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Research Progress in Groundwater Contamination and Treatment submission deadline 25 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5927 | Submission Open
Keywords: potentially toxic elements; contaminants of emerging concern; environmental tracers; remediation; groundwater quality; contamination; monitoring
Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Air Quality Assessment and Management, 2nd Edition submission deadline 25 Apr 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2624 | Submission Open
Keywords: indoor air quality; atmospheric chemistry; health and environmental air pollution impacts; particulate matter; mercury and other metals; dioxins and furans; atmospheric and secondary organic aerosols bioaerosols; volatile organic compounds; air pollution control; emissions reduction; air quality monitoring; air quality policy; management; and regulation; NOx and Sox; ozone; tropospheric; and stratospheric; source attribution; greenhouse gases; global warming
Salmonid Fishery Management and Its Interactions with Freshwater Ecosystem Functions, Structures, and Services
edited by Gianluca Polgar and
submission deadline 25 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 467 | Submission Open
Keywords: Salmonidae; hatchery management; freshwater sport fishing; inland fisheries; salmonid biodiversity; salmonid conservation
Life Cycle and Risk Assessment for Water and Wastewater Infrastructure
edited by
submission deadline 25 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 189 | Submission Open
Keywords: life cycle assessment; health risk assessment; climate impacts; vulnerability; adaptability and resilience; water and wastewater infrastructure
Ecological Restoration in Marine Environments
edited by and Rossella Boscolo Brusà
submission deadline 15 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 6888 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine; coastal and transitional waters; habitat status; wildlife/species; ecological services; nature based solutions; environmental restoration
Life Cycle Assessment: Methods and Tools to Achieve Sustainable Decarbonization and Circular Economy in the Building Sector
edited by , and Damien Trigaux
submission deadline 15 May 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3121 | Submission Open
Keywords: life cycle assessment; decarbonization; circular economy; building environmental regulations and policies; resource efficiency; life cycle design; sustainable building end-of-life; life cycle tools and software; LCI and EPD databases
Monitoring of Contaminated Water and Soil
edited by
submission deadline 20 May 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10571 | Submission Open
Keywords: technologies and methodologies; pollution monitoring and prevention; environmental impacts and assessments; ecosystem conservation; decision support system
Rural Landscape Management and Conservation: Advances in GIS and Remote Sensing Applications submission deadline 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 302 | Submission Open
Keywords: GIS applications; remote sensing applications; sustainable rural development; land use and land cover mapping; agricultural land management; precision agriculture; environmental monitoring; soil and vegetation analysis; machine learning in GIS and remote sensing
Monitoring and Assessment of Carbon Storage in Ecosystems
edited by Reinhard F. Hüttl, Uwe Schneider and Katrin Schneider
submission deadline 25 May 2025 | Viewed by 462 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil carbon sequestration; soil carbon losses; biodiversity-related carbon storage (biomass/management); climate change adaptation; climate change mitigation; carbon pools and fluxes; rhizosphere; carbon-related soil parameters; soil monitoring (e.g.; fertility); carbon management
Soil Organic Carbon Assessment, 2nd Edition
edited by , , and Navreet Mahal
submission deadline 30 May 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 7550 | Submission Open
Keywords: carbon sequestration; carbon cycling; carbon pools; soil organic matter decomposition; land use; sustainable agriculture; rhizodeposition; soil microbial activities; soil respiration
Coastal and Marine Environmental Ecology Problems Identified and Addressed by Means of Artificial Intelligence Tools
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1480 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; data mining; coastal environmental ecology; chemometrics
Environmental Risk Assessment of Aquatic Environments
edited by
submission deadline 15 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5266 | Submission Open
Keywords: multidrug-resistant organisms; emerging contaminants; environmental hormones; antibiotic; biotoxins; desalination and wastewater treatment; aquatic organisms; aquaculture; bioremediation; microalgae; microbial ecology
Healthy and Safe Environments across Occupational and Environmental Contexts
edited by , Joana Santos and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2025 | 5 articles | Viewed by 5049 | Submission Open
Keywords: occupational health; environmental health; human factors; human exposure; healthy environments
Environmental Pollutant Exposure and Human Health
edited by Gabriele Donzelli and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2025 | 6 articles | Viewed by 3936 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental epidemiology; environmental pollution; environmental health; human health; burden of disease
Transport, Distribution and Composition of Floating Macro and Micro-Litter in the Marine Environment
edited by
submission deadline 20 Jun 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3184 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine litter; plastic pollution; microplastics; marine debris
Advances in Urban Air Pollution: 2nd Edition
edited by Yonghang Lai and
submission deadline 20 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2857 | Submission Open
Keywords: air pollution exposure; cultural activities; urban air pollution impacts; new methodologies and technologies; policy developments; indoor air quality
Monitoring and Assessment of Inorganic and Organic Microcontaminants in Soil, Sediment, Water Systems
edited by
submission deadline 25 Jun 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 738 | Submission Open
Keywords: aquatic ecosystem; ecotoxicology; environmental risk assessment; food chain; environmental fate; organic and inorganic micropollutants; analytical chemistry
