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Journals in Pollution prevention

  • Ecological Engineering

    • ISSN: 0925-8574
    The Journal of Ecosystem RestorationEcologica... engineering has been defined as the design of ecosystems for the mutual benefit of humans and nature. The journal is for those involved in designing, monitoring, or restoring ecosystems, and serves as a bridge between the fields of ecology and engineeringSpecific topics covered in the journal include: habitat reconstruction; ecotechnology; synthetic ecology; bioengineering; restoration ecology; ecology conservation; ecosystem rehabilitation; stream and river restoration; reclamation ecology; non-renewable resource conservation. Descriptions of specific applications of ecological engineering are acceptable only when situated within context of adding novelty to current research and emphasizing ecosystem restoration. We do not accept purely descriptive reports on ecosystem structures (such as vegetation surveys), purely physical assessment of materials that can be used for ecological restoration, small-model studies carried out in the laboratory or greenhouse with artificial (waste)water or crop studies, or case studies on conventional wastewater treatment and eutrophication that do not offer an ecosystem restoration approach within the paper.The journal welcomes full papers, short communications, reviews, and letters to the editor. We are pleased to publish papers from multidisciplinary approaches that are pertinent to a wide range of scholars, managers, practitioners, and policymakers across ecological sciences.All papers will be subject to peer review and they will be dealt with as speedily as is compatible with a high standard of presentation.
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  • Environmental Impact Assessment Review

    • ISSN: 0195-9255
    Environmental Impact Assessment Review (EIA Review) is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal serving a global community of academics, practitioners, policymakers, and regulators engaged with impact assessment (IA) theory and practice. As defined by the International Association for Impact Assessment (iaia.org), impact assessment is a transformative process that informs and guides decisions and actions by governments, businesses, and individuals — aiming to maximize positive outcomes and minimize negative effects in support of sustainable development.Since its mandatory introduction in the United States under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on January 1, 1970, IA has become one of the world's most widely adopted environmental policy tools. In the decades since, a broad range of IA policies, tools, and procedures has emerged, spanning multiple sustainability dimensions and objectives.IA is now used across public and private sectors worldwide. What began as a forward-looking procedure for predicting impacts at the project and strategic level has grown into a broad theoretical and applied field, encompassing ex-ante, ex-post, life-cycle, and ecological evaluations of projects, policies, plans, programs, areas, ecosystems, products, materials, and services.For EIA Review, IA covers assessment of impacts on or of the environment — including Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) — as well as Social Impact Assessment (SIA), Health Impact Assessment (HIA), Risk Assessment (RA), Economic Impact Assessment (EIC), climate change assessment, ecosystem assessment, natural resource assessment, etc.The journal publishes impactful studies grounded in innovative theory and practice across these areas, including but not limited to:Impact assessment theories and innovative assessment and decision-making methodologies: e.g., theory building and testing for EIA/SEA and cumulative effects assessment (CEA), novel predictive assessment models, multi‑criteria system evaluation, quantification of energy values and ecosystem services, and optimized approaches to environmental decision-making, including algorithms for cost‑benefit analysis (CBA).Impact assessment regulations, governance regimes and institutional comparisons: e.g., national environmental legislative procedures, approval and supervision mechanisms, regional and national EIA reforms, comparative analyses of different EIA systems, and empirical studies on public participation within EIA governance.Strategic environmental assessment and territorial‑spatial planning evaluation: e.g., SEA for land development, industrial parks and regional planning, quantitative measurement of ecological constraints in territorial space, and effectiveness tracking for planned EIA implementation.Life Cycle Assessment and carbon‑footprint accounting: e.g., product life‑cycle environmental impacts, industrial‑scale carbon‑footprint calculation, energy‑value analysis for energy systems, and integrated environmental‑benefi... evaluation for the circular economy.Integrated cross‑impact assessments: e.g., Social Impact Assessment, Health Impact Assessment, Landscape impact evaluation, Human‑rights‑related equity considerations, integrated climate‑risk assessment (RIA), and coupled models for multi‑dimensional composite impacts.Ecological conservation and natural‑resource assessment: e.g., biodiversity impact assessment, quantitative evaluation of watershed and forest ecosystem impacts, ecological gains and losses induced by land‑use change, and supporting‑tool development for ecological compensation.Green industry, supply‑chain and environmental management: e.g., corporate environmental‑manage... systems, supply‑chain sustainability assessment, environmental‑risk mitigation for large‑scale infrastructure and energy projects, and supporting evaluation mechanisms for green finance.Systematic reviews and meta‑analyses related to impact assessment: e.g., evidence synthesis of comprehensive IA practices, critical reviews of assessment methodologies, mapping of global EA research trends, and development of forward‑looking research frameworks.Manuscrip... ExpectationsEIA Review is an international journal with a global readership; manuscripts should be contextualized to address geographical and political issues relevant to a broad audience. The journal accepts original research that may adopt a case-study design but does not accept papers that merely report or describe IA case studies applying existing methods within a single jurisdiction without wider learning points. Case studies must explicitly demonstrate innovative theory or practice and offer clear value to an international readership.Despite its title, EIA Review is not limited to review articles. The journal welcomes three manuscript types: Full-Length Article, Review Article, and Opinion Paper. "Review" in the journal's name refers to its blind peer-review process — a minimum of two reviewers — which ensures every publication is reliable, insightful, innovative, topical, and coherent.The journal receives far more submissions than it can accept. Manuscripts within scope may still be desk-rejected for insufficient novelty or unclear potential to advance the field.Authors are encouraged to review recent articles in the journal to understand how the editorial team evaluates potential manuscripts concerning their innovation, contribution and approach.
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  • Waste Management

