Abstract
We have had an exciting year at Sustainability and Climate Change! We launched new article categories, a podcast series, and are looking forward to our inaugural student issue in 2023, with a pending call for submissions. Further, our Scopus cite score increased and is presently 2.3.
With the August through December issues of the Journal, we will maintain inclusivity in disciplinary representation in our articles and focus on highlighting and addressing issues related to sustainability. Our focus is on promoting understanding and facilitating solution-minded policy. We are especially interested in submissions that provide a viewpoint or commentary for which research continues to be emerging. For articles, we are looking for new and emerging issues.
In this issue we address the limitations of policy that is not holistic in its implementation or review, with a Viewpoint on the rebound effect. The Commentary from Yoram Bauman highlights how policy can address climate change, while the Perspective from Rebecca Lynn Maniglia addresses the role of education, as defined by bell hooks, and how it can foster social change.
We feature two Book Reviews, Ecuador's Environmental Revolutions: Ecoimperialists, Ecodependents, and Ecoresisters and Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving. The author of the latter, Peter Norton, is in our podcast series, which is accessible on the Journal's home page.
Our articles in August provide insight on sustainability and its various complexities in application from the development of natural dyes to the creation of village enterprises. We also include a literature review of the challenges related to sustainability surfaced by the Covid-19 pandemic. This issue also provides insight into how physics can integrate sustainability in both teaching and learning.
I hope you will find the issue of interest and look forward to hearing any comments you would like to share. Thank you for your readership!
Madhavi Venkatesan, PhD
Editor-in-Chief