Guide to Environmental Assessment Journals

As the principal user of the realm of nature, humanity has a major responsibility to ensure that its impacts on the environment are benign rather than catastrophic. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT facilitates this by disseminating the work of both academic researchers and professionals from outside the universities and colleges, including those in business, government, research establishments, and public interest groups. The aim is to present a wide spectrum of viewpoints and approaches, and to this end the journal consists of four main sections. Forum contains addresses, comments, and opinions about environmental matters. Articles in the Profile section describe and evaluate particular case-histories, events, policies, problems, or organizations and their work. Papers in the Research section present empirical, technical, or other scientific studies and their findings. The section on Environmental Auditing is for articles that cover methods of appraisal and accounting with respect to environmental resources or problems. Generally, the empirical research and auditing lead to a better understanding of environmental problems and usually of their solutions, the debate published in the journal's Forum helps construct better environmental research or policies, and Profile articles may contribute to either aim, or both."

Audience

Environmental Scientists, (Eco)Toxicologists, Ecologists, Chemical Engineers, Public Administrators."

Abstracts and full texts are not available on-line.

As governments and the general public become more keenly aware of the critical issues arising from man's use of his environment, the journal aims to provide a forum for the discussion of environmental problems around the world and for the presentation of management results. It is aimed not only at the environmental manager, but at everyone concerned with the wise use of environmental resources. The journal tries particularly to publish examples of the use of modern mathematical and computer techniques and encourages contributions from the developing countries in the Third World.

Research Areas Include

• Observational and theoretical analyses of environmental management problems
• Application of modern technology to questions of environmental concern
• Use of modern mathematical and computer techniques"

http://www.academicpress.com/jem

As a leader in the publication and debate of ideas central to marine affairs, Coastal Management serves as a forum for knowledge exchange among professionals involved in the advancement of coastal management programs in both developed and developing countries. The journal is an essential information source for experts in the environmental sciences, engineering, law, and resource planning.

Current areas of focus include coastal tourism, biodiversity in the coastal environment, seaport and waterfront management and planning, coastal hazards management and sea level rise, ocean policy and coastal state planning, coastal law and administration, water quality in the coastal environment, and international coastal management.

Readership
Public officials concerned with coastal issues; academic and agency researchers concerned with coastal management; private consulting and development organizations on local, national, and international levels."

Specific research areas covered include: valuation of natural resources, sustainable agriculture and development, ecologically integrated technology, integrated ecologic-economic modeling at scales from local to regional to global, implications of thermodynamics for economics and ecology, renewable resource management and conservation, critical assessments of the basic assumptions underlying current economic and ecological paradigms and the implications of alternative assumptions, economic and ecological consequences of genetically engineered organisms, and gene pool inventory and management, alternative principles for valuing natural wealth, integrating natural resources and environmental services into national income and wealth accounts, methods of implementing efficient environmental policies, case studies of economic-ecologic conflict or harmony, etc. New issues in this area are rapidly emerging and will find a ready forum in Ecological Economics."

http://www.elsevier.com/homepage/sae/econworld/econbase/ecolec/frame.htm

Abstracts and full texts are not available on-line without subscription.

Ecological Economics

http://www.academicpress.com/jeem

Examples of issues to be addressed in the journal include:

• Changes in the environmental quality of regions and methods to analyze such changes (ethnographic, modeling, economic, qualitative, historical, diagnostic, prognostic)
• Industrial ecology: the interaction between industrial activities and natural systems (indicators, assimilative capacity, capacity controlling parameters, critical loads concepts)
• Decision making processes regarding space and natural resources
• Trans-boundary issues and legislative framework
• Regional impact of climate change and options for adaptation
• Natural and social science aspects of extreme events
• Multi-stress on eco-systems
• Multi-functional use of environmental resources
• Restoration/rehabilitation of degraded systems
• Tourism/Leisure activities and nature conservation
• Sustainable use/multi-functional use of environmental resources at the regional level
• Economic valuation of nature in its spatial context
• Governance and environmental change
• The interrelation of ecology, economy and societal processes"

http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/journals/10113/index.htm

Abstracts for the 1999 editions are available on-line through Kluwer Academic at http://www.wkap.nl/jrnltoc.htm/0272-4332

Table of contents and abstracts for year 2000 editions are available through Blackwell Publishers at
http://www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk/asp/journal.asp?ref=0272-4332