About the Journal

The Journal of Population and Sustainability – Aims and Objectives

The Journal of Population and Sustainability (JP&S) is the only interdisciplinary journal exploring all aspects of the relationship between human populations and environmental sustainability.

While encompassing the relationship between human demographic dynamics and environmental change, the journal's central concern is with the population–consumption–technology–environment nexus (PCTEN) more broadly. The JP&S is therefore interested in the exploration of how the absolute growth and spatial expansion of human populations, including the growth of populations of human 'stuff' (i.e., buildings, consumer goods, vehicles, crops, domesticated animals, etc.) are related to the core characteristics of the Anthropocene: the persistent and extensive human impact on different terrains, geophysical systems, ecosystems, and populations of other species.

However, the JP&S also considers the complex and uneven distribution of environmental impacts amongst human population groups. We therefore particularly welcome papers concerned with understanding how population dynamics and environmental change relate to inequalities of welfare, economic and political power, and access to technology. By the same token, papers considering the interactive influence of demographic, technological, social, political, cultural and behavioural factors on environmental impact and sustainability are also encouraged. Moreover, the journal also aims to be a forum for the discussion of conceptual, normative and ethical issues surrounding the idea of sustainability and human numbers.

The JP&S welcomes papers from any relevant field including the following:

• the population–consumption–technology–environment nexus (PCTEN)
• IPAT and its further development
• population and the economy
• population growth and resource throughput
• population growth and energy demand
• population growth and biodiversity
• population growth and climate change
• population growth and local environmental change
• population and global food security
• population and fresh water availability
• population and emerging diseases
• population projections
• sexual health and fertility
• population policies in both low and high fertility countries
• population ageing
• environmental change and migration
• urbanisation and environmental change
• cultural/behaviour change and its effects on sustainability in the context of the PCTEN
• population, development and environmental justice
• population ethics

The JP&S is entirely open access: we do not charge article processing fees and all content is freely available online (on this site) under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 Attribution Licence which grants authors the most extensive rights. The journal publishes both double blind peer reviewed papers and invited material. JP&S adheres to the publication standards and ethics shared by all White Horse Press publications. The journal does not print advertisements.

The JP&S was established in 2016 by campaigning environmental charity Population Matters as a forum to bring together scholars from diverse disciplines, stimulate discussion and further the development of research around the population–consumption–technology nexus. Since 2022 the JP&S has been published by The White Horse Press with two issues per year. It continues to be generously supported by Population Matters, which covers all production costs, but the journal remains entirely editorially independent and welcomes all perspectives on the relationship between human numbers and environmental change.

JP&S is now indexed by CAB International.

Preservation
All issues of The Journal of Population and Sustainability are preserved by Portico, and in LOCKSS via the PKP Preservation Network. Each article is therefore securely preserved for future readers, regardless of the journal's longer term status.

Correspondence
All enquiries regarding the journal may be sent to James or Sarah at White Horse Press (james [@] whpress.co.uk or Sarah [@] whpress.co.uk), or by post to:

The Journal of Population and Sustainability
c/o The White Horse Press
The Old Vicarage
Main Street
Winwick, Cambridgeshire PE28 5PN
UK

Complaints
We take pride in the fact that we have received hardly any complaints about our publishing process. If anything does go wrong, however, you can get in touch any time using the details here.