Global Environmental Change-human and Policy Dimensions

Global Environmental Change is a peer-reviewed international journal published by Elsevier, first published in 1990, that examines the human and policy dimensions of global environmental change through the social sciences, and it holds a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 9.3《全球环境变化：人类与政策维度》（Global Environmental Change）是爱思唯尔（Elsevier）出版的同行评审国际期刊，1990 年创刊，从社会科学视角考察全球环境变化的人类与政策维度，2025 年影响因子为 9.3。

Scope

• The journal publishes theoretically grounded and empirically rigorous research on the human and policy dimensions of global environmental change该刊发表理论扎实、实证严谨的全球环境变化人类与政策维度研究。
• It examines environmental change as a biophysical, socially produced and politically mediated process shaped by institutions, governance, power relations and inequalities该刊将环境变化视为受制度、治理、权力关系与不平等塑造的生物物理、社会生成且政治中介的过程。
• Submissions must make a significant social science contribution来稿须作出显著的社会科学贡献。
• Analytical frameworks include governance studies, institutional analysis, political economy, political ecology, justice frameworks and decision sciences分析框架包括治理研究、制度分析、政治经济学、政治生态学、正义框架与决策科学。
• Relevant disciplines range from geography, political science, sociology and anthropology to STS, development studies, economics and environmental humanities相关学科从地理学、政治学、社会学与人类学到（STS）、发展研究、经济学与环境人文。
• Areas of interest include climate mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity governance, land use change, food systems, water and oceans, urban change, Indigenous knowledges and energy transitions关注领域包括气候减缓与适应、生物多样性治理、土地利用变化、食物系统、水与海洋、城市变化、原住民知识与能源转型。
• Qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods and spatial research are all welcomed该刊欢迎定性、定量、混合方法与空间研究。

History

• Global Environmental Change was first published in 1990 and is now issued quarterly by Elsevier, having begun with Butterworth-Heinemann《全球环境变化》于 1990 年首次出版，起初由（Butterworth-Heinemann）发行，现由（Elsevier）按季刊出版。
• It carries the print identifier 0959-3780 and the electronic identifier 1872-9495 and is registered under the CODEN GECHET其印刷刊号为 0959-3780、电子刊号为 1872-9495，并登记有（CODEN GECHET）。
• Past editors include Ken Mitchell, Martin Parry, Andrew Goudie, Neil Adger, Katrina Brown, Mike Hulme, Declan Conway, Jon Barnett, Mark New and Karen Seto历任编辑包括（Ken Mitchell）、（Martin Parry）、（Andrew Goudie）、（Neil Adger）、（Katrina Brown）、（Mike Hulme）、（Declan Conway）、（Jon Barnett）、（Mark New）与（Karen Seto）。
• A new editorial team led by Co-Editors-in-Chief Eduardo S. Brondizio and Maria Carmen Lemos was appointed around 2021约 2021 年组建了由共同主编（Eduardo S. Brondizio）与（Maria Carmen Lemos）领衔的新编辑部。^[1]
• Its Journal Impact Factor moved from 9.523 in 2021 and 11.16 in 2022 to 9.1 in 2024 and 9.3 in 2025其影响因子由 2021 年的 9.523 与 2022 年的 11.16 变为 2024 年的 9.1 与 2025 年的 9.3。
• The journal reports an acceptance rate of 4 percent and a median time of 17 days from submission to first decision该刊公布的接收率为 4%，来稿至初审决定的中位时间为 17 天。

Editors

• The Editors-in-Chief are Dabo Guan of Tsinghua University, Petra Tschakert of the National University of Singapore, Narasimha D. Rao of Yale University and Abigail York of Arizona State University主编为清华大学的（Dabo Guan）、新加坡国立大学的（Petra Tschakert）、耶鲁大学的（Narasimha D. Rao）与亚利桑那州立大学的（Abigail York）。
• Kathryn Westrich of Indiana University serves as managing editor（Indiana University）的（Kathryn Westrich）任执行编辑。
• The editorial board has about 45 members drawn from 18 countries, led by the United States with 12, the United Kingdom with 9 and Australia with 3编委会约有 45 位成员，来自 18 个国家，以美国 12 位、英国 9 位、澳大利亚 3 位居前。
• Editors prioritise work that advances social science theory and addresses justice and inequality across local and global scales编辑优先考虑推进社会科学理论并关注地方与全球尺度正义和不平等的工作。
• The journal is placed in the first quartile of the Geography category, ranked 4th of 174 titles该刊在地理学类位居第一四分位，于 174 种刊中排名第 4。