Aims & Scope

ESR publishes environmental research that offers a clear scientific, methodological, management or policy contribution to sustainability.

Scope

  • Ecology, biodiversity and ecosystem services
  • Conservation, restoration and protected-area management
  • Climate change, adaptation and mitigation
  • Air, water and soil pollution
  • Environmental chemistry, toxicology and health
  • Water resources, watersheds and aquatic systems
  • Soil, land use and sustainable agriculture
  • Waste, circular economy and resource efficiency
  • Renewable energy and environmental impacts
  • Environmental monitoring, remote sensing and modelling
  • Life-cycle, risk and impact assessment
  • Environmental governance, justice, economics and policy
  • Urban, rural and community sustainability

Descriptive case reports without adequate methods, unsupported environmental claims and promotional accounts of products or projects are outside scope.