Statement of Peer Review ^†

In submitting conference proceedings to Environment Sciences Proceedings, the volume editors of the proceedings certify to the publisher that all papers published in this volume have been subjected to peer review administered by the volume editors. Reviews were conducted by expert referees to the professional and scientific standards expected of a proceedings journal.

• Type of peer review: double-blind;
• Conference submission management system: -;
• Number of submissions sent for review: 27;
• Number of submissions accepted: 20;
• Acceptance rate (number of submissions accepted/number of submissions received): 74%;
• Average number of reviews per paper: 2;
• Total number of reviewers involved: 8;
• Any additional information on the review process: after the first review round, the papers were corrected by the authors and checked by the reviewers again in the case of major revisions, or checked and accepted by the editors in the case of minor revisions.