Climate Change: Challenges, Opportunities, and Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

I cordially invite submissions to the upcoming Special Issue of Societies entitled Climate Change: Challenges, Opportunities, and Perspectives. The society–nature relationship and its effects on climate change represent a complex and changing phenomenon with important economic, political, and social ramifications. This Special Issue seeks to explore the challenges and opportunities presented by climate change, with a broad focus on problems and potential resolutions to the crisis.

Environmental studies scholars have made a great deal of progress advancing our knowledge of the human causes of climate change as its effects continue to emerge in various locations around the globe. Climate change represents the most immediate threat disrupting the nature–society balance. This Special Issue of Societies focuses on the extent of disruptions in the nature–society balance, their effects, and how societies and competing interests in societies are responding to these historical conditions.

We encourage the submission of research that examines the impact of a wide range of climate change issues, including economic development, corporations, inequality, governance, political economy, and civil society. Multidisciplinary approaches are welcome and contributions are encouraged from scholars in different fields.

Some issues and themes of interest include the effects of climate change on economic development, the role of corporations in shaping climate change, climate denialism, climate change and inequality, how rules, norms, organizations, and institutions affect climate change, the exercise of political power, the policy formation process, the effects of climate change on labor, and the development of technologies and the labor skills necessary to shift to a green economy. The ways in which different perspectives approach these issues and themes are also welcome.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to contribute to the expanding social science literature that seeks to better understand climate change and its consequences so that the necessary knowledge exists to ensure a sustainable future.

Contributions have to follow one of the three categories of papers (article, conceptual paper or review) of the journal and address the topic of the Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Harland Prechel
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as conceptual papers are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Societies is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• climate change
• climate denialism
• ecological crises
• inequality
• sustainability
• politics