Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM) publishes the science underpinning environmental decision making and problem solving. Papers submitted to IEAM must link science and technical innovations to vexing regional or global environmental issues in one or more of the following core areas:
 
Science-informed regulation, policy, and decision making
Health and ecological risk and impact assessment
Restoration and management of damaged ecosystems
Sustaining ecosystems
Managing large-scale environmental change
 
Papers published in these broad fields of study are connected by an array of interdisciplinary engineering, management, and scientific themes, which collectively reflect the interconnectedness of the scientific, social, and environmental challenges facing our modern global society:
 
Methods for environmental quality assessment; forecasting across a number of ecosystem uses and challenges (systems-based, cost-benefit, ecosystem services, etc.); measuring or predicting ecosystem change and adaptation
Approaches that connect policy and management tools; harmonize national and international environmental regulation; merge human well-being with ecological management; develop and sustain the function of ecosystems; conceptualize, model and apply concepts of spatial and regional sustainability
Assessment and management frameworks that incorporate conservation, life cycle, restoration, and sustainability; considerations for climate-induced adaptation, change and consequences, and vulnerability
Environmental management applications using risk-based approaches; considerations for protecting and fostering biodiversity, as well as enhancement or protection of ecosystem services and resiliency
 
The journal welcomes articles addressing scientific and regulatory perspectives and advances prepared as critical reviews, original research, commentaries, and brief Learned Discourses. IEAM also welcomes the preparation of special series consisting of 3–5 articles that closely examine timely environmental issues. View the full list of article types in the Author Guidelines.
 
In addition, IEAM supports several science communication forums: IEAM Podcasts, IEAM Blog, and Book Reviews. IEAM science forums are intended to alert the scientific community via short, rapid communications on the status of emerging research, new publications, regulatory guidelines and professional opinions on timely scientific issues. These forums, including Learned Discourses, are supervised by the Senior Editorial Board and are not subject to external peer review.

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Editor-in-Chief
Richard J Wenning, Ramboll 
 
 
 
Deputy Editors
Sabine E Apitz, SEA Environmental Decisions Ltd, UK
Lawrence W Barnthouse, LWB Environmental Services, USA
Wayne G Landis, Western Washington University, USA 
 
 
 
Senior Editors
 
 
Environmental Policy, Regulation
Thomas Backhaus, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 
Amy Oen, Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Norway
 
 
 
Health & Ecological Risk Assessment
Lawrence V Tannenbaum, Army Public Health Center
Burton Suedel, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center
 
 
 
Environmental Management
Graeme Batley, CSIRO, Australia
Kenneth M Y Leung, The University of Hong Kong, China
 
 
 
Ecosystem Services
Kate Brauman, University of Minnesota, USA
 
 
Life Cycle & Sustainability
Joule Bergerson, University of Calgary, Canada
Stig Irving Olsen, Technical University of Denmark
 
 
 
Climate Adaptation
John Toll, Windward Environmental, LLC, USA
 
 
 
Book Reviews
Glenn Suter, US Environmental Protection Agency
 
 
 
Learned Discourses
David DeForest, Windward Environmental, LLC, USA
Guy Gilron, Borealis Environmental Consulting, Inc., Canada
Nancy Shappell, US Department of Agriculture
 
 
 
Podcasts
James P Meador, NOAA Fisheries, USA
 
 
 
IEAM Blog
Roberta Attanasio, Georgia State University, USA
 
 
 
Editorial Board
Ifeoluwa Bamgbose, Gradient Corp, Cambridge, MA, USA
Chemical hazard assessment | Ecological Risk Assessment | Environmental Toxicology
 
Ricardo Barra, EULA-Chile Centre, University of Concepción, Chile
Persistent Organic Pollutants | Biomonitoring | Chemicals management
 
Walter Berry, US Environmental Protection Agency, USA
Sediment toxicology | Water and sediment quality criteria | Toxicity tests
 
Saptashati Biswas, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Occurrence, fate, and transport of emerging contaminants | Environmental quality
 
Mark Borsuk, Duke University, USA
Bayesian network modeling | Risk analysis
 
Andrea Brady, Maine Department of Transportation, USA
Ecological risk and impact assessment | Water and sediment quality | Habitat restoration
 
Richard A Brain, Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., USA
Ecological risk assessment (deterministic, probabilistic) | Plants ecotoxicology and pesticides
 
John Carriger US Environmental Protection Agency, USA
Causal modeling | weight of evidence and evidence synthesis | Bayesian networks and influence diagrams
 
Theo CM Brock, Wageningen Environmental Research. Wageningen UR, Netherlands
Aquatic ecosystems | Authorization of pesticides | Ecological risk assessment
 
Steven S Brown, Dow, USA
Aquatic and sediment toxicology | Benthic community ecology | Ecological risk assessment
 
Lawrence Burkhard, US Environmental Protection Agency, USA
Bioaccumulation | Biotransformation | Physical-chemical properties
 
Xuedong Chen, University of Florida, USA
Pesticide risk assessment | Entomology | Ecotoxicity
 
