World Development Sustainability
Last updated ISSN 2772-655X
World Development Sustainability is published by Elsevier BV in economics, econometrics and finance. It is open access. The article processing charge is $1,400.
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What it publishes
Recent work in World Development Sustainability concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Environmental Sustainability in Business
- Microfinance and Financial Inclusion
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
Key facts
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2772-655X |
| Subject area | Economics, Econometrics and Finance |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $1,400 |
| Indexed in | Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 353 |
| Publishing since | 2022 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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