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Agricultural and Food Economics
Editors-in-Chief: Alessandro Banterle, Luigi Cembalo, Liesbeth Dries and Andrea Marchini
Associated society: Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA)
Brazilian Journal of Science and Technology
Editor-in-Chief: Walter Leal Filho
Carbon Balance and Management
Editor-in-Chief: Georgii Alexandrov
- A carbon balance model for the great dismal swamp ecosystem
- Attribution of net carbon change by disturbance type across forest lands of the conterminous United States
- Carbon uptake by mature Amazon forests has mitigated Amazon nations’ carbon emissions
- Harvested wood products and REDD+: looking beyond the forest border
- Improving carbon monitoring and reporting in forests using spatially-explicit information
- The global potential for carbon capture and storage from forestry
Ecological Processes
Editor-in-Chief: Jiquan Chen
Associated society: Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- cffdrs: an R package for the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System
- Potential influence of wildfire in modulating climate-induced forest redistribution in a central Rocky Mountain landscape
Environmental Sciences Europe
Editor in Chief: Henner Hollert
Associated societies: GDCh Fachgruppe Umweltchemie und Öotoxikologie (GDCh Division Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology), VGöD - Verband für Geoökologie in Deutschland (Association of Geoecologists in Germany), Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC Europe) German Language Branch (SETAC GLB), Students Advisory Council (SAC) of SETAC Europe, and The NORMAN network
- An experiment on the impact of a neonicotinoid pesticide on honeybees: the value of a formal analysis of the data
- Herbicide resistance and biodiversity: agronomic and environmental aspects of genetically modified herbicide-resistant plants
- Levels of DNA methylation and transcript accumulation in leaves of transgenic maize varieties
- Possibilities of using the German Federal States’ permanent soil monitoring program for the monitoring of potential effects of genetically modified organisms (GMO)
- Results of extended plant tests using more realistic exposure scenarios for improving environmental risk assessment of veterinary pharmaceuticals
- Spatial patterns and temporal trends of heavy metal concentrations in moss and surface soil specimens collected in Norway between 1990 and 2010
Forest Ecosystems
Editors-in-Chief: Weilun Yin and Klaus v. Gadow
Associated society: Beijing Forestry University
- A decision framework for identifying models to estimate forest ecosystem services gains from restoration
- Adaptation of forest management to climate change as perceived by forest owners and managers in Belgium
- Geospatial analysis of forest fragmentation in Uttara Kannada District, India
- Growth and yield of Solanum khasianum in Pinus roxburghii forest based silvi-medicinal system in mid hills of Indian Himalaya
- Indicators and tools for assessing sustainability impacts of the forest bioeconomy
- Life cycle cost and economic assessment of biochar-based bioenergy production and biochar land application in Northwestern Ontario, Canada
- Patterns of forest composition and their long term environmental drivers in the tropical dry forest transition zone of southern Africa
- Response of understory vegetation over 10 years after thinning in an old-growth cedar and cypress plantation overgrazed by sika deer in eastern Japan
- Which type of forest management provides most ecosystem services?
New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science
Impact Factor: 0.783
Editor-in-Chief: Ruth Falshaw
Associated society: Scion
- A method to maximise forest profitability through optimal rotation period selection under various economic, site and silvicultural conditions
- European gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar dispar L.) completes development and defoliates exotic radiata pine plantations in Spain
- Forest Genetics for Productivity – the next generation
- Gradient (elevation) vs. disturbance (agriculture) effects on primary cloud forest in Ecuador: floristics and physical structure
- Herbicide options for managing competitive vegetation during the establishment of Pinus radiata and Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii in Southland, New Zealand
- Microcomputer tomography (microCT) as a tool in Pinus tree breeding: pilot studies
- New Zealand school children’s perceptions of local forests and the Montréal Process Criteria and Indicators: comparing local and international value systems
- Post-harvest respiration of Pinus radiata logs under different temperature and storage conditions
- The role of planted forests in improving the productive capacity and ecological potential of Scots pine boreal forests in the Middle Volga Region
- Water quality in New Zealand’s planted forests: a review
Pastoralism
Editor-in-Chief: Carol Kerven
Associated societies: World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism IUCN, Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Climate Change and Drylands, and Odessa Centre UK
Rice
Impact Factor: 3.417
Editor-in-Chief: Takuji Sasaki
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BMC Biology
Editor: Miranda Robertson
- Exploring the floristic diversity of tropical Africa
- The important challenge of quantifying tropical diversity
BMC Plant Biology
- Diversity analysis of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) germplasm using the CottonSNP63K Array
- Drought stress had a predominant effect over heat stress on three tomato cultivars subjected to combined stress
Journal of Ecology and Environment
Editor-in-Chief: Ohseok Kwon
Associated society: Ecological Society of Korea
Plant Methods
Editors-in-Chief: Tony Pridmore and Ute Roessner
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Agricultural and Food Economics
Editors-in-Chief: Alessandro Banterle, Luigi Cembalo, Liesbeth Dries and Andrea Marchini
Associated society: Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA)
Asian Journal of Sustainability and Social Responsibility
Editor-in-Chief: Jong Dae Kim
Associated society: Sustainability Management Research Institute
- Cultural relevance in corporate sustainability management: a comparison between Korea and Japan
- Empirical study on relationship between corporate social responsibility and financial performance in Korea
- Industry 4.0 and environmental accounting: a new revolution?
