Call for Papers

for a Thematic Issue on

Environmental Data Science

on  Environmental Modelling and Software, An Elsevier Journal

Edited by: Karina Gibert, Geoff Holmes, Jeffery S Horsburgh, Ioannis N Athanasiadis

Scope

Getting decisional knowledge from data is nowadays one of the most reliable ways to better understand environmental processes, to go beyond the state-of-the-art in Environmental Sciences and to improve environmental systems management in most of their fields. The particular complexity of environmental processes requires new solutions able to integrate different information sources, such as qualitative and quantitative data, images, text, signals, etc., together with prior knowledge, as well as to deal with spatiotemporal frames and higher order interactions among variables.

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Call For Papers: Innovative Techniques for Quantitative Scenarios in Energy and Environmental Research

We are launching a new Thematic Issue of the Environmental Modelling & Software journal. The guest editors are: 

• Celine Guivarch (CIRED, France) 
• Evelina Trutnevyte (UCL Energy Institute, UK & ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
• Robert Lempert (RAND Corporation, USA)

They will also be assisted and guided by one of the Editors of EM&S, namely Alexey Voinov.

Quantitative scenarios form the core of the future analysis in energy, climate and environmental research. A growing number of researchers worldwide have started using innovative techniques for developing, analyzing and choosing quantitative scenarios. Some of these techniques involve a large number of scenarios. Different rationales motivate these researchers: better system understanding, uncertainty analysis, development of robust strategies, selection of a small set of scenarios, ability to link storylines with quantitative scenarios. These techniques are tools to provide both novel research insights and policy- relevant scenario exercises. In this light, this TI aims to synthesize the state-of- the-art research with innovative techniques for quantitative scenarios, gather these state-of-the-art techniques into a toolbox, identify knowledge gaps and draw avenues for future research.

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Call for papers

Thematic Issue on Modelling Human and Ecological Health Risks
in Environmental Modelling & Software

Edited by Stefan Reis, Kristina Voigt & Tim Oxley

Scope

Submissions are invited for papers which address the latest developments and key topics in the field of modelling and assessment of effects of environmental pressures on human and ecosystem health. The following broader topics may be covered:

• Modelling social and environmental determinants of human and ecosystem health;

• Methodological developments in the assessment of radiation and chemicals‘ risks;

• Current trends in software developments for environmental pollution modelling across all environmental media, with a focus on human and ecosystem health relevance;

• Modelling aspects of epidemiology and exposure-effect relationships, including the contribution of models to the Exposome concept;

• The integration between sensors, models and methods in response to big data and citizen science applications.

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