About the Journal
National Journal of Environmental Law (NJEL)
ISSN: 2581-6683
Scientific Journal Impact Factor (SJIF): 5.927
Index Copernicus (ICV) 2024 = 61.42
Editor-in-Chief
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Journal’s Summary
The National Journal of Environmental Law [2581-6683(e)] is a peer-reviewed hybrid open-access journal established in 2018, welcoming contributions from legal practitioners, professors, and scholars committed to addressing environmental challenges. The journal aims to facilitate positive impacts on the world by shedding light on crucial issues related to the environment and the legal frameworks established to ensure the sustainable use of natural resources.
Focus & Scope
- Environmental Law and Regulatory Frameworks: Research on the development, interpretation, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, rules, regulations, and institutional frameworks governing environmental protection. The journal welcomes studies on regulatory authorities, compliance mechanisms, environmental standards, environmental impact assessment, and access to environmental information.
- Climate Change Law and Governance: Studies addressing national and international legal responses to climate change, including mitigation and adaptation policies, climate justice, carbon regulation, emissions control, climate finance, energy transition, and implementation of climate-related commitments.
- International and Comparative Environmental Law: Research on international environmental treaties, customary international environmental law, transboundary environmental obligations, global environmental governance, and comparative analysis of environmental laws and institutions across different jurisdictions.
- Environmental Justice and Constitutional Rights: Examination of environmental rights, constitutional protections, access to justice, public participation, environmental equity, community rights, judicial remedies, and legal protection of populations affected by environmental degradation.
- Pollution Control and Environmental Compliance: Legal and policy research relating to air, water, soil, noise, and industrial pollution; regulatory compliance; environmental monitoring; environmental auditing; enforcement actions; penalties; and liability for environmental damage.
- Waste and Hazardous Substance Regulation: Studies on legal frameworks governing solid waste, hazardous waste, biomedical and electronic waste, chemicals, toxic substances, waste disposal, recycling, circular-economy policies, and regulatory responsibility.
- BBiodiversity, Wildlife, and Forest Law: Research concerning biodiversity conservation, wildlife protection, forest governance, protected areas, habitat conservation, ecological restoration, access to biological resources, and legal frameworks for protecting ecosystems and species.
- Natural Resources, Land, and Water Law: Legal and policy studies related to land-use planning, water governance, forests, minerals, natural-resource management, resource allocation, conservation, environmental planning, and sustainable use of natural resources.
- Environmental Disasters and Risk Governance: Research on environmental disasters, industrial accidents, ecological emergencies, environmental risk assessment, disaster preparedness, environmental liability, compensation, remediation, restoration, and legal mechanisms for managing environmental harm.
- Environmental Crime and Enforcement: Studies on environmental offences, illegal exploitation of natural resources, regulatory violations, corporate environmental liability, investigation, prosecution, sanctions, enforcement strategies, and legal measures to prevent environmental harm.
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy: Research examining the relationship between environmental protection and sustainable development, including sustainability law, environmental planning, sustainable agriculture, pesticide regulation, green growth, sustainable infrastructure, and policy implementation.
- Renewable Energy and Energy Transition Law: Legal and regulatory studies on renewable energy, clean-energy development, energy transition, decarbonization, environmental implications of energy projects, energy policy, and legal frameworks supporting low-carbon development.
- Green Finance and Corporate Environmental Responsibility: Research on green finance, environmental markets, sustainable investment, environmental disclosure, corporate environmental responsibility, ESG-related legal frameworks, environmental accountability, and market-based mechanisms for environmental protection.
- Environmental Litigation and Dispute Resolution: Studies on environmental litigation, environmental tribunals, judicial review, public-interest litigation, arbitration, mediation, conciliation, negotiation, and other dispute-resolution mechanisms involving environmental law or environmental policy.
- Environmental Technology, Data, and Governance: Research on the legal and regulatory dimensions of environmental technologies, digital monitoring, environmental data, artificial intelligence, remote sensing, compliance technologies, and technological tools used in environmental governance.
- Indian Environmental Law and Comparative Perspectives: Research focusing on environmental law, policy, judicial developments, regulatory institutions, and governance in India, as well as comparative studies that place Indian environmental law within regional and international contexts.
Readership: Graduate/ Postgraduate students, Research Scholars, Faculties, Industrialists, Independent Professionals, Government institutions
Indexing: The Journal is indexed in Google Scholar
Submission of Paper:
All contributions to the journal are rigorously refereed and are selected on the basis of quality and originality of the work. The journal publishes the most significant new research papers or any other original contribution in the form of reviews and reports on new concepts in all areas pertaining to its focus and scope, thus ensuring its scientific priority and significance.
Manuscripts are invited from academicians, students, research scholars, industrialists, independent professionals and faculties for publication consideration.
Papers are accepted for editorial consideration through email lawjournals@celnet.in/ cle@celnet.in
Subject: environment, Law, global warming
Plagiarism: All the articles will be checked through Plagiarism Software before publication.
Abbreviation: NJEL
Frequency: Two issues per year
Peer Reviewed Policy:
Peer review is the most important part of the scientific publication process. Peer review is basically the process of engaging experts to review the articles submitted for publication in journals, this is done in order to validate the research and to enhance the quality of the articles that are published in the journal.
The peer review process is actually a demarcating line that decides what a research is and what is merely a hypothesis. This process screens the articles for their originality or work, their relevance to the previously published work and does the work meet the required standard so as to be published as a research article. The bottom line to conduct a peer review is to eliminate the possibility that science is just another opinion.
Basic design of a peer review process:
1) The process begins with the submission of article to the journal
2) The first step begins as the editor of the journal checks if the article falls under the focus and scope of the journal. If the article does not fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is rejected with feedback and necessary changes to the author, if the article do fall under the focus and scope of the journal it is forwarded to the next step of review.
3) Here the reviewer checks for the originality, validity, significance, theory , evidence and other parameters based on the guidelines of the editors and yardsticks to measure the quality of the article.
4) Reviewer then make necessary comments and send the paper back to the editorial board, a reviewer may accept the paper as it is, reject or suggest changes in the manuscript, this information is conveyed to the authors
5) Editor of the journal then make final decision to publish the article based on the reviewers comments. And finalize the time frame for publishing the article.
6) Finally the accepted articles appear in the publication.
For further details on the publishing process and guidelines that an author and editor should follow, and to know more about the yardstick of the reviewers we would suggest you to go through the Author and Editors Guidelines.
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