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Global Environmental Politics examines relationships between global political forces and environmental change, with particular attention given to the implications of local-global interactions for environmental management, as well as to the implications of environmental change and environmental governance for world politics. Each issue contains several full-length research articles, and may also contain shorter forum articles and/or a research note.
The journal seeks to publish on a broad range of issues, from water to waste management to climate change. Topics covered include, but are not limited to, states and non-state actors in environmental governance, multilateral institutions and agreements, innovative governance arrangements, trade, global finance, corporations and markets, environmental (in)security, science and technology, and transnational and grassroots movements. Contributions come from many disciplines, including political science, international relations, sociology, history, human geography, anthropology, public policy, science and technology studies, and environmental ethics, law, and economics.
GEP publishes Forum Articles, Research Articles, and Research Notes.
Forums are short commentaries (2000-3000 words, including footnotes and bibliography) that should stimulate discussion on salient issues of interest to other scholars in the field. Forums should provoke thought, discussion, and debate amongst the readership. Forum submissions typically receive two double-blind reviews.
Research Articles are full-length papers (5000-8000 words, including footnotes and bibliography) that contain an original contribution to research on global environmental politics. Research Article submissions are sent to three referees for double-blind reviews before a final editorial decision is made.
Research Notes (3000-5000 words, including footnotes and bibliography) provide discussions of new data sources and/or research techniques relevant to the GEP community as well as analysis of the practice of research relevant to global environmental politics. Manuscripts on research tools and techniques may be qualitative, quantitative, or formal. Authors should demonstrate the broad utility of the approach. Papers on new data sources should, in addition to describing the substance, provide a discussion of the range of questions for which the data could be useful. They should also include arrangements for making the data available and accessible to the GEP community. Research Note submissions are sent to three referees for double-blind reviews before a final editorial decision is made.
Before submitting, please consult the GEP Style Guide.
More information about the journal, as well as all published articles, can be found on the MIT Press website.