Aims & Scope

Aims

Earth (ISSN 2673-4834) provides an advanced forum for multidisciplinary research on the interactions/connections among global environmental systems. It publishes reviews, regular research papers, and short communications, as well as Special Issues on particular subjects.

The aim of Earth is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. Therefore, the journal has no restriction on the maximum length of the papers. Full experimental details should be provided so that the results can be reproduced.

In addition, the journal has the following features: Manuscripts regarding new and innovative research proposals and ideas are particularly welcome; electronic files or software regarding the full details of the calculation and experimental procedure as well as source codes can be submitted as supplementary material.

Scope

The journal encourages significant contributions to our understanding of global environmental changes. We are open to submissions on all relevant topics and are particularly interested in the following areas of research:

• Air quality/pollution and atmospheric changes
• Environmental impacts of climate change dynamics
• Water quality/pollution and water resource management
• Interaction between land use/cover, agriculture, forestry and the environment
• Soil system/management and global environment
• Environmental system and global change ecology and biodiversity
• Resources management and conservation
• Natural and human-made disasters/risks on the environment
• Environmental research on food security/changes
• Innovation of techniques on environmental research
• Environmental health
• Urban development/sustainability
• Human health, well-being and related statistics among global environmental systems

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Earth will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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