Current Research in Environmental Sustainability

Current Research in Environmental Sustainability is a gold open access (OA) journal, which means articles are permanently and freely available. It is a companion to the highly regarded review journal Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (COSUST) and is part of the Current Opinion and Research (CO+RE) suite of journals. All CO+RE journals leverage the Current Opinion legacy-of editorial excellence, high-impact, and global reach-to ensure they are a widely read resource that is integral to scientists' workflow.

Current Research in Environmental Sustainability publishes new, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on environmental sustainability. This includes focus on a broad range of topics from; the science of complex, self-organizing and adaptive systems to the sustainable management of natural resource systems (for example agriculture, water, biophysical habitats, soils, and climate) to the social conditions and relationships that support and maintain functioning ecosystems and enable human wellbeing. Environmental sustainability thus means understanding, maintaining, and regenerating natural capital, while achieving social and economic goals and values.

Environmental sustainability occupies an increasingly important position on the corporate, NGO, and governmental and community agendas worldwide, we therefore request articles that are technically precise but written in a style that is accessible to informed, interested lay readers from diverse backgrounds. This focus on accessible arguments advances interdisciplinarity and explicitly allows for a flexible integration of natural sciences with the social sciences, humanities, and engineering disciplines and supports the evolving UN's sustainable development goals, enabling clear methodological, quantitative, and systemic reflections.

We consider a number of criteria when assessing a manuscript including:

• Rigorous scientific methodology that outlines a novel contribution to knowledge about environmental sustainability.

• Topic of broad interest that is written for an interdisciplinary audience

• Should focus on a current or emerging trend in environmental sustainability with a indication of how the research is extending our current understanding of the state of science of environmental sustainability.

• Should not be geographically limited, i.e. primarily of interest to a particular jurisdiction or region. These studies may be acceptable if efforts are made to clarify the relevance of the research to a broader audience.