We are excited and privileged to become the fourth editorial team for Global Environmental Politics with the publication of issue 18-1. We have the good fortune to follow Kate O’Neill and Stacy VanDeveer, and a challenge to live up to the high standards they and previous editors have set for the journal. Under their tutelage, the journal’s five-year impact factor is an impressive 2.526. Through the hard work of our predecessors, and the creativity and efforts of authors and reviewers, Global Environmental Politics is now the premier academic home for research on the politics of the global environment.
Thanks to Stacy and Kate, the transition to the new editorial team has also been relatively smooth. We have quickly learned that much credit for that also lies with the journal’s managing editor, Susan Altman, to whom we are especially grateful for staying on and ensuring the continued high quality of the...