Environment Development and Sustainability

Environment, Development and Sustainability is a Springer journal founded in 1999 that studies the environmental consequences of socio-economic development and the science of measuring sustainability, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 4.9.《环境、发展与可持续性》由（Springer）出版，1999 年创刊，研究社会经济发展带来的环境影响与可持续性的测度方法，2025 年期刊影响因子为 4.9。

Scope

• It starts from the environmental impacts of socio-economic development and from the interactions between development and environment.本刊以社会经济发展的环境影响为起点，关注发展与环境之间的相互作用。
• Sustainable use of land, water, energy and biological resources is a named area, framed as a resource question rather than a purely economic one.土地、水、能源与生物资源的可持续利用是明确列出的领域，按资源问题而非纯经济问题来处理。
• Agriculture and forestry enter through their effects on soil, aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity.农业与林业通过其对土壤、水生生态系统与生物多样性的影响进入刊物视野。
• Energy use and global climate change are examined for what they mean for development and for the durability of that development.能源利用与全球气候变化，则按其发展含义以及这种发展的持久性加以考察。
• Indicators of sustainability, their construction, verification and application, form a methodological core.可持续性指标的构建、验证与应用，构成本刊的方法学核心。
• Authors come from the biological sciences, agriculture, geology, meteorology, soil and water sciences, geography, nutrition and the physical sciences, and papers crossing several dimensions of sustainability are preferred.作者学科背景涵盖生物学、农学、地质学、气象学、土壤与水科学、地理学、营养学与物理科学，横跨多个可持续性维度的论文更受青睐。
• Policy instruments and their verification and monitoring are in scope, but tied to measurable environmental outcomes.政策工具及其验证与监测也在范围内，但须与可度量的环境结果挂钩。

History

• Volume 1, Issue 1 appeared in March 1999 under Kluwer Academic Publishers, opening with a two-page Editorial, and the founding articles still carry the 10.1023 DOI prefix.第 1 卷第 1 期于 1999 年 3 月出版，当时由（Kluwer Academic Publishers）发行，以一篇两页的社论开篇，创刊文章至今沿用 10.1023 的（DOI）前缀。^[1]
• The first volume was quarterly and ended with a combined issues 3-4, so only three issues carried 1999 content.首卷为季刊，末期为第 3–4 期合刊，因此 1999 年只出了三期。
• Kluwer merged with Springer in 2004, and the journal has since been published within Springer, now part of Springer Nature, with volume numbering unbroken since 1999.（Kluwer）于 2004 年与（Springer）合并，此后本刊在（Springer）体系内出版，现属（Springer Nature），卷号自 1999 年起未曾中断。
• It is now monthly, one volume of 12 issues a year, with volume 27 covering 2025 and volume 28 covering 2026.现为月刊，每年一卷 12 期，第 27 卷对应 2025 年，第 28 卷对应 2026 年。
• Publication is hybrid, with an open access charge of GBP 2,390, USD 3,290 or EUR 2,690, while the subscription route costs authors nothing.出版模式为混合开放获取，开放获取费用为 2390 英镑、3290 美元或 2690 欧元，订阅途径不向作者收费。
• The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 4.9, against 4.2 in 2024, 4.08 in 2022 and 3.219 in 2021, with a five-year impact factor of 5.0 and a median 21 days from submission to first decision.2025 年期刊影响因子为 4.9，2024 年为 4.2，2022 年为 4.08，2021 年为 3.219，五年影响因子为 5.0，投稿至首次决定的中位时间为 21 天。

Editors

• Jingzheng Ren, of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is Editor-in-Chief.主编为（Jingzheng Ren），任职于（Hong Kong Polytechnic University）工业与系统工程系。
• Six associate editors-in-chief share the work, namely Mohammad Al-Saidi at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar, Yi Man at South China University of Technology, Sandra Naomi Morioka at the Federal University of Paraiba in Brazil, Junnian Song at Jilin University, Sara Toniolo at the University of Verona and Qian Zhang at Queen's University in Canada.六位副主编分担日常工作，分别是卡塔尔（Hamad bin Khalifa University）的（Mohammad Al-Saidi）、（South China University of Technology）的（Yi Man）、巴西（Federal University of Paraiba）的（Sandra Naomi Morioka）、（Jilin University）的（Junnian Song）、（University of Verona）的（Sara Toniolo）与加拿大（Queen's University）的（Qian Zhang）。
• Shengfang Lu, also at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is Managing Editor.执行编辑为（Shengfang Lu），同样任职于（Hong Kong Polytechnic University）。
• The associate editors run past one hundred names, and a 22-member Editorial Board includes Rattan Lal of Ohio State University, Walter Leal Filho of HAW Hamburg and John W. Day of Louisiana State University.副编辑名单逾百人，另有 22 人的编委会，包括（Ohio State University）的（Rattan Lal）、（HAW Hamburg）的（Walter Leal Filho）与（Louisiana State University）的（John W. Day）。
• Okechukwu Ukaga of the University of Minnesota is Book Review Editor, so book reviews appear alongside research, review and discussion papers.（University of Minnesota）的（Okechukwu Ukaga）任书评编辑，因此书评与研究论文、综述、讨论稿一并刊出。
• The journal reports that more than half of its 2025 articles related to one or more of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, a focus it promotes through dedicated article collections.刊物称其 2025 年文章中有超过半数与联合国 17 项可持续发展目标中的一项或多项相关，并通过专题合集强化这一取向。