No. 11 (2014)

Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development is an online journal dedicated to promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on sustainable development. This journal aims to bring students, researchers, professors, and practitioners from a variety of disciplines and geographical regions in direct conversation with each other through an online, academically rigorous medium. Consilience publishes scholarly articles, opinion pieces, field notes, editorial columns and photo essays. By providing a public platform for discussion, we hope to encourage a global community to think more broadly, thoroughly, and analytically about sustainable development.  The journal is run by a team of undergraduate and graduate students, under the guidance of faculty from Columbia University in the City of New York.

Consilience draws submissions from across five continents. We have published or are currently editing submissions from:

• Europe – Denmark, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, United Kingdom
• Asia – China, India, Malaysia, Palestine, Philippines
• Africa – Burkina Faso, Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda
• Oceania – Australia, New Zealand
• Latin America – Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela
• United States of America

Typically, more than 50% of our submissions are from outside the USA.

In Issue 6 (Summer 2012), roughly 1/3rd of our authors were academics and researchers, 1/3rd were graduate students and 1/3rd were undergraduate students.