New IChemE Journal to focus on sustainability
10th December 2014
The importance of sustainability in sectors as diverse as retail, tourism, transport, health, food, energy, construction and the chemical and process industries is the subject of a new academic journal to be published by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), in partnership with Elsevier.
Sustainable Production and Consumption (SPC) will be introduced in 20151 and managed by editor-in-chief, Adisa Azapagic, professor of sustainable chemical engineering at the University of Manchester, UK.
Adisa will be joined on the editorial board by leading experts from Denmark, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and the USA.2
IChemE has been publishing journals since 1923 and SPC joins four other leading journals published by IChemE, including Chemical Engineering Research and Design (CHERD), Process Safety and Environmental Protection (PSEP), Food and Bioproducts Processing (FBP), and Education for Chemical Engineers (ECE).
SPC has been established to provide a leading platform for publishing high-quality interdisciplinary papers on research and practice in the field.
Papers from all fields of engineering, natural and social sciences as well as humanities are encouraged to share their ideas, policy perspectives and thoughts on the emerging field of sustainable production and consumption.
“The interdisciplinarity is particularly important as sustainability issues associated with production and consumption are not purely engineering or social science problems – they are ‘wicked’ problems. Solving ‘wicked’ problems requires understanding both the technical complexity and social intricacy within wider environmental, economic and political frameworks.
“So far, the field of sustainable production has been largely confined to engineering and natural sciences while sustainable consumption is mainly in the realm of social sciences. This journal aims to break these disciplinary barriers by providing a world-leading forum for discussing sustainability issues from different perspectives, helping to identify sustainable solutions for both production and consumption.”
IChemE works in partnership with Elsevier, the world’s leading provider of science and health information, to publish its journals. All five journals are available in print format and online from ScienceDirect, Elsevier's online full-text scientific database.
From 2015, for the first time, all 40,000 IChemE members worldwide will have free online access to all five journals.