環(huán)境發(fā)展為研究人員、研究生、決策者和管理人員提供面向未來、積極主動(dòng)、權(quán)威的信息和學(xué)習(xí)來源，并在基礎(chǔ)研究和管理及政策實(shí)踐應(yīng)用之間架起橋梁。它促進(jìn)傳統(tǒng)的環(huán)境科學(xué)知識(shí)與決策者和其他利益相關(guān)者之間的經(jīng)驗(yàn)知識(shí)的交流和耦合，并將自然科學(xué)與社會(huì)和行為科學(xué)聯(lián)系起來。環(huán)境發(fā)展包括和促進(jìn)非西方世界的科學(xué)工作，并加強(qiáng)發(fā)達(dá)國家和發(fā)展中國家之間的合作。此外，它將環(huán)境研究與更廣泛的經(jīng)濟(jì)和社會(huì)文化發(fā)展問題聯(lián)系起來，旨在縮短研究和出版之間的延誤，同時(shí)確保徹底的同行審查。環(huán)境發(fā)展也為跨國交流、討論和全球行動(dòng)創(chuàng)造了一個(gè)論壇。環(huán)境發(fā)展向廣泛的學(xué)科和作者開放。該雜志特別歡迎年輕一代研究人員的貢獻(xiàn)，以及拓展環(huán)境科學(xué)前沿、指出新方向和創(chuàng)新答案的論文。所有有關(guān)環(huán)境發(fā)展的意見書，均按質(zhì)素、創(chuàng)意、精確度、主題和見解的重要性、清晰的闡述等一般準(zhǔn)則進(jìn)行評(píng)審，務(wù)求符合《環(huán)境發(fā)展期刊》的宗旨和范疇。

Environmental Development provides a future oriented, pro-active, authoritative source of information and learning for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and managers, and bridges the gap between fundamental research and the application in management and policy practices. It stimulates the exchange and coupling of traditional scientific knowledge on the environment, with the experiential knowledge among decision makers and other stakeholders and also connects natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences. Environmental Development includes and promotes scientific work from the non-western world, and also strengthens the collaboration between the developed and developing world. Further it links environmental research to broader issues of economic and social-cultural developments, and is intended to shorten the delays between research and publication, while ensuring thorough peer review. Environmental Development also creates a forum for transnational communication, discussion and global action.Environmental Development is open to a broad range of disciplines and authors. The journal welcomes, in particular, contributions from a younger generation of researchers, and papers expanding the frontiers of environmental sciences, pointing at new directions and innovative answers.All submissions to Environmental Development are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, originality, precision, importance of topic and insights, clarity of exposition, which are in keeping with the journal's aims and scope.