IREES Colloquium: Publishing Sustainability Research | Prof. Monica Contestabile

Speaker: Prof. Monica Contestabile, Chief Editor at Nature Sustainability

Title:  Publishing sustainability research

Abstract:  The seminar will cover the main features of sustainability research and the associated challenges of publishing such research in academic journals; it will then present examples of published articles in Nature Sustainability and briefly introduce the editorial approach of the journal.

Registration: If you would like to attend this event, please send an email to irees rug.nl.

Monica joined the Nature family in 2011 as a Senior Editor at Nature Climate Change, where she handled original research and review articles across the entire breadth of social sciences, and interdisciplinary articles integrating natural and social science disciplines in the context of climate and global environmental change. She became the launching Chief Editor of Nature Sustainability in 2016.

Monica completed her doctoral studies in environmental and development economics at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy; she then held a visiting professor position at University Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico, and subsequently joined the sustainable consumption team at WWF-UK where she gained invaluable experience about the challenges of bridging the gap between research and policy domains.