People and Nature

People and Nature is a broad scope open access journal of the British Ecological Society, published by Wiley since 2019 and devoted to relational thinking about human-nature interactions, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 5.8.《人与自然》（People and Nature）是英国生态学会主办、由（Wiley）出版的宽口径开放获取期刊，2019 年创刊，专注以关系性思维研究人与自然的互动，2025 年期刊影响因子为 5.8。

Scope

• The journal defines itself as a journal of relational thinking, concerned with the interactions, connections and processes that mutually constitute people and nature.本刊自我定位为关系性思维的期刊，关注那些相互构成「人」与「自然」的互动、联系与过程。
• Submissions must treat both the people and the nature dimensions rigorously and must provide insight into their interaction from both sides.稿件须同时严谨处理「人」与「自然」两个维度，并从两侧提供对其互动的洞见。
• Work should be rooted in and positioned to advance a relational theory, concept or framework rather than merely report a case.研究应植根于某种关系性理论、概念或框架，并以推进该理论为目标，而非仅报告一个案例。
• Conceptual, theoretical, modelling, analytical and review approaches are all welcomed, as are qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodologies.概念性、理论性、建模、分析与综述路径均受欢迎，定性、定量与混合方法同样如此。
• Highly innovative and experimental formats are invited, including work that stimulates debate rather than settles it.期刊欢迎高度创新与实验性的写法，包括意在激发而非终结讨论的研究。
• Case studies are accepted only when they are clearly situated in a wider context and their wider relevance is made explicit.案例研究只有在清楚置于更大背景、并明确说明其更广泛意义时才被接受。
• Writing must be accessible to readers beyond a single discipline, and papers that only speak to a narrow specialist audience are discouraged.写作须让单一学科之外的读者也能理解，仅面向狭窄专家群体的论文不受鼓励。

History

• The journal was launched by the British Ecological Society in 2019 as a title focused on the human dimension of ecology rather than on ecological science alone.本刊由英国生态学会于 2019 年创办，定位为关注生态学中「人的维度」而非仅限生态科学的刊物。
• Its founding editors argued that understanding of people-nature relations had moved from impact and exploitation towards a more dynamic model of management for benefits.其创刊编辑认为，人们对人与自然关系的理解已从「影响与开发」转向更为动态的「为获取惠益而管理」的模式。
• Kai Chan, Rosemary Hails and Cecily Maller were among the lead editors at launch, and the journal was designed from the outset as fully open access with no subscription barrier.Kai Chan、Rosemary Hails 与 Cecily Maller 是创刊阶段的主导编辑，期刊自设计之初即为完全开放获取，不设订阅门槛。
• The founding team positioned the journal as a home for qualitative and interpretative research that struggled to find space in sustainability and environment titles.创刊团队把本刊定位为定性研究与解释性研究的归宿，这类工作在可持续性与环境类期刊中往往难以找到版面。
• The 2025 impact factor is 5.8, against 4.9 in 2024 and 7.5 in 2022, and the journal ranks fifth of 77 in biodiversity conservation.2025 年影响因子为 5.8，2024 年为 4.9，2022 年为 7.5，在生物多样性保护类 77 种期刊中位列第 5。
• Each paper is accompanied by a plain language summary, a format the society uses across its portfolio to reach practitioners and policy readers.每篇论文均附通俗语言摘要，这是该学会在其系列期刊中通行的做法，用以触达实践者与政策读者。

Editors

• Kevin J. Gaston, professor of biodiversity and conservation at the University of Exeter, is editor-in-chief and works on human-nature interactions, common ecology and nighttime ecology.埃克塞特大学生物多样性与保护教授 Kevin J. Gaston 担任主编，研究人与自然互动、常见物种生态学与夜间生态学。
• Six lead editors, Robert Fish, Rachelle Gould, Stefan Partelow, Tobias Plieninger, Andrea Rawluk and Helen Roy, handle manuscripts across the social and natural sciences.Robert Fish、Rachelle Gould、Stefan Partelow、Tobias Plieninger、Andrea Rawluk 与 Helen Roy 六位主导编辑分担横跨社会科学与自然科学的稿件。
• The lead editors come from environmental social science, geography and sustainability studies as well as ecology, which matches the journal's interdisciplinary remit.主导编辑分别来自环境社会科学、地理学、可持续性研究与生态学，与期刊的跨学科定位相契合。
• The journal is owned by the society and published by Wiley on a fully open access basis, so no part of its content sits behind a subscription.本刊由学会所有，委托（Wiley）以完全开放获取方式出版，任何内容都不置于订阅墙之后。
• Authors must justify why their question requires a relational framing, and each article carries a plain language summary written for readers outside the field.作者须论证其问题为何需要关系性框架，每篇文章还附有面向领域外读者撰写的通俗语言摘要。
• The journal publishes special features and cross journal collections, some of which are guest edited by researchers outside the standing board.本刊出版专题组合与跨刊合集，其中部分由常设编委之外的研究者担任客座编辑。