2018年1月14日下午，自然出版集团旗下新子刊Nature Sustainability举行首发仪式。该期刊主编为Monica Contestabile博士，据介绍该期刊旨在推动可持续发展领域的多学科交叉，除了基础研究之外，新刊还将发表关于应用性、问题解决性以及政策相关性的文章。

Nature Sustainability is a new online-only journal, publishing monthly from January 2018. Nature Sustainability will publish significant original research from a broad range of natural, social and engineering fields about sustainability, its policy dimensions and possible solutions. Understanding how to ensure the well-being of current and future generations within the limits of the natural world is the over arching goal of sustainability research. Decades of academic work have helped to shed light on this crucial issue, but only recently in a more open and joined-up way across different research fields. There is now a much stronger call for integrated knowledge about the Earth, social and technological systems and their interfaces, particularly from outside academia as shown by the global Sustainable Development Goals agenda promoted by the United Nations. Against this backdrop, researchers will find even stronger support to develop a deep understanding of those interactions and find answers to questions like:

Ø How extreme are the impacts of human actions on the natural environment and what are their implications for the continuation of life on Earth?

Ø Are there long-term solutions to environmental crises and of what kind?

Ø To what extent are environmental and human crises connected?

Ø Why do social inequalities and human suffering persist across the globe?

Ø How do we measure environmental and human well-being and track progress of policies and interventions to ensure it?

Ø What kinds of behavioural and institutional barrier inhibit the transformations needed to achieve more sustainable lifestyles, economies and societies more broadly?

The journal is particularlyinterested in research offering novel insights into these questions.

Nature Sustainability will cover topics including agriculture and food security, biodiversity conservation, circular economy, cities and urbanisation, climate change in holistic context, development, ecosystem services, education, energy, environmental behaviour, environmental degradation, environmental law, green infrastructure, health and environment, human population, innovation, land use and land use change, natural capital, natural resources management, policy, pollution, poverty, supply chain, waste, water–energy–food and water-soil-waste connections and others, all as relatedto sustainability. In addition to publishing original research and analyses, Nature Sustainability will publish Comment, Reviews, Perspectives, News & Views, Features and Correspondence from across the full range of disciplines concerned with sustainability. Part of the journal's mission is to facilitate a cross-disciplinary dialogue around sustainability issues, and narrow the gap between research and policy making.

Disciplines covered in the journal include:

Ø  Agronomy

Ø  Anthropology

Ø  Atmospheric Science

Ø  Biogeochemistry

Ø  Business Studies

Ø  Civil Engineering

Ø  Demography

Ø  Development Studies

Ø  Ecology

Ø  Economics

Ø  Education

Ø  Environmental Engineering

Ø  Environmental Health

Ø  Environmental Science

Ø  Epidemiology

Ø  Ethics

Ø  Finance

Ø  Forestry

Ø  Geography

Ø  Hydrology

Ø  Humanities

Ø  Industrial Ecology

Ø  Oceanography

Ø  Policy Studies

Ø  Political Science

Ø  Psychology

Ø  Public Policy

Ø  Science, Technology and Society

Ø  Sociology

Ø  Soil Science

Ø  Urban Science and Studies

Ø  Water Science and studies