- The Green Climate Fund – a beacon for climate change action
Brazilian Journal of Science and Technology
Editor-in-Chief: Walter Leal Filho
Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture
Editor-in-Chief: Alessandro Piccolo
- Bioeffectors for a sustainable intensification of Agriculture
- Bio-refining of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne): evaluation of aqueous extracts for plant defence elicitor activity using French bean cell suspension cultures
- Carbon nanomaterials: production, impact on plant development, agricultural and environmental applications
- Improving fertilizer-depot exploitation and maize growth by inoculation with plant growth-promoting bacteria: from lab to field
- Micronutrients (Zn/Mn), seaweed extracts, and plant growth-promoting bacteria as cold-stress protectants in maize
- Multiple benefits of legumes for agriculture sustainability: an overview
- Physicochemical analyses of plant biostimulant formulations and characterisation of commercial products by instrumental techniques
- Phytochemical profiling of tomato roots following treatments with different microbial inoculants as revealed by IT-TOF mass spectrometry
- The effect of Penicillium bilaii on wheat growth and phosphorus uptake as affected by soil pH, soil P and application of sewage sludge
City, Territory and Architecture
Editor-in-Chief: Giovanni Maciocco
Associated society: Università degli Studi Sassari
- Management tools for the sustainable reclaiming of historical neighbourhoods
- The future of sustainable urbanism: a redefinition
Environmental Sciences Europe
Editor in Chief: Henner Hollert
Associated societies: GDCh Fachgruppe Umweltchemie und Öotoxikologie (GDCh Division Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology), VGöD - Verband für Geoökologie in Deutschland (Association of Geoecologists in Germany), Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC Europe) German Language Branch (SETAC GLB), Students Advisory Council (SAC) of SETAC Europe, and The NORMAN network
- A guide for using social media in environmental science and a case study by the Students of SETAC
- A weight-of-evidence approach to assess chemicals: case study on the assessment of persistence of 4,6-substituted phenolic benzotriazoles in the environment
- How to increase the potential policy impact of environmental science research
- Impacts of the North American signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) on European ecosystems
- Microplastics in the aquatic and terrestrial environment: sources (with a specific focus on personal care products), fate and effects
- Natural personal care products—analysis of ingredient lists and legal situation
- Since 2015 the SinoGerman research project SIGN supports water quality improvement in the Taihu region, China
- Sustainability criteria: their indicators, control, and monitoring (with examples from the biofuel sector)
- SVHC in imported articles: REACH authorisation requirement justified under WTO rules
- The risk of hydraulic fracturing on public health in the UK and the UK’s fracking legislation
European Transport Research Review
Impact Factor: 0.672
Editor-in-Chief: Karst Geurs
Associated society: European Conference of Transport Research Institutes - ECTRI
- How to promote electromobility for European car drivers? Obstacles to overcome for a broad market penetration
- Interactions of environmental and safety measures for sustainable road transportation
- Private household demand for vehicles on alternative fuels and drive trains: a review
Future Cities and Environment
Editor-in-Chief: Saffa Riffat
Associated society: World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies
- Comparison of building modelling assumptions and methods for urban scale heat demand forecasting
- Energy efficiency and conservation indicators in Yemen
- Future cities and environmental sustainability
- Sustainable urbanism: towards a framework for quality and optimal density?
- Transportation energy consumption and emissions - a view from city of Indonesia
Geoenvironmental Disasters
Editor-in-Chief: Fawu Wang
Associated society: International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR)
Geothermal Energy
Editors-in-Chief: Ernst Huenges, Thomas Kohl and Olaf Kolditz
- Design of earth–air heat exchanger system
- Geothermal energy from the Main Karoo Basin? New insights from borehole KWV-1 (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
- Maximum potential for geothermal power in Germany based on engineered geothermal systems
- Response surface method for assessing energy production from geopressured geothermal reservoirs
International Journal of Geo-Engineering
Editor in Chief: Sangchul Bang, Richard J. Finno and Jong-Sub Lee
Associated society: Korean Geotechnical Society
Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy
Impact Factor: 0.975
Editor in Chief: Yusheng XUE
Associated society: State Grid Electric Power Research Institute
Special Issue on Low-Carbon Electricity
- A hybrid multi-objective optimization method considering optimization problems in power distribution systems
- A low-carbon oriented probabilistic approach for transmission expansion planning
- Optimal proportion of wind and PV capacity in provincial power systems based on bilevel optimization algorithm under low-carbon economy
- Renewable energy based microgrid system sizing and energy management for green buildings
- Uncertainty-averse TRANSCO planning for accommodating renewable energy in CO2 reduction environment
Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
Editor-in-Chief: JinHyo Joseph Yun
Associated society: Society of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity (SOItmC)
Pastoralism
Editor-in-Chief: Carol Kerven
Associated societies: World Initiative for Sustainable Pastoralism IUCN, Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Climate Change and Drylands, and Odessa Centre UK
- Challenges and contributions of crop production in agro-pastoral systems of Borana Plateau, Ethiopia
- Community perceptions on spatio-temporal land use changes in the Amboseli ecosystem, southern Kenya
- Unsustain the sustainable: An evaluation of the legal and policy interventions for pastoral development in Ethiopia
Renewables: Wind, Water, and Solar
Editor-in-Chief: Chem Nayar
Rice
Impact Factor: 3.417
Editor-in-Chief: Takuji Sasaki
Featured Articles from BioMed Central Journals
Agriculture and Food Security
Editors-in-Chief: Malcolm Elliott and Magdy Madkour
Biotechnology for Biofuels
Editors-in-Chief: James C du Preez, Michael E Himmel, Debra Mohnen and Charles E Wyman
- Development of a low-cost cellulase production process using Trichoderma reesei for Brazilian biorefineries
- Feasibility of CO2 mitigation and carbohydrate production by microalga Scenedesmus obliquus CNW-N used for bioethanol fermentation under outdoor conditions: effects of seasonal changes
- Well-to-wake analysis of ethanol-to-jet and sugar-to-jet pathways
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Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture
Editor-in-Chief: Alessandro Piccolo
Environmental Sciences Europe
Editor-inChief: Henner Hollert
Associated societies: GDCh Fachgruppe Umweltchemie und Öotoxikologie (GDCh Division Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology), VGöD - Verband für Geoökologie in Deutschland (Association of Geoecologists in Germany), Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC Europe) German Language Branch (SETAC GLB), Students Advisory Council (SAC) of SETAC Europe, and The NORMAN network
- Amphibians and plant-protection products: what research and action is needed?
