Cited by UNESCO, the World Health Organisation, and the World Bank, to name but a few high-profile organisations, our environmental sciences research is both noticed and a key part in policy making. Browse some of our most influential articles below, along with the respective policy document.
Since its launch last year, Sustainable Earth has provided a platform for scientists, policymakers and citizens to discuss and publicise advances in sustainability. Building on its first-year successes, the journal is continuing to publish evermore high-quality, open access research.
Browse a range of articles and six open collections related to sustainability research.
POLICY MENTION: UK Parliament Briefing notes, Microbeads and microplastics in cosmetic and personal care products, 2017
POLICY MENTION: The Publications Office of the European Union, Study on the regulatory fitness of the legislative framework governing the risk management of chemicals (excluding REACH), in particular the CLP Regulation and related legislation NORMAN interlaboratory study (ILS) on passive sampling of emerging pollutants, 2017
POLICY MENTION: The Publications Office of the European Union, NORMAN interlaboratory study (ILS) on passive sampling of emerging pollutants, 2016
POLICY MENTION: UNESCO, Forest management and the impact on water resources: a review of 13 countries, 2017.
POLICY MENTION: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, The charcoal transition: greening the charcoal value chain to mitigate climate change and improve local livelihoods, 2017.
Carbon Balance and Management
Monitoring vegetation dynamics and carbon stock density in miombo woodlands
POLICY MENTION: World Bank, Monitoring vegetation dynamics and carbon stock density in miombo woodlands, 2011
Ecological Processes
Continental-scale assessment of provisioning soil functions in Europe
POLICY MENTION: The Publications Office of the European Union, Mapping the storing and filtering capacity of European soils, 2017
Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice
Harnessing pastoralists' indigenous knowledge for rangeland management: three African case studies
POLICY MENTION: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Improving governance of pastoral lands, 2016
Co-producing urban sustainability transitions
Co-production is a mode of scientific inquiry between scientists, policy makers and the public to respond to socio-ecological challenges and be socially relevant while improving research inquiry in return. The goal of this series, published in Urban Transformations, is to examine how co-production can contribute to urban sustainability transitions and transformations.
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Food is essential to all life forms on this planet – we cannot survive without it. However, current food production and consumption patterns are not sustainable. Published in Sustainable Earth, this article collection is dedicated to the multifaceted issues of food production and consumption and their impacts on the planet, including the health of its inhabitants, ecosystems and atmosphere.​​​​​​​
Today, over half of the world's population live in urban areas and this is expected to rise to around 70% by 2050. This thematic series, published in Carbon Balance and Management, aims to present novel research, methods and reviews on carbon fluxes in urban areas.
Accelerating Climate Change Mitigation
Published in Sustainable Earth, this collection is aiming to ​​​bring together a series of articles focused on innovation, policy and governance of climate change mitigation technologies.
Science-based options for Paris agreement implementation
The Paris Agreement has posed numerous complex issues that call for interdisciplinary research. The most important of them is probably the feasibility of the 1.5°C goal. Published in Carbon Balance and Management, this article collection aims to form a collection of articles discussing the options for achieving such a goal.
Cities continue to be at the center of business, life and culture with ‘urban’ living already the norm for more than half of humanity. This collection, published in Sustainable Earth, is dedicated to the opportunities and priorities for biophilic urbanism to shape vibrant and livable cities.
