Environmental Policy and Law
The journal for decision-makers
- ISSN print
- 0378-777X
- ISSN online
- 1878-5395
- Volume
- 50; 6 issues
- Status
- Last issue (50:1-2) online on 21 August 2020
- Next issue
- 50:3 scheduled for October 2020
- Back volumes
- 1-49
- Website
- http://environmentalpolicyandlaw.com
- Subject
- Environmental Law, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Sciences
The journal’s scope encompasses a wide range of environmental and natural resource issues, including biodiversity loss, climate change, desertification, environmental pollution and wastes, forest conservation, ozone depletion, renewable and non-renewable natural resources, sustainability, transboundary pollutant flows, and the management of marine and fresh-water resources, and the interaction among these issues. It emphasizes links between these environmental issues and social and economic issues such as production, transport, consumption, growth, demographic changes, well-being, and health. EPL publishes policy commentaries, research reports, a range of peer-reviewed content, including review articles, and more. The journal invites analyses that are at the forefront of academic debate and that are of practical significance and policy relevance.
By bridging both academic and professional domains, the journal provides professionals, practitioners, researchers, students, and policymakers, and any other persons with information on developments in the field of international and regional environmental policy and law and domestic environmental policy and law of developing countries.
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In January 2017, it was with deep sadness that we announced the passing of Dr. Wolfgang E. Burhenne, who was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Policy and Law. For a tribute, please visit this website.
Managing Editors Marten Stavenga Tomme R. Young Journal Manager Founding Editor Honorary Editor Associate Editors Elisa Morgera, PhD, University of Strathclyde Law School, Glasgow, UK Melanie Jean Murcott, LLD, University of Pretoria, Department of Public Law, Pretoria, South Africa Walters Nsoh, PhD, Birmingham Law School, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Tiina Paloniitty, LLD, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science and Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland David C. Smith, PhD, The University of the West Indies, Institute for Sustainable Development, Kingston, Jamaica More TBC | Editorial Board Ioannis Athanasiadis, PhD, Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing, Wageningen University, Wageningen, NL Ilker K. Basaran, PhD, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey Milena Bellini, MA, ICEL International Council for Environmental Law Towards Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland Benjamin Boer, LLM, The University of Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia Antonio Herman Benjamin, PhD, National High Court, Brasília, Brazil Michael Bothe, LLD, Goethe University, Professor of Public Law, Frankfurt, Germany Edith Brown Weiss, PhD, Georgetown University, Georgetown Law, Washington, DC, USA Malcolm Forster, University of Wisconsin, Department of Philosophy, Madison, WI, USA David Freestone, LLD, George Washington University, Law School, Washington, DC, USA Eeva Furman, PhD, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, Helsinki, Finland Ian Fry, PhD, Australian National University, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Canberra, Australia Camena Guneratne, PhD, Open University of Sri Lanka, Department of Legal Studies, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Parvez Hassan, LLD, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Islamabad, Pakistan Alejandro Iza, LLD, IUCN Environmental Law Programme, Environmental Law Centre, Bonn, Germany Marlene Jahnke, Former Editor of Environmental Policy and Law, Bangor, UK Mireille Jardin, UNESCO,Ecological Sciences for Sustainable Development, Paris, France Eduardo Astorga Jorquera, University of Alicante, San Vicente del Raspeig, Spain Donald W. Kaniaru, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nairobi, Kenya Koh Kheng Lian, PhD, National University of Singapore, Faculty of Law, Singapore, Singapore Veit Koester, Ministry of the Environment, Copenhagen, Denmark Michelle Lim, PhD, Macquarie University, Macquarie Law School, Sydney, Australia Dan Magraw, JD, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, USA Stephen McCaffrey, JD, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Sacramento, CA, USA Mohamed Ali Mekouar, University of Casablanca, Casablanca, Morocco Patricia Moore, PhD, University of Georgia, Department of Entomology, Athens, GA, USA Charles di Leva, LD, World Bank, Environmental and Social Standards, Washington, DC, USA Charles Odidi Okidi, PhD, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya Michel Prieur, International Centre for Comparative Environmental Law, Paris, France Ann Powers, JD, Pace University, Pace Law School, New York, NY, USA Walter J. Rademacher, PhD, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Statistical Sciences, Rome, Italy Eckard Rehbinder, LLD, Goethe University, Environmental Law Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany Nicholas Robinson, JD, Pace University, Pace Law School, New York, NY, USA Tullio Scovazzi, University of Milano-Bicocca, School of Law, Milan, Italy Dinah Shelton, JD, George Washington University, Law School, Washington, DC, USA Balraj K. Sidhu, PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Rajiv Gandhi School of Intellectual Property Law, Kharagpur, India Cleo Verkuijl, LLM, Stockholm Environment Instute, SEI Oxford, Oxford, UK Christina Voigt, JD, University of Oslo, Department of Public and International Law, Oslo, Norway Rüdiger Wolfrum, JD, Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law, Heidelberg, Germany |
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- Figure captions
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Title page
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Tables
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Citations shall be noted as endnotes, numbered as 1, 2, 3, etc. Lengthy endnotes should only be used if absolutely essential. In most cases it is possible to incorporate the information in the text. Lists of References will substitute for endnotes, but should not be additional. References that are not mentioned in text will be deleted. Separate Bibliographies should not be submitted.
Endnotes should be numbered in the text, indicated by superscript numbers and kept as short as possible.
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