The half-yearly journal Global Environment. A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences intends to act as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing investigations on the environment and world history, with special regard to the modern and contemporary ages. Our intent is to stimulate and gather studies and researches that, in spite of a diversity of approaches and themes, share an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social and production relations, government, and relations between peoples.

One of the journal’s main commitments should be to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to help them find a common language and a common perspective in the study of history.

Global Environment strives to transcend the Westerncentric and “developist” bias that has informed international environmental historiography so far, and favor the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of “hierarchy” with that of “relationship” and “exchange” - between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas - in the study of the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.

The global history of the environment cannot limit itself to looking at how the Western model asserted itself in the countries of the South of the world; it also needs to study how this model merged with local experiences. The editorial board of the journal is composed, indeed, not only by researchers living and studying in Europe and North America but also in South America, Africa, Asia and Australia.
To be grounded in an authentic concept of integration, both politics and educational models require a knowledge of local historical experiences and the ways in which they blended with Western culture. This is a knowledge that can only be attained through global communication. We need to transpose to the scientific plane the great merging of cultures that has been going on for a long time now as the result of globalization in its various forms.

We need to give voice and space to historical experiences from the most remote regions of the globes, not just to represent the role played by the West in their transformation processes, but looking at them as autonomous and independent entities. We will strive to provide a medium for communication and discussion between scholars from very distant - culturally as well spatially - parts of the world, seeking to highlight the relationship between global phenomena and local factors.