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Q1Environmental Challenges
About Environmental Challenges
Environmental Challenges is a scholarly journal published by Elsevier B.V.. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 1.342 and H-index of 58.
Coverage: 2020-2026. Research categories: Environmental Engineering (Q1); Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law (Q1); Pollution (Q1); Waste Management and Disposal (Q1); Global and Planetary Change (Q2).
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Land Use and Ecosystem Services; Flood Risk Assessment and Management; Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies; Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management; Heavy metals in environment; Climate change impacts on agriculture.
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