目前的意見期刊是由于認識到專家越來越難以跟上在其主題上發(fā)表的信息量不斷擴大的情況而發(fā)展起來的。在《環(huán)境可持續(xù)發(fā)展》的最新意見中，我們以系統(tǒng)的方式向讀者提供:1.專家對當(dāng)前環(huán)境可持續(xù)性進展的觀點，以清晰易讀的形式提出。2.最有趣的論文的評估，由專家注釋，從大量的原始出版物。《當(dāng)前環(huán)境可持續(xù)發(fā)展觀點》旨在通過整合區(qū)域和全球系統(tǒng)的典型維度、人類與環(huán)境的相互作用和管理挑戰(zhàn)，追蹤一門新的創(chuàng)新性可持續(xù)發(fā)展科學(xué)學(xué)科的出現(xiàn)。因此，當(dāng)前的環(huán)境可持續(xù)發(fā)展觀點強調(diào)跨學(xué)科的可持續(xù)發(fā)展研究方法、解決方案及其傳播和應(yīng)用。當(dāng)前關(guān)于環(huán)境可持續(xù)性的觀點旨在激發(fā)科學(xué)的、跨學(xué)科的、多尺度的辯論和思想交流。它將包含拋光，簡潔和及時的審查和綜合論文。此外，《當(dāng)前環(huán)境可持續(xù)性意見》將繼續(xù)發(fā)表關(guān)于未來地球戰(zhàn)略研究計劃和相關(guān)全球變化項目的論文(http://www.icsu.org/fuearth)。因此，它將成為研究人員、講師、教師、專業(yè)人員、決策者和學(xué)生的寶貴信息來源。環(huán)境可持續(xù)性的主題分為6個主題年度議題。每一個主題都有助于確定、理解和解決可持續(xù)性問題，并不是相互排斥的。這種重疊是由于將所有可持續(xù)性科學(xué)維度和方法結(jié)合起來的實際復(fù)雜性造成的。主題是:1.環(huán)境變化問題;2.環(huán)境變化評估;3.系統(tǒng)動力學(xué)和可持續(xù)性;4.可持續(xù)發(fā)展、治理和轉(zhuǎn)型;5.可持續(xù)發(fā)展的挑戰(zhàn);6.可持續(xù)性科學(xué)。這套系統(tǒng)允許將自然科學(xué)與社會科學(xué)、人文學(xué)科和工程學(xué)科靈活地結(jié)合起來。主題集中在主要變化系統(tǒng)和問題(主題1 - 3),生成的新興學(xué)科間的可持續(xù)性科學(xué)在未來地球或作為進化的一部分,聯(lián)合國可持續(xù)發(fā)展目標(biāo)(主題4和5)和更可持續(xù)發(fā)展科學(xué)的哲學(xué)反思的方法(主題6)。

The Current Opinion journals were developed out of the recognition that it is increasingly difficult for specialists to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in their subject. In Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, we help the reader by providing in a systematic manner:1.The views of experts on current advances in environmental sustainability in a clear and readable form.2.Evaluations of the most interesting papers, annotated by experts, from the great wealth of original publications.Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability aims to track the emergence of a new innovative sustainability science discipline by integrating across regional and global systems with their typical dimensions, human-environment interactions and management challenges. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability thus emphasises the actual 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-scale debate and exchange of ideas. It will contain polished, concise and timely review and synthesis papers. Additionally, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability will continue to publish papers on strategic research plans of Future Earth (http://www.icsu.org/future-earth) and related global-change projects. It will thus serve as an invaluable source of information for researchers, lecturers, teachers, professionals, policy makers and students.The subject of environmental sustainability is divided into 6 themed annual issues. Each theme helps to identify, understand and solve sustainability problems and are not mutually exclusive. The overlap results from the actual complexity of combining all the sustainability science dimensions and approaches. The themes are:1.Environmental change issues;2.Environmental change assessments;3.System dynamics and sustainability;4.Sustainability governance and transformation;5.Sustainability challenges; 6.Sustainability science.This set allows for flexible integration of natural sciences with the social sciences, humanities and engineering disciplines. The themes focus on major global-change systems and problems (Themes 1-3), the emerging new transdisciplinary sustainability science, as generated in Future Earth or as part of the evolving UN's sustainable development goals (Themes 4 and 5) and a more philosophical reflection on approaches of sustainability science (Theme 6).