Environmental Management publishes research and opinions on use and conservation of natural resources, protection of habitats and control of hazards, spanning the field of environmental management without regard to traditional disciplinary boundaries. Contributions are drawn from biology, botany, chemistry, climatology, ecology, ecological economics, environmental engineering, fisheries, environmental law, forest sciences, geosciences, information science, public affairs, public health, toxicology, zoology, and a variety of other disciplines, often in combinations determined by interdisciplinary study.
Contributions are drawn from biology, botany, climatology, ecology, ecological economics, environmental engineering, fisheries, environmental law, management science, forest sciences, geography, geology, information science, law politics, public affairs, zoology. Hence, the journal serves to improve cross-disciplinary communication, and to make ideas and results from any one field available to environmental practitioners from other backgrounds.
Submissions need to discuss implications for an international audience before it can be reviewed for Environmental Management. In addition manuscript needs to examine a scientific or management hypothesis in order to be likely to receive a favorable review for the journal. Descriptions of environmental conditions are not appropriate for the journal.
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.
Innovative research is encouraged in the sense of both identifying new problems and formulating novel solutions to well known ones. Articles are solicited from all over the world, as the international dimension is considered especially important. Hence it is vital to recognize that many environmental problems are common to a wide variety of nations, while some are either global matters or at least oblivious of national boundaries. It is also vital that approaches, methods, and experience be shared among environmental practitioners in many countries, so that the problems of our ever more interdependent planet may be tackled in a concerted manner. Environmental Management treats mankind as steward of the natural environment: not all resources are to be preserved, but our responsibility to future generations, and to other living species, can only be fulfilled by conserving some resources and using others wisely and sparingly. The complexity of this task demands enlightened research, debate, and policy formulation.
Environmental Management seeks articles from professionals at any stage of their careers, from neophytes to recognized authorities. The rate of manuscript rejection is minimized by seeking constructive criticism from referees, so that authors are encouraged to refine and develop their ideas. In the event that important differences of opinion cannot be resolved between authors and referees of readership, the Forum section may be used to present a Comment on an article that has recently been published in the journal, which may be followed by the author's Reply.
Authors intending to submit papers are urged to prepare their manuscripts in close conformance with the Instructions published in the journal. Further information may be obtained from the Editor-in-Chief or Editorial Board members.

Editorial Committee
BRYAN W. BROOKS, Editor-in-Chief
Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
JACOB K. STANLEY, Deputy Editor
Waynesboro, MS, USA
REBECCA A. EFROYMSON, Former Editor-in-Chief
Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute, Asheville, NC, USA
ROBERT S. DE SANTO, Founding Editor 
Environmental Stewardship Foundation, East Lyme, CT, USA
Associate Editors
PAUL J. VAN DEN BRINK
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
WEI-YU CHEN
Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
ERICA FLEISHMAN
Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA
KATHLEEN E. HALVORSEN
Michigan Tech, Social Sciences, Houghton, MI, USA
AKIRA S. MORI
Yokohama National University, Japan
BRAM NOBLE
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
MIRJAM ROS-TONEN
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
AJIT SARMAH
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
MICHAEL A. SCHUETT
Texas A&M University, TX, USA
JASON M. TAYLOR
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Sedimentation Lab, Water Quality & Ecology Research Unit, Oxford, MS, USA
NICK VOULVOULIS
Center for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, UK
ANGUS WEBB
The University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia
BING ZHANG
Center for Environmental Management and Policy Analysis, School of Environment, Nanjing University, China
Editorial Board
PURUSHOTHAMAN CHIRAKKUZHIYIL ABHILASH
Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
DAVID E. ALEXANDER 
University College London, London, UK
CHARLES BIELDERS
University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
LUIS A. BOJÓRQUEZ-TAPIA
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
ANDRÉ BOTEQUILHA-LEITÃO
Universidade do Algarve, Department of Earth, Marine, and Environmental Sciences
Faro, Portugal

HELEN BRIASSOULIS 
Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece
MICHAEL CHANG
