Aims and Scope
Environmental Policy and Governance is an international, inter-disciplinary journal affiliated with the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE). The journal seeks to advance interdisciplinary environmental research and its use to support novel solutions in environmental policy and governance. The journal publishes innovative, high quality articles which examine, or are relevant to, the environmental policies that are introduced by governments or the diverse forms of environmental governance that emerge in markets and civil society. The journal includes papers that examine how different forms of policy and governance emerge and exert influence at scales ranging from local to global and in diverse developmental and environmental contexts. The journal invites analyses that are at the forefront of academic debates and that are of practical significance and policy relevance. Each volume includes review articles and guest-edited special issues on themes deemed to be of widespread interest and importance.

Environmental Policy and Governance is deliberately inter-disciplinary, seeking to publish articles that build the understanding of environmental issues not only by drawing upon and contributing to the environmental social sciences, but also by linking the social and natural sciences. The journal accommodates and encourages methodological innovation and diversity in order to foster interdisciplinary, problem-oriented environmental research. All manuscripts and special issues are reviewed by an international panel of referees, with an aim of returning constructive comments on submitted manuscripts in a timely way. The editorial strategy and the review processes of Environmental Policy and Governance are guided by an active editorial board consisting of leading academics from different regions and disciplines.

Paper submissions - The journal invites analyses that are at the forefront of academic debates and that are of practical significance and policy relevance. In particular, papers that draw on, and contribute to the further development of, disciplines such as international relations, politics, law, economics, sociology, management, geography, development studies and science and technology studies are welcome, as are those that integrate the environmental sciences into contemporary debates on policy and governance. It particularly welcomes policy relevant contributions from the field of ecological economics. All papers will be double-blind refereed to the highest standards by the international, inter-disciplinary editorial board. We aim to give constructive feedback to submitting authors and to move accepted papers towards publication as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Review articles - The journal invites review articles that summarise the state of the debate and examine critical issues, future trends and pressing research needs in key areas of environmental policy and governance. Review articles can examine different disciplinary perspectives, concepts and frameworks, geographical experiences or thematic issues in environmental policy and governance. Four review articles will be published in each volume of the journal. Proposals should be submitted to the editors for review and comment prior to the preparation of the review article.

Special issues - The journal invites the submission of proposals for special issues on key themes and critical issues in environmental policy and governance. Proposals should be around 1500 words in length, setting out the rationale for the special issue and the key themes that will be addressed and presenting abstracts of the papers to be included. Special issues should include an editorial review of around 3,000 words and 5 or 6 papers of up-to 8,000 words each.

Further information on Environmental Policy and Governance can be found on the journal homepage:www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/eet.

The Editors are happy to correspond about potential papers, review articles and special issues - please contact the editorial office for the journal via scottlam@erpenvironment.org.

Editor

• Andy Gouldson, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK

ESEE Editor

• Felix Rauschmayer, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Germany

Editorial Board

• Nicholas Ashford, Centre for Technology, Policy and Industrial Development, MIT, USA
• Jonathan Barton, Instituto des Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales, Pontificia Universidad Catòlica de Chile, Chile
• Chris Cocklin, Faculty of Science, Engineering and IT, James Cook University, Australia.
• Alberto Costi, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Navroz Dubash, Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
• Jon Erickson, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, USA
• Brendan Flynn, Dept of Political Sciences and Sociology, National University of Ireland
• Neil Gunningham, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU, Australia.
• Shinji Kaneko, School for International Development and Cooperation, Hiroshima University, Japan.
• Michael Kraft, Dept of Public and Environmental Affairs, University of Wisconsin, USA
• Michael Mason, Dept of Geography and Environment, LSE, UK
• James Meadowcroft, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, Canada
• Jouni Paavola, Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK
• Inge Ropke, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Management, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
• Ian Rowlands, Dept of Environment and Resource Studies, Waterloo University, Canada
• Dianne Scott, School of Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Mikael Skou Anderson, Dept of Policy Analysis, National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark
• Jerzy Sleszynski, Warsaw Ecological Economics Centre, Warsaw University, Poland
• Sigrid Stagl, Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK
• Patrick Ten Brink, Institute for European Environmental Policy, Belgium
• Sharon Turner, Dept of Law, Queens University, Belfast, UK
• Kevin Urama, African Technology Policy Studies Network, Kenya
• Arild Vatn, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway
• Frank Watzold, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Germany
• Steven Wolf, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, USA
• Zhu Dajian, Research Center of Sustainable Development and Governance, Tongji University, China.

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