Journal of Tropical Futures: Sustainable Business,Governance & Development

Situated between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, the regions that make up the tropics overlap significantly with what is commonly referred to as the Global South—encompassing diverse, rapidly transforming societies that are often positioned at the forefront of both development challenges and sustainability innovations. The Journal of Tropical Futures (JTF) seeks to represent and critically engage with the complex, heterogeneous realities of these contexts by examining the interrelationships between business, management, political economy, development, and the environment.

Foregrounding the Global South not merely as a geographical designation but as a set of historically and structurally situated conditions, JTF is attentive to the uneven distributions of power, resources, and vulnerability that shape development trajectories. We are particularly interested in the tensions between economic growth imperatives, the pursuit of social and material wellbeing, and the ecological constraints that increasingly define planetary limits.

Against this backdrop, JTF asks: how can the developmental aspirations of societies across the tropics and the wider Global South be realised in ways that are equitable, regenerative, and contextually grounded? What alternative forms of organising, stewardship, governance, and resource management can address these challenges while challenging dominant, often externally imposed, models of development? In doing so, the journal aims to foreground context-specific knowledge, plural epistemologies, and practice-oriented insights that contribute to more just and sustainable futures.