《全球環境變化》是一份經同行評審的國際期刊，發表高質量、理論和經驗上嚴謹的文章，增進對全球環境變化的人類和政策層面的知識。該雜志將全球環境變化解釋為地方上表現出來的進程的結果，但其后果在多個空間、時間和社會政治尺度上。該雜志對具有重要社會科學成分的文章感興趣。這些包括討論環境變化的社會驅動力或后果的文章，或尋求解決環境變化問題的社會和政策進程的文章。主題包括但不限于:生物多樣性和生態系統服務、氣候、海岸、糧食系統、土地利用和土地覆蓋、海洋、城市地區和水資源的變化的驅動因素、后果和管理。

Global Environmental Change is a peer-reviewed international journal publishing high quality, theoretically and empirically rigorous articles, which advance knowledge about the human and policy dimensions of global environmental change. The journal interprets global environmental change to mean the outcome of processes that are manifest in localities, but with consequences at multiple spatial, temporal and socio-political scales. The journal is interested in articles which have a significant social science component. These include articles that address the social drivers or consequences of environmental change, or social and policy processes that seek to address problems of environmental change. Topics include, but are not restricted to, the drivers, consequences and management of changes in: biodiversity and ecosystem services, climate, coasts, food systems, land use and land cover, oceans, urban areas, and water resources.