Environmental Science

AIMS AND SCOPE
Environment International covers all disciplines engaged in the field of environmental research. It seeks to quantify the impact of contaminants in the human environment, and to address human impacts on the natural environment itself. We recognize that scientific issues related to environmental health and human welfare are inherently interdisciplinary and, therefore, we welcome articles that cover the entire spectrum of sources, pathways, sinks and interactions between environmental pollutants, whether chemical, biological or physical. The primary criteria for publication are scientific quality and environmental significance.

Progress in Environmental Science now forms the reviews section of Environment International, presenting state-of-the-science reviews of major themes within the field of environmental science, such as those related to environmental risks and hazards, environmental pollution, waste disposal and the modelling of environmental impacts.

In 1998, European Journal of Soil Biology becomes a more fundamental journal covering all aspects of soil biology which deal with natural ecosystems or world regions (polar to tropical) in connection with the greatest ecological interests: changes in the biodiversity, biological conservation, adaptation, impact of global changes, consequences on soil and ecosystem functioning. Different levels of the ecosystem structure are taken into account: individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems themselves. At each level, the different disciplinary approach are welcomed: molecular biology and genetics, ecophysiology, biogeography, ecology, soil processes, organic matter and nutrient dynamics, landscape ecology. European Journal of Soil Biology is concerned with microbial and faunal ecology and activity in soils. The whole field of environmental biology is also covered such as the effects and the fate of pollutants.
The following main fields are distinguished:
• Population biology and molecular ecology: methodological development and contribution to study microbial and faunal populations; diversity and population dynamics; genetic transfers, influence of environmental factors
• Community ecology and functioning processes: interactions between organisms and mineral or organic compounds; involvement of such interactions in soil pathogenicity; transformation of mineral and organic compounds, cycling of elements; soil structuration
• Relation between soil biology and soil physics and chemistry: occurence of physicochemical parameters and surface properties on biological processes and population behavior
• Modeling of biological processes and population dynamics

The journal publishes original papers and review articles which confer an international quality. Special issues on specific topics of high scientific interest may be also published.

FLORA is the oldest scientific botanical journal, with an uninterrupted publication sequence since 1818.

Forest Policy and Economics is an international journal dealing with policy issues, including economics and planning, relating to the forest and forest industries sector. Its aims are both to publish original papers of a high scientific standard, and to enhance communications amongst researchers, legislators, decision-makers and other professionals concerned with formulating and implementing policies for the sector.

The Journal for Nature Conservation is a scientific journal focussing on methods and techniques used in nature conservation.

The journal covers all aspects of forest economics, and publishes scientific papers in different forestry subject areas.

Concerned with conceptual, scientific, and design approaches of land use. Emphasizing the need for ecological understanding of the multi-disciplinary and interrelated problems posed by nature and human use of land.