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Environmental Research Letters
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Environmental Research series
™ is an evolving, dynamic network of open access journals.
We empower global research communities to address the critical challenges relating to environment and sustainability, sharing knowledge and driving innovation to cultivate a brighter, greener future for all.
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Focus collections
Below is a list of all the
open
and
closed
focus collections in
Environmental Research Communications
, with each collection serving to highlight the exciting work conducted in a high interest or rapidly emerging subject area. All contributions are completely free to read. The collections are built incrementally, with flexible submission deadlines, allowing accepted contributions to be added to the collection as soon as they are ready for publication and further additional articles appearing on an ongoing basis. Many of the collections below are still open for submissions, please see the webpages below for details, and contact the journal if you have any queries.
External proposals from the research community for new focus collections are welcome. If you would like to propose a focus issue please download
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Open collections
The following are upcoming ERC focus collections due to start publishing contributions as soon as the first article(s) have been accepted. These collections are open for submissions and will have flexible submission deadline dates; if you are interested in submitting an article to one please see the relevant web page below for further details.
This special issue aims to explore how climate leadership is exercised across different scales and sectors, and how diverse actors can work together to accelerate progress toward net-zero emissions, climate resilience, and sustainable development. Contributions from a wide range of disciplines-including economics, policy studies, engineering, management, and environmental sciences-are welcome.
This special issue examines the role of Indigenous communities in addressing environmental challenges through traditional ecological knowledge and scientific approaches. By exploring climate change adaptation, biodiversity conservation, and pollution mitigation, it highlights Indigenous leadership in sustainable resource management and ecosystem resilience. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, this collection aims to advance equitable, science-informed solutions that integrate Indigenous perspectives into environmental governance and sustainability efforts.
This Special Issue confronts this obstacle by emphasizing the most influential and broadly implemented AI methodologies in renewable energy, and by connecting these developments to global sustainability frameworks, such as the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Focus Issue on Soil Pollution
Guest Editors
: Hermano Melo Queiroz, Tiago Osório Ferreira, Gabriel Nuto Nóbrega, Xose Luis Otero, Wen Zhuang
This Focus Issue explores the complex biogeochemical dynamics of soil pollution, impacts on ecosystem services, and geographic distribution of contaminants across diverse environments, from agricultural landscapes to mining sites and natural ecosystems. It emphasizes cross-ecosystem impacts and innovative remediation strategies.
This special issue examines the potential, challenges and drawbacks of AI tools on environmental sustainability, and how it relates to the broader concept of effective and inadequate policy planning for environmental sustainability.
This focus issue aims to discuss the relationship between characteristics of enterprises and sustainable development. We invite both theoretical and empirical research that deepen our understanding of sustainability in various enterprise contexts.
This focus collection aims to access countries' sustainable development pathways to achieve the 2030 Agenda from heterogeneity and priority perspectives. We invite research that investigates the complex relationship among SDGs at multi-levels, and design country-varying roadmaps for achieving the 2030 Agenda.
This collection aims to bring together research to provide a comprehensive view of the multifaceted environmental interactions with plastics. We invite submissions from a broad spectrum of human-environmental interactions that investigate production, prevalence, exposure, toxicology, transfer, and management.
Highlighting the latest research, innovations, and strategies in energy transition directly contributes to the global discourse and action on climate change mitigation. The proposed topic sits at the confluence of energy policy, climate science, economics, and political science. It is inherently interdisciplinary, attracting contributions from researchers across these fields, facilitating a holistic understanding of the challenges and opportunities in achieving a climate-neutral future amidst rising protectionist tendencies.
We invite researchers and scientists to contribute to a special issue dedicated to advancing our understanding of atmospheric organic compounds. This interdisciplinary collection aims to explore the diverse facets of tropospheric organics, spanning local, regional, and global scales. We welcome submissions that employ various research methodologies, including theoretical studies, laboratory experiments, field measurements, modeling studies, satellite observations, and measurement technique developments. This special issue aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of knowledge and emerging trends in the dynamic field of atmospheric organic compounds.
This focus collection aims to explore the multifaceted relationship between smart cities and climate change adaptation and mitigation. We invite research that investigates how smart city initiatives can contribute to achieving targets for both adaptation and mitigation, as well as any potential trade-offs that may arise from these efforts.
This is an inclusive issue in which we welcome contributions related to any pillar of sustainable development, preferably through the use of remote sensing data.
This focus issue aims to collect the latest advancements in methodologies and applications of AI in the field of for hydrology, especially for the integration of model and data.
The focus of this special issue is on public participation practices organised by responsible parties (e.g., elected officials, government agencies, other public- and private-sector organisations) to deliberately engage the public in decision-making on climate policies.
This Research Topic calls for papers that can improve our understanding of the characteristics of meteorology, climate and environment under current global changes by using observations, satellite remote sensing and numerical models. We aim to further explore the characteristics of atmospheric processes and atmospheric environment.
