Aims & Scope

Aims

Environments (ISSN 2076-3298) is an international, cross-disciplinary, open access journal focusing on advances, issues and challenges related to environmental systems. Our aim is to provide an open space for scientists and engineers to publish and discuss their experimental, theoretical, and novel practical results in a variety of areas, with particular focus on shared responsibility and sustainable approaches to resource use and ecosystem management. Key research areas include environmental conservation; environmental technologies; ecosystems and ecosystem services; risk assessment; monitoring and modeling of environmental systems; policymaking and governance for stakeholder engagement and decision support. The biosphere, as the shared habitat of all species, including humans, requires a full understanding and appropriate environmental policymaking to ensure safe interactions, prevent biodiversity loss, and promote long-term sustainability.

There is no restriction on the maximum length in words of submissions. The full experimental details must be provided with the basic QA so that the results can be reproduced. For details on the calculation or experimental procedure that cannot be fully described in the main manuscript (Word/LaTeX format), electronic files and software can be deposited as supplementary electronic material.

Scope

Subject areas include:

In-depth description and understanding of environmental systems

• Natural capital and ecosystem services
• Environmental systems analysis and monitoring

• Environmental modeling, ecosystems pulsing cycles, growth and descent
• Environmental management technologies and assessment methods
• Environmental change and conservation

Description and conservation of specific environmental aspects

• Environmental pollution and its broader impacts on living species, including human health
• Pollution prevention
• Environmental impact and risk assessment methods
• Biodiversity and habitat loss prevention
• Soil conservation and change monitoring
• Agriculture and forestry: impacts of management practices
• Water and wastewater management
• Air quality improvement
• Coastal and marine pollution
• Greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem resilience under global warming

Environmental economics and policymaking

• Environmental economics, circular economy
• Sustainable energy and energy efficiency
• Air, water, soil, energy nexus
• Urban systems and ecosystems: dynamics and functioning
• Population growth and decline: sustainable life in cities
• Environmental policymaking
• Development and application of environmental data, information, tools and decision support systems
• Shared responsibility in resource use and trade

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Environments 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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