1. Masthead
1.1 Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Junbiao Zhang (editor_in_chief@sccpress.com)
Rural Revitalization Academy of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311300, China.
Interests: Agricultural economic theory and policy, resource and environmental economics
1.2 Associate Editors (In Alphabetical Order)
Prof. Dr. Arif Satria (arifsatria@apps.ipb.ac.id)
Faculty of Human Ecology, IPB University, West Java, 16680, Indonesia.
Interests: Agricultural and rural socio-economics; rural sociology; community-based resource management; marine and fisheries policy; political ecology
Prof. Dr. Paolo Sckokai (paolo.sckokai@unicatt.it)
Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, Università Cattolica, Piacenza, 29122, Italy
Interests: Food demand analysis, farmers’ behavior under risk, environmental impact of livestock farming, macro- and micro-modelling of agricultural policies
Prof. Dr. Christian Sonne (cs@ecos.au.dk)
Department of Ecoscience, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark.
Interests: Global goals and sustainability in relation to resources, pollution, energy, recycling, biodiversity, and ecosystem services in relation to food security and safety.
Prof. Dr. Gaofeng Wang (gwang@clemson.edu)
School of Agricultural, Forest and Environmental Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0317, USA.
Interests: Forest cultivation, disturbance ecology and restoration ecology
Prof. Dr. Yanxiong Wu (yxwu@sccpress.com)
Rural Revitalization Academy of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311300, China.
Interests: Agricultural start-up management, rural media literacy and we-media management, rural revitalization and sustainable development
1.3 Editorial Board Members (In Alphabetical Order)
Prof. Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam (mjahangir.alam@bau.edu.bd)
Department of Agribusiness and Marketing, Faculty of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology, Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh, 2202, Bangladesh.
Interests: Rural transformation, agricultural, food & nutritional policy, food systems, markets & value chain, climate change
Prof. Dr. Karl Behrendt (kbehrendt@harper-adams.ac.uk)
Food, Land & Agribusiness Management Department, Harper Adams University, Shropshire, TF10 8NB, UK.
Interests: Economics of innovative agricultural technology and digitalisation, bioeconomic modelling of agricultural and ecological systems, agricultural risk and investment analysis, agribusiness planning
Prof. Dr. Frank Berninger (frank.berninger@uef.fi)
Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Forestry and Technology, University of Eastern Finland, FI-80100 Joensuu, Finland.
Interests: long term effects of disturbances on forests and the interactions of plants, roots and inland waters as well as on large scale variations ecological processes
Senior Research Fellow Dr. Alan de Brauw (a.debrauw@cgiar.org)
Markets, Trade & Institutions Divsion, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC, 20005-3915, USA.
Interests: Understanding both the impacts of agricultural interventions and the effects of migration on source households in rural areas of developing countries.
Associate Prof. Dr. Hao Chen(chenhao01@ruc.edu.cn)
School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China.
Interests: Energy economics; climate change economics
Prof. Dr. Yongqin Chen (ydavidchen@cuhk.edu.cn)
School of Humanities and Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518172, China.
Interests: Hydrological analysis and modeling, hydroclimatology and climate change, water resources management, environmental assessment and sustainability
Associate Prof. Dr. Pablo Molina Derteano (pablomd2009@gmail.com)
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Santiago del Estero, 1029 CABA, Argentina.
Interests: Poverty alleviation; rural sustainability; environment, local flora and fauna preservation
Chair Prof. Dr. Shenggen Fan (s.fan@cau.edu.cn)
College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China.
Interests: Agricultural development strategies in developing countries, especially public investment and policies in agriculture
Prof. Dr. Xiangming Fang (xmfang@cau.edu.cn)
College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China.
Interests: Rural social security, rural human capital and agricultural modernization
Prof. Dr. Zhongke Feng (fengzhongke@126.com)
College of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 100083, China.
Interests: Precision forestry, forest resources survey and monitoring, sustainable forest management
Prof. Dr. Xavier Simón Fernández (xsimon@uvigo.gal)
Economía Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Universidade de Vigo, Galicia, 36310, Spain.
Interests: Agricultural economics, environmental economics, subsistence economy, agrarian economy
Prof. Dr. Christopher Gan (Christopher.Gan@lincoln.ac.nz)
Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce, Lincoln University, Christchurch, 7647, New Zealand.
