目前的意見期刊是由于認識到專家越來越難以跟上在其主題上發表的信息量不斷擴大的情況而發展起來的。在《環境可持續發展》的最新意見中，我們以系統的方式向讀者提供:1.專家對當前環境可持續性進展的觀點，以清晰易讀的形式提出。2.最有趣的論文的評估，由專家注釋，從大量的原始出版物。《當前環境可持續發展觀點》旨在通過整合區域和全球系統的典型維度、人類與環境的相互作用和管理挑戰，追蹤一門新的創新性可持續發展科學學科的出現。因此，當前的環境可持續發展觀點強調跨學科的可持續發展研究方法、解決方案及其傳播和應用。當前關于環境可持續性的觀點旨在激發科學的、跨學科的、多尺度的辯論和思想交流。它將包含拋光，簡潔和及時的審查和綜合論文。此外，《當前環境可持續性意見》將繼續發表關于未來地球戰略研究計劃和相關全球變化項目的論文(http://www.icsu.org/fuearth)。因此，它將成為研究人員、講師、教師、專業人員、決策者和學生的寶貴信息來源。環境可持續性的主題分為6個主題年度議題。每一個主題都有助于確定、理解和解決可持續性問題，并不是相互排斥的。這種重疊是由于將所有可持續性科學維度和方法結合起來的實際復雜性造成的。主題是:1.環境變化問題;2.環境變化評估;3.系統動力學和可持續性;4.可持續發展、治理和轉型;5.可持續發展的挑戰;6.可持續性科學。這套系統允許將自然科學與社會科學、人文學科和工程學科靈活地結合起來。主題集中在主要變化系統和問題(主題1 - 3),生成的新興學科間的可持續性科學在未來地球或作為進化的一部分,聯合國可持續發展目標(主題4和5)和更可持續發展科學的哲學反思的方法(主題6)。

The Current Opinion journals were developed out of the recognition that it is increasingly difficult for specialists to keep up to date with the expanding volume of information published in their subject. In Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, we help the reader by providing in a systematic manner:1.The views of experts on current advances in environmental sustainability in a clear and readable form.2.Evaluations of the most interesting papers, annotated by experts, from the great wealth of original publications.Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability aims to track the emergence of a new innovative sustainability science discipline by integrating across regional and global systems with their typical dimensions, human-environment interactions and management challenges. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability thus emphasises the actual interdisciplinary sustainability research approaches, the solutions it provides and their dissemination and application.Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability aims to stimulate scientifically grounded, interdisciplinary, multi-scale debate and exchange of ideas. It will contain polished, concise and timely review and synthesis papers. Additionally, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability will continue to publish papers on strategic research plans of Future Earth (http://www.icsu.org/future-earth) and related global-change projects. It will thus serve as an invaluable source of information for researchers, lecturers, teachers, professionals, policy makers and students.The subject of environmental sustainability is divided into 6 themed annual issues. Each theme helps to identify, understand and solve sustainability problems and are not mutually exclusive. The overlap results from the actual complexity of combining all the sustainability science dimensions and approaches. The themes are:1.Environmental change issues;2.Environmental change assessments;3.System dynamics and sustainability;4.Sustainability governance and transformation;5.Sustainability challenges; 6.Sustainability science.This set allows for flexible integration of natural sciences with the social sciences, humanities and engineering disciplines. The themes focus on major global-change systems and problems (Themes 1-3), the emerging new transdisciplinary sustainability science, as generated in Future Earth or as part of the evolving UN's sustainable development goals (Themes 4 and 5) and a more philosophical reflection on approaches of sustainability science (Theme 6).