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Planetary health starts in our cities
Posted by UCL Open Environment Editorial Office on 2026-02-04
The biophysical and human worlds are linked in an interwoven planetary system. This blog draws on a recent editorial in UCL Open Environment, which explores how human health depends on finite biophysical processes and the role cities play in delivering solutions to the environmental crises they have helped to create. Planetary health brings this interdependence into focus. It asks how human [...]
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Calls for papers
Posted by UCL Open Environment Editorial Office on 2026-01-23
Throughout the year, UCL Open Environment launches a number of thematic special series exploring the journal's aims and scope. Details of each special series and its calls for papers can be found in the below links. This page is kept up-to-date with all current calls for papers. Find out more about how to submit to the journal: How to submit Open calls for papers and series Planetary [...]
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UCL Open Environment Indexed in Scopus – A Milestone for Environmental Research
Posted by UCL Open Environment Editorial Office on 2025-07-30
We are delighted to announce that UCL Open Environment has been accepted for indexing in Scopus, a leading abstract and citation database for peer-reviewed literature. This marks a major milestone in the journal’s development and reinforces our commitment to publishing high-quality, impactful environmental research. Previously published and future articles in UCL Open Environment will be [...]
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Ineffective sorting systems: A major barrier to the circular economy of contaminated plastics
Posted by Nutcha Taneepanichskul, Helen C Hailes and Mark Miodownik on 2025-04-10
Environmental pollution leading to global warming is no longer a distant threat; it is knocking on our door, demanding immediate action. Among the major contributors to this crisis is plastic pollution. While there is increasing encouragement, including through popularisation, education, and policy measures—towards the use of biodegradable and recyclable materials, current waste management [...]
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Procedural justice and (in)equitable participation in climate negotiations
Posted by Carola Klöck, Christian Baatz, Nils Wendler on 2025-02-07
The yearly Conferences of the Parties (COPs) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have become real “mega-events”, attracting tens of thousands of participants each year. The last COP, COP29, held in Baku, Azerbaijan, in November 2024, for example, was attended by just under 30,000 participants, about half of whom represented states (note that these numbers exclude [...]
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Celebrating five years of highly cited articles
Posted by UCL Open Environment Editorial Office on 2025-01-27
As we welcome the start of 2025 we want to take a moment to celebrate some of our highly cited publications – in part as a testament to the rigorous efforts of our Editors’, reviewers’, and authors’ contribution to their fields. Reflecting on just how far UCL Open Environment has come since opening for submissions in 2019, this post explores some of the papers published in the journal that shows [...]
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COP and UCL Open Environment
Posted by UCL Open Environment Editorial Office on 2024-11-11
From 11-22 November 2024, nearly 200 world leaders and 30,000 delegates will come together in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, to coordinate global climate action for the year ahead at the latest UN Climate Change Convention Conference of the Parties (COP). We at UCL Open Environment, an open access and open science journal, reflect on some of the articles that have published in the journal’s [...]
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Peer Review Week 2024 - A conversation with Yasemin Aktas
Posted by UCL Open Environment Editorial Office on 2024-09-30
This year, to mark Peer Review Week, UCL Open Environment sat down with Deputy Editor, Dr Yasemin Aktas (University College London, UK) for a brief conversation on open peer review. With growing academic workloads and time devoted to other things, securing peer reviewers is becoming increasingly difficult, especially when hearing reports about canvassing large numbers of reviewers who do not [...]
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Innovation and Technology in Open Peer Review: Shaping the Future of Scholarly Publishing
Posted by UCL Open Environment Editorial Office on 2024-09-25
As we celebrate Peer Review Week 2024, the theme of “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review” invites us to reflect on how new tools and practices are transforming this critical component of scholarly communication. Traditional peer review has long been the cornerstone of academic publishing, ensuring that research is rigorously vetted before it reaches publication. However, the system has its [...]
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