Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales

Nat. Soc.: Desafíos Medioambient. | eISSN 2805-8631

About the Journal

Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales
Nat. Soc.: Desafíos Medioambient.
eISSN 2805-8631
since 2021

 

 

Aims and scope

Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales is a diamond open access* journal published by the Vice-Presidency of Research and Creation of the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia. In the context of the environmental crisis facing the planet, and given the importance of research and publications on this issue, we seek to contribute to current discussions with high-quality content edited and published by a Latin American journal. Addressing environmental problems and challenges requires the participation of all researchers who, from different subject areas and multiple approaches, reflect on the nature/human being relationship. This is why Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales is a multi- and interdisciplinary journal and a university project (rather than a school, department, or center one).

Aiming to participate in regional and international debates on this topic, the journal seeks to publish original articles of excellent academic quality produced in Latin America and other parts of the world. It releases three issues per year, as well as just-accepted and ahead-of-print articles** on a regular basis. Proposals can be submitted in Spanish, English, or Portuguese, bilingual versions are also received; article metadata is always published in these three languages. With the purpose of giving our readers access to valuable content written in a language other than those mentioned above, the journal will consider translating it for publication.

It is aimed at academics, educators, researchers, and professionals interested in the nature-human relationship, especially those focused on global environmental challenges and issues. Given its interdisciplinary approach and commitment to analyzing these challenges from various perspectives, its audience also includes students and experts from fields such as environmental sciences, biology, ecology, geography, environmental economics, sociology, and anthropology, among other related disciplines.

In the same spirit of contributing in a comprehensive manner to contemporary discussions involving nature, the environment, and society, the journal seeks to enrich its issues by making room for another type of content in an academic dissemination section we have called Dialogues. Its contents are aimed at diverse audiences; multiple actors can submit Dialogues content, since the objective here is to promote dialogue on topics of broad interest to academics, communities, teachers, students, public policymakers, among others. Dialogues section has an ample typology: we publish interviews, papers, short reflection articles, working papers, partial research results, photo essays, and commented exhibitions, among others, which can be in text or multimedia format.

 

Thematic coverage

The thematic coverage of Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales is broad in scope. Although the following is not an exhaustive list, these are some of the topics that can be covered by the journal; nevertheless, contents examining other related issues might also be considered.

Environmental policy, governance, economics, and law

Social sciences, humanities, and environment

Health and environmental natural and exact sciences

Studies on sustainability

Bioethics

 

* Diamond open access consists of offering the journal’s contents to the public without charging authors or institutions for publication nor readers for accessing them. In addition, Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales offers its content to the public under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Creative Commons license, which means we allow users to share our content (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) if and only if they comply with the following terms:

For details on permitted usage, users must visit the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license description on the Creative Commons website: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

Authors who publish in Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales retain author's rights over their works and grant us authorization to publish them in the journal. Also, they declare that they know, understand, and accept that Naturaleza y Sociedad. Desafíos Medioambientales is available to end users under the Creative Commons license Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Likewise, in turn, users may access and read the journal’s content, as well as share it, if and only if they comply with the terms of use of said license (see section "Open access and CC licence" in our Editorial Policy). Since the journal is published in Colombia, it adheres to author's rights as established in Decisión Andina 351 de 1993 and Colombia’s Ley 23 de 1982.

** The journal implements three forms of scholarly research publication: just-approved, ahead-of-print, and regular issues. Just-approved articles are studies submitted to the journal that have undergone peer review and been approved for publication. For these cases, the journal releases the metadata of the contents (title, author/authors, abstract, and keywords). Ahead-of-print publications are articles that have already been peer-reviewed, are in their final version, and are published on the journal’s website ahead of the issue that will finally contain them. Lastly, there are articles published in a regular issue according to the periodicity of the journal.