About the Journal

Introduction

All over the world, efforts are being put in place to manage, preserve and maintain a certain harmony with nature though, many parts are still being faced with problems of pollution and degradation of nature-based resources. These are associated with such factors as exponential economic growth, growing populations, globalization, land degradation, invasive species and over-harvesting of resources. There are deep worries about new environmental problems on global or regional scales, such as climate change, acid deposition, industrialization, energy consumption, urbanization, natural resource degradation and poverty.

Sustainable development is explained as a principle for meeting human development goals while simultaneously sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services on which the economy and society depend. Always the environment and development is inseparable and the relationship between them is worth investigating. Getting information in developing world, especially the tropics where people depend directly on environmental resources such as forest, wildlife and mineral, becomes difficult. As a result, managing the environment viz-a-viz development is usually based on the limited information, intelligent guesses and adhoc decision making. In addition, most of the good and reliable research information are for sale at prices that are exorbitant for people in developing countries.

Against this background, there is the need for a journal that would collate, review and disseminate information on natural and environmental sciences, and sustainable development in the mist of accelerated development.  The main objective of this journal is to create a platform that would publish research, field notes and records, review articles and short communication of the broad spectrum of environment and sustainable development. The Journal would feature general and specialized research in order to fill the gaps in research in environmental and sustainable development all over the world. These include climate change, water resources, development, energy sustainability, energy economics and policy, urban architecture, natural resources and environmental economics, environmental policy and environmental science.

Peer reviewing process

A double-blind peer review is mandatory for processing all the manuscripts submitted to JESD We do not guarantee the publication of submitted manuscripts until the review process is done. Below is the peer review process:

  1. The editorial office receives the submission.
  2. The Managing Editor or responsible Associate Editor checks the paper against the journal’s aims and scope, plagiarism content, and compliance with the formal journal requirements.
  3. The editor discusses the list of potential reviewers with the Editorial Board members and then selects 2-3 experts and sends the manuscript for review. The reviewers are experts in the thematic content of the manuscript, and have no potential conflicts of interest with the authors. The members of the Editorial Board, the Editor-in-Chief, or the experts proposed by the authors may also serve as reviewers.
  4. The reviewer is notified about the inquiry to review the manuscript and may refuse this duty by clicking a link in the email. In the case of consent to peer-review, the reviewers read the paper and provide comments, suggestions, and recommendations (reject, revise, or accept). The Editorial office gives 4 -6 weeks for peer-reviewing.  The recommendations for the reviewers are provided below.
  5. The editor checks the reviews and sends them to the author(s), along with any extra guidance. The decision on the manuscript is made based on at least 2 reviews.
  6. The authors make amendments or dispute the reviewers' corrections reasonably and re-submit the manuscript. The authors are kindly recommended to limit their revision to 3 weeks. Kindly note that a positive review does not guarantee acceptance, as the final decision is made by the Editorial Board. If the author decides to withdraw the manuscript after peer-review, the editor must be notified about it verbally or by email. In case the author fails to re-submit the revised manuscript within 3 months after receiving an initial review without any warning, the editor withdraws the manuscript and notifies the author accordingly.
  7. If the Editorial office accepts the paper, it moves into the list for consideration by the Editorial Board. The Editorial Board considers the accepted papers for online publication. In some cases, the Editorial Board may return the manuscript to the authors for making additional amendments, providing reasonable remarks. 
  8. After approval of the manuscript for publishing, it is forwarded for laying out. The finished layout is sent to the author for proofreading. The time for proofreading is limited to 5 days, and if the corresponding author does not respond within this period, the Editorial office implies the absence of authors corrections in the paper.