About the journal
Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM) publishes the science that supports environmental management. Papers submitted to IEAM must link science and technical innovations to vexing regional or global environmental challenges to inform decision making and problem solving. Papers in IEAM can be in one or more of the following core areas:
- Science-informed regulation, policy, and decision making
- Health and ecological risk and impact assessment
- Restoration and management of damaged ecosystems
- Sustaining ecosystems
- Managing large-scale environmental change
Papers published in these broad fields of study are connected by an array of interdisciplinary fields of study, which collectively reflect the interconnectedness of the scientific, social, and environmental challenges facing our modern global society. IEAM welcomes papers focused on:
- Methods for environmental quality assessment; forecasting across a number of ecosystem uses and challenges (systems-based, cost-benefit, ecosystem services, etc.); measuring or predicting ecosystem change and adaptation
- Approaches that connect policy and management tools; harmonize national and international environmental regulation; merge human well-being with ecological management; develop and sustain the function of ecosystems; conceptualize, model, and apply concepts of spatial and regional sustainability
- Assessment and management frameworks that incorporate conservation, life cycle, restoration, and sustainability, considerations for climate-induced adaptation, change and consequences, and vulnerability
- Environmental management applications using risk-based approaches; considerations for protecting and fostering biodiversity, as well as enhancement or protection of ecosystem services and resiliency
Industrial policy papers that rely largely on correlative analyses, particularly of macroeconomic data, fall outside the scope of IEAM and will not be considered for publication.
