World Development Sustainability

World Development Sustainability is a multi-disciplinary, gold open access social sciences journal focusing on sustainable development. It is a companion title to the prestigious World Development, its distinct focus is on publishing novel and cutting-edge research on sustainability, especially economic development, social development, natural resources, and the environment. It covers the theory, practice, policy solutions and the latest research trends on sustainable development. World Development Sustainability encompasses a comprehensive range of research fields and disciplinary perspectives focusing on social sciences and environmental science.

World Development Sustainability aims to publish articles that will deepen understanding of mechanisms for ensuring the sustainability of human beings; track and/or measure progress on the achievement of global objectives such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); explore sustainable ways of improving the standards of common living and the welfare effect of common goods; encourage theoretical and empirical research on social and environmental sciences focusing on sustainability; promote scientific governance and impact assessments of global sustainable development by examining problems such as: poverty, failure of environmental public goods, hunger, disease, lack of shelter, environmental degradation, tragedy of the commons, sustainable resources, mediocre scientific and technological resources, gender and ethnic discrimination, and lack of popular participation in economic and green life.