The Journal provides an international forum to discuss the numerous environmental problems present in modern society and their impacts, taking into account scientific, economic and social issues.  One important consideration is the way in which they affect the search for sustainability.

The Journal encourages interdisciplinary communication on all issues related to environmental impacts.  There is a need to bridge the gap between the broad spectrum of economic and socio-political disciplines and specialists in engineering and physical, biological, environmental and health sciences, amongst others.

The publication discusses whether some forms of development are compatible with environmental protection, particularly in cases of possible serious contamination and toxicity.  The management of air, water and soil contamination is one of the most challenging issues facing the international community.

Waste Management is one of the key problems of modern society due to the ever expanding volume and complexity of discarded domestic and industrial products.  A major cause of concern are the impacts of waste on health and the environment.

Contributions related to case studies allow learning from past failures, to avoid repeating similar mistakes, while attempting to prevent emerging threats to environmental and ecological systems.

The Journal provides a platform for researchers and professionals involved in Environmental Impact to exchange knowledge and gain an insight into the state of the art in the current technologies, methodologies and solutions in environmental impact management as they are being developed and applied in different regions around the world. Authors include a wide variety of stakeholders from research and academia, to professionals in industry, as well as government organisations.

Papers on the following topics, in accordance with the aims and objectives of the journal are welcome:

• Environmental policies and planning
• Environmental assessment
• Development issues
• Sustainable development studies
• Environmental economics
• Social impact
• Policies and legislation
• Public engagement
• Communications issues
• Extreme events risk studies
• Climate change impact
• Emergency preparedness
• Flood risk studies
• Ecosystem modelling
• GIS and remote sensing applications
• Energy and the environment
• Food production and policies
• Solutions for nature
• Case studies
• Soil contamination
• Industrial waste management
• Hazardous waste
• Agricultural waste
• Waste management
• Water contamination
• Fresh and marine water quality
• Industrial water pollution
• Safety and security
• Air pollution
• Air pollution mitigation
• Industrial air pollution
• Transportation impacts
• Toxicity studies
• Pollution and public health
• Environmental health risk
• Water, sanitation and health
• Remediation
• Recovery and resilience

Peer Review and Quality control

All WIT Press Journal submissions are single-blind peer-reviewed by two well-qualified academics from reputable institutions and paper assignments are made to avoid any conflict of interest.  All papers are subject to editorial control.

In order to be acceptable for publication submissions must make a new contribution to the scientific community.

Open Access and Article Publishing Charges

WIT Press is committed to the free flow of information to the international scientific community. To provide this service, the Journal requires a publication fee for each paper published.

The fee for this Journal is US$950 per published article of up to 15 pages (including references and tables) and is payable upon acceptance. Overly long articles, if accepted under peer review, may be subject to an additional US$65 per extra page.

Once published the paper will then be Open Access, i.e. immediately and permanently free to everybody to view, print, copy and download.

Author Benefits

The benefits of publishing in this journal include:

• Worldwide visibility and dissemination of your paper via our distribution network
• Rapid publication times
• High production values associated with a leading specialist publisher
• Full-colour publication in both print and digital format
• A commitment to permanent digital archiving
• An efficient and constructive peer review process
• All abstracts and papers freely accessible online

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For information on how to submit your papers for publication in this journal please follow the submit link below. 

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The International Journal of Environmental Impacts will be published quarterly. Each issue will be available both in paper format (ISSN: 2398-2640) and online (ISSN: 2398-2659).

Open Access

All of the papers published in this journal are freely available for users to view, print, copy and download for personal use or academic purposes. To copy otherwise, or to distribute the Work by third parties, requires the permission of WIT Press.

Creative Commons content: The CC BY licence allows users to copy, distribute and transmit an article, and adapt the article as long as the author is attributed. The CC BY licence permits commercial and non-commercial reuse.

Papers published in the International Journal of Environmental Impacts are referenced by CrossRef and have been indexed in international databases such as Google Scholar. The papers continue to be added to new databases regularly.

The journal is catalogued and archived in the British Library and American Library of Congress.

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Editor-in-Chief

Juan Jose Casares Long, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

International Editorial Board

D. Almorza, Universidad de Cadiz, Spain
M. Barber, University of Utah, USA
C. Borrego, University of Aveiro, Portugal
R. Brandtweiner, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria
P. Canelas de Castro, University of Macau, China
G.A. de Medeiros, University of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil
O.T. Gudmestad, University of Stavanger, Norway
H. Itoh, Raremetal Recovery Institute, Japan
A. Ivanova Boncheva, Autonomus University of Baja California, Mexico
K. Katsifarakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
M. Lega, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
J. Longhurst, University of the West of England, UK
N. Mahinpey, University of Calgary, Canada
N. Marchettini, University of Siena, Italy
A. Marinov, Bucharest University of Technology, Romania
J.L. Miralles i Garcia, Valencia University of Technology, Spain
G. Perillo, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy
F. Pineda, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
M.M. Portela, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
D. Proverbs, Birmingham City University, UK
R. Pusch, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
E. Rada, University of Trento, Italy
G. Rodriguez, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
R. Sjoblom, Tekedo AB, Sweden
J. Vleugel, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
M. Zelenakova, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia