環(huán)境建模與軟件以研究文章、評論和簡短交流的形式發(fā)表關于環(huán)境建模和/或軟件的最新進展的貢獻。其目的是提高我們在所有實際尺度上表現(xiàn)、理解、預測或管理環(huán)境系統(tǒng)行為的能力，并向廣泛的科學和專業(yè)觀眾宣傳這些改進。它尋求的是:?通用框架、技術和問題，可以集成一系列學科和領域，也可以跨領域應用?模型開發(fā)、模型評估、過程識別和應用于環(huán)境的不同部門(如下所述)，前提是它們能夠揭示見解并有助于知識的存儲。洞察可以與建模、方法、模型應用和/或建模的系統(tǒng)的通用性和局限性相關。洞察力應該是那些在某種程度上是可概括的，并且可能對那些研究其他系統(tǒng)，最好是其他系統(tǒng)類型的人感興趣。?環(huán)境軟件、信息和決策支持系統(tǒng)的開發(fā)和應用?軟件技術的實際應用——特別是最先進的環(huán)境軟件，能夠處理復雜的需求、沖突的用戶視角和/或不斷發(fā)展的數據結構。與軟件可用性、可靠性、驗證和驗證相關的方面應該盡可能多地得到定量結果的支持。應該解決開發(fā)和維護成本，以及在目標用戶組中采用和滲透軟件的問題。許可證問題和開放源碼訪問應該明確指定。?與環(huán)境系統(tǒng)集成建模、評估和管理相關的問題和方法——包括相關政策和制度分析、公眾參與原則和方法、決策方法、模型集成、質量保證以及模型、數據和程序的評估。

Environmental Modelling & Software publishes contributions, in the form of research articles, reviews and short communications, on recent advances in environmental modelling and/or software. The aim is to improve our capacity to represent, understand, predict or manage the behaviour of environmental systems at all practical scales, and to communicate those improvements to a wide scientific and professional audience.It seeks presentation of: ? Generic frameworks, techniques and issues which either integrate a range of disciplines and sectors or apply across a range ? Model development, model evaluation, process identification and applications in diverse sectors of the environment (as outlined below) provided they reveal insights and contribute to the store of knowledge. Insights can relate to the generality and limitations of the modelling, methods, the model application and/or the systems modelled. Insights should be ones that are generalizable in some way and are likely to be of interest to those studying other systems and, preferably, other system types.? Development and application of environmental software, information and decision support systems? Real-world applications of software technologies - particularly state-of-the-art environmental software able to deal with complex requirements, conflicting user perspectives, and/or evolving data structures. Aspects related to software usability, reliability, verification and validation should be backed up with quantitative results as much as possible. Development and maintenance costs, and adoption and penetration of the software in the target user groups should be addressed. Licensing issues and open source access should be clearly specified.? Issues and methods related to the integrated modeling, assessment and management of environmental systems - including relevant policy and institutional analysis, public participation principles and methods, decision making methods, model integration, quality assurance and evaluation of models, data and procedures.