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International Journal of Environment and Waste Management

 

Special Issue on: "Monitoring, Fate and Health Risk of Environmental Pollutants"

Guest Editor: Dr. Khaiwal Ravindra, University of Antwerp, Belgium

There is a growing concern over environmental issues and problems as a large number of people are suffering due to the negative effect of environmental pollutants in various environmental matrices. To provide safe drinking water is still a challenge, especially in developing world. Natural sources of water such as rivers are being continuously polluted by major drains and sewage discharge from various cities and industrial effluents. The air quality in the major cities is becoming deleterious because of increasing number of motor vehicles and poor control for emission. Furthermore, these problems are becoming more intense with the increase in population.

Therefore, the prevention, control and abatement of various environmental pollutants have become an urgent need, which requires the knowledge of the nature, source and extent of pollution. Additionally, the monitoring, identification and characterisation of the various pollutants in different environmental matrices will be an aid to understanding their possible implications for health effects.

Subject Coverage
Original research paper or critical reviews are invited in the following and related areas:

• Sampling and Monitoring of various pollutants
• Advances in monitoring equipment and method
• Quality control and assurance
• Sources, transport and fate of pollutants in environment
• Speciation of environmental contaminants
• Air (outdoor/indoor), water, soil and radiological pollution, control and management
• Environmental pollution, prevention and control, waste treatment and management
• Air pollution control, treatment and management
• Environmental quality standards, environmental legislations, regulations and policies
• Public and environmental health, environmental toxicology and environmental risk assessment
• Application of mathematical and modelling techniques
• Use of monitoring data in material and health risk studies

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Deadline for paper submission : 30 June 2007

Deadline of papers review : 30 August 2007

Deadline for submission of revised papers : 15 September 2007

Deadline for re-review of papers requiring major revision : 15 October 2007

Deadline for second revisions of papers if required : 30 October 2007