TC/ESG25 Publication Opportunities
The Transformations Community and Earth System Governance Project are offering conference attendees several opportunities to publish their work in respected journals. These publication pathways provide valuable avenues to share your research and practice insights with academic and practitioner communities beyond the conference.
Global Sustainability
Sustainability Transformations Towards Justice and Equity: Navigating diversity across space and time
This Special Collection encourages submissions that speak to the diversity of contexts, histories, geographies and practices where sustainability transformations are being pursued, enabled, contested, and subjugated. It aims to unpack questions of transformations to what, and how we generate evidence of these just and equitable transformations to sustainable futures? We see the need to advance the empirical link between justice and transformations as an important contribution.
Global Sustainability is an open-access journal focused on the rapidly growing field of global sustainability research. It examines the impacts of human social and economic pressures on the Earth system, with an emphasis on planetary and societal resilience and solutions for transformative societal change. The journal publishes interdisciplinary original research, reviews, and commentaries on how human activities interact with Earth system dynamics.
Submission Details:
- Submission deadline: February 28, 2026
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
A journal publishing invited reviews offering innovative perspectives and synthesis on environmental sustainability with emphasis on systemic transformations. We encourage submissions that reflect sustainability transformations’ dynamic and interdisciplinary nature, particularly those that connect to the conference themes.
Submission Details:
- Proposal Submission: Ongoing
- Submit one-paragraph abstract to: brugo@colorado.edu
- Abstracts reviewed by editorial board for alignment with themes. Editorial Manager will contact accepted authors with official invitation
Earth Stewardship
If you would like to submit a review or synthesis article grounded in your TC/ESG 25 presentation or T-lab, consider contributing it to the Transformations Community’s special issue in Earth Stewardship Journal. Earth Stewardship publishes applied and theoretical articles to promote a broad, intercultural, and participatory foundation for earth stewardship.
The journal covers thematic areas including: biocultural conservation, sustainable development goals, environmental governance, community-based approaches, social innovation, and action-oriented intercultural dialogues and collaborations.
Submission Details:
- Abstract submissions: Ongoing until September 2025
- Full papers due: January 2026
- Publication expected: 2026
- Contact: Bruce Goldstein at brugo@colorado.edu
- Requirements: Must present at TC/ESG25 conference; priority given to papers addressing conference themes
- Type of Opportunity: themes session issue
Earth System Governance Publications
Ongoing Opportunities
We’re excited to offer several publication opportunities through the four Earth System Governance (ESG) Project’s flagship outlets. These platforms provide excellent visibility for cutting-edge research and contributions to the ESG community. Explore the options below:
Earth System Governance journal
This open-access, highly-ranked flagship journal welcomes innovative research from the earth system governance research community and other scholars, including research articles, authoritative state-of-the-art reviews, novel data insights, book reviews, and provocative perspectives. The journal has over the years also published several special issues compiled by taskforces or working groups of the ESG Project. Learn more about the journal, editorial team, author guidelines, and how to submit your work:
MIT Press Book Series on Earth System Governance
This series publishes key research findings from members of the Earth System Governance Project and others, with a preference for cutting-edge monographs.
Cambridge University Press Earth System Governance Harvesting Series
This series highlights synthesis volumes and major research findings from across the ESG Project.
Cambridge Elements in Earth System Governance
Blending academic insight with policy relevance, this series offers a platform for compact, impactful publications that advance transformative ideas towards better governance.
MIT Press Book Series on Earth System Governance
This series publishes key research findings from members of the Earth System Governance Project and others, with a preference for cutting-edge monographs.
Cambridge Elements in Earth System Governance
Blending academic insight with policy relevance, this series offers a platform for compact, impactful publications that advance transformative ideas towards better governance.
Cambridge University Press Earth System Governance Harvesting Series
This series highlights synthesis volumes and major research findings from across the ESG Project.
We encourage all interested scholars to explore these opportunities and consider submitting their work for publication following the conference.
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TC/ESG25 Conference
Aug 18–21, 2025
Johannesburg, South Africa
TCX-York
June 25–27, 2025
University of York, UK
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