Interests: Banking, finance and investment; financial institutions (incl. banking); applied economics; financial economics; economic development policy
Prof. Dr. Ke He (hekework@gmail.com)
Laboratory of Green and Low-carbon Development in Agriculture, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei, 430070, China.
Interests: Carbon peak and carbon neutrality, Rural ecological revitalization, Green and low-carbon transformation of food systems, Ecological compensation for agricultural wastes recycling
Prof. Dr. Nico Heerink (Nico.heerink@wur.nl)
Wageningen University & Research, HB Wageningen, 6700, The Netherlands.
Interests: Agricultural economics, agricultural policy, development economics, environmental economics and rural development in China
Prof. Dr. Wuyang Hu (hu.1851@osu.edu)
Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics, The Ohio State University, OH 43210, USA.
Interests: Marketing and consumer economics, experimental economics, resource and environmental economics, regional development
Prof. Dr. Zuhui Huang (zhhuang@zju.edu.cn)
China Academy for Rural Development, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.
Interests: Agricultural economy and rural development, industrial organization and institutional arrangements
Prof. Dr. Donald Huisingh (dhuising@utk.edu)
Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
Interests: Climate-change-related issues; new and more holistic approaches to the circular economies that are truly equitable, sustainable, livable, post-fossil carbon Societies.
Prof. Dr. Dejan Janković (dejan.jankovic@polj.uns.ac.rs)
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad 21102, Serbia.
Interests: Agricultural extension, sustainable rural development, rural studies, rural Sociology
Economist, Dr. Tingsong Jiang (tjiang@thecie.com.au)
The Centre for International Economics, Canberra, ACT, 2609, Australia.
Interests: Climate change policy, environmental and natural resources economics, trade policy analysis, regulatory impact assessment, general equilibrium modelling
Prof. Dr. Gui Jin (jingui@cug.edu.cn)
School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430078, Hubei, China.
Interests: Land resources economics & management, territorial spatial governance
Prof. Dr. Songheng Jin (shjin@zafu.edu.cn)
Forestry & Biotechnology College, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311300, China.
Interests: Physiology, molecular biology, genetics and breeding of ornamental plants
Prof. Dr. Robert Kozak (rob.kozak@ubc.ca)
Faculty of Forestry, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada.
Interests: sustainable business management practices and issues and providing solutions to complex problems related to sustainable development, forestry, wood products and the emerging conservation economy
Prof. Dr. K. Nirmal Ravi Kumar (kn.ravikumar@angrau.ac.in)
Department of Agricultural Economics, S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati-517502, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Interests: Integrates macroeconomic and microeconomic insights to develop evidence-based policy recommendations aimed at enhancing food security, market efficiency, and rural welfare.
Prof. Dr. Xiande Li (gjmy6160@caas.cn)
Institute of Agricultural Economics and Development, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China.
Interests: International agricultural economy and trade
Prof. Dr. Maksym Melnychuk (melnychuk.maks@gmail.com)
Faculty of Agronomy and Forestry, Vinnytsia National Agrarian University, Sonyachna str., 21008 Vinnytsia, Ukraine.
Interests: Virology, biotechnology, biomethod, plant protection, alternative energy resources
Prof. Dr. Antonio Domingos Padula (antonio.padula@ufrgs.br)
School of Management, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, CEP 90010-460, Brazil.
Interests: Agribusiness economics and management, bioenergy production and usage, food security, production and operations management, industrial competitiveness and sustainability
Prof. Dr. Weiguang Pan (321391007@qq.com)
Rural Revitalization Academy of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311300, China.
Interests: Agricultural modernization, rural economic development and international trade of agricultural products
Researcher Giuseppe Pulighe (giuseppe.pulighe@crea.gov.it)
Research Center for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy, Council for Agricultural Research and Agricultural Economy Analysis, Rome, 00184, Italy.
Interests: Agricultural sustainability, ecohydrological modelling, bioenergy production, climate change and land use change impacts, irrigation and water management, remote sensing and GIS.
Prof. Dr. Harsha Ratnaweera (harsha.ratnaweera@nmbu.no)
Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, NO-1432 Ås, Norway.
