The journal Global Environmental Change edited by Neil Adger, Katrina Brown and Declan Conway of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia celebrates twenty years of publishing cutting edge research on global change at the interface of the natural and social sciences.
Over the past twenty years there has been much progress in the field, through new models, observations and insights into local scale processes and how they link to the major global challenges in climate, biodiversity, land use and resource depletion. Yet the Editors argue that 'the crisis of the environment is more acute, more intransigent and more widespread than ever, despite scientific knowledge being greater than ever.'
The Editors mark the twenty year milestone with a commentary that reviews the idea of progress in the sciences and philosophy, and with four commissioned essays by luminaries including Elinor Ostrom, who received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2009, Mike Hulme founding Director of the Tyndall Centre, Frans Berkhout Director of IVM in the Netherlands and Billie Lee Turner II of Arizona State University. Their essays set the stage for further decades of interdisciplinary endeavour.
The journal receives over 270,000 downloads per annum and is ranked second by Impact Factor in the `Geography' category in the 2009 Journal Citation Reports
For the papers see http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09593780
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