An ever changing global system defines the scientific and social problems and issues of our time. The majority of these problems clearly cross traditional scientific boundaries. The objective of the journal Global and Planetary Change is to achieve a multidisciplinary view of the causes, processes and limits of variability in planetary change. The journal focuses on the record of change in earth history and the analysis and prediction of recent and future changes. Topics include, but are not limited to, changes in the chemical composition of the oceans and atmosphere, climate change, sea level variations, human geography, global geophysics and tectonics, global ecology and biogeography.Key criteria for manuscripts are global scope or implications for global scale problems, significance beyond a single discipline and a focus on the causes, processes and limits of planetary change. Manuscripts can be submitted as either research contributions or as review articles. Extra effort should be directed towards presenting problems and results for a broad readership. Part of the intent of Global and Planetary Change is for new discoveries or progress in one discipline to foster advances, or act as a catalyst, in understanding the earth as a system.

一個不斷變化的全球系統定義了我們這個時代的科學和社會問題。這些問題中的大多數顯然跨越了傳統的科學界限。《全球和行星變化》雜志的目標是對行星變化的原因、過程和變化限度實現多學科的觀點。該雜志側重于記錄地球歷史上的變化，分析和預測最近和未來的變化。主題包括但不限于海洋和大氣化學成分的變化、氣候變化、海平面變化、人文地理學、全球地球物理和構造學、全球生態和生物地理學。手稿的主要標準是全球范圍或對全球規模問題的影響，超越單一學科的意義，以及對行星變化的原因、過程和限制的關注。手稿可以作為研究貢獻或評論文章提交。額外的努力應該指向向廣大讀者展示問題和結果。全球和行星變化的部分意圖是為了在一門學科上的新發現或進步，以促進進步，或作為催化劑，在理解地球作為一個系統。