Center for Urban and Regional Ecology, School of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA , USA
KYUNGHO CHOI
School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
JEAN-CHRISTOPHE CLEMENT
Université de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
ROBERT N. COATS
Hydroikos Ltd., Berkeley, CA USA
BEVERLY COLLINS
Department of Biology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA
ROBERT COSTANZA 
Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia
JOCELYN DAVIES 
CSIRO, Alice Springs, Australia
FRANCISCO ESCOBEDO 
University of Florida, School of Forest Resources & Conservation, Gainesville, FL, USA
ALAN GRAINGER
University of Leeds, School of Geography, Leeds, UK
KARL E. GUSTAVSON
U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Mississippi, USA
HONG HE
School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA
TALA R. HENRY
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA
ROSEMARY HILL
CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, James Cook University, Smithfield, Queensland, Australia
LEN HUNT
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Centre for Northern Forest Ecosystem Research, Ontario, Canada
MARK IMPERIAL
Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA
MANOJ K. JAIN
Department of Hydrology, Indian Institute of Technology, Uttar, Pradesh, India
KURT JAX 
Department of Conservation Biology, Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, 
Leipzig, Germany
KWANG-SEUK JEONG
Institute of Environmental Technology and Industry, Pusan National University, Republic of Korea
BARBARA KASPRZYK-HORDEN
University of Bath, UK
ALAN J. KENNEDY 
Imperial Oil Resources, calgary, Alberta, Canada
WILLIAM A. KERR 
Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
TERRIE KLINGER
School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
G. MATHIAS KONDOLF 
Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
TOM LANGEN 
Departments of Biology & Psychology, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA
LOUIS LEBEL 
Chiang Mai University, Unit for Social and Environmental Research, Chiang Mai, Thailand
XINRONG LI 
Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, PR China
LEON H. LIEGEL
Department of Forest Science and Sustainable Forestry Partnership, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA
DAVID K. LOOMIS
East Carolina University, Institute for Coastal Science and Policy, Greenville, NC, USA
JUAN LORITE
Department of Botany, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
SHARON B. MEGDAL
University of Arizona, USA
OLE MERTZ
University of Copenhagen, Department of Geography and Geology, Copenhagen, Denmark
AKIRA MORI
Yokohama National University, School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama, Japan
MAREN OELBERMANN
Department of Environment and Resource Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
JORGEN OLESEN 
Dept. of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark
ROBERT GILMORE PONTIUS, JR.
School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, MA
BORIS N. PORFIRIEV 
Institute for International Economic and Political Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Risk & Crisis Research Center, Moscow, Russia
HARUN RASHID 
Department of Geography and Earth Science, University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, WI, USA
JOSEPH B. RASMUSSEN
University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
SARAH RATHBURN
Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO, USA
ROBERT RICHARDSON
Department of Community Sustainability, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
MICHAEL A. SCHUETT
Department of Recreation, Park & Tourism Sciences, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, USA
J. THAD SCOTT
University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA
ERIC P. SMITH
Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, VA, USA
FREDERICK STEINER 
School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
ANDY THORPE
Department of Economics, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
BILLIE TURNER
Arizona State University, School of the Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning & School of Sustainability, Tempe, AZ, USA
CORNELIUS J. VAN LEEUWEN
KWR Watercycle Research Institute and Utrecht University, The Netherlands
MIENE VAN NOORDWIJK
World Agroforestry Centre, Bogor, Indonesia
PETER H. VERBERG
Institute for Environmental Studies, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ANDRÉS VIÑA 
Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
LIZHU WANG
Institute for Fisheries Research, Michigan Department of Natural Resources and University of Michigan, North University, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
ANGUS WEBB
University of Melbourne, Department of Resource Management and Geography, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
ANDREW C. WILCOX
Department of Geosciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA
MING H. WONG
Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong
JULIE B. ZIMMERMANN
Yale University, Connecticut, USA
JIE ZHUANG
The University of Tennessee, Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment, Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Knoxville, TN, USA