Environmental Management publishes research and opinions concerning the use and conservation of natural resources the protection of habitats and the control of hazards. Its field is applied ecology in the widest sense without regard to the disciplinary boundaries created by modern academic study. Contributions are drawn from biology botany climatology ecology fisheries management forest sciences geography geology information science law politics public affairs zoology and a wide variety of other disciplines often in combinations determined by interdisciplinary study. Hence the journal serves to improve cross-disciplinary communication and to make ideas and results from any one field available to environmental practitioners from other backgrounds.