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Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Assessment
edited by Qiuda Zheng and
submission deadline 20 Jul 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 5386 | Submission Open
Keywords: wastewater analysis; wastewater-based epidemiology; health risk assessment; COVID-19; substance use
Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Air Quality Assessment and Management submission deadline 25 Jul 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 17648 | Submission Open
Keywords: indoor air quality; atmospheric chemistry; health and environmental air pollution impacts; particulate matter; mercury and other metals; dioxins and furans; atmospheric and secondary organic aerosols; bioaerosols; volatile organic compounds; air pollution control; emissions reduction; air quality monitoring; air quality policy; management; and regulation; NOx and Sox; ozone; tropospheric; and stratospheric; source attribution; greenhouse gases; global warming
Photocatalytic Applications in Wastewater Treatment
edited by Zhen Wei, and Wenlu Li
submission deadline 30 Jul 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 6221 | Submission Open
Heavy Metal and Potentially Toxic Elements (PTE) Contamination of Soil submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 22116 | Submission Open
Keywords: sources of soil contamination; biogeochemical cycles of heavy metal and PTE in soil; bioavailability processes of heavy metal and PTE in soil; heavy metal and PTE in soil-plant system; risks of soil contamination on human health and food quality; assessment and monitoring of contaminated soils; new strategies of remediation of contaminated soils; phytoremediation; bioremediation; interaction soil-wastes; climate changes influence on heavy metal and PTE behavior in soil; hazardous waste management; waste recovery; recycling and valorisation
Role of Digitization in the Transition toward a Circular Economy submission deadline 31 Jul 2024 | Viewed by 203 | Submission Open
Keywords: Industry 4.0; IoT; circular economy; environmental impact reduction; life cycle assessment; value chain; automation; resource efficiency; sufficiency; sharing economy
Environmental Risk Assessment of Aquatic Ecosystem
edited by Qi Wang, Huiju Lin and Mengyang Liu
submission deadline 20 Aug 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 10211 | Submission Open
Keywords: risk assessment; aquatic environment; pollutants; environmental factors; toxicology; water; POPs; health; emerging contaminants
Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction and Green Energy Utilization
edited by
submission deadline 20 Aug 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 820 | Submission Open
Keywords: greenhouse gases (GHGs); green energy; emission reduction; emission control strategies; alternative and green fuel application
Advances in Urban Air Pollution
edited by Yonghang Lai and
submission deadline 25 Aug 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10581 | Submission Open
Keywords: air pollution exposure; cultural activities; urban air pollution impacts; new methodologies and technologies; policy developments; indoor air quality
Groundwater Quality and Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment Volume II submission deadline 31 Aug 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 18234 | Submission Open
Keywords: intrinsic and specific vulnerability; pollution risk; coastal aquifers; karst and fissured rock aquifers; GIS environment; water quality indices; statistical analysis; simulation models
Hydrological Modeling and Sustainable Water Resources Management
edited by Pengxiao Zhou, Qianqian Zhang, Fei Zhang and
submission deadline 15 Sep 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1586 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrological modeling; data-driven models; human activity impacts on water quantity and quality; nonstationary rainfall runoff; runflow prediction; extreme event causality; impact and prediction; climate change impacts and adaptation; water resource management; flood and drought risks; risk analysis and management
Waste Management and Life Cycle Assessment
edited by Yixuan Wang, and Yingqian Lin
submission deadline 20 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 417 | Submission Open
Keywords: LCA methodologies; advanced technologies in waste management; circularity economy; waste reduction; case studies
Life Cycle Assessment: Methods and Tools to Achieve Sustainable Decarbonization and Circular Economy in the Building Sector
edited by , and Damien Trigaux
submission deadline 20 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 333 | Submission Open
Keywords: life cycle assessment; decarbonization; circular economy; building environmental regulations and policies; resource efficiency; life cycle design; sustainable building end-of-life; life cycle tools and software; LCI and EPD databases
The Threat of Plastic to the Freshwater Biosphere submission deadline 25 Sep 2024 | Viewed by 634 | Submission Open
Keywords: freshwater ecosystems; aquatic biota; plastic impacts; ecotoxicology; plastisphere; trophic webs; ecosystem services; knowledge gaps
Soil Remediation and Improvement through the Application of By-Product Amendments submission deadline 30 Sep 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10399 | Submission Open
