Overview
Earth’s Future: A transdisciplinary science journal exploring global change, sustainability and resiliency.
Understanding and managing our current and future relation with Earth—the Anthropocene epoch, in which humans dominate Earth’s environment and ecosystems—requires research and knowledge spanning diverse fields. Earth’s Future explores and fosters interactions among the Earth and environmental sciences, ecology, health and social sciences, agriculture and population research, and more. It focuses on Earth as an interactive, evolving system to help researchers, policy makers and the public navigate the science of the Anthropocene.
Aims and Scope
A transdisciplinary, open-access science journal, Earth’s Future examines the state of the planet and its inhabitants, and the predictions of its future. The journal assesses the challenges and opportunities associated with regional and global change in the Anthropocene. It publishes peer-reviewed articles, reviews and (short and long-form) commentaries in areas that include water, air, food, energy, hazards, climate, ecosystems, human health and demographics, among others, emphasizing information and interconnections.
Topics focus on the Anthropocene and include the following:
- Dynamics and feedbacks among human activities, ecosystems and geologic processes
- Biomes and landscapes of current and future Earth
- Economic resource assessments and management
- The human food-water-air nexus
- Alternative energy resources and implications
- Environmental preservation and restoration
- Land use and human demographics
- Water, land and air quality
- Past and future changes in global and regional chemical and material fluxes
- Geo-engineering
- Risk and cost analysis of adaptation strategies
- Data and observational needs
Contributors and readers for this journal include researchers in atmospheric and climate sciences; hydrology; geology; energy, food, health, ocean, and polar sciences; social science; ecology; engineering; urban planning; and economics as well as policy makers at the community, regional, national and international levels.
Open Access and Copyright:
All articles published by Earth’s Future are fully open access: immediately freely available to read, download and share. Authors will retain copyright in their articles and will be offered a choice of creative commons licenses.
All Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust funded authors will be directed to the Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY).
All other authors (non-RCUK and Wellcome Trust funded authors) will be directed to a choice of Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license (CC BY NC) and Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial NoDerivs license (CC BY NC ND license).
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