期刊名称：NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Aims & Scope
Nature Sustainability publishes significant original research from a broad range of natural, social and engineering fields about sustainability, its policy dimensions and possible solutions. Understanding how to ensure the well-being of current and future generations within the limits of the natural world is the overarching goal of sustainability research.
Decades of academic work have helped to shed light on this crucial issue, but only recently in a more open and joined-up way across different research fields. There is now a much stronger call for integrated knowledge about the Earth, social and technological systems and their interfaces, particularly from outside academia as shown by the global Sustainable Development Goals agenda promoted by the United Nations. Against this backdrop, researchers will find even stronger support to develop a deep understanding of those interactions and find answers to questions like:
- How extreme are the impacts of human actions on the natural environment and what are their implications for the continuation of life on Earth?
- Are there long-term solutions to environmental crises and of what kind?
- To what extent are environmental and human crises connected?
- Why do social inequalities and human suffering persist across the globe?
- How do we measure environmental and human well-being and track progress of policies and interventions to ensure it?
- What kinds of behavioural and institutional barrier inhibit the transformations needed to achieve more sustainable lifestyles, economies and societies more broadly?
The journal is particularly interested in research offering novel insights into these questions.
Nature Sustainability will cover topics including agriculture and food security, biodiversity conservation, circular economy, cities and urbanisation, climate change in holistic context, development, ecosystem services, education, environmental behaviour, environmental degradation, environmental law, green infrastructure, health and environment, human population, innovation, land use and land use change, natural capital, natural resources management, policy, pollution, poverty, supply chain, waste, water–energy–food and water-soil-waste connections and others, all as related to sustainability.
In addition to publishing original research and analyses, Nature Sustainability will publish Comment, Reviews, Perspectives, News & Views, Features and Correspondence from across the full range of disciplines concerned with sustainability.
Part of the journal's mission is to facilitate a cross-disciplinary dialogue around sustainability issues, and narrow the gap between research and policy making.
Like all Nature-branded journals, Nature Sustainability will be characterized by a dedicated team of professional editors, a fair and rigorous peer-review process, high standards of copy-editing and production, swift publication, and editorial independence.
Disciplines covered in the journal
- Agronomy
- Anthropology
- Atmospheric Science
- Biogeochemistry
- Business Studies
- Catalysis
- Chemistry
- Civil Engineering
- Demography
- Development Studies
- Ecology
- Economics
- Education
- Energy
- Environmental Health
- Environmental Science & Engineering
- Epidemiology
- Ethics
- Finance
- Forestry
- Geography
- Hydrology
- Humanities
- Industrial Ecology
- Materials Science & Engineering
- Nanotechnology
- Oceanography
- Policy Studies
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public Policy
- Science, Technology and Society
- Sociology
- Soil Science
- Urban Science and Studies
- Water Science and Studies
Instructions to Authors
Editorial Board
Like the other Nature titles, Nature Sustainability has no external editorial board. Instead, all editorial decisions are made by a dedicated team of professional editors, with relevant research and editorial backgrounds.
Chief Editor: Monica Contestabile
 Monica joined the company in 2011 as a Senior Editor at Nature Climate Change. She was the first social science editor at Nature Research. She has handled original research and review articles across the entire breadth of social sciences, and interdisciplinary articles integrating natural and social science disciplines in the context of climate and global environmental change. In 2015 she moved to Nature, where she served as Senior Strategy Editor developing the company’s editorial and publishing strategy about sustainability, before becoming Chief Editor of Nature Sustainability in 2016. Monica completed her doctoral studies in environmental and development economics at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy; she then held a visiting professor position at University Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, and subsequently joined the sustainable consumption team at WWF-UK where she gained invaluable experience about the challenges of bridging the gap between research and policy domains. Monica is based in the Berlin office.
m.contestabile@nature.com
Senior Editor: William R. Burnside
 Bill joined Nature Sustainability in March 2017 as an Associate Editor. He handles manuscripts from ecology, other life science, biogeography, biogeochemistry, soil science, agronomy, oceanography, and anthropology. Before joining Nature Research, Bill was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), in Annapolis, Maryland, working on macroecological approaches to sustainability science. Bill majored in Human Biology at Stanford University and holds an M.S. in Natural Resources & Environment from the University of Michigan. His PhD, in Biology from the University of New Mexico, focused on the metabolic basis of ecological patterns and processes, primarily focused on human use of space, resources, and energy but also including the metabolic ecology of insects and other small ectotherms. Much of this work has been interdisciplinary and has involved collaborations with anthropologists and computer scientists. Bill is based in the New York office.
william.burnside@us.nature.com
Senior Editor: Aiora Zabala
 Aiora joined Nature Sustainability in March 2017 as Associate Editor. She handles manuscripts from environmental policy, economics, international development, political science, and psychology as well as geography and GIS. Before joining Nature Research, Aiora was teaching associate of environmental economics and statistics at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG) and research consultant at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), working at the interface between farm-based livelihoods and conservation. Aiora studied Environmental Sciences and doctoral courses in Ecological Economics, both at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and she holds an MSc in Environmental Policy from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, focused on motivations and incentives for sustainable land-use practices in the tropical forest frontier. Aiora is based in the London office.
aiora.zabala@nature.com
Senior Editor: Yaoqing Zhang
 Yaoqing joined Nature Sustainability in May 2020 as a Senior Editor. He handles manuscripts in the broad areas of engineering and technology tackling system-wide and technological solutions to sustainability issues. Yaoqing began his editorial career at Nature Communications in June 2016 where he covered a range of topics in energy chemistry, with a particular focus on electrochemical energy storage and solid state ionics. Prior to joining Nature Research, Yaoqing held an assistant professorship at the Tokyo Institute of Technology working on the synthesis, discovery and characterization of electride materials that have potential applications in catalysis or superconductivity. He obtained a PhD in chemistry from the University of St Andrews where he focused his studies at the interface of solid state chemistry, electrochemistry and ceramics, and then conducted postdoctoral research on condensed matter physics in Japan. Yaoqing is based in the Shanghai office.
Yaoqing.Zhang@nature.com
Associate Editor: Ryan M. Scarrow
 Ryan joined Nature Research in March 2017 as an Associate Editor serving both Nature Sustainability and Nature Plants. He handles manuscripts from sociology, anthropology, demography, urban studies, science & technology studies, water & society, and the humanities. Before joining Nature Research, Ryan received his PhD in sociology from the Ohio State University with a focus on the political economy of water scarcity across cities in the American West. Ryan has a degree in history from the University of Kansas and studied also at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. His interests cover a broad range of areas pertaining to sustainability & culture, socio-ecological resilience, urban systems, and the history, theory, and philosophy of social organization and the environment. Ryan is based in the London office.
ryan.scarrow@nature.com
Associate Editor: Stephanie M. Olen
 Stephanie joined Nature Sustainability in July 2021 as an Associate Editor. She handles manuscripts across broad topics in Earth science, physical geography, climate science, and remote sensing. Before joining Nature Research, Stephanie was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Remote Sensing of Earth Surface Processes research group at the University of Potsdam, in Potsdam, Germany, working on the application of satellite synthetic aperture radar to natural hazard monitoring and land surface classification. Stephanie studied Geology and Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College and holds an M.S. in Geological Sciences from the University of Michigan. Stephanie earned her Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Science from the University of Potsdam, applying geochemical analysis, remote sensing, and computational approaches to uncover the influence of the South Asian Monsoon System and vegetation on erosion rates in the central Himalaya. Stephanie is based in the Berlin office.
stephanie.olen@springernature.com
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