Climate resilience and sustainability: Objectives and aspirations

We are pleased to present Climate Resilience and Sustainability (CRS), an exciting new journal that is right for this decade century. The online only open access, reflecting our goal make the papers available everyone. aiming fast publication, while ensuring a robust peer-review process. published as joint effort between Royal Meteorological Society Wiley. With accelerating climate change impacts, effective action requires bringing together sound knowledge from multiple disciplines well “on ground” practice. CRS aims publish such interdisciplinary research practice scale-up solutions actions. would also like receive reflect co-production of knowledge. Our motivation establish reflects in focus over past few decades physical aspects science resilient sustainable development. In early 1980s, was on detecting changes atmosphere ocean, using models understand these changes. Sophisticated were developed atmosphere–ocean systems project likely specific variables atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration, air/ocean temperatures, precipitation. By 1990s, shown be affecting societies ecosystems. To this, by late Intergovernmental Panel Change (IPCC) made title Working Group II Report “Impacts, Adaptations Mitigation Change: Scientific-Technical Analyses” Adaptation Vulnerability.” This heralded increased vulnerability, resilience sustainability people, ecosystems, economies. IPCC Synthesis Reports highlighted need development pathways. other discussion within United Nations, Millennium Development Goals evolved into 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development. Collectively strengthened emphasis part ambitions all countries. Original Research Articles: These articles aim capture extensive change, resilience, countries communities. across disciplines—for example, sciences, biology/ecology, social behavioral engineering, economics—of relevance sustainability. Policy Practice Notes: notes findings plethora programs projects put (rather than itself) enhance physical, ecological, socioeconomic systems. Sharing good way will help improve economies, ecosystems different parts world. Notes could include implementation policies at national local level, how institutions have been work sectors ensure effort. Review specifically designed authors reviews has progressed where things might heading next decades. three categories bring researchers practitioners range relevant single readership. certain process find timely world being affected escalating impacts activities. planning special issues challenges or regions sectors. already planned production, country level assessment toward Brazil, China, UK. There topic-based planned. one “Is should distinguished ‘good’ development?” Also, “How who pay cost resilience?”, communities implement increasing onto their development? As Editors-in-Chief, we very international, diverse, multidisciplinary, Editorial Board journal. delighted Advisory international leaders fields guide direction look forward receiving your CRS—an access accepts submissions free format—with welcome ideas issues.