Monitoring of Contaminated Water and Soil
edited by
submission deadline 20 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3979 | Submission Open
Keywords: technologies and methodologies; pollution monitoring and prevention; environmental impacts and assessments; ecosystem conservation; decision support system
Advanced Research on Micropollutants in Water submission deadline 25 Oct 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 10020 | Submission Open
Keywords: water quality monitoring; contaminant identification; wastewater management; environmental impact; discharge regulations; pollution control; water treatment; environmental destination; remediation technologies; integrated water management
Ecological Restoration in Marine Environments
edited by and Rossella Boscolo Brusà
submission deadline 25 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1498 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine; coastal and transitional waters; habitat status; wildlife/species; ecological services; nature based solutions; environmental restoration
Environmental Risk and Climate Change III
edited by
submission deadline 25 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 252 | Submission Open
Keywords: systems of systems solutions for climate change; case studies on climate change; socio-ecologic vulnerability; climate change and sustainability; resilience; and vulnerability; environmental risk; land use change and climate change; societal change; or policy; change as a driver; unions and the just transition to climate jobs; models and analytical tools for modeling climate change; poverty and marginalized populations under a changing climate
Advanced Technologies in Water Purification
edited by Ruichi Zhang, and
submission deadline 25 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 142 | Submission Open
Keywords: water and wastewater treatment; water purification technologies; water pollutants control; water resources conservation; waste management; resource recovery
Air Quality, Health and Climate
edited by Sripriya Nannu Shankar, Tara Sabo-Attwood, Jana S. Kesavan and Sanghee Han
submission deadline 20 Nov 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3854 | Submission Open
Keywords: aerosol instruments; inhalation toxicology; emerging contaminants; airborne pathogens; impacts of climate change; respiratory deposition; fate of aerosols
Carbon Sequestration Potential of Urban Parks submission deadline 20 Nov 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2040 | Submission Open
Keywords: carbon neutrality; urban parks; biomass carbon sequestration; soil carbon sequestration; green urbanization; urbanization
New Insights in Soil Quality and Management
edited by Diego Arán, and
submission deadline 20 Nov 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 1807 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil quality; soil management; environmental and human risk; ecosystem services; environmental geochemistry; remote sensing; preditive models; nature-based techniques
The Occurrence, Behavior, Fate, Risk Assessment, and Treatment of per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances
edited by Shang** Xu, Yin Wang and Joseph E. Mondloch
submission deadline 20 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 121 | Submission Open
Keywords: per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS); aqueous film forming foam (AFFF); contaminant transport; groundwater pollution; surface water pollution; drinking water pollution; water treatment; human and ecological exposure.
Environmental Risk Assessment of Aquatic Environments
edited by
submission deadline 25 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 217 | Submission Open
Keywords: multidrug-resistant organisms; emerging contaminants; environmental hormones; antibiotic; biotoxins; desalination and wastewater treatment; aquatic organisms; aquaculture; bioremediation; microalgae; microbial ecology
Recent Advances in Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment II
edited by
submission deadline 25 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 143 | Submission Open
Keywords: pre-treatment; recovery; and reliability of membrane processes; novel technologies for the removal of emerging micropollutants; nutrient removal and resource recovery from wastewater; innovative tertiary treatment technologies
Deployment of Green Technologies for Sustainable Environment III
edited by and
submission deadline 25 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open
Keywords: green agriculture; green tourism; green building; green transportation; green energy; green infrastructure (engineered natural systems); advanced water treatment; smart technology; waste biorefining for circular bioeconomy; food; water; energy; and land nexus
New Solutions Mitigating Environmental Noise Pollution III submission deadline 25 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 78 | Submission Open
Keywords: noise action plan; transportation noise mitigation; noise planning; traffic management; noise control
Soil Organic Carbon Assessment, 2nd Edition
edited by , , and Navreet Mahal
submission deadline 30 Nov 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4893 | Submission Open
Keywords: carbon sequestration; carbon cycling; carbon pools; soil organic matter decomposition; land use; sustainable agriculture; rhizodeposition; soil microbial activities; soil respiration
