The Journal “Sustainability Science” seeks to understand the mechanisms that damage the global, social and human systems and the linkages between them, exemplified by global environmental issues and threats to human security, and then to propose methods and visions for repairing these systems and linkages.

The Journal aims at establishing a new academic discipline “Sustainability Science” that can lead to a sustainable global society. The novelty of “Sustainability Science” will exist in its approach to a number of challenges that existing disciplines have not experienced. The challenges include, but are not limited to, simultaneous endeavor to understand phenomena and solve problems, uncertainty and the “precautionary principle”, simultaneous advancement of knowledge and problems, and trade-offs between the global and local problem solving.

The Journal promotes scientific predictions and the impact assessment of the global change. The journal also seeks the way to ensure that such predictions and assessment are understood and accepted by society and used to reform the social system. For this purpose, clear indicators and criteria should be created for sustainable restoration of global, social and human systems and their interactions. “Sustainability Science” is the journal to address such issues by establishing a transdisciplinary academic structure that fuses the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

The Journal consequently welcomes articles and reports on one of the following systems each of which needs to be maintained sustainable but in a comprehensive manner for attaining global sustainability. The systems include: “global systems” comprising resources, energy and ecosystems that support human life; “social systems” comprising national economies, governments, industries and technological structures; and “human systems” comprising individual lifestyles, health, security and safety, and human values. “Sustainability Science”, as a transdisciplinary journal, particularly encourages submission of articles and reports discussing the linkages and interaction between these systems.

The Journal, based on such researches and in collaboration with industry and society, strives for: restructuring recycling-oriented society; improvement of food and water security; tackling population problems; and mitigating global warming and transforming the socio-economic society into more sustainable one. The Journal therefore especially appreciates submissions containing future visions and policy recommendations for global sustainability devised through collaboration with industry and society.