About World
Aims
World (ISSN 2673-4060) is a multidisciplinary and open access journal devoted to past, present, and future links between economic, political, social, and/or environmental issues. World serves as a scholarly forum and source of information on local, regional, national, and international trends, challenges, and opportunities relating to sustainability, adaptation, and the 4th Industrial Revolution. We encourage scholars from the natural sciences, engineering and technology, medical and health sciences, agricultural sciences, social sciences, and humanities to submit papers on sustainable policies, sustainable business, and sustainable social science. We publish
- original research articles,
- theoretical papers,
- position papers,
- reviews,
- communications,
- short notes, and
- research proposals and research ideas.
Electronic files, media, or software regarding the details of the research, calculations, and procedures can be deposited as supplementary material.
There are no restriction on the length of the papers.
Scope
Sustainable Business, Economics, and Management
- Sustainable products and service
- Life-cycle management and thinking
- Management aspects in sustainable production and consumption
- Corporate sustainability and corporate social responsibility
- Socioeconomic metabolism
- Circular economy
- Industrial symbiosis and eco-industrial parks
- Wealth concentration
- Geo-economic shifts
- Sustainable finance
- Labor and capital mobility
Sustainable Social Sciences
- Sustainable community development, resilience, and adaptation
- Social responsibility
- Social justice
- Cultural competence
- Community resilience
- Environmental governance
- Climate change mitigation
- Democracy, empowerment, and equality
- Digitalization of services, work, employment
- Consequences of AI and robotics
- Peace and conflict
- Natural disasters
- Homelessness
- Poverty and exclusion
- Human relationship to nature
- Migration and refugees
- The future of public health
- Globalism and populism
Sustainable Policies
- Resources policies
- Environmental policies
- Climate policies
- Economic policies
- Health policies
- Social and cultural policies
- Development cooperation
- Sustainable governance
MDPI Publication Ethics Statement
World is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add
high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate
authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in
such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications. MDPI works with Publons to provide reviewers with credit for their work.
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