- Dioxin in the Elbe river basin: policy and science under the water framework directive 2000–2015 and toward 2021
- Effect of silver nanoparticles on the standard soil arthropod Folsomia candida (Collembola) and the eukaryote model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Environmental chemistry and ecotoxicology: in greater demand than ever
- Occurrence and transformation of veterinary pharmaceuticals and biocides in manure: a literature review
- Post-ozonation in a municipal wastewater treatment plant improves water quality in the receiving stream
- Screening for potential endocrine disruptors in fish: evidence from structural alerts and in vitro and in vivo toxicological assays
- The European technical report on aquatic effect-based monitoring tools under the water framework directive
- Toward understanding the impacts of sediment contamination on a native fish species: transcriptional effects, EROD activity, and biliary PAH metabolites
- Trends in glyphosate herbicide use in the United States and globally
European Transport Research Review
Impact Factor: 0.672
Editor-in-Chief: Karst Geurs
Associated society: European Conference of Transport Research Institutes - ECTRI
- Analyzing the moderating effects of respondent type and experience on the fuel efficiency improvement in air transport using structural equation modeling
- Carbon taxation in France: a failure compared with experience elsewhere in Europe? The case of road freight transport
- Comparison of fuzzy-based and AHP methods in sustainability evaluation: a case of traffic pollution-reducing policies
- Environmental impact reduction of commercial aircraft around airports. Less noise and less fuel consumption
- Sulphur emission control areas and transport strategies -the case of Sweden and the forest industry
- The barriers to low-carbon land-transport and policies to overcome them
- The impact of automotive industry and its supply chain to climate change: Somme techno-economic aspects
- The study design of UDRIVE: the naturalistic driving study across Europe for cars, trucks and scooters
Geoenvironmental Disasters
Editor-in-Chief: Fawu Wang
Associated society: International Consortium on Geo-disaster Reduction (ICGdR)
- Runoff-erosion modeling at micro-watershed scale: a comparison of self-organizing maps structures
- Impacts of human activities and climate change on the water environment of Lake Poyang Basin, China
Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Editor-in-Chief: Elias G. Carayannis
Latin American Economic Review
Impact Factor: 0.273
Editors: Gonzalo Castañeda, Kaniska Dam and Susan W. Parker
Associated society: Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica (CIDE)
- Climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean: policy options and research priorities
- Do Mexicans care about air pollution?
- Impact of environmental and social attitudes, and family concerns on willingness to pay for improved air quality: a contingent valuation application in Mexico City
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
General Chief Editor: Yasufumi IRYU
Associated society: Japan Geoscience Union
- Atmospheric radioactivity over Tsukuba, Japan: a summary of three years of observations after the FDNPP accident
- Model depiction of the atmospheric flows of radioactive cesium emitted from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident
Rice
Impact Factor: 3.417
Editor-in-Chief: Takuji Sasaki
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Annals of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Editor-in-Chief: Sang Baek Ko
Associated society: Korean Society of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (KSOEM)
- Air pollution and urinary n-acetyl-B-glucosaminidase levels in residents living near a cement plant
- Emphysema prevalence related air pollution caused by a cement plant
- Environmentally induced, occupational diseases with emphasis on chronic kidney disease of multifactorial origin affecting tropical countries
Archives of Public Health
Editors-in-Chief: Herman Van Oyen and Olivier Bruyère
Associated society: Belgian Association of Public Health
- Association between pregnancy exposure to air pollution and birth weight in selected areas of Norway
Genetics Selection Evolution
Impact Factor: 2.895
Editors-in-Chief: Didier Boichard, Jack Dekkers, Helene Hayes and Julius van der Werf
Associated society: INRA Science & Impact
Population Health Metrics
Impact Factor: 2.768
Editors-in-Chief: Alan D Lopez and Christopher JL Murray
Brazilian Journal of Science and Technology
Editor-in-Chief: Walter Leal Filho
Special issue on education for sustainable development
Articles in this special issue focus on Education for Sustainability (EfS) at different academic levels and adopt different theoretical approaches. Some articles analyze EfS in course curricula, while others investigate projects involving EfS. The literature review in the final article provides a complete view of the current situation of EfS in the world.
The first article is being introduced in all the primary schools in Suriname—South America. It focuses on teaching children about the environment in a positive and practical way, thereby encouraging interaction.
The following two articles are involved in the relationship between secondary education and university.
- From the Brazilian semiarid to university: the incorporation of a Cooperative Learning project as academic extension
- Education for sustainability in business schools by practicing social learning
Sustainability in the undergraduate curriculum is analyzed in the next two articles.
- Sustainable development in Business Administration programs of excellence in Brazil
- Environmental education in distance learning in Environmental Engineering at Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil: potentialities and limitations towards a critical techno-scientific education
Two other articles analyze sustainability in graduate courses, one of them in Brazil and another in the UK.
- Treading paths to sustainability: an analysis of the postgraduate curriculum in Business Administration
- Transformative learning to promote sustainability: inserting the third level of learning in management programs
The next article is a case study on the subject of energy.
The following article discusses social learning as a potential framework for strengthening the role of sustainable actions through educational initiatives.
Finally, this article is a bibliometric study of international journals.