Interests: modelling and optimization of coagulation processes in water and wastewater treatment; water resources management; and harmonisation of water-related graduate studies in Asia, Africa and Eurasia with Norway
Prof. Dr. Vesna Rodić (vesna.rodic@polj.uns.ac.rs)
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad 21102, Serbia.
Interests: Agricultural economics, environmental science and resource economics
Prof. Dr. Sergio Schneider (schneide@ufrgs.br )
Sociology of Rural Development and Food Studies, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, CEP 90010-460, Brazil.
Interests: Sociology of food, agrarian and rural development, family farming and rural policies
Prof. Dr. Yueqin Shen (shenyueqin@zafu.edu.cn)
Rural Revitalization Academy of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311300, China.
Interests: Forest sequestration’s policy and economics, rural development and forest’s role, forest property tenure reform
Prof. Dr. Rodney Smith (smith142@umn.edu)
College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resources Sciences, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
Interests: Government regulation and policy, economic development and growth, resource economics, mechanism design theory, production economics
Prof. Dr. Chinpin Tan (tancp@upm.edu.my)
Department of Food Technology，Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang Selangor, Malaysia.
Interests: Palm oil, food nanotechnology, food emulsion/microencapsulation, food quality and safety
Prof. Dr. Chengjun Wang (cjwang_77@126.com)
School of Economics and Management, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, Hainan, 571127, China.
Interests: Agricultural and forestry resource and environmental management, rural land resource utilization, rural environmental governance
Prof. Dr. Justus Wesseler (justus.wesseler@wur.nl)
Social Science Department, Wageningen University, Wageningen, 6706KN, The Netherlands .
Interests: Agricultural economics and rural policy; The major focus is on the contribution of value chains to improve sustainability and the impact of new technologies and regulations on the value chain in this respect.
Prof. Dr. Weiguang Wu (wuwgccap@126.com)
College of Economics and Management, Zhejiang A&F University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 311300, China.
Interests: Resource and environmental economics, forest carbon sequestration economics and policy, biomass energy development
Prof. Dr. Chunwen Xiong (xcwen@cau.edu.cn)
College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China.
Interests: Social theory, agricultural sociology, educational sociology, rural-urban dualism
Prof. Dr. Jintao Zhan (jintao.zhan@njau.edu.cn)
College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210095, China.
Interests: Agricultural technology innovation and promotion policy, biotechnology economics and policy, development economics
Prof. Dr. Liguo Zhang (njlgzhang@163.com)
School of Economics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 330013, China.
Interests: Ecological economics, resource and environmental economics theory and policy, agricultural economics theory and policy, rural development
Associate Prof. Dr. Bingwei Zhong (20140040@zafu.edu.cn)
Jiyang College, Zhejiang A & F University, Zhuji, Zhejiang, 311800, China.
Interests: Development and application of agricultural green products; resource utilization of agricultural waste; nanotechnology development in smart agriculture
1.4 Editorial board by country/region
There are a total of 46 editors and editorial board members from 20 countries/regions. The distribution is as follows:
China (20)
United States (5)
Brazil (2)
Netherlands (2)
Serbia (2)
Others (15): Argentina, Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Denmark, Finland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Ukraine, and United Kingdom (listed alphabetically).
The affiliations and geographic locations of all Editorial Board members are provided solely for identification purposes. SCC Press disclaims any endorsement of jurisdictional claims.
2. Roles and Responsibilities
2.1 Editor-in-Chief
The Editor-in-Chief (EIC) bears ultimate responsibility for the journal's academic quality, strategic direction, and integrity. This role provides leadership to the entire editorial team and ensures the journal fulfills its mission within the scholarly community.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Leadership: Define the journal's vision, aims, and scope in collaboration with the publisher. Uphold the highest standards of academic integrity and ethics, adhering to guidelines from organizations like COPE.
- Final Decision-Making: Make the final decision on manuscript acceptance or rejection based on recommendations from Associate Editors and reviewer reports. Resolve complex appeals, ethical complaints, and escalated cases.
- Team Management: Appoint, mentor, and guide the team of Associate Editors. Delegate manuscript handling duties based on expertise and ensure the editorial process operates consistently and efficiently.
- Journal Advocacy and Development: Represent the journal at academic conferences and within scholarly networks. Solicit high-quality submissions and guide the development of special issues. Monitor journal performance metrics to implement strategies for continuous improvement.
