Sustainable Production and Consumption
Volume 9 • Issue 9
- ISSN: 2352-5509
- 5 Year impact factor: 10.3
- Impact factor: 10.9
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Sustainable production and consumption can be defined as production and use of products and services in a manner that is socially beneficial, economically viable and environmentally benign over their whole life cycle. The journal aims to provide a leading platform for publishing high-quality interdisciplinary papers on research and practice in this emerging field. It looks uniquely at the interactions between technology, consumption and policy to help identify more-sustainable solutions for both production and consumption systems.
Papers from engineers, natural and social scientists as well as philosophers are invited and those at the interface between these disciplines are particularly encouraged.
All papers should include some elements of life cycle thinking and should clearly demonstrate that they are addressing topics related to sustainable production and consumption.
The areas and topics covered by the journal include but are not limited to:
Concepts and approaches
Circular Economy
Clean technology/cleaner production
Climate change mitigation
Consumer engagement and communication
Corporate social responsibility
Eco-efficiency
Ecosystem services
Ethical investment and consumption
Sustainable chemistry
Industrial ecology
Intra/Intergenerational equity
Life cycle management
Life cycle thinking
Life cycle sustainability assessment
Producer responsibility
Rebound effect
Supply chain management
Sustainable business models
Sustainable design
Sustainable lifestyles
Sustainable policies
Sustainable procurement
Sustainable products and services
Tools
Analysis of consumer preferences and attitudes
Economic measures and instruments
Integrated product policies
Internalisation of environmental and social costs
Life cycle assessment
Life cycle costing
Material flow analysis
Scenario analysis
Social life cycle assessment
Stakeholder analysis
Sustainability indicators
Sectors
Chemicals
Construction and buildings
Energy
Financial
Food
Health
Manufacturing
Resources and feedstocks
Retail
Tourism
Transport and mobility
Waste
Water
While it is not possible to list all the topics that are out of scope, papers with the main focus on the following topics are out of scope and will be rejected on submission:
Barriers, challenges, drivers, motivations, opportunities
Case studies
Digitalisation
End-of-pipe treatment/emission control
Greenwashing
Financing
Innovation
Manufacturing
Marketing
Mathematical modelling and optimisation
Multi-criteria decision analysis
Organizational identity, image and reputation
Pollution
Resilience
Risk assessment
Safety
Single sustainability impacts (e.g. carbon footprint, costs, etc.)
Technology development
Trade
Urban development
Please also note the following:
The term “green” is not suitable for this journal and, instead, the term “environmental sustainability” should be used.
Purely qualitative studies are unlikely to be considered by the journal.
There are specific requirements for life cycle assessment (LCA) papers and for consumer survey papers. Please click on these links for further information.
For more information on the IChemE journals published in partnership with Elsevier and to find out about some of the top research published in the journals, please see this page: https://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences-and-engineering/chemical-engineering/journals/icheme-journals
- ISSN: 2352-5509
- Volume 9
- Issue 9
- 5 Year impact factor: 10.3
- Impact factor: 10.9