Forthcoming Special Issues

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy invites contributions that integrate science, practices, and policy, in original research, case studies, and policy analysis. Submissions should address social, economic, political, and biological/environmental interactions relevant to sustainability problems. The works should be grounded in specific research and be presented in language that is understandable across disciplines.

Integrating Insurgent Perspectives in Sustainability Studies

This special issue aims to bridge existing epistemic, geographic, and institutional divisions in sustainability social science and to forge mutual recognition and collaborative knowledge creation. We welcome contributions that cut across two or more of these (re)emergent perspectives. A partial list of salient questions at this frontier includes:

• What terminology might we employ to capture this cross-cutting assemblage of research and policy foci?
• What are effective ways to scale social innovations across political and cultural boundaries?
• Where are opportunities to develop a policy agenda centered on optimistic and imaginative visions of a post-growth/post-consumer society?
• What are the longer-range social and economic implications of the current transformation toward a post-Fordist consumer system?
• What might be the key tenets of a plan to facilitate a socio-technical transition from the present global financial system?
• How can current infrastructures be adapted to accommodate relocalized lifestyles?

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Sustainable Food Consumption: Current Trends, Policy Approaches, and Future Scenarios
Guest Editors: Lucia Reisch (Copenhagen Business School); Gerd Scholl (Institute for Ecological Economy Research); Michal Sedlacko (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

This special issue will focus on food consumption in the context of unsustainable environmental, health, social, and economic trends, although relevant supply-side issues will not be neglected. In particular, we welcome contributions that:

• Investigate existing trends toward sustainable food consumption (such as food waste, food and greenhouse-gas emissions, impacts of consuming animal-based products, food packaging, food preparation in households and institutions, organic food, functional food, etc.).
• Address consumer and behavioral aspects of sustainable food consumption, especially in relation to policy formulation and choice design.
• Analyze policy instruments oriented to the demand side of the food system and their potential for transferability to other countries.
• Assess the combined effects of (food and other) policy instruments on the way towards more integrated food policies and enhanced policy coherence.
• Examine the role of future scenarios and foresight studies in food-policy planning.

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