The objective of the journal Global and Planetary Change is to provide a multi-disciplinary overview of the processes taking place in the Earth System and involved in planetary change over time. The journal focuses on records of the past and current state of the earth system, and future scenarios , and their link to global environmental change. Regional or process-oriented studies are welcome if they discuss global implications. Topics include, but are not limited to, changes in the dynamics and composition of the atmosphere, oceans and cryosphere, as well as climate change, sea level variation, observations/modelling of Earth processes from deep to (near-)surface and their coupling, global ecology, biogeography and the resilience/thresholds in ecosystems. 
Key criteria for the consideration of manuscripts are (a) the relevance for the global scientific community and/or (b) the wider implications for global scale problems, preferably combined with (c) having a significance beyond a single discipline. A clear focus on key processes associated with planetary scale change is strongly encouraged.
Manuscripts can be submitted as either research contributions or as a review article. Every effort should be made towards the presentation of research outcomes in an understandable way for a broad readership.

review articles

Editors-in-Chief
Margaret Fraiser
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States Email Margaret Fraiser
Zhengtang Guo
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Email Zhengtang Guo Quaternary geology, paleoclimatology, paleopedology and biogeochemistry; aeolian deposits, tectonic-climate linkage
Alan Haywood
University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom Email Alan Haywood Climate change, climate prediction, climate variability and palaeoclimatology
Jed O. Kaplan
University of Hong Kong Department of Earth Sciences, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Email Jed O. Kaplan Vegetation, Land use, Fire, Late Quaternary, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, human-environment interactions
Fabienne Marret-Davies
University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom Email Fabienne Marret-DaviesMicropalaeontology, oceanography, climate change, palaeoecology
Liviu Matenco
Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands Email Liviu Matenco Solid Earth science, evolution of orogenic and sedimentary basins systems, geology, geophysics
Managing Editor
Howard Falcon-Lang
Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom Email Howard Falcon-Lang
Book Review Editor
Bilal U. Haq
Sorbonne University, Paris, France and Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
Editorial Board
Thomas M. Cronin
US Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, United States
Gary Dwyer
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Claudio Faccenna
Roma Tre University, Roma, Italy
Martin Grosjean
University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Joel Guiot
European Research and Education Centre for Environmental Geosciences, Aix-en-Provence, France
Eryuan Liang
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Franco Salerno
Water Research Institute National Research Council Brugherio Branch, Brugherio, Italy
Jeremy Shakun
Boston College Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Boston College, Massachusetts, United States
Pinxian Wang
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Yang Wang
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States
Debra Willard
US Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, United States
Shucheng Xie
State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, Wuhan, China
Moriaki Yasuhara
University of Hong Kong, School of Biological Sciences, Hong Kong, China
Qiuzhen Z. Yin
Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Zicheng Yu
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States
Yan Zhao
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China