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GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Human and Policy Dimensions AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK TABLE OF CONTENTS XXX . • Description p.1 • Audience p.1 • Impact Factor p.1 • Abstracting and Indexing p.2 • Editorial Board p.2 • Guide for Authors p.4 ISSN: 0959-3780 DESCRIPTION . Global Environmental Change is a peer-reviewed international journal publishing high quality, theoretically and empirically rigorous articles, which advance knowledge about the human and policy dimensions of global environmental change. The journal interprets global environmental change to mean the outcome of processes that are manifest in localities, but with consequences at multiple spatial, temporal and socio-political scales. The journal is interested in articles which have a significant social science component. These include articles that address the social drivers or consequences of environmental change, or social and policy processes that seek to address problems of environmental change. Topics include, but are not restricted to, the drivers, consequences and management of changes in: biodiversity and ecosystem services, climate, coasts, food systems, land use and land cover, oceans, urban areas, and water resources. Benefits to authors We also provide many author benefits, such as free PDFs, a liberal copyright policy, special discounts on Elsevier publications and much more. Please click here for more information on our author services. Please see our Guide for Authors for information on article submission. If you require any further information or help, please visit our Support Center AUDIENCE . Academics and researchers working in the policy sciences, environmental sciences and social sciences; policy makers and managers in government agencies, intergovernmental organizations that are affected by or concerned with global change; and organisations affected by or concerned with global environmental change strategies. IMPACT FACTOR . 2020: 9.523 © Clarivate Analytics Journal Citation Reports 2021 AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 24 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/gloenvcha 1 ABSTRACTING AND INDEXING . Sociological Abstracts Abstracts in Environmental Management Elsevier BIOBASE Environmental Periodicals Bibliography International Development Abstracts Pollution Abstracts Research Alert Web of Science Scopus EDITORIAL BOARD . Editors-in-Chief Eduardo Brondizio, Indiana University Bloomington Department of Anthropology, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America Maria Carmen Lemos, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America Managing Editor Neil Jennings, Imperial College London Grantham Institute, London, United Kingdom Editors Dabo Guan, Tsinghua University Department of Earth Sciences, Beijing, China Neil Jennings, Imperial College London Grantham Institute, London, United Kingdom Cheikh Mbow, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa Harini Nagendra, Azim Premji University School of Development, Bengaluru, India Communications Assistant Kathryn Michelle Benavidez Westrich, Indiana University Bloomington Department of Anthropology, Bloomington, Indiana, United States of America International Editorial Board Neil Adger, University of Exeter College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Exeter, United Kingdom Karen Bakker, The University of British Columbia Department of Geography, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Jon Barnett, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Elena Bennett, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Lea Berrang Ford, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Valentina Bosetti, Bocconi University, Milano, Italy Max Boykoff, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America Katrina Brown, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University Department of Geography, Durham, United Kingdom Ashwini Chhatre, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States of America Declan Conway, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom Thomas Dietz, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America Kristie Ebi, Climadapt LLC, Seattle, Washington, United States of America Rachael Garrett, ETH Zurich Institute for Environmental Decisions, Zurich, Switzerland Peng Gong, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Sonia Graham, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia David Huitema, VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands Louis Lebel, Unit for Social and Environmental Research Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand Aaron M. McCright, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States of America Patrick Meyfroidt, Catholic University of Louvain Earth and Life Institute, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium Tiffany H. Morrison, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, Townsville, Queensland, Australia Laura Nahuelhual Muñoz, University Austral of Chile, Valdivia, Chile David Obura, Coastal Oceans Research and Development, Indian Ocean, East Africa, Mombasa, Kenya Shonali Pachauri, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria Unai Pascual, Basque Center for Climate Change, Bilbao, Spain Belinda Reyers, University of Pretoria Future Africa, Pretoria, South Africa Heike Schroeder, University of East Anglia School of International Development, Norwich, United Kingdom Karen Seto, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 24 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/gloenvcha 2 Benjamin Sovacool, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom Swenja Surminski, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom Detlef Van Vuuren, Utrecht University Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht, Netherlands Elke U. Weber, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America AUTHOR INFORMATION PACK 24 Sep 2021 www.elsevier.com/locate/gloenvcha 3 GUIDE FOR AUTHORS . Your Paper Your Way We now differentiate between the requirements for new and revised submissions. You may choose to submit your manuscript as a single Word or PDF file to be used in the refereeing process. Only when your paper is at the revision stage, will you be requested to put your paper in to a 'correct format' for acceptance and provide the items required for the publication of your article. Please make sure that in the new and revised submissions you have numbered all the lines of your main manuscript file and that the main manuscript file contains no author details (including acknowledgements, funding sources and author contributions). Any author details such as acknowledgements, funding sources and author contributions should go in the title page file. INTRODUCTION Global Environmental Change is a peer-reviewed international journal publishing high quality, theoretically and empirically rigorous articles, which advance knowledge about the human and policy dimensions of global environmental change. The journal interprets global environmental change to mean the outcome of processes that are manifest in localities, but with consequences at multiple spatial, temporal and socio-political scales. The journal is interested in articles which have a significant social science component. These include articles that address the social drivers or consequences of environmental change, or social and policy processes that seek to address problems of environmental change. Topics include, but are not restricted to, the drivers, consequences and management of changes in: biodiversity and ecosystem services, climate, coasts, food systems, land use and land cover, oceans, urban areas, and water resources. Articles should be no longer than 8,000 words (including main body text, table and figure captions but not including references), although longer articles will be accepted on an occasional basis, if the topic demands this length of treatment. GEC has a strong preference for empirical papers and will only consider theory or review papers where they make a considerable advance to knowledge and are extremely novel. Submission Checklist You can use this list to carry out a final check of your submission before you send it to the journal for review. Please check the relevant section in this Guide for Authors for more details. Ensure that the following items are present: One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details: • E-mail address • Full postal address All necessary files have been uploaded: Cover letter: The cover letter provides an important opportunity for authors to convey the suitability of their article for GEC. We strongly recommend that authors include the following in their cover letter: •A brief overview of the content of the submission (please do not just copy/paste the abstract) including any relevant background to the study, a brief overview of methodological strengths (including the robustness and uniqueness of the study's sample and data) and the key findings •Explain why the main findings of the research are innovative and how the submission builds upon previous literature and the unique contribution that the submission adds to that literature •Do not say only that the paper fits the journal's aim and scope, instead articulate how it does so •Make a connection to any similar articles previously published in the journal •Confirm that your paper has not been previously published, is not currently