Journal Guide

Besides regular papers and special features, City sections include:
Alternatives showcasing radical, grassroots approaches;  Scenes and Sounds featuring literary and ethnographic interpretations; Forum presenting commentary on contemporary policy; Prospects and Retrospects as well as Reviews and Debates.

1) Explore innovative management skills for taming thorny problems that arise with urbanization
2) Provide a platform to deal with urban affairs whose solutions must be looked at from an interdisciplinary perspective.

We are particularly interested in theoretical work and applications that are targeted at urban management in, but not limited to, Mainland China and Taiwan. The term urban management is defined broadly here to cover studies and research in planning, administering, regulating, and governing (PARG) urban complexity. The urban phenomena that are of interest cut across ecological, physical, economic, political, and social settings, with a belief that these settings interact with each other and should be treated as a whole. The JUM publishes two issues per year and we accept manuscripts throughout the year.

Biotechnology for Food Future aims to be at the forefront of food biotechnology, focusing on the future of food. It seeks to publish cutting-edge research and innovative solutions that address the global challenges of food production, safety, and sustainability. The journal will serve as a platform for scientists, researchers, and industry professionals. 

The journal covers a broad range of topics related to the future of food, including but not limited to: 

• Advanced Genetic Engineering: Innovations in genetic modification to enhance crop yields, nutritional value, and resistance to environmental stresses, including boosting soil health. 

• Next-Generation Functional Foods: Development of foods with additional health benefits, such as probiotics, prebiotics, and nutraceuticals. This includes research on food microbiomes for health. 

• 3D Food Printing and other technological disruptions: New biotechnologies for customized food products with specific nutritional profiles, with impact on personalized nutrition and food design. 

• Sustainable Food Production: Techniques and technologies aimed at reducing the environmental impact of food production, including alternative protein sources like lab-grown meat and plant-based proteins. 

• Food Safety and Quality: Modern molecular, metabolic, and biochemical approaches to ensure the safety and quality of food products, including detection and prevention of foodborne pathogens. 

• Biotechnological Food Processing: Use of enzymatic and microbial processes to improve food processing and explore new methods of preservation. 

• Food Waste Management: Innovative methods to convert food waste into valuable bioproducts, contributing to a circular economy and enhance food waste remediation. 

• Bio-based Smart Packaging: Use of bio-based sustainable materials for developments in enhancing food safety, extending shelf life, and reducing waste.   

• Policy, public engagement, and society: Studies about effective food biotechnology policy bridging scientific innovation and societal values, ensuring transparency and trust, and insights on public understanding and approaches fostering informed choices and acceptance of food innovations in a rapidly evolving world. 

The journal also welcomes interdisciplinary research that bridges the gap between food biotechnology and other fields such as nutrition, agriculture, and environmental science. By fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange, the journal aims to drive the development of sustainable and innovative food solutions for the future. 

Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the fields of food science, biotechnology, agriculture, and nutrition will find the journal to be an invaluable resource for staying updated on the latest trends and breakthroughs in food biotechnology. 

Biotechnology for Food Future will be a new addition to the Biotechnology family of journals. 

Environment & Health, a peer-reviewed, open access journal, is committed to exploring the relationship between the environment and human health. 

As a premier journal for multidisciplinary research, Environment & Health reports the health consequences for individuals and communities of changing and hazardous environmental factors. In supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the journal aims to help formulate policies to create a healthier world.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Air, water, and soil pollution
• Exposomics
• Environmental epidemiology
• Innovative analytical methodology and instrumentation
• Environmental toxicology
• Environmental microbiology, pathogen, and environmental transmission mechanisms of diseases
• Environmental modeling, bioinformatics, and artificial intelligence
• Emerging contaminants
• Climate change and related health effects
• Health impacts of energy evolution and carbon neutralization
• Food and drinking water safety
• Occupational exposure and medicine
• Innovations in environmental technologies for better health
• Policies and international relations concerned with environmental health

Authors who submit their manuscripts by December 31, 2025, may apply for an APC waiver if their paper is accepted after peer review.

Population and Environment is the sole social science journal focused on interdisciplinary research on social demographic aspects of environmental issues.  The journal publishes cutting-edge research that contributes new insights on the complex, reciprocal links between human populations and the natural environment.

