Aims & Scope
The Interdisciplinary Journal of Sustainable Oceans and Coasts (IJSOC) is an international open-access online journal interrogating the interactions of earth systems in oceans and coastal zones.Aim: IJSOC will publish original research, reviews and perspective articles that aim to increase our understanding of the world’s complex oceans and the coastal zones that connect them to related land-based systems. In particular, it is intended that the articles published by the IJSOC community may help to develop and inspire action supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Safeguarding and augmenting the well-being of our oceans and coasts is imperative for our sustainable future, and so it is necessary to take collective action in order to make meaningful progress.
Scope: The sensitive interfaces between the vast, hidden expanses of the ocean and the diverse array of terrestrial landforms make up the coastal zone. Coastal zones are defined as the area over land impacted by processes starting over the oceans and the area over the ocean influenced by processes that start over land. In the context of earth systems, these processes are natural but can also be social, economic, political, public health, and security related. Marine and coastal zone processes influence the life of every human being either directly or indirectly through cascading consequences within the coupled human-natural earth system.
To allow for interdisciplinary interrogations of the earth system, IJSOC invites contributions that increase the understanding of complex marine and coastal systems and their overt and consequent impacts on society and the global environment. The journal seeks contributions that help mankind, as stewards of our Earth and of each other, to find innovative solutions on local, regional and global scales to foster sustainability and resiliency of our oceans and coasts.
Contributions are encouraged from a wide range of disciplines, including marine and coastal environmental science, engineering, social science, political science, economics, mathematics, physics, computer science, and security studies, that range from theoretical to applied and stakeholder driven. Especially encouraged are contributions demonstrating significant efforts in interdisciplinary capacity building toward convergent research to foster sustainability and resiliency of marine and coastal systems, develop solutions that improve environmental and human conditions, and implement solutions in collaboration with stakeholders.
World Scientific Publishing is a signatory to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact, with the commitment that its books and journals share discoveries that address the world’s challenges of sustainable development. World Scientific Publishing is committed to opening up research and sharing it widely so that it reaches audiences who need it to address grand challenges. For more World Scientific content related to the UN SDGs, see here:
https://www.worldscientific.com/page/sustainable-development-goals.