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The Earth's biosphere is being transformed by various anthropogenic activities. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change addresses a wide range of environment, economic and energy topics and timely issues including global climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, acid deposition, eutrophication of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, species extinction and loss of biological diversity, deforestation and forest degradation, desertification, soil resource degradation, land-use change, sea level rise, destruction of coastal zones, depletion of fresh water and marine fisheries, loss of wetlands and riparian zones and hazardous waste management.

Response options to mitigate these threats or to adapt to changing environs are needed to ensure a sustainable biosphere for all forms of life. To that end, Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change provides a forum to encourage the conceptualization, critical examination and debate regarding response options. The aim of this journal is to provide a forum to review, analyze and stimulate the development, testing and implementation of mitigation and adaptation strategies at regional, national and global scales. One of the primary goals of this journal is to contribute to real-time policy analysis and development as national and international policies and agreements are discussed and promulgated.

Examples of topics published by this journal covering mitigation and adaptation strategies include: emerging environmental and energy technologies, restoration and reclamation ecology, sustainable development, bioengineering applications, environment and energy economics, integrated systems/resource planning and development, international treaties and agreements, environmental services, clean energy technologies and practices, valuation and equity, policy analysis and development, carbon capture and sequestration, mitigation policies and measures, alternative infrastructure and transportation systems, sustainable economic development, pollution prevention, and protection of human health and well-being.

The journal is necessarily transdisciplinary in scope and welcomes full papers, short communications, books reviews, and occasionally reviews of complex, novel or emerging mitigation and adaptation strategies. Special Issues of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change are frequently developed by guest authors on complex topics of current interest. All papers are subject to thorough peer-review. Prompt publication is a priority consistent with a high standard of quality and presentation.

Editor-in-Chief:
Robert K. Dixon
Office of International Affairs 
U.S. Department of Energy
Washington DC, USA
Editorial Advisory Board:

Jorge Álvaro-Fuentes, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Zaragoza, Spain;Kenneth Andrasko, AltaVerde Consulting, Bethesda, MD, USA;Peter Beedlow,US Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, OR, USA; Rostyslav Bun, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine;Ian Burton, Meteorological Service of Canada, Downsview, ON, Canada; Heleen de Coninck, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Kristie L. Ebi,Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, USA; Graham Farquhar, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; Philip M. Fearnside, National Institute for Research in the Amazon, Manaus-Amazonas, Brazil; Dolf Gielen, International Renewable Energy Agency, Bonn, Germany; Ekko C. van Ierland, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands; Catrinus J. Jepma, Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen, The Netherlands; Matthias Jonas, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; Haroon S. Kheshgi, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co., Annandale, NJ USA; Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland; Anders Lyngfelt, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden; Gregg Marland, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Div., TN, USA; Reinhard Mechler, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria; Nobuo Mimura, Center for Water Environment Studies, Ibaraki University, Japan; William R. Moomaw, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA; José Roberto Moreira, Biomass Users Network, São Paulo, Brazil; Daniel Murdiyarso, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia; Rajendra K. Pachauri, TATA Energy Research Institute, New Delhi, India; James A. Perry, College of Natural Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, USA; Mohamed El Raey, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alexandria, Egypt; Jayant A. Sathaye, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA; Serban Scrieciu, University College London (UCL), Academic Department of Surgery, London,UK;Roger A. Sedjo, Resources for the Future, Washington DC, USA; Anatoly Shvidenko, Forest Resources Project, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; Joel B. Smith, Abt Associates, Boulder, CO, USA; Benjamin K. Sovacool, Professor of Energy Policy and Director, Sussex Energy Group, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK; Dan Sperling, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, USA; Ferenc Tóth,International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria; Tanay Sidki Uyar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey; Michael Wang, Argonne National Laboratory/University of Chicago, Lemont, USA; Tom M.L. Wigley, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA; Tengfang Xu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA; Ming Yang, The World Bank Group, Washington, DC, USA.