Population and Environment covers important international issues and embraces all the main fields in population studies and their environmental dimensions.  Quantitative, qualitative or mixed methods contributions are welcome.

Disciplines commonly represented include demography, geography, sociology, human ecology, environmental economics, public health, anthropology and environmental studies. Examples of relevant topics include:

Fertility and land availability, tenure systems * Mortality or morbidity and environmental, pollutant exposures * Migration and natural resource decline * Health, well being and environmental implications of development * Social stratification and natural

Future Endocrinology and Metabolism is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and practice in the dynamic fields of endocrinology and metabolism. Our focus is to bridge the gap between groundbreaking research and transformative clinical applications, providing valuable insights from bench to bedside for healthcare professionals and the general public alike.

The journal presents the latest research findings in the diagnosis and management of endocrine and metabolic disorders, together with authoritative reviews, cutting-edge editorials and perspectives that highlight hot topics and controversy in the field. 

Environmental Sociology is dedicated to applying and advancing the sociological imagination in relation to a wide variety of environmental challenges, controversies and issues, at every level from the global to local, from ‘world culture’ to diverse local perspectives. As an international, peer-reviewed scholarly journal, Environmental Sociology aims to stretch the conceptual and theoretical boundaries of both environmental and mainstream sociology, to highlight the relevance of sociological research for environmental policy and management, to disseminate the results of sociological research, and to engage in productive dialogue and debate with other disciplines in the social, natural and ecological sciences.

Contributions may utilize a variety of theoretical orientations including, but not restricted to: critical theory, cultural sociology, ecofeminism, ecological modernization, environmental justice, organizational sociology, political ecology, political economy, post-colonial studies, risk theory, social psychology, science and technology studies, globalization, world-systems analysis, and so on. Cross- and transdisciplinary contributions are welcome where they demonstrate a novel attempt to understand social-ecological relationships in a manner that engages with the core concerns of sociology in social relationships, institutions, practices and processes. All methodological approaches in the environmental social sciences – qualitative, quantitative, integrative, spatial, policy analysis, etc. – are welcomed. Environmental Sociology welcomes high-quality submissions from scholars around the world.

Topics of interest to Environmental Sociology include biodiversity; business and the environment; climate change adaptation, mitigation and consequences; consumers and consumption; culture and the environment; ecological citizenship; ecological practices; energy; environmental attitudes, behaviours and practices; environmental communication; environmental controversies; environmental governance, policy and regulation (including participatory approaches); environmental risks, hazards and uncertainties; environmental social movements; environmental technologies; food, agriculture and the environment; gender and the environment; global environmental change; health and the environment; human ecology; mass media, new medias and the environment; mobilities, migration and transport; natural resource management; population and environmental change; race, ethnicity and the environment; sociology of water management; sustainable development; urban and industrial environments; etc. Submissions are also sought on innovations, challenges and debates in research methods and teaching in environmental sociology.

Environment and Urbanization aims to provide an effective means for the exchange of research findings, ideas and information in the fields of human settlements and environment among researchers, activists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in low- and middle-income nations and between these and researchers, international agency staff, students and teachers in high-income nations. E&U is one of the world`s most highly ranked environmental and urban studies journals.

Environment and Behavior (EAB) examines relationships between human behavior and the natural and built environment. Diverse research topics include environmental experiences (e.g., restorativeness, place attachment/identity, environmental perception/cognition); environmental outcomes (e.g., pro-environmental behaviors such as recycling; health-supportive environments; design preferences); and processes linking environments and behaviors that support or thwart human well-being.

Communications Earth & Environment is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the Earth, environmental and planetary sciences. Research papers published by the journal represent significant advances that bring new insight to a specialized area in Earth science, planetary science or environmental science. Communications Earth & Environment complements the other Nature Portfolio journals by providing a high-quality open access option for the Earth, environmental and planetary sciences while applying somewhat less stringent criteria for impact and significance than the Nature-branded journals, including Nature Communications.

Journal of Indoor and Built Environment publishes reports on any topic pertaining to the quality of the indoor and built environment, and how these might effect the health, performance, efficiency and comfort of persons living or working there. Topics range from urban infrastructure, design of buildings, and materials used to laboratory studies including building airflow simulations and health effects.