Aims & Scope

Next Gen World Reviews (NGWR) is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to advancing knowledge and practice in sustainability through authoritative review articles, mini-reviews, and perspectives. The journal serves as a platform for researchers, educators, practitioners, policymakers, and industry leaders to synthesize evidence, identify knowledge gaps, and chart future directions for a just, climate-resilient, and resource-efficient world.

Aims
• To publish high-quality review articles (systematic, scoping, narrative), mini-reviews, meta-analyses, and perspectives that consolidate and critically appraise the state of knowledge in sustainability and allied fields.
• To facilitate exchange between academia, industry, government, and civil society by translating complex findings into actionable insights.
• To promote interdisciplinarity by integrating environmental, technological, economic, health, and social dimensions of sustainability.
• To highlight emerging methods, data resources, standards, and ethics for robust sustainability research and practice.
• To support open science by ensuring free and permanent access to scholarly syntheses and by encouraging transparent, reproducible review methods.

Scope
The journal welcomes contributions in, but not limited to, the following areas:

1. Climate & Earth Systems
   — Climate change mitigation, adaptation, and loss-and-damage
   — Carbon accounting, negative emissions, and nature-based solutions
   — Climate risk assessment, resilience metrics, and disaster risk reduction

2. Energy & Decarbonization
   — Renewable energy systems, storage, smart grids, and demand management
   — Energy efficiency in buildings, industry, and transport
   — Hydrogen, CCUS, and hard-to-abate sectors

3. Water, Oceans & Cryosphere
   — Integrated water resources management, groundwater, and watershed governance
   — Urban water, sanitation, and wastewater valorization
   — Marine/coastal systems, blue economy, and ocean conservation

4. Agriculture, Food Systems & Land Use
   — Sustainable/precision agriculture, agroecology, and regenerative practices
   — Food security, nutrition, and resilient value chains
   — Land restoration, soil health, and sustainable forestry

5. Circular Economy & Sustainable Materials
   — Product life-cycle assessment (LCA), eco-design, and extended producer responsibility
   — Waste prevention, reuse, recycling, and upcycling
   — Green chemistry, bio-based and low-carbon materials, critical minerals

6. Biodiversity & Nature Conservation
   — Conservation planning, protected areas, and ecosystem services
   — Invasive species, biosecurity, and genetic resources
   — Human–wildlife coexistence and landscape connectivity

7. Urban Sustainability & Built Environment
   — Low-carbon cities, transit-oriented development, and green infrastructure
   — Healthy buildings, heat mitigation, and climate-resilient housing
   — Digital twins, urban analytics, and nature-based urban solutions

8. Public Health, Equity & Well-being
   — Planetary health, One Health, and environmental epidemiology
   — Air quality, heat stress, and occupational/environmental exposures
   — Just transitions, gender and social inclusion, and community resilience

9. Economics, Finance & Business
   — Sustainable finance, ESG, and impact measurement
   — Green industrial policy, jobs, and innovation systems
   — Behavioral economics and sustainable consumption/production

10. Policy, Governance & Law
    — International agreements, national strategies, and local governance
    — Environmental law, compliance, and enforcement
    — Monitoring, reporting, verification (MRV), and transparency frameworks

11. Data, Methods & Decision Support
    — Systematic-review methods, evidence synthesis, and causal inference
    — Modeling, scenarios, integrated assessment, and uncertainty analysis
    — Remote sensing, GIS, machine learning, and open data infrastructures

12. Education, Communication & Extension
    — Sustainability curricula, capacity building, and professional training
    — Science communication, knowledge translation, and stakeholder engagement
    — Citizen science, participatory approaches, and indigenous/local knowledge

Article Types
• Review Article (comprehensive, critical synthesis)
• Mini-Review (focused synthesis on a narrow topic or method)
• Systematic Review / Meta-analysis (protocol-driven, reproducible)
• Scoping Review (mapping the evidence base)
• Perspective (expert viewpoint on emerging trends, policy, or methods)

Audience
NGWR is intended for researchers and educators; sustainability and ESG professionals; engineers and planners; healthcare and public-health practitioners; policymakers and regulators; NGOs and community leaders; and graduate students seeking rigorous, accessible syntheses that inform research, innovation, and decision-making.