About this journal

Climate and Development publishes research on the human dimensions of climate and development. Climate and Development is published in cooperation with Stockholm Environment Institute.

The journal aims to make analysis of climate and development issues more accessible and facilitate debate between the diverse constituencies active in these fields.

Climate and Development invites manuscripts on one or more of the following themes:

• Tensions, disconnects and synergies between climate change adaptation, or mitigation policy or actions, and development policy or actions.
• Feminist, decolonial, antiracist and other forms of critical scholarship in relation to climate change adaptation or mitigation.
• Implications of climate change adaptation and mitigation for poverty, equity or social justice.

Studies that focus on the following topics are particularly welcome:

• Decision making for climate adaptation at the household, subnational or national scale.
• Cities, urbanisation, informal settlements and climate change.
• Energy, energy access and development in the context of climate change.
• The relationships between sectoral mitigation actions and development.
• Migration, displacement and climate change.
• The intersection between indigenous, traditional or local knowledge and strategies for coping with and adapting to climate variability and change.
• Maladaptation in the context of climate change adaptation.
• Extreme events and climate-related disasters.
• The implications for development of existing or proposed climate governance frameworks or arrangements at any scale.
• The integration (mainstreaming) of climate change into development policy.
• Synergies and trade-offs between climate change mitigation or adaptation and sustainable development, from local to global sales.
• Financing arrangements for adaptation and mitigation in developing countries.

We no longer accept manuscripts that are stand-alone Case Studies. All manuscripts must be linked with specific theoretical frameworks, describe how the study contributes to advancing knowledge, and demonstrate a solid review of the previous case studies on the same topic. Topics for which there is already a substantial and well-established literature, such as farmers' perceptions of climate change or farmers' adaptation strategies, are unlikely to be accepted unless there is a clear novel contribution to the literature.

Climate and Development operates a double anonymized peer review policy. Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Editors-in-Chief
Lisa Schipper - Department of Geography, University of Bonn, Germany
Jonathan Ensor - Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden & University of York, UK

Associate Editors

Sylvanus Afesorgbor – University of Guelph, Canada

Philip Antwi-Agyei - Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana

Mucahid Bayrak - National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Nimesh Dhungana – University of Manchester, UK

Arabella Fraser - University of Nottingham, UK

Blane Harvey - McGill University, Canada

Alisher Mirzabaev - Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany

Minal Pathak - Global Centre for Environment and Energy, Ahmedabad University, India

Alcade Segnon - Alliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Dakar, Senegal; and University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin

Thomas Tanner - SOAS, University of London, UK

Edmond Totin - Université Nationale d’Agriculture du Benin and Climate Analytics, Benin

Editorial Board Members
Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson - University of Sussex, UK; UN University's Institute for Environment and Human Security
Donovan Campbell - Department of Geography & Geology, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Terry Cannon - Insitute of Development Studies, UK
Edward R. Carr - Clark University, USA
Declan Conway - Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics, UK
Siri Eriksen - Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Landscape and Society, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
Luis Fernández-Carril - Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Joanne Catherine Jordan - University of Manchester, UK
Neil Leary - Dickinson College, USA
Matthias Garschagen, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU), Germany
Axel Michaelowa - University of Zurich, Switzerland; Perspectives Climate Research, Germany
Katja Michaelowa - University of Zurich, Switzerland
Aditi Mukherji - International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Sri Lanka
Yacob Mulugetta - University College London (UCL), UK
Luis Mundaca - International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, University of Lund, Sweden
Nidhi Nagabhatla - United Nations University- Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH - The UN Think Tank on Water); McMaster University, Canada
Patrick Nunn - University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
John Padgham - START International, USA
Sandra Paulsen - Institute for Applied Economic Research-IPEA, Brazil
Chandni Singh - Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), India
Pablo Suarez - Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Netherlands
Farhana Sultana - Syracuse University, USA
Thomas Tanner - SOAS University of London, UK
Anahí Urquiza - Universidad de Chile, Chile
Sophie Webber - University of Sydney, Australia
Harald Winkler - University of Cape Town, South Africa
Robert B. Zougmoré - CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), ICRISAT West and Central Africa, Mali

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The history of Climate and Development

Climate and Development is published in cooperation with Stockholm Environment Institute.

There is now incontrovertible evidence that climate change is happening, and that both its cause and its impacts are tightly linked with human development. Over the past decades climate change has increasingly been framed as a development issue, as well as an environmental concern. Climate and Development is the first journal dedicated explicitly to the links between climate variability, climate change and climate policy on the one hand, and development needs, impacts and priorities on the other.

The plans for Climate and Development originate from the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, which was published in 2007. The report contains several chapters that assess climate change in the context of development, as well as regional chapters on Africa, Asia, Latin America and Small Islands. In preparing these chapters, the authors were struck by two issues: (i) there is no single journal in which relevant papers are published, and (ii) most of the relevant papers were written by experts from the developed world.

Climate and Development aims to address both issues. First, its Aims & Scope bring together research interests that were previously dispersed over a range of different journals focusing on either climate change or development. The members of its editorial board have been carefully selected to represent the full spectrum of conceptual, policy-analytical and empirical studies of the interactions between climate impacts, mitigation, adaptation and development on scales from the local to global.

Second, the journal actively encourages submissions from developing-country experts. For example, it has introduced a manuscript category 'case studies', which allows for the publication of project results without presenting them in a theoretical framework. These project results might otherwise only be published in an internal project document and remain invisible for others, including IPCC authors. In addition, the journal has initiated a capacity-building activity known as 'writeshops', which provide training and mentoring to developing-country experts with limited experience in academic publishing.

The first issue of Climate and Development came out in March 2009. It was well received and was followed by a large number of new submissions, securing sufficient material to continue publication at least four times a year. By 2018, it has grown to 8 issues a year.

The publication of Climate and Development is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the Stockholm Environment Institute, which also hosts the editorial office. Collaboration with the Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) provides contact with a large network of developing-country experts, and is key in the organisation of the writeshops.