- Policy Oversight: Approve and periodically review all journal policies, including those for peer review and authorship. Ensure the journal meets and maintains the compliance standards of major indexing databases.
2.2 Associate Editor
The Associate Editor (AE) is a senior editorial team member overseeing the peer review process within their specialty. The AE is critical in maintaining the journal's academic standards, ensuring rigorous, impartial, and efficient manuscript evaluation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Initial Manuscript Assessment: Evaluate new submissions for scope, scientific soundness, originality, and ethical compliance. Make an initial editorial decision, which may include desk rejection or proceeding to full peer review.
- Peer Review Management: Identify, invite, and assign qualified external reviewers. Ensure the review process is conducted by independent experts, with editorial board members participating only in a strictly independent capacity and alongside fully external reviewers.
- Evaluation and Recommendation: Assess peer review reports thoroughly. Synthesize reviewer comments and provide a reasoned recommendation (Accept, Revise, Reject) to the Editor-in-Chief.
- Communication: Communicate editorial decisions to authors clearly and constructively. Manage correspondence with reviewers, acknowledging their contributions.
- Upholding Standards: Ensure all manuscripts meet high standards of methodological rigor and academic integrity.
2.3 Editorial Board Member
Editorial Board Members are distinguished field experts who provide scholarly support, acting as advisors, ambassadors, and active contributors.
Key Responsibilities:
- Strategic Advice: Advise the Editor-in-Chief on journal strategy, scope, and emerging disciplinary trends.
- Journal Advocacy: Promote the journal within professional networks to enhance its profile and attract high-quality submissions.
- Special Issue Support: May guest-edit special issues or assist in identifying topics and contributors.
2.4 Communication & Outreach
This function focuses on enhancing the journal's visibility and engagement within the global academic community.
Key Representatives:
Associate Prof. Dr. Tatjana Brankov (tatjana.brankov@ef.uns.ac.rs)
Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness, Faculty of Economics, University of Novi Sad, Subotica 24000, Serbia.
Associate Prof. Dr. Wenjin Long (longwenjin@cau.edu.cn)
College of Economics and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing, 100083, China.
2.5 Governance & Oversight
This function provides high-level oversight to ensure the journal's editorial integrity, ethical standards, and long-term development.
Key Representatives:
Post doctoral researcher Dr. Laura Moritz (Laura.moritz@unitn.it)
Center Agriculture Food and Environment, University of Trento, via Inama, 5-38122 Trento, Italy.
Assistant Prof. Dr. Xinjie Shi (xjshi1990@zju.edu.cn)
China Academy for Rural Development (CARD), Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310058, China.
2.6 Editorial Assistants
Editorial Assistants provide administrative and operational support to ensure the smooth functioning of the journal’s editorial workflow.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage manuscript tracking, correspondence, and deadline reminders.
- Assist in the preparation of issues and maintain editorial records.
- Coordinate communication among editors, reviewers, and authors.
Contact Information:
- Travis Malone, Email: travismalone@sccpress.com
- Grace Li, Email: grace@sccpress.com
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In making an editorial decision, SCC PRESS expects the Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Board to consider the following factors:
- The suitability of selected reviewers.
- The adequacy of reviewer comments and the author(s)’ response.
- The overall scientific quality of the manuscript.
SCC PRESS policies are informed by the mission to make science and research findings open and accessible as widely and rapidly as possible, this is also reflected in every aspect of the operation of A&R.
Editorial Board members serve fixed-term appointments, with each tenure spanning five years. Terms are renewable, subject to a maximum of two consecutive appointments. The inaugural Board comprises Prof. Dr. Junbiao Zhang as Editor-in-Chief, alongside over 40 distinguished scholars specializing in agricultural economics, rural sociology, rural human geography, and cognate disciplines.
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4. DEI Disclosures
SCC PRESS is deeply committed to embedding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) principles into the core of its editorial operations, with a focus on fostering equitable opportunities, dismantling systemic barriers, and cultivating an inclusive academic environment.
SCC PRESS is committed to supporting the Editor-in-Chief in constituting a diverse Editorial Board. We actively encourage nominations and appointments that reflect a broad spectrum of geographic, gender, ethnic, and career-stage diversity. SCC PRESS strives to create equal opportunities for all. SCC PRESS workplace is free of discrimination, and all staff adhere to these principles.