Environmental Development provides a future oriented, pro-active, authoritative source of information and learning for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and managers, and bridges the gap between fundamental research and the application in management and policy practices. It stimulates the exchange and coupling of traditional scientific knowledge on the environment, with the experiential knowledge among decision makers and other stakeholders and also connects natural sciences and social and behavioral sciences. Environmental Development includes and promotes scientific work from the non-western world, and also strengthens the collaboration between the developed and developing world. Further it links environmental research to broader issues of economic and social-cultural developments, and is intended to shorten the delays between research and publication, while ensuring thorough peer review. Environmental Development also creates a forum for transnational communication, discussion and global action.

Environmental Development is open to a broad range of disciplines and authors. The journal welcomes, in particular, contributions from a younger generation of researchers, and papers expanding the frontiers of environmental sciences, pointing at new directions and innovative answers.

All submissions to Environmental Development are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, originality, precision, importance of topic and insights, clarity of exposition, which are in keeping with the journal's aims and scope. The following categories of contributions are welcome:

Article Types:

All submissions to Environmental Development are reviewed using the general criteria of quality, originality, precision, importance of topic and insights, clarity of exposition, which are in keeping with the journal's aims and scope. Five categories of contributions are welcome: 
Original research papers; theoretical and methodological development; analysis of quantitative and qualitative data; scenario's and modeling; regional case-studies, comparative and transnational studies; policy evaluation and monitoring; development of management tools and policy instruments (select Article type "Research Paper" when submitting your paper to the editorial submission system EVISE)
Reviews of the state of the art. (select Article type "Review article" when submitting your paper to the editorial submission system EVISE)
Discussions/communications: Trend reports, emerging issues, early warnings. (select Article type "Discussion" when submitting your paper to the editorial submission system EVISE)
News and views: (select Article type "News" when submitting your paper to the editorial submission system EVISE)
Book reviews (select Article type "Book review" when submitting your paper to the editorial submission system EVISE)
Communications from the Editor in Chief and Subject Editors (select Article type "Editorial" when submitting your paper to the editorial submission system EVISE)
Letters to the editor, replies to correspondence from authors (select Article type "Correspondence" when submitting your paper to the editorial submission system EVISE)


Check list for prospective authors and journal communication:

Original research papers submitted to Environmental Development should have background in natural and social sciences and do at least 2 of the following:
Present original and novel research on emerging issues and solutions for environmental or ecological problems
Present research work in an international or multinational context
Highlight the policy implications of research work for natural resource management, environmental feedbacks or global change


Communications and commentaries submitted to Environmental Development should deal with emerging issues OR solutions for environmental or ecological problems relating to:
Natural resource management
Environmental feedbacks
Global change
The interface between economic development and environmental protection

Original research papers
Reviews of the state of the art
Discussions/communications
News and views
Book reviews 
Communications
Letters to the editor

Editor in Chief
N. Ishwaran
UNESCO China, Beijing, China Email N. Ishwaran
Associate Editor
Y. Lu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Subject Editors
S. Bush
Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
R.A. Diaz-Chavez
World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
J.N. Galloway
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States Biogeochemical cycles
V. Ittekkot
University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany Regional Editor - Europe; Coastal and oceanic cycling
J. McBeath
University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, United States Regional Editor - North America; Political science
E. Milne
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, United States Climate change
N. Sweijd
Applied Centre for Climate & Earth Systems Science, Cape Town, South Africa Marine science: Research and education
Editorial Board
M.V. Ballester
University of Sao Paulo Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, PIRACICABA, Brazil
P. Bartelmus
University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany Environmental economics; Environmental-economic national accounts; Environmental statistics
A. Batisha
International Sustainability Institute, Cairo, Egypt Sustainability; Global & Climate Change; Environmental Engineering; Environmental impact assessment; Risk Assessment; Civil Engineering; Water Resources; Soft Computing and Artificial Intelligence; Future studies
T. Beckers
Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
P. Gilruth
United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
B. Göbel
Iberoamerican Institute of Prussian Cultural Property, Berlin, Germany Socio-environmental inequalities; Resource conflicts; Geopolitics of knowledge.
T. Goverse
United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya Chemicals; Waste; Air quality; Pollution; Health; Assessment; SDGs; Emerging issues
J. Ingram
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
K.C. Jones
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom Environmental pollution; Waste management; Chemicals management
R. Maas
National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands
L.M. Maene
International Fertilizer Industry Association, Paris, France
A.P.J. Mol
Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands Environmental governance; International environmental politics; Food safety & security; Marine governance; Value chains & networks
B. Moldan
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Indicators of sustainable development; Various aspects of science-policy interface
H. Mooney
Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
J. Roy
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India " Ecosystem services, Climate mitigation, Climate adaptation, Lifestyle, Low carbon growth, Human health and Environment, Environmental Economics, Ecomodernism, Coastal Ecosystem, Green accounting"
J. Shapiro
American University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States China; Environment; Sustainability; Civil society
C. Stephens, PhD, IFRSM, FFPH
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom Biodiversity; Ecology; Health inequalities; Globalisation and environmental change
H. Tiessen
Inter-American Institute For Global Change Research, Montevideo, Uruguay
S. Treyer
Institute of Sustainable Development and International Relations, Paris, France
B. Truffer
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf, SwitzerlandSustainability transitions; Socio-technical systems; Geography; Catch-up; Cleantech; Industry dynamics; Foresight; Innovation; Water; Energy; Transport
R. Victoria
University of Sao Paulo Centre for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, PIRACICABA, BrazilRegional Editor: South America
M. Young
The University of Adelaide, Balhannah, South Australia, Australia Water sharing; Water Management; Transformational Policy Reform; Institutional Economics; Energy Policy; Emission Trading; Robust governance
L. Zhen
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Ecosystem services; Ecological restoration technology; Natural resources management
Z. Zommers
United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
J. Zou, PhD
Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China Soil Carbon, Soil Nitrogen, Greenhouse Gas, Global Change
R. Zougmoré
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics - Mali, Bamako, MaliAgronomy; Soil science; Land degradation and development; Climate change adaptation & mitigation; Integrated Water and Nutrient Management; Agroecology; Climate-smart policies and institutions