Microplastics Pollution in Aquatic Ecosystems: Challenges and Perspectives
edited by Charles Rolsky, , and Varun Kelkar
submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 3245 | Submission Open
Keywords: microplastics; plastic pollution; freshwater microplastics; marine microplastics; plastic debris; microplastic pollution
Transport, Distribution and Composition of Floating Macro and Micro-Litter in the Marine Environment
edited by
submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1818 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine litter; plastic pollution; microplastics; marine debris
Advanced Nanomaterials for Wastewater Treatment submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 139 | Submission Open
Keywords: nanomaterials; wastewater; carbon nanotubes; purification; water pollution
Monitoring and Assessment of Carbon Storage in Ecosystems
edited by Reinhard F. Hüttl, Uwe Schneider and Katrin Schneider
submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open
Keywords: soil carbon sequestration; soil carbon losses; biodiversity-related carbon storage (biomass/management); climate change adaptation; climate change mitigation; carbon pools and fluxes; rhizosphere; carbon-related soil parameters; soil monitoring (e.g.; fertility); carbon management
Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Marine Biota
edited by Ginevra Boldrocchi and Roberta Bettinetti
submission deadline 20 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 101 | Submission Open
Keywords: legacy pollutants; emerging pollutants; keystone species; bioindicators; pollution monitoring; ecosystem conservation
Environments: 10 Years of Science Together
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 7175 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental conservation; environmental technologies and methodologies; environmental protection and pollution prevention; environmental modeling and technology; environmental management and policy; environmental impact and risk assessment; environmental change and conservation; environmental analysis and monitoring; ecosystem services; biodiversity; and natural capital; environmental economics; development and application of environmental data; information; tools; and decision support systems; systems thinking; energy transition; circular economy; climate change’ s impacts on human health; population growth; resource demand; and Earth’ s sustainability
Thermochemical Treatments of Biomass
edited by
submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4579 | Submission Open
Keywords: biomass; wood; bark; crop; waste; pyrolysis; torrefaction; gasification; hydrothermal carbonization; direct liquefaction; biorefineries
Preparation and Application of Biochar (Second Edition) submission deadline 31 Dec 2024 | Viewed by 104 | Submission Open
Keywords: biochar; waste-derived char; bioenergy; pyrolysis; oxidative torrefaction; carbonization; gasification; soil amendment; fuel cells; adsorption; forestry waste; agricultural waste; carbon sequestration; policy
Pesticide Contamination to Non-target Organisms and Environment in Agroecosystem
edited by Ge Zhang and
submission deadline 20 Jan 2025 | 1 articles | Viewed by 933 | Submission Open
Keywords: pesticide; herbicide; insecticide; fungicide; rodencide; miticide; exposure assessment; risk assessment; expoure route; mitigation; natural enemy; pollinator; insect; fish; amphibian and reptile; mamal; wildlife; soil and water; plant
Advanced Technologies of Water and Wastewater Treatment (2nd Edition) submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 55 | Submission Open
Keywords: membrane filtration; adsorption; coagulation; ozonation; hybrid processes; microplastics; heavy metals; pharmaceuticals; oxyanions; dyes
Air Pollution in Urban and Industrial Areas III
edited by and Francesco Petracchini
submission deadline 25 Feb 2025 | Viewed by 42 | Submission Open
Keywords: air pollution; NOx; particulate matter; residential heating; road traffic emissions; sustainable mobility; industrial emissions; pollutant dispersion; outdoor air quality; global health; population exposure
Interdisciplinary Noise Research
edited by , and Stella Sofia Kyvelou
submission deadline 20 Mar 2025 | Viewed by 73 | Submission Open
Keywords: environmental noise; noise assessment; noise map**; noise modeling
Research Progress in Groundwater Contamination and Treatment submission deadline 25 Apr 2025 | Viewed by 273 | Submission Open
Keywords: potentially toxic elements; contaminants of emerging concern; environmental tracers; remediation; groundwater quality; contamination; monitoring
Coastal and Marine Environmental Ecology Problems Identified and Addressed by Means of Artificial Intelligence Tools
edited by and
submission deadline 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 94 | Submission Open
Keywords: artificial intelligence; data mining; coastal environmental ecology; chemometrics
Emerging Technologies for Waste Treatment, Pollution Control and Resource Recovery
edited by , and Fan-Wei Liu
submission deadline 1 Aug 2025 | Viewed by 34 | Submission Open
Keywords: waste treatment; resource circulation; resource recovery; metal recovery; circular economy; high-value utilization of waste; pollution reduction; pollution control; pollution removal
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