Focus on Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau
Guest Editors
: Bing Gao and Hongyi Li
Deadline
: 31 December 2024
The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) is known as "Asian water tower", and itprovides water resources for large populations in many important major river basins in Asia. Climate change has been increasingly impacting the hydrological cycle in the QTP by altering atmosphere conditions, cryosphere components and landscapes. Focusing on understanding the effect of climate change on hydrological processes and water resources in the QTP, this Special Issue prepares to publish state-of-the-art research articles or review papers that detect changes in climate, cryosphere and hydrological elements on different spatial and temporal scales, revealing the causes for the water resources changes, and proposing prediction methods for hydrological elements under climate changes in the QTP.
Focus on Natural Hazards, Disasters, and Extreme Events
Guest Editors
: Tripti Bhattacharya, Mikhail Chester, Vimal Mishra, Jana Sillmann, and Fubao Sun
Deadline
: 30 June 2024
This collaborative focus issue aims to bring together research articles, reviews, and perspectives, which provide a holistic view of extreme events in relation to climate change, human health and wellbeing, the built environment, infrastructure and ecology, biodiversity and conservation at the local, regional, and global scale. Articles will be published in one of six participating fully open access journals.
Focus on Contemporary Low-Carbon Economy Transition, Environmental Neutral Development and the New Normal
Guest Editors
: Jean Vasile Andrei, Félix Puime Guillén, Luminita Chivu, Vasilii Erokhin, Mile Vasic, Donatella Privitera, Tianming Gao and Ignacio de Los Rios Carmenado
Deadline
: 30 June 2023
This special issue considers an integrated approach to the short-term and long-term effects of transitions to a contemporary low-carbon economy whilst ensuring environmental neutral development.
Focus on Energy Security Challenges, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sustainable Production
Guest Editors
: Dr Gagan Deep Sharma, Dr Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, Dr Umer Shahzad and Dr Magdalena Radulescu.
Deadline
: 31 July 2023
This collection covers energy security, sustainable production and greenhouse gas emissions with a clear focus on cleaner energy sources. This special issue provides a forum for exchanging research ideas and empirical practices that focus on green energy, manufacturing, production in industries and other economic sectors.
Focus on Intergenerational Sustainability
Guest Editors
: Jukka Heinonen, Brynhildur Davíðsdóttir and Kevin Joseph Dillman
Deadline
: 31 August 2022
This special issue welcomes research across spatial and temporal scales that provide quantitative or qualitative environmental research/assessments of product(s), systems, sectors, consumption profiles, relevant policies, or economic structures which integrate intergenerational environmental sustainability into the research/assessment.
Focus on the Future of Water-limited Agricultural Landscapes
Guest Editors
: Caitlin A. Peterson, Francisco Fernández, Kristen Dybala, Kyle Frankel Davis, Rajan Ghimire, Rose Roche, and Uday Nidumolu
Deadline
: 15 July 2022
This collection explores the human and ecosystem level implications of land use transitions in production landscapes, including the tradeoffs associated with alternative land uses and land abandonment, impacts on food production, environment, and society, scenarios for feasibility, and considerations for planning and implementation of multi-benefit landscapes in the face of water scarcity.
The prospective themes of the issue are atmosphere-biosphere interactions, nitrogen use efficiency, ammonia measurements, studies on Neem coated urea and NH3, traditional agricultural practices, nitrogen outdoor and indoor air pollution, emission inventories of reactive nitrogen species, wet and dry scavenging of reactive nitrogen species, interlinkages of N and C species, transformations and transport of nitrogen species, throughfall studies of reactive nitrogen, source apportionment, reactive nitrogen in Himalayan ecosystem, eutrophication, ocean nitrogen cycle and nitrogen policies and regulations.
Focus on Early Career Researchers: Environmental Science in South and South East Asia
Guest Editors
: Punyasloke Bhadury, Anwesha Ghosh, Radhika Khosla, Bhoopesh Mishra, Shu-Yuan Pan and Siew Moi Phang
Deadline
: 31 December 2022
This focus collection brings together high-quality original research led by early career researchers whose work focuses on South and South East Asia.
Focus on Environmental Justice: Water and Energy Poverty in the Global South
Guest Editors
: Mark New, Nancy Karanja, Nathan Williams, Margaret Skutsch and Jennifer Burney
Deadline
: 30 April 2022
This collection focuses on all aspects of water and energy poverty, as well as the related challenges of environmental justice.
Focus on Reactive Nitrogen and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Guest Editors
: Barbara Amon, Benjamin Bodirsky, Henning Friege, Markus Geupel, Luis Lassaletta, N. Raghuram and Wilfried Winiwarter
Deadline
: 30 June 2021
This focus collection looks at aligning the integrated management of nitrogen with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Articles will explore integrated science and policy approaches, nutrition and lifestyles, agriculture and food, health, clean water, air and cities, biodiversity, global challenges, and innovations for sustainable management.
