Focus and Scope

Journal of Environmental Law, Management, and Governance focuses on the integration of legal, management, and governance perspectives in addressing environmental challenges and promoting sustainable development. The journal welcomes theoretical, empirical, applied, and interdisciplinary studies that examine the relationships among environmental regulations, institutions, management practices, public policy, communities, and environmental sustainability.

The scope of the journal includes:

1. Environmental Law and Policy

Studies on environmental law, environmental regulations, legal institutions, environmental rights, environmental justice, policy implementation, regulatory frameworks, compliance, and legal approaches to environmental protection.

2. Environmental Management

Studies on environmental management systems, pollution prevention, waste management, resource efficiency, environmental risk management, environmental assessment, sustainable production, and organizational approaches to environmental performance.

3. Environmental Governance and Institutions

Studies on environmental governance, institutional arrangements, public administration, regulatory governance, multi-level governance, stakeholder engagement, transparency, accountability, and collaborative approaches to environmental management.

4. Natural Resources and Ecosystem Governance

Studies on the governance and management of forests, land, water, coastal and marine resources, biodiversity, ecosystems, conservation, and sustainable natural resource utilization.

5. Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability

Studies on climate change adaptation and mitigation, environmental resilience, disaster risk reduction, sustainable development, low-carbon development, climate policy, and strategies for achieving environmental sustainability.

6. Environmental Economics and Sustainable Business

Studies on environmental economics, green economy, circular economy, sustainable finance, environmental valuation, corporate environmental responsibility, sustainable business practices, and economic instruments for environmental management.

7. Community, Society, and Environmental Management

Studies on community participation, environmental awareness, environmental behavior, community-based natural resource management, environmental conflict, social justice, indigenous and local communities, and the social dimensions of environmental governance.

8. Emerging Issues in Environmental Governance

Studies addressing emerging environmental challenges, including digital technologies for environmental management, environmental data and monitoring, smart environmental governance, sustainable innovation, emerging pollutants, and other contemporary issues related to environmental management and governance.

Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Orientation

Journal of Environmental Law, Management, and Governance particularly welcomes studies that integrate two or more perspectives, especially legal, management, institutional, economic, and social approaches, to address a clearly identified environmental issue.

Studies from a single discipline may also be considered when they demonstrate a substantial contribution to environmental law, management, governance, or sustainable development.

The journal prioritizes research that demonstrates a clear relationship between the selected disciplinary perspective and environmental protection, responsible resource management, effective governance, and sustainable development.

Studies that focus exclusively on general legal, management, economic, educational, or social issues without a substantive connection to environmental issues are outside the primary scope of the journal.