Sage announces new journal, Dialogues on Climate Change

Sage has launched Dialogues on Climate Change, a new open peer review journal designed to foster rigorous critical thinking across the full spectrum of climate change topics. The journal will facilitate interdisciplinary debates among scholars from the social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, and humanities.

Publishing three issues per year, the journal will examine the physical and social causes and effects of climate change and explore responses to the climate crisis. It is the latest title in the prestigious Dialogues series, a unique open peer review publishing model from Sage that launched in 2011 with Dialogues in Human Geography.

The Dialogues format is highly impactful, providing an open platform for scholarly debate. In Dialogues journals, a primary article acts as a catalyst for dialogue on a particular set of claims, observations, or explanations. Named-author commentaries and author responses evaluate the ideas expressed in the primary article and advance the discussion, producing exchanges that reach across social, political, and scholarly divides.

The journal welcomes contributions from across the disciplinary spectrum, including, but not limited to, climatology, physical and human geography, meteorology, psychology, Earth system science, economics, environmental science, science and technology studies, history, engineering, political science, sociology, ecology, and philosophy.

Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Rob Bellamy said, “Climate change is an issue that generates significant academic and wider societal debate. Disagreements are an inevitable part of thinking about this wicked problem, but with perspectives becoming more polarized, there is a critical need for more constructive dialogues. I’m absolutely thrilled to be launching Dialogues on Climate Change, which seeks to facilitate these dialogues and foster rigorous critical thinking by bringing different perspectives within and between disciplines into productive conversations with one another.”

“At Sage, the Dialogues series represents a pioneering publishing model that enables open and respectful interdisciplinary exchanges between experts with differing opinions,” said Miranda Nunhofer, vice president of research at Sage. “As the fifth journal in the series, Dialogues on Climate Change will continue this tradition, fostering productive conversations on one of the most pressing issues of our time. The series has been particularly successful in spotlighting the vital, though often underappreciated, contributions made by researchers working in the social and behavioral sciences. We hope that this new publication will generate informed conversations, bridge divides, and inspire meaningful climate action.”

The journal will publish work by academics from the Global North and the Global South. Dr. Rob Bellamy, the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, will be supported by Associate Editors Shinichiro Asayama, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan; Holly Buck, University at Buffalo; Peter Irvine, University College London; and Katharine Ricke, University of California San Diego.

Dialogues on Climate Change will be published on a sponsored Subscribe to Open (S2O) basis, ensuring complete, barrier-free open access publication until the end of 2025.

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