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**Special Issue of Operational Research: An International Journal
(ORIJ)**

Published by Springer
Journal home page: http://www.springer.com/east/home?SGWID=5-102-70-173793805-0

**Subject: Optimization Models in Environment and Sustainable
Development**

Sustainable management of the environment and its resources is an
issue of vital importance in our contemporary societies and especially
in developed societies. The scarcity of resources may well account for
this fact. The importance of this problem underlies the necessity for
adapting measures aiming at its solution. Many research papers and
scientific conferences have been devoted to this direction. The
challenge is to combine the high quality of life with a continuing
economic growth in a sustainable way over the long term. However, this
goal requires multidisciplinary and integrated research effort.
Identification and evaluation of the likely environmental, economic
and social impacts of alternative policies can only be done through
scientific models.
A vast number of different optimization models and approaches have
been developed to assess the impact of a strategy or a policy in terms
of sustainable development. Furthermore, the European Union through
the Seventh Framework Programme tries to stimulate the scientific
community to bring innovative solutions for these problems.
The objective of this special issue of ORIJ is to present recent
advances on the ways in which patterns of development can be measured
and modelled in the search for sustainability, and also to provide a
framework to help decision-makers choose the most appropriate model,
on issues like (but not limited to):

- Optimization Models in Environment and Sustainable Development
- Decision Support Systems in Environment and Sustainable Development
- Analysis of the relation between Economic Growth and Environmental
Quality
- Optimization Models for Environmental Systems
- Waste Management Planning and Optimization
- Operational Research Applications in Wildlife Management and
Ecology
- Optimization Models in Forest and Agricultural Sector
- Evaluation of currently used Optimization Models
- OR Case Studies in the field of Environmental Management

We are particularly interested in new optimization models or
improvements in modelling techniques, regarding the environment or
sustainable development. Submitted papers should not have been
previously published nor be currently under consideration for
publication elsewhere. All submitted papers will be refereed according
to the editorial policy of ORIJ (the paper is refereed by two
anonymous reviewers and in case of conflict by a third one).

** Guest Editors **

1 Istvan Maros
Professor of Computational Methods of Operations Research
Professor
Dept. of
Computing,
and Dept. of Computer Science,
Imperial
College,
University of Pannonia,
Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ,
UK Egyetem u. 10, H-8200,
Tel / Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 8447 / +44 (0)20 7581
8024 Veszprem, Hungary
Email:
i.maros@imperial.ac.uk
Email: maros@dcs.uni-pannon.hu
URL: http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~im
URL: http://www.dcs.vein.hu/maros

2 Garyfalos Arabatzis
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Forestry & Management of the Environment and Natural
Resources,
Democritus University of Thrace,
193 Pantazidou Str., Postal Code 68200, New Orestiada
Tel / Fax: +30 25520-41158 / +30 25520-41159
Email: garamp@fmenr.duth.gr

3 Dr Angelo Sifaleras
Researcher
Dept. of Applied Informatics,
University of Macedonia, Economic and Social Sciences,
156 Egnatias Str., Postal Code 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece
Tel / Fax: +30 2310 891881 / +30 2310 891825
Email: sifalera@uom.gr
URL: http://eos.uom.gr/~sifalera

Prospective authors should follow the manuscript format described
bellow at the journal site. Papers that do not comply with these
guidelines will not be considered for publication.

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Authors should submit their papers through the editorial manager web
site http://www.editorialmanager.com/orij
Furthermore, during the first stage of the submission process, authors
should select the article type "Sp. Issue: Optim. models in
environment" for their manuscript.

**Important Dates**

Submission deadline: 2008.10.31
Author notification - review comments: 2009.01.31
Second review cycle: 2009.03.31
Final manuscript due: 2009.05.20
Tentative date of publication: September 2009