Environment International

Environment International is a multi-disciplinary, Open Access journal publishing high quality and novel information within the broad field of 'Public and Environmental Health Sciences'. Coverage includes, but is not limited to, the following research topics: 1) Public Health and Health Impact Assessment, Environmental Epidemiology (Prof. Mark Nieuwenhuijsen) 2) Environmental Health and Risk Assessment, Environmental Chemistry (Prof. Adrian Covaci) 3) Environmental Toxicology and Biodiversity, Environmental Processes (Prof. Frederic Coulon) 4) Environmental Technology for Environmental Health Protection (Prof. Thanh Huong (Helen) Nguyen) The journal has published before on many of the above-mentioned topics, and thus they are familiar to authors, readers, reviewers, and editors. In particular, the following specific topics are welcome (non-exhaustive list), as long as they have strong environmental health applicability and relevance and if they discuss 'interactions between the environment and humans' in the broadest sense. 1) Public Health and Health Impact Assessment, Environmental Epidemiology (Prof. Mark Nieuwenhuijsen) The section overseen by Prof. Nieuwenhuijsen covers novel topics related to the exposure assessment and epidemiology of indoor and outdoor air quality, noise, green space, temperature and other environmental exposures, the assessment and health effect of urban and transport planning and the built environment. We also welcome innovative research on women, children, migrants and the elderly as specific and vulnerable sub-populations. Other topics of interest relate to the health implications and impacts of climate change with specific reference to sustainable development, including planetary health and urban health. 2) Environmental Health and Risk Assessment, Environmental Chemistry (Prof. Adrian Covaci) The section overseen by Prof. Covaci covers novel topics related to the environmental and health risk assessment, modelling and impact of chemicals of emerging concern on human exposure and human exposome in general. We also welcome novel and innovative approaches for human biomonitoring, human exposome and environmental "omics", for a broad range of Persistent Organic Pollutants, Endocrine Disruptors and Emerging Contaminants, including microplastics. These tools are pivotal for the correct evaluation of source apportionment, exposure, fate, bioavailability, and biotransformation of environmental and food contaminants. We are also interested to receive innovative papers investigating the link between ecosystem health and human health and their input on chemicals policy and regulation. We strongly encourage the submission of systematic reviews related to environmental and human health risk assessment. 3) Environmental Toxicology and Biodiversity, Environmental Processes (Prof. Frederic Coulon) The section overseen by Prof. Coulon covers functioning ecosystems with a focus on environmental processes and human activities on biodiversity disturbance in the context of human and environmental health. We particularly welcome novel and innovative research submissions addressing biogeochemical processes in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and their influence on the status and fate of contaminants. We also welcome novel areas of environmental toxicology studies, particularly on the chemical and molecular mechanisms of emerging contaminants and population dynamics under contamination. We also welcome innovative and novel topics addressing fundamental interactions between environmental health and biodiversity, in the context of human and environmental health. 4) Environmental Technology for Environmental Health Protection (Prof. Thanh Huong (Helen) Nguyen The Environmental Technology section, overseen by Prof. Nguyen, responds to increasing attention on technological solutions which will lead to an improvement of Public and Environmental Health. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary research that connects environmental technologies to public and environmental health, resource recovery, social economics, and sustainability. We consider innovative research on, but not limited to: technologies for minimizing and treating contaminants, and/or maximizing recovery of valuable resources from wastes such as energy, nutrients, and water; technologies for sensing and monitoring the quality of water, air, and other environmental compartments; and technologies for analysing emerging contaminants via chemical and microbiological methods. We welcome both applied and fundamental research that develops innovative technologies with a strong potential for public and environmental health protection, that address key limitations of existing technologies, and/or demonstrate technologies in the real-world using methods with strong scientific merit. Environment International is a fully open access journal for which you need to pay an APC. Once published, your article will be immediately and permanently available for readers to read, download, and share. 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