Frontiers in Sustainability  aims to empower scientists to become far more involved in the sustainability discussion and ensure that their research results are openly and freely accessible to other researchers, industries and policy makers.  

The journal will contribute in advancing Goal 8, 9 and 12 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals through publishing research and policy papers on:  

- Sustainable consumption and production patterns 

- Decoupling economic growth from environmental degradation 

- Managing resources sustainably in a life cycle perspective for products and services 

- Shifting to climate-friendly circular models of manufacturing

- Building resilient infrastructure, innovative, inclusive and sustainable industrialization

This transdisciplinary journal brings various disciplines and sciences together to foster a holistic and integrated approach to a multidisciplinary discourse, addressing complex adaptive systems engineering, sustainable process design, practical production, environmental, resource use and sustainability challenges that cannot be tackled in isolation. 

Policy papers will bridge scientific discoveries with policy options and analysis, whereas Practice Papers will bridge scientific knowledge with the assessment of the application of specific practices, processes, technology or resources. 

With Open Science, every scientific discovery and every new technology can become a building block for further innovation. Open science allows us to leverage global scientific output and the collective intelligence of scientific communities to combine innovations in unimaginable ways, generating new discoveries, new technologies and new sustainability solutions.