Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM) publishes the science underpinning environmental decision making and problem solving. Papers submitted to IEAM must link science and technical innovations to vexing regional or global environmental issues 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 engineering, management, and scientific themes, which collectively reflect the interconnectedness of the scientific, social, and environmental challenges facing our modern global society:
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
The journal welcomes articles addressing scientific and regulatory perspectives and advances prepared as critical reviews, original research, commentaries, and brief Learned Discourses. IEAM also welcomes the preparation of special series consisting of 3–5 articles that closely examine timely environmental issues. View the full list of article types in the Author Guidelines.
In addition, IEAM supports several science communication forums: IEAM Podcasts, IEAM Blog, and Book Reviews. IEAM science forums are intended to alert the scientific community via short, rapid communications on the status of emerging research, new publications, regulatory guidelines and professional opinions on timely scientific issues. These forums, including Learned Discourses, are supervised by the Senior Editorial Board and are not subject to external peer review.

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