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Journals in Agriculture and environment

  • Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

    • ISSN: 1877-3435
    Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (COSUST) builds on Elsevier's reputation for excellence in scientific publishing and long-standing commitment to communicating high quality reproducible research. Established in 2010, COSUST publishes polished, concise and timely high quality scientific perspectives, supported by reviews and synthesis of empirical evidence, conceptual and theoretical advances, and innovations associated with emerging sustainability topics in recent literature. Expertise - Editors and Editorial Board bring depth and breadth of expertise and experience to the journal.Discoverabil... - Articles get high visibility and maximum exposure on an industry-leading scientific publishing platform that reaches a vast global audience.Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability aims to define the new innovative sustainability science discipline by integrating perspectives from the natural and the social sciences on human-environment interactions and management challenges across regional and global systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability aims to stimulate scientifically grounded, interdisciplinary, synthesis and exchange of ideas. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability thus emphasizes interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary sustainability research approaches, the solutions these provide, their dissemination and application. Additionally, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability will continue to publish papers on strategic research plans and key findings of leading global-change research networks. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability contributions and Special Issues are thus intended to both synthesize state-of-art knowledge and set the agenda for future research. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability’s audience is interdisciplinary, with content that serves as an invaluable source of current peer-reviewed and synthesized information for researchers, lecturers, teachers, practitioners, policy makers and students.Types of ContributionsCOSUST offers three avenues for publishing individual contributions: 1) invited contributions, as part of Guest Edited Special Issues; 2) as part of regular Open Issues and 3) as part of an ongoing issue “Decade of Sustainability Action”Most of the issues published by the journal are invited Special Issues addressing current themes around major global-change systems and problems, the emerging new transdisciplinary sustainability science, sustainability governance and transformation, environmental change assessments, international initiatives, as well as more philosophical reflection on approaches to sustainability challenges. We regularly publish an Open Issue, which offers an opportunity for authors working on diverse topics to submit an abstract for consideration, independent of a Special Issue. In collaboration with the International Science Council (ISC), COSUST also includes a section dedicated to the 'State of Knowledge on Social Transformations to Sustainability', which consist of original or existing peer-reviewed papers, reviewing knowledge on various dimensions of social transformations to sustainability and drawing out implications for research, practice or policy. Article Content:Authors write short concise, 2000-word interpretative perspectives on the state of science and scholarship, grounded in reviews and synthesis of recent empirical, conceptual and theoretical literature. They present recent developments in their subject and emerging topics, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important and point to novel directions in future research. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the past two years.Submission Inquiries:Authors interested in contributing to the Open Issue or to the Decade of Sustainability Action issueshould contact the Editorial Manager, Ms. Alison Langestraat (a.langestraat@elsev... by email with their proposed abstract after reviewing the scope and intent of the Open Issue and/or the Decade of Sustainability Action issue. Selection of Special Issues and Guest Editors: COSUST’s Special Issues are organized by Guest Editors under the direction of the Editorial Board. If you are interested in submitting a proposal for consideration, please contact the Editorial Manager, Alison Langestraat at: a.langestraat@elsevi... for further information.Working with the Editors of the journal, Guest Editors, who are major authorities in the field, are responsible for inviting authors, reviewing and organizing themes within a special issue.The Editorial Manager also welcomes inquiries about the suitability of a Special Issue topic or scope for the journal.
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