To celebrate IGU 100 and IYBSSD 2022, Geography and Sustainability journal are setting up a special issue on geography and sustainable development entitled “Geography in the Anthropocene: transforming our world for sustainable development”. we welcome all article types dealing with concepts, methods and practices of diverse geographical research topics related to sustainable development in the post-pandemic era across different scales (e.g., local, regional, continental, global). To address the significance of geography for promoting sustainable development, contributions reviewing the current state of knowledge, summarizing existing issues and challenges, and providing perspectives for future development in a certain field of geographical science for sustainable development in the post-pandemic era are particularly encouraged.

Please find the special issue call-for-papers announcement on journal homepage (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/geography-and-sustainability/call-for-papers/geography-in-the-anthropocene-transforming-our-world-for-sustainable-development). The journal’s submission platform (Editorial Manager®, https://www.editorialmanager.com/geosus) is now available for receiving submissions to this Special Issue. You are invited to submit your manuscript at any time before the submission deadline. For any inquiries about the appropriateness of contribution topics, please contact Prof. Wenwu Zhao via geosus@bnu.edu.cn.

The organizing committee is composed of researchers from university, academic association and journal editorial office.International Geographical Union Beijing Normal University The Geographical Society of China IGU Commission on Geography for Future Earth: Coupled Human-Earth Systems for Sustainability (IGU-GFE) Geography and Sustainability journal.

This special issue on geography and sustainable development will present the current state of knowledge, summarizing existing issues and challenges, and providing perspectives for future development in a certain field of geographical science for sustainable development. The outcome will be transformative for the local and regional SDGs implementation.

For more information, contact  Professor Zhao Wenwu:

or go to the website : https://www.journals.elsevier.com/geography-and-sustainability