Environments: 10 Years of Science Together
edited by
submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | 26 articles | Viewed by 56339 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental conservation; environmental technologies and methodologies; environmental protection and pollution prevention; environmental modeling and technology; environmental management and policy; environmental impact and risk assessment; environmental change and conservation; environmental analysis and monitoring; ecosystem services; biodiversity; and natural capital; environmental economics; development and application of environmental data; information; tools; and decision support systems; systems thinking; energy transition; circular economy; climate change’ s impacts on human health; population growth; resource demand; and Earth’ s sustainability
Emergy Accounting, Planetary Survival, Prosperous Way Down and Environmental Policy Making submission deadline 30 Jun 2025 | Viewed by 330 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental assessment; emergy; universal energy hierarchy; hierarchical distribution of materials; transforming; unit emergy value; systems thinking; maximum power principle; prosperous way down; pulsing paradigm; labor & services
Balancing Energy and Environmental Sustainability: Innovations, Impacts, and Pathways
edited by , Nick Holden, and Mateus Guimarães da Silva
submission deadline 15 Jul 2025 | Viewed by 129 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable energy; life cycle assessment; environmental impact; carbon footprint; climate change; resource efficiency; circular economy; case studies; modeling approaches; cleaner production
Advanced Technologies of Water and Wastewater Treatment (2nd Edition) submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9390 | Submission Open
Keywords: membrane filtration; adsorption; coagulation; ozonation; hybrid processes; microplastics; heavy metals; pharmaceuticals; oxyanions; dyes
Environmental Challenges and Sustainable Contributions to the One Health Approach submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2893 | Submission Open
Keywords: human exposure prevention; environmental risk factors and stressors; technological and sustainable solutions; environmental and health indicators; environment and human health assessments; consumer health and well-being; sustainable development; circular economy; One Health model
Trace Metals in the Environment: Advances in Detection Techniques, Pollution Assessment and Management
edited by and Xudong Wei
submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1715 | Submission Open
Keywords: trace metals; detection techniques; environmental pollution; metal mobility; metal bioavailability; risk assessment; environmental toxicology; ecological effects; metal remediation and recycling; sustainable management
Advanced Research on Micropollutants in Water, 2nd Edition submission deadline 25 Jul 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1311 | Submission Open
Keywords: water quality monitoring; contaminant identification; wastewater management; environmental impact; discharge regulations; pollution control; water treatment; environmental destination; remediation technologies; integrated water management
Emerging Technologies for Waste Treatment, Pollution Control and Resource Recovery
edited by , and Fan-Wei Liu
submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1668 | Submission Open
Keywords: waste treatment; resource circulation; resource recovery; metal recovery; circular economy; high-value utilization of waste; pollution reduction; pollution control; pollution removal
Environmental Pollution Risk Assessment submission deadline 25 Aug 2025 | 4 articles | Viewed by 2801 | Submission Open
Keywords: risk assessment; environmental health; environmental pollution; public health and environmental protection; green designs and environmental health architecture
Air Pollution in Urban and Industrial Areas III
edited by and Francesco Petracchini
submission deadline 25 Aug 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2443 | Submission Open
Keywords: air pollution; NOx; particulate matter; residential heating; road traffic emissions; sustainable mobility; industrial emissions; pollutant dispersion; outdoor air quality; global health; population exposure
Environmental Risk Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystem, 2nd Edition
edited by Qi Wang, Huiju Lin and Mengyang Liu
submission deadline 25 Aug 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 788 | Submission Open
Keywords: risk assessment; aquatic environment; pollutants; environmental factors; toxicology; water; POPs; health; emerging contaminants
Monitoring and Assessment of Environmental Quality in Coastal Ecosystems, 4th Edition submission deadline 15 Sep 2025 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2787 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastal ecosystems; environmental quality and environmental indexes; monitoring and/or assessment programs; environmental disturbances; pressures and stressors; anthropogenic impacts; bioindicators; biomonitors; ecotoxicology and biomarkers; populations; communities and ecosystem responses
Interdisciplinary Noise Research
edited by , and Stella Sofia Kyvelou
submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2803 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental noise; noise assessment; noise mapping; noise modeling
Soil Pollution and Remediation: Multidisciplinary Approaches to a Global Challenge
edited by and Claudia Campillo-Cora
submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1778 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil pollution; persistent organic pollutants; metals; microplastics; pesticides; bioremediation; nanotechnology; phytoremediation; urban soils; innovative techniques
Biomonitoring and Risk Assessment of Marine Ecosystems
edited by Vincenzo Di Martino and
submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1312 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine biomonitoring; ecological risk assessment; invasive species management; coastal ecosystem monitoring; fishery impact assessment
Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Soil Contamination and Remediation submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 113 | Submission Open
