Environment International is a multi-disciplinary journal publishing high quality information in a wide range of environmental disciplines.

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Environment International continues with the same aims and scope, editorial team, submission system and rigorous peer review.

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Please note: Authors who have submitted papers before October 12th will have their accepted paper published in Environment International at no charge. Authors submitting papers after this date will be requested to pay the APC.

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Editorial board

Co-Editors-in-Chief

  • Adrian Covaci
    University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
  • Mark Nieuwenhuijsen
    Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain
  • Zhen (Jason) He Ph.D.
    Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
  • Yongguan Zhu
    Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, China

Outgoing Editor-in-Chief

  • Ruth Alcock
    Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, UK

Special Issue Editor

  • Dr. Da Chen
    Jinan University, Gangzhou, China

Associate Editors


Environmental Chemistry & Health, Risk Assessment

  • Lesa L. Aylward
    Summit Toxicology, LLP, Falls Church, Virginia, USA
  • Olga-Ioanna Kalantzi
    University of the Aegean, Mytilene, Greece
  • Martí Nadal
    Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Catalonia, Spain
  • Heather Stapleton
    Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Environmental Processes, Quality, Toxicology & Microbiology

  • Professor Hefa Cheng
    Peking University, Beijing, China
  • Professor Frederic Coulon
    Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedfordshire, England, UK

Environmental Technology

  • Thanh Huong (Helen) Nguyen
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
  • Guo-Ping Sheng
    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China

Public Health, Environmental Epidemiology & Health Impact Assessment

  • Hanna Boogaard
    Health Effects Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
    University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Xavier Querol
    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Associate Editor – Reviews

  • Robert Letcher
    National Wildlife Research Center, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Associate Editor – Systematic Reviews

  • Paul Whaley
    Lancaster University, Lancaster, England, UK

Editorial Board

  • Sara Adar
    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  • Irini Angelidaki
    Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
  • Largus Angenent
    University Tuebingen
  • Atsuko Araki
    Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
  • Richard Atkinson
    St George's, University of London, London, England, UK
  • Damià Barceló
    Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
  • Linda Birnbaum
    National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), North Carolina, USA
  • Julian Blasco
    Instituto de Ciencias Marinas de Andalucía (CSIC), Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
  • Michael Bloom
    University at Albany, SUNY, Rensselaer, New York, USA
  • Bin Cao
    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
  • Andrea Capodaglio
    Università degli Studi di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
  • Nicole Cardello Deziel
    Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
  • Corinne Charlier
    CHU Sart-Tilman, Liege, Belgium
  • Kyungho Choi
    Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, The Republic of Korea
  • Angel del Valls
    Universidad de Cádiz, Cádiz, Spain
  • Julio Díaz Jiménez
    Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
  • José G. Dórea
    University of Brasilia, Brasilia, DF, Brazil
  • Carlos G. Dosoretz
    Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
  • Raquel Duarte-Davidson
    Health Protection Agency, Didcot, Oxon, England, UK
  • Mingliang Fang
    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
  • Yanzheng Gao
    Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China
  • Yuming Guo
    Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
  • Stuart Harrad
    University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, UK
  • Gerard Hoek
    Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Barbara Hoffmann
    Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
  • Milena Horvat
    Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Ching-Hua Huang
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • Xia Huo
    Jinan University, Guangzhou, China
  • Antarpreet Jutla
    West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
  • Kurunthachalam Kannan
    University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, New York, USA
  • Holger Koch
    German Social Accident Insurance (DGUV), Bochum, Germany
  • Judy LaKind
    LaKind Associates, LLC, Catonsville, Maryland, USA
  • Christopher Lau
    U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
  • Dan Li
    Fudan University, Shanghai, China
  • Gabriele Ludewig
    University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
  • Lena Ma
    University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
  • Nancy Bixian Mai
    Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Gangzhou, China
  • Mandana Mazaheri
    NSW Government, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • Lidia Mínguez-Alarcón
    Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Luke Naeher
    University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
  • David Oliver
    University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, UK
  • Spyros G. Pavlostathis
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
  • Nuno Ratola
    Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • Benoit Roig
    Université de Nîmes, Nîmes, France
  • Ivan Rusyn
    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
  • Heqing Shen
    Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xiamen, China
  • Luis Felipe Silva Oliveira
    Universidad de la Costa (CUC), Barranquilla, Colombia
  • Christian Sonne
    Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark
  • Massimo Stafoggia
    Lazio Regional Health Service, Rome, Italy
  • Ashlynn S. Stillwell
    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA
  • Guanyong Su
    Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
  • Phong K. Thai
    University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, Queensland, Australia
  • Shilu Tong
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
  • Eric D. van Hullebusch
    Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
  • Nico M. van Straalen
    Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Marc-Andre Verner
    Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Jun Wu
    University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
  • Zuxin Xu
    Tongji University, Shanghai, China
  • Kai Zhang
    University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Houston, Texas, USA