    • ISSN: 0956-053X
    Waste Management is devoted to the presentation and discussion of information on all aspects of solid waste and by-product management, under the framework of a circular economy and waste as a resource in order to close the loop. These aspects include generation, composition, collection, resource recovery and valorization (treatment), and final disposal. Also, the journal accepts manuscripts that address waste management policy, education, economic and environmental assessments (LCAs), artificial intelligence applications on solid waste management. Moreover, the journal accepts submissions on new solid waste management technologies, successful full-scale applications and Best Available Techniques examples. The journal addresses various types of solid wastes, namely: municipal (e.g., household, institutional, and commercial), agricultural, hazardous household, hazardous and non-hazardous industrial, construction and demolition, and healthcare waste, as well as dewatered sludges, spent batteries and accumulators, used vehicle tires, end of life vehicles, waste electrical and electronic equipment, textile waste, and other special solid waste streams. Note that Waste Management does not accept manuscripts focusing primarily on social or behavioral science aspects (e.g. surveys) or purely bibliometric studies. Manuscripts that focus solely on the characterization and use of a waste material in a new product are often more suitable for a journal that focuses on the material properties of the product (e.g. construction and building materials, materials science, polymer science journals). Finally, mining, metallurgical and radioactive wastes are not in the scope of the journal.The journal welcomes both fundamental and applied research that can be related to problems of interest to solid waste researchers, practitioners and/or policy makers. Well documented case studies will be considered but they must describe results that can be applied beyond the specific location of the case study. In considering whether a manuscript is suitable for publication in Waste Management, consider whether the information is of potential use to solid waste researchers, practitioners and/or policymakers.The following are some of the major areas in which papers are solicited within the solid waste management field:Minimization, generation, composition (including material flow analyses)Novel technologies in storage, collection, transport, and transferResource and energy recovery (mechanical, biological, chemical, thermal treatment, biorefining, etc.)Novel aspects in final disposal and landfilling Artificial intelligence applications (identification, sorting, process optimization, etc.)Environmental assessments (including LCA, S-LCA)Economic assessments (including LCC)Policy, legislation and planningBest practices and full-scale applications
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  • Resources, Conservation & Recycling

    • ISSN: 0921-3449
    The journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling welcomes contributions from research, which consider sustainable management and conservation of resources. The journal emphasizes the transformation processes involved in a transition toward more sustainable production and consumption systems. Emphasis is upon technological, economic, institutional and policy aspects of specific resource management practices, such as conservation, recycling and resource substitution, and of "systems-wide" strategies, such as resource productivity improvement, the restructuring of production and consumption profiles and the transformation of industry.Contributio... may have relevance at regional, national or international scales and may focus at any level of research from individual resources or technologies to whole sectors or systems of interest. Contributors may emphasise any of the aforementioned aspects as well as scientific and methodological issues. However, manuscripts that consider only laboratory experiments, without a discussion of the practical, environmental and economic implications of the presented research, are excluded from publication in the journal.The journal publishes papers, reviews, analyses and case studies on topics, which include:Transformati... of the industrial and societal system towards more sustainable production and consumption patterns, including management, instruments, methods and processes of change.Information and management systems involving resource status, use and material flows in society.Innovation processes, tools and methods relating to resource productivity improvement.Technica... societal, economic, business and policy aspects of strategies to improve the sustainability and productivity of resource use, including strategies for managing resource supply and demand, valorizing waste, lowering energy and material intensities and increasing the serviceability of products.Substitutio... of primary resources by renewable or regenerative alternatives, including agricultural and forest resources and wastes.Material flow analysis and the understanding of resource use and flows in society and the impact on the environment, including resource extraction and waste generation.Life cycle assessment and management of resources, materials and products to improve resource efficiency and productivity, conserve resources and reduce pollution.Societal, economic and technological change for improved recovery and reuse of materials and energy from domestic, commercial or industrial waste streams.Efficient management and use of all resources, including air and water, with regard to the qualitative as well as quantitative aspects of resource use.Resources, Conservation & Recycling has a Golden Open Access companion journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances which features an independent editorial board and a separate peer-review process. To submit to Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances, please visit https://www.editoria... encourage those interested in organizing a special issue or a virtual special issue within the scope of the journal to contact Prof. Zhi Cao for more information. Additionally, we encourage potential organizers to carefully review the relevant requirements in the Guide for Authors before proceeding. Please note that each special issue can only accept up to three guest editors (GEs).
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