Environmental Degradation, Management Strategies and Human Health

Call for Papers

Survival of the mankind, with its alarming increase in population growth linked in the long term, requires a stable ecosystem, for which the development of resources is unavoidable. The environment and ecology are degraded by both inappropriate and lack of development. The ecosystem is fragile and highly unstable. It is implicit, therefore, that ecosystem should be left as much as possible in its natural state and that its diversity should be preserved at any cost. Modification for the purpose of development should be minimal and confine to the range of tolerance limits of various elements of ecosystem.

All management practices that meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generation to meet their own needs will alone be considered as a sustainable development. It is, therefore, realized that all aspects of environmental sustainable practices should be planned, implemented, and managed in such a way that the future demands of the growing population have to be met with minimum disturbance to the existing ecosystem along with the incorporation of adequate control measures at appropriate stages to mitigate the adverse effects, if any, to maintain the sustainability of the system on the long run.

We are interested in articles that explore all the possible aspects of ecological impacts on biotic and abiotic factors. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Air and water pollution
• Bioaccumulation and biomonitoring
• Biodegradation and bioremediation
• Environmental hydrology aspects: floods, drought, wastewater reuse, and water resources impact assessment, and climate change
• Groundwater management and protection
• Ecosystem health
• Ecotoxicity of emerging chemicals
• Mercury and methylmercury: sources, biomarkers, and control
• Environmental Economics
• Environmental health risk
• Environmental policies and planning
• Legislation and regulations
• Natural resources management
• Petroleum contamination
• Remediation studies and technologies
• Risk assessment and management
• Social issues and stakeholders participation
• Soil contamination
• Sludge management
• Solid waste management
• Sustainable development
• Thermal pollution
• Visibility pollution
• Waste and recycling
• Waste management
• Water pollution
• Water resources management
• Water supply and wastewater treatment

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijeco/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/ijeco/mmm/ according to the following timetable:

Lead Guest Editor

• Mousumi Chatterjee, Department of Marine Science, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Guest Editors

• Andrew Hursthouse, School of Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, Scotland, UK
• Joao Canario, IPMA IP, Department of Ocean and Marine Resources, Lisboa - Portugal