Keywords: nature-based solutions; physicochemical technologies; long-lasting pollutants; new emerging contaminants; fate and transport; phytomanagement; effective communication of risk; pollution and human health
The Occurrence and Distribution of Persistent and Emerging Organic Contaminants in the Coast
edited by Emmanuel Sinagra and Anna Białk-Bielińska
submission deadline 20 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 45 | Submission Open
Keywords: identification and quantification of persistent and emerging organic contaminants in coastal zones; the source tracking; fate; and transport mechanisms of contaminants; ecotoxicological effects on marine organisms and ecosystems; bioaccumulation and trophic transfer in coastal food webs; the impacts of climate change on contaminant distribution and behavior; advances in monitoring technologies and analytical methods; policy frameworks; risk assessments; and mitigation strategies
Plastics Pollution in Aquatic Environments, 2nd Edition
edited by Juliana Aristéia De Lima and Karin Mattsson
submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2199 | Submission Open
Keywords: degradation; fragmentation; biodegradation; polymer characteristics; micro- and nanoplastics; aquatic environment; characterisation methods; microscopy; spectroscopy; green materials; bioplastics; microplastics
Occurrence, Fate, and Environmental Risk Assessment of Organic Pollutants in Water submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | 2 articles | Viewed by 688 | Submission Open
Keywords: organic pollutants; water pollution; environmental risk assessment; fate and transport; aquatic toxicity; remediation and mitigation
Thermochemical Treatments of Biomass, 2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 25 Sep 2025 | Viewed by 122 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomass; wood; bark; crop; waste; pyrolysis; torrefaction; gasification; hydrothermal carbonization; direct liquefaction; biorefineries
New Insights in Soil Quality and Management, 2nd Edition
edited by Diego Arán, and
submission deadline 15 Oct 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 353 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil quality; soil management; environmental and human risk; ecosystem services; environmental geochemistry; remote sensing; preditive models; nature-based techniques
Behavior and Remediation of Emerging Contaminants in Water Environments
edited by , Lin Gong, Shaojie Ren and Ning Zhang
submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 545 | Submission Open
Keywords: emerging contaminant; water environment; environmental behavior; ecological risk; remediation technology; policy management
Ecotoxicity of Microplastics submission deadline 20 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 250 | Submission Open
Keywords: harmful effects of microplastics on ecosystems; exposure of different organisms to microplastics; microplastic persistence within various ecosystems; microplastic toxicity to different organisms; microplastic risks to food webs and ecosystem health
Preparation and Application of Biochar (Second Edition) submission deadline 31 Oct 2025 | Viewed by 422 | Submission Open
Keywords: biochar; waste-derived char; bioenergy; pyrolysis; oxidative torrefaction; carbonization; gasification; soil amendment; fuel cells; adsorption; forestry waste; agricultural waste; carbon sequestration; policy
Soil Remediation and Improvement Through the Application of By-Product Amendments, 2nd Edition submission deadline 15 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 458 | Submission Open
Keywords: biochar; brownfield soils; by-products; compost; cultivated soils; phytoremediation; soil remediation; bioremediation
Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Wastewater Treatment submission deadline 20 Nov 2025 | Viewed by 18 | Submission Open
Keywords: innovative technologies; sustainable practices; circular economy strategies; ecological impact mitigation
Advanced Catalytic Processes and Nanomaterials for Environmental Remediation submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 571 | Submission Open
Keywords: catalytic processes; advanced oxidation processes; nanomaterials; metal oxides; nanocarbons; photocatalysis; degradation; environmental remediation
Coping with Climate Change: Fate of Nutrients and Pollutants in Soil
edited by Ming Zhang, Shuang Wang and Yao Zhao
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 262 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil nutrient turnover; soil microbial activities; soil virus; climate change; carbon sequestration; nitrogen emissions; soil pollutants; soil health; soil quality; soil management
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Green Energy Utilization, 2nd Edition
edited by and Yu-Lun Tseng
submission deadline 15 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 91 | Submission Open
Keywords: greenhouse gasses (GHGs); green energy; emission reduction; emission control strategies; alternative and green fuel applications
Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Plastic Contamination
edited by and Cheng Fang
submission deadline 20 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 60 | Submission Open
Keywords: plastic contamination; macroplastics; microplastics; and nanoplastics; risk assessment; analysis and quantification; fate and transportation
Advances in Heavy Metal Remediation Technologies
edited by and Sicheng Shao
submission deadline 31 Dec 2025 | Viewed by 64 | Submission Open
Keywords: wastewater treatment; heavy metal removal; biological remediation; adsorption; electrochemical remediation; bioelectrochemcial remediation; membrane remediaiton; advanced oxidation process
Ambient Air Pollution, Built Environment, and Public Health
edited by and Weiju Zhou
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 67 | Submission Open
Keywords: ambient air pollution; built envrionment; green space; natural disaster; public health; environmental epidemiology; vulnerable population
Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Assessment and Surveillance
edited by Zhenyu Wu, and Qiuda Zheng
submission deadline 15 Jan 2026 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open
Keywords: wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE); pathogen surveillance; biomarker detection; antimicrobial resistance; public health policy; environmental monitoring; data modeling; community health; One Health; pandemic preparedness
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