Aims & Scope

Earth: Environmental Sustainability (EESUS) publishes novel and significant original research with a global impact from various natural, engineering and social fields focused on sustainability, its legal and political dimensions and possible solutions. Understanding how to ensure the well-being of current and future generations within the limits of global boundaries is the overarching goal of sustainability. There is now a much stronger call for integrated knowledge about the Earth and its ecosystems, as highlighted by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. 

Earth: Environmental Sustainability will cover topics including, but not limited to, land degradation,  agriculture and food security, air, soil and water pollution, biodiversity loss, conservation and management, fire modelling and effects on the ecosystems,  cities and urbanisation, climate change impact, adaptation and mitigation, natural hazards, ecosystem services, ecosystem account, nature-based solutions, green infrastructure, health and environment, land degradation, environmental remediation,  forestry, natural capital, natural resources management,  policy, waste management, spatial analysis and modelling, water–energy–food nexus, education, environmental behaviour and all other aspects related to sustainability and sustainable development goals.

Earth: Environmental Sustainability publishes novel and original research, short communications opinions, and reviews and highlights papers from different disciplines related to sustainability.

Part of the journal's mission is to facilitate a cross-disciplinary dialogue around sustainability issues and narrow the gap between research and policymaking.

Subject areas examples:

  • Air, water and soil chemistry, pollution and their impacts on the environment and health;
  • Biodiversity loss, conservation and management;  
  • Past and present climate impacts on environment and health;
  • Climate change impacts, mitigation and adaptation;
  • Biological and chemical wastewater treatment technologies and reuse;
  • Forest fires effects on the ecosystems;
  • Ecosystem services and ecosystem accounting;
  • Nature-based solutions;
  • Land degradation;
  • Environmental modelling and spatial analysis;
  • Ecotoxicology, risk assessment and one health approaches;
  • Wildlife, contaminants and climate influence;
  • Agriculture, forest management, urban development and land use changes impacts on the environment;
  • Environment restoration;
  • Waste management and treatment;
  • Drinking water contaminants and health implications on exposome;
  • Hydrological modelling under climate change;
  • Micro and nanoplastics, nanomaterials, antibiotic resistance genes and other emerging contaminants;
  • Green and Sustainable Methods: nanotechnology, sensors and low-cost approaches;
  • Marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecology;
  • Proximal and remote sensing environmental assessment;
  • Environmental education and citizen science;
  • Critical reviews or highlight papers on current or emerging topics;

Earth: Environmental Sustainability (EESUS) is published quarterly online by Scilight Press.