The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and publisher Wiley have announced that Earth's Future, a new open access journal, has published its first group of articles.
Created to reflect the risks and opportunities associated with environmental changes and challenges, the journal features primary research across disciplines and seeks to connect it to policy through editorials, essays, reviews, and other commentary pieces. Contributors tackle solutions to such grand challenges as population increase, industrial and agricultural development, urbanisation, climate change, geohazards, energy, food and water resource sustainability and security.
Earth's Future joins AGU's prestigious portfolio of peer-reviewed research publications, including Geophysical Research Letters and Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres. Both are ranked among the top ten most-highly cited research publications on climate change over the past decade.
Editor in Chief Ben van der Pluijm is the B.R. Clark Collegiate Professor of Geology and Professor of the Environment at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on active and past deformation of the Earth's crust, and his teaching and outreach target the societal dimensions of global change.
