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Welcome to the Climate Change Community

This knowledge community is brought together by a common concern for scientific policy and strategic perspective in climate change. The community interacts through an innovative, annual face-to-face conference, as well as year-round virtual relationships in a weblog, peer reviewed journal and book imprint – exploring the affordances of the new digital media. Members of this knowledge community include academics, educators, administrators, policy makers, consultants, researchers and research students.

Conference

Members of the Climate Change Community meet annually at the International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, held annually in different locations around the world. This Conference examines evidence of climate change, its natural and human causes, its ecosystemic impacts and its human impacts. The Conference also addresses technological, social, ethical and political responses to climate change.

Our community members and first time attendees come from all corners of the globe. The Conference is a site of critical reflection, both by leaders in the field and emerging scholars. Those unable to attend the Conference may opt for virtual participation in which community members can either submit a video and/or slide presentation with voice-over, or simply submit a paper for peer review and possible publication in the Journal.

Publishing

The Climate Change Community enables members to publish through three media. First, by participating in the Climate Change Conference, community members can enter a world of journal publication unlike the traditional academic publishing forums – a result of the responsive, non-hierarchical and constructive nature of the peer review process. The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses provides a framework for double-blind peer review, enabling authors to publish into an academic journal of the highest standard.

The second publication medium is through the book series On Climate, publishing cutting edge books in print and electronic formats. Publication proposals and manuscript submissions are welcome.

Our third major publishing medium is our news blog, constantly publishing short news updates from the Climate Change community, as well as major developments in scientific policy and strategic perspectives in climate change. You can also join this conversation at Facebook and Twitter or subscribe to our email Newsletter.