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 environmental issues. World provides an advanced forum for engaging with local, regional, national, and international trends, challenges, conflicts, and opportunities relating to sustainability, adaptation, and the 4th Industrial Revolution. It publishes original research articles, reviews, and communications, as well as Special Issues.
World encourages researchers to engage with and publish theoretical and empirical research on complex topics relating to societal transitions in a balanced and unprejudiced manner. The journal has no restriction on the maximum length of the papers.
Scope
We encourage scholars from the natural sciences, engineering sciences, social sciences, health sciences, and humanities to submit papers relating to sustainability, resilience, adaptation, conflict, and innovation in the following areas:
- Economic and business development;
- Urban development;
- Rural development;
- Agricultural economy;
- Sustainable tourism;
- Green development;
- International development;
- Social change;
- Social science;
- Climate change;
- Food and Energy security;
- Migration;
- Environmental policy;
- Water–energy–food nexus.
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