Sustainable Earth Reviews

For articles submitted in 2023, Sustainable Earth Reviews has waivers available to offer that can be allocated on acceptance. Once the standard peer review process has been completed and the Editor-in-Chief has made a decision to accept the article, authors without funding available won’t need to pay an APC.

What is Sustainable Earth Reviews?

A community-focused open access journal dedicated to real-world change
A platform for scientists, policy makers and citizens to discuss and publicise advances in sustainability
A means of forming new connections between people and disciplines to improve innovation

As of the 1st of January 2023, Sustainable Earth is published under the new title Sustainable Earth Reviews. The journal welcomes reviews, evidence synthesis and other article types publishing secondary literature on all aspects of sustainability. Please note that we no longer accept primary research articles and short reports.

SUSE Regenerative Agriculture collection

Call for Papers: Future Farming and Regenerative Agriculture

Guest Editor: Margaret Gollagher

Review articles, Guidelines, Commentaries and Debates are invited on any aspect of regenerative agriculture, including the concept itself, technology, science, management practices, economics, supportive policy approaches, agronomics, behaviour change, ethics, and knowledge creation and learning.

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Future farming: protein production for livestock feed in the EU

Authors: Wendy Mercedes Rauw, Emilio Gómez Izquierdo, Olga Torres, María García Gil, Eduardo de Miguel Beascoechea, José María Rey Benayas and Luis Gomez-Raya

Content type: Guidelines 1 March 2023
Carbon neutral Bhutan: sustaining carbon neutral status under growth pressures

Authors: Dorji Yangka, Vanessa Rauland and Peter Newman

Content type: Frontiers paper 15 February 2023
Barriers to learning for sustainability: a teacher perspective

Authors: Sally Parry and Ellen Metzger

Content type: Review 30 January 2023
Striking the right balance: understanding the strategic applications of hydrogen in transitioning to a net zero emissions economy

Authors: Jake Whitehead, Peter Newman, Jessica Whitehead and Kai Li Lim

Content type: Review 18 January 2023
How the biophilic design social movement informs planning, policy and professional practice

Authors: Jana Söderlund and Peter Newman

Content type: Research 24 November 2022

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The green economy transition: the challenges of technological change for sustainability

Authors: Patrik Söderholm

Content type: Debate 22 June 2020
The green soul of the concrete jungle: the urban century, the urban psychological penalty, and the role of nature

Authors: Robert Ian McDonald, Timothy Beatley and Thomas Elmqvist

Content type: Review 25 October 2018
Biophilic streets: a design framework for creating multiple urban benefits

Authors: Agata Cabanek, Maria Elena Zingoni de Baro and Peter Newman

Content type: Research 8 July 2020
Planetary health and reduction in meat consumption

Authors: Dora Marinova and Diana Bogueva

Content type: Research 13 March 2019
National progress, sustainability and higher goals: the case of Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness

Authors: Jigmi Y. Thinley and Janette Hartz-Karp

Content type: Research 30 December 2019

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A new Planetary Accounting Framework

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This video explains the concept of 'planetary boundaries' and outlines a new Planetary Accounting Framework that can be used as a tool to set quotas for a more sustainable Earth. Read the full article here.

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Apply for a publication charge waiver in Sustainable Earth Reviews

We have several funding pathways available to help you publish your sustainability research. Read more about our membership and waiver options under the 'Article-processing charges' heading on the about page.

Aims and scope

Sustainability is a global challenge identified by the United Nations. There is a uniform drive in every region of the world to invest time and money into developing solutions to meet this global challenge. Consequently, sustainability research is one of the fastest growing scientific fields today.

Sustainable Earth Reviews aims to serve this field of research by publishing high-quality, open access reviews. As a community-focused journal, Sustainable Earth Reviews serves both the realms of academia and the general public and strives to strengthen the bond between them through traditional and innovative scientific communication. To further this vision, the journal will engage authors and readers in contemporary topics in the public eye or of critical socio-economic importance through the publication of thematic series.

The journal particularly welcomes submissions that may influence policy or alter social paradigms. Sustainable Earth Reviews offers a variety of content types to cater to novel debates in the field, including: Guidelines, Debates, Systematic Reviews and Protocols, Scoping Reviews and Frontiers papers.

Open article collections

Future Farming and Regenerative Agriculture

Guest Editor: Margaret Gollagher
Earth Observation for Mapping Sustainability

Guest Editor: Yongze Song
Plastics and Sustainable Earth

Guest Editors: Harriet Paterson, Xiaoling Zhang, Jingzheng Ren
Young Lives for a Sustainable Earth

Guest Editors: Connie Flanagan, Bronwyn Hayward and Luisa Leo
Food and Sustainable Earth

Guest Editor: Dora Marinova
Learning Sustainability

Guest Editors: David Crookall, Melania Borit, Gillian Bowser, Margaret Brocx, Eleanor Burke, Jaimie Cloud, David Kolb, Chris Skinner, Warren Thorngate, Charlotte Weber