Steve Mudge also finished his role as Associate Editor on the Journal. During his time as Associate Editor, Steve managed the peer-review for many papers, maintaining the high quality of the Journal. Steve also managed a number of themed issues for the Journal, and I would like to thank Steve for his significant contribution.
We also said goodbye to two of our Editorial Board members, Young-Shin Jun and Nora Savage. Both Young-Shin and Nora helped develop the Journal through their roles on the Editorial Board and I would like to thank them both for their guidance of the Journal.
We will continue to benefit from Frank, Steve, Young-Shin and Nora's guidance as they are all joining the Advisory Board of the Journal, continuing to have input into the future direction of Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts.
We also published two themed issues, reflecting the diverse scope of the Journal. The first was a collection of papers assessing health, livelihoods, ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in populous deltas guest edited by Paul Whitehead, Robert Nicholls, Judith Wolf, Munsur Rahman and Mashfiqus Salehin. These research papers investigated the impacts of environmental change in India and Bangladesh. The second was a collection of papers focused on waste and recycling: sources and resources, which was guest edited by Hans Peter Arp from the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute. Papers addressed a wide range of concerns related to how current changes in waste handling and management are impacting the environment at the global and local level.
We are looking to have more joint efforts between our environmental science journals and from this year we will be introducing an Environmental Science Twitter account (@EnvSciRSC). By following us you can keep up to date with the research published in our three environmental science journals and relevant activities from across the Royal Society of Chemistry.
We are also planning two environmental science symposia in China this year, to be hosted at the respective institutions of Environmental Science team members Lizhong Zhu and Liang-Hong Guo. More details will follow shortly.
With best wishes for a successful 2016.
Sarah Ruthven
Editor, Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts
Royal Society of Chemistry
E-mail: espi-rsc@rsc.org
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