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SETAC ANNOUNCES NEW JOURNAL
22 August 2003
The scientific community can look forward to a new
journal from the Society of Environmental Toxicology
and Chemistry (SETAC) next year.
The second peer-reviewed journal from SETAC, Integrated
Environmental Assessment and Management (IEAM),
will be published quarterly beginning with the first
issue available at the Fourth SETAC World Congress in
Portland, Ore., in November 2004.
The new journal, which will be available in both print
and electronic format, aims to be one of the premier
scientific forums for presenting data, promoting dialogue,
and fostering an improved awareness of the significance
of environmental and scientific research to the development
of sound approaches to environmental problem-solving,
environmental management strategies, and regulatory
policy and law. IEAM
will be the only peer-reviewed journal from a professional
society covering this scope.
In a recent article for SETAC's bimonthly newsletter,
the SETAC GLOBE,
IEAM's editor-in-chief,
Richard J. Wenning, ENVIRON International Corporation,
describes the intent of IEAM
as bridging the gap between scientific research and
the use of science in decision-making, regulation, and
environmental management.
The new journal will encourage scientific and regulatory
debate through invited papers, original research, scientific
counterpoint, case studies, and technical perspectives
and reviews. Topics covered in IEAM
will include ecological risk assessment, environmental
economics, environmental laws, environmental management,
environmental policy, human health assessment, life-cycle
assessment, risk assessment and sustainable development.
IEAM will have
a unique role in the peer-reviewed literature by providing
perspectives from many diverse disciplines within a
single forum that is entirely focused on the evolving
and complex field of environmental assessment and management.
It will emphasize a rigorous peer-review process and
conflict disclosure policy and strive to ensure that
research and views published are constructive, impartial,
plausible, and scientifically justifiable.
More information on IEAM
can be found at www.setac.org/ieam.html.
Contact:
April Phillips
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Public Relations
850 469 1500 xt 28
aprilp@setac.org
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