid communications
All articles will be made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication.
Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
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