Susan Cormier, National Center for Environmental Assessment, US Environmental Protection Agency, USA
Causal and Predictive Assessment | Environmental Quality Criteria | Aquatic Ecology
 
Valery Forbes, University of Minnesota, USA
Ecosystem services | Mechanistic effect modeling | Ecological risk assessment
 
Sally Gaw, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Fate of pesticides and metals | Contaminants of emerging concern | Environmental chemistry
 
Annie Gibbs Windward Environmental, LLC
Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) | Bayesian networks | remedial alternatives analysis
 
Gemma Gimenez-Papiol, Centro Marino Internazionale, Italy
Marine Aquaculture | Shellfish Safety | Marine Toxins
 
Ana Marta Goncalves, University of Coimbra, Portugal & University of Aveiro, Portugal
Microplastic pollution; Biomarkers | biochemical profiles and Trophic food webs | Plankton Dynamics
 
Yamini Gopalapillai, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada
Metal bioavailability and toxicology | Ecological risk assessment | Environmental chemistry
 
Rafael Grossi Botelho, Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture/ university of Sao Paulo (CENA/USP), Brazil
Environmental and aquatic toxicology | Pesticides | Toxicity tests
 
Andrea Hicks, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Civil and Environmental Engineering, USA
Life cycle assessment | Nanoparticles | Agent-based modeling
 
Udo Hommen, Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology IME, Germany
Aquatic ecosystems | Higher tier ecological risk assessment | effect modeling
 
Grant Hose, Macquarie University, Australia
Biological assessment of surface and groundwaters | Community-level assessment | Aquatic ecotoxicology
 
Dingfei Hu, University of Iowa, USA
Pharmaceuticals and industrial chemicals | Fate and effects of pesticides | Phytoremediation
 
Agnieszka Hunka, University of Twente, 3TU. Ethics Center, Netherlands
Policy analysis | Risk communication and perception | Stakeholder analysis
 
Ana Iglesias, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Risk assessment and water resources | Probabilistic modeling | Policy analysis
 
Nancy Judd, Windward Environmental, LLC, USA
Human health and ecological risk assessment | Probabilistic modeling | Bioaccumulation modeling
 
Guilherme Lenz e Silva, São Paulo University, Brazil
Risk assessment of nanomaterials and safety engineering | Multicriteria methods and decision analysis
 
Bill Maher, University of Canberra, Australia
Water quality guidelines | Sampling and analysis program development | Sediment risk assessme
 
Jannicke Moe Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)
Probabilistic modeling | Population modeling | Implementation of the Water Framework Directive
 
Christine Modovsky, Labat Environmental, Inc., USA
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance | Health and ecological risk assessment of pesticides and other organic chemicals
 
Dwayne Moore, Intrinsik Environmental, USA
Wildlife exposure modeling | Probabilistic risk assessment | Pesticide risk assessment
 
Nic Pacini, APAT - Italian Agency for Environmental Protection, Italy
Implementation of the Water Framework Directive | Conservation and sustainable development | Ecosystem Services
 
Norka Paden, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, USA
Human health and ecological risk assessment | Underground water petroleum product releases | Site-specific water quality criteria
 
Robin J Reash, American Electric Power, Water & Ecological Resource Services, USA
Trace metal chemistry and bioaccumulation | Development of tissue residue criteria | Ecotoxicology
 
Zhi-Yi Rong The Lubrizol Corporation, USA
Ecotoxicity & environmental fate | Environmental risk assessment | Chemical registration & notification
 
Hans Sanderson, Aarhus University, Denmark
Contaminants of emerging concern | Higher-tier risk assesment | Site-specific risk assessment  
 
Rajeev Pratap Singh, Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, India
Waste management | Heavy metal stress | Ecotoxicology
 
Ruth Sofield, Western Washington Univeristy, USA
Contaminated site cleanup | Environmental chemistry | Aquatic toxicology
 
Julann Spromberg National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA
Population modeling | recovery of protected species | adverse outcome pathways
 
Leonard Sweet, The Lubrizol Corporation, USA
REACH chemical safety assessments | Chemical fate and exposure | Human and ecological toxicity
 
Eunice Ubomba-Jaswa, Water Research Commission, South Africa
Quantitative microbial risk assessments | Vulnerability of source and groundwater systems | Toxicity and risk studies regarding emerging contaminants
 
Marco Vighi, Foundation IMDEA Agua, Spain
Effect assessment on populations and communities | Exposure assessment | Ecotoxicology (aquatic and terrestrial)
 
Javier Viguri, University of Cantabria, Spain
Industrial wastes and contaminated sediments | Sediment quality | Indicators and decision-making tools
 
Ruoyu Wang, University of California, Davis, USA
Climate adaption | Ecohydrological modeling | Urbanization impacts on watersheds
 
Susan Wilson, University of New England, Australia
Fate | behavior and bioavailability of pollutants in soil systems | Biogeochemistry of antimony and arsenic | Remediation and rehabilitation 
 
Jing You, Jinan University, China
Sediment risk assessment | Pesticide analysis | Toxicity evaluation
 
Liandong Zhu, Wuhan University School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, China
Biomass production | Microalgal biofuels | Wastewater treatment with biological methods