Environment and Urbanization

About Environment & Urbanization

Environment & Urbanization (E&U) provides researchers, NGO staff and professionals with the chance to write about their work, present their ideas and debate on issues.

It promotes the work of French, Spanish and Portuguese-speaking authors by arranging for the translation of their work into English. It is one of the few journals on Africa, Asia and Latin America where a majority of the authors come from these regions.

Each issue is distributed to more than 8,000 universities, teaching institutions, NGOs and individuals in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as to over 1,500 subscribers in high-income nations. It had a five-year impact factor of 4.443.

With issues published twice a year since 1989, Environment & Urbanization is one of the most widely read and distributed journals in its field. Its popularity is helped by its low price, the free subscriptions available to NGOs and teaching/training institutions in the South who find it difficult to obtain foreign exchange (with support from Sida and UK Aid from the UK government), and an active advisory board (most of whom are from NGOs and research institutes in Africa, Asia and Latin America).

Each issue has a special theme and includes:

• Up to 14 papers on that theme
• Profiles of innovative civil society organisations and their work, and
• Papers on climate change (since 2007)