Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability (COSUST) builds on Elsevier's reputation for excellence in scientific publishing and long-standing commitment to communicating high quality reproducible research. Established in 2010 as part of the Current Opinion and Research (CO+RE) suite of journals, COSUST focuses on peer reviewed polished, concise and timely short reviews of recent literature and synthesis of emerging topics, innovations and perspectives. Since 2019, COSUST has a new companion Gold Open Access journal, Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, which focuses on empirically-based research articles. All CO+RE journals leverage the Current Opinion legacy - of editorial excellence, high-impact, and global reach - to ensure they are a widely read resource that is integral to scientists' workflow.

Expertise - Editors and Editorial Board bring depth and breadth of expertise and experience to the journal.

Discoverability - Articles get high visibility and maximum exposure on an industry-leading scientific publishing platform that reaches a vast global audience.

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability aims to define the new innovative sustainability science discipline by integrating perspectives from the natural and the social sciences on human-environment interactions and management challenges across regional and global systems. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability thus emphasizes interdisciplinary sustainability research approaches, the solutions it provides and their dissemination and application.

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability aims to stimulate scientifically grounded, interdisciplinary, multi-faceted debate, synthesis and exchange of ideas. Additionally, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability will continue to publish papers on strategic research plans and key findings of leading global-change research networks, it thus serves as an invaluable source of current peer-reviewed and synthesized information for researchers, lecturers, teachers, practitioners, policy makers and students.

Most of the issues published by the journal are invited Special Issues addressing current themes around major global-change systems and problems, the emerging new transdisciplinary sustainability science, sustainability governance and transformation, environmental change assessments, international initiatives, as well as more philosophical reflection on approaches to sustainability challenges. Once a year, we publish an Open Issue, which offers an opportunity for authors working on diverse topics to submit an abstract for consideration. In collaboration with the International Science Council (ISC), COSUST also includes a section dedicated to the 'State of Knowledge on Social Transformations to Sustainability', which consist of original or existing peer-reviewed papers, reviewing knowledge on various dimensions of social transformations to sustainability and drawing out implications for research, practice or policy (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/current-opinion-in-environmental-sustainability/news/introducing-the-state-of-knowledge-on-social-transformations).

Selection of Special Issues and Guest Editors:
We welcome proposals for Special Issues consisting of (1) an overview of the theme, and a motivation why it is timely and innovative, and justifies publication in the journal; (2) a list of proposed topics and names of selected authors. As the journal is international, we aim to commission a mixture of nationalities and disciplines with consideration to gender and regions less covered, but obviously the quality of authors and their review is paramount. Proposals that where possible have the first and second choices of authors (with contact details where possible); (3) a short, two-line, description of the intended scope of each review.

Working with the Editors of the journal, Guest Editors, who are major authorities in the field, are responsible for inviting authors, reviewing and organizing themes within a special issue.

Please contact your Editorial Manager by email if you have any questions, Ms. Alison Langestraat a.langestraat@elsevier.com

Review articles:
Authors write short review and/or synthesis articles supported by recent literature in which they present recent developments in their subject and emerging topics, emphasizing the aspects that, in their opinion, are most important. In addition, they provide short annotations to the papers that they consider to be most interesting from all those published in their topic over the previous year.

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Editors-in-Chief
Dr. Eduardo Brondizio
Indiana University Bloomington Department of Anthropology, Bloomington, Indiana, United States Email Dr. Eduardo Brondizio
Assoc. Professor Opha Pauline Dube
University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana Email Assoc. Professor Opha Pauline Dube
Professor William Solecki
Hunter College, New York, New York, United States Email Professor William Solecki
Editorial Board Members
Dr. Xuemei Bai
Australian National University Fenner School of Environment and Society, Canberra, Australia
Professor Frans Berkhout
King's College London Department of Geography, London, United Kingdom
Dr. Gordon Bonan
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Dr. Canadell
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia
Dr. Sandra Díaz
National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina
Dr. Kristie Ebi
Climadapt LLC, Seattle, Washington, United States
Professor Thomas Elmqvist
Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Professor Bojie Fu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Professor Congbin Fu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Dr. Joyeeta Gupta
University of Amsterdam Department of Human Geography Planning and International Development Studies, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr. Julie Hall
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Prof. Dr. Lars Hein
Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
Professor Shu-Li Huang
National Taipei University Graduate Institute of Urban Planning, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Dr. Louis Lebel
Unit for Social and Environmental Research Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Dr. Sharachchandra Lele
Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bangalore, India
Professor Maria Carmen Lemos
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Prof. Dr. Wenqi Ma
Hebei Agricultural University, Baoding, China
Dr. Pim Martens
Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
Dr. Gordon McBean
Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Professor Holger Meinke
University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia
Professor Arthur Mol
Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
Dr. Hal Mooney
Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
Professor Emilio Moran
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Dr. Raghu Murtugudde
University of Maryland at College Park, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Dr. Harini Nagendra
Azim Premji University School of Development, Bengaluru, India
Prof. Dr. Nebojsa Nakicenovic
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Professor Alice Newton
University of the Algarve Centre for Marine and Environmental Research, Faro, Portugal
Dr. Carlos Nobre
National Institute for Space Research Weather Forecast and Climate Studies Centre, CACHOEIRA PAULISTA, Brazil
Dr. van Noordwijk
World Agroforestry Centre Southeast Asia Indonesia, Bogor, Indonesia
Prof. Dr. Claudia Pahl-Wostl
University of Osnabruck, Osnabruck, Germany
Dr. Margaret Palmer
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, Maryland, United States
Dr. Ian Perry
Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Pacific Biological Station, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada
Professor Belinda Reyers
Stockholm University Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm, Sweden
Dr. Patricia Romero Lankao
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Dr. Mark Rosenberg
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Professor Joyashree Roy
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Dr. Roberto Sanchez-Rodriguez
University of California Riverside, Riverside, California, United States
Dr. Sybil Seitzinger
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Karen Seto
Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Professor Pete Smith
University of Aberdeen Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Peter Verburg
VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Dr. Hassan Virji
START International Inc, Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Professor Coleen Vogel
University of the Witwatersrand Global Change Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr. Harald Winkler
University of Cape Town Energy Research Centre, Rondebosch, South Africa
Dr. Oran R. Young
University of California Santa Barbara David Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, Santa Barbara, California, United States
Founding Editors
Professor Rik Leemans
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Professor Anand Patwardhan
University of Maryland at College Park, Baltimore, Maryland, United States