Two of the thorniest issues and common concerns of humankind in the third millennium are environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Lack of energy, drought, global warming, famine, poverty, and other natural and human-generated hazards are among the most important problems that affect most people in the world. One of the universal measures that human takes to overcome these problems is "Green Management" whose history can be traced back to the formation of the sustainable development discourse, known as the "Earth Summit", in 1992 AD.

Considerable experience and achievement on the part of governments and societies, particularly in developed countries, point to the fact that Green Management strategies are of particular importance in development at different levels. The significance attached to these strategies has brought the subject of “Green Management” to the forefront and has raised it as an interdisciplinary subject including a number of fields such as Geographical Sciences, Economics, Management, the Environment, Natural Resources, Agriculture, Civil Engineering, Electricity-Power, Sociology, Educational Sciences, etc.

Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and in cooperation with other national and international experts, thinkers, and researchers, the “Journal of Green Development Management Studies” in the Geography Department of the University of Birjand aims to provide a platform for exchanging and spreading experience, challenges, and solutions in developing the society.