Environment & Urbanization

<h2 id="abstracting-and-indexing">Abstracting and indexing</h2>
<p>The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
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<ul><li><a href="/facts/Current_Contents/YSr0dzjj">Current Contents</a>/Social and Behavioral Science</li>
<li><a href="/facts/GEOBASE/06cNRcyW">GEOBASE</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/International_Bibliography_of_the_Social_Sciences/r4fHUdk8">International Bibliography of the Social Sciences</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Social_Sciences_Citation_Index/mb4Mf3s6">Social Sciences Citation Index</a></li></ul>
<p>According to the <i><a href="/facts/Journal_Citation_Reports/H13uyJqD">Journal Citation Reports</a></i>, the journal has a 20178<a href="/facts/Impact_factor/CamGH5MQ">impact factor</a> of 3.015, ranking it seventh among 40 journals in the category "Urban Studies".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a>
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<h2 id="scope">Scope</h2>
<p>The journal focuses on urban issues in Africa, Asia, and Latin America because these regions have most of the world's urban population.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> It is available free to teaching or training institutions and <a href="/facts/Non-governmental_organization/qxQSsxsI">non-governmental organizations</a> in low- and middle-income countries. Articles can be submitted in French, Spanish, or Portuguese and, if accepted for publication, are translated into English at the journal's expenses.
</p><p>To reach a more general public who may not usually read academic journals, a five-page <i>Environment and Urbanization Brief</i> appears with each issue.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a>
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<h2 id="history">History</h2>
<p><i>Environment & Urbanization</i> was established in 1989 by the <a href="/facts/International_Institute_for_Environment_and_Development/Y8xq2Hzr">International Institute for Environment and Development</a> (IIED) to fill a perceived gap in coverage of urban issues in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It was based on a Spanish-language journal of the same name (<i>Medio Ambiente y Urbanización</i>) that had been set up in 1983 by IIED's sister institution in Argentina, IIED-America Latina. Both journals sought to give more prominence to urban issues, especially those linked to urban poverty. Another related journal, <i>Environment & Urbanization ASIA</i>, was launched in 2010, edited by Om Prakash Mathur and published by SAGE Publications India, in response to the fact that half the world's urban population now lives in Asia.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a>
</p><p><i>Environment & Urbanization</i> was first published on the web in 1994 with free access to issues older than two years. SAGE Publications began publishing the journal from 2006. A selection of papers is available in Chinese.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a>
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<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/journal/environment-and-urbanization">Official website</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1"><p>"Journals Ranked by Impact: Urban Studies". 2017 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2018. <a href="/wiki/Journal_Citation_Reports" target="_blank">/wiki/Journal_Citation_Reports</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:2"><p>Satterthwaite, David (2003), "Setting an urban agenda: Human settlements and IIED-America Latina", in Cross, Nigel (editor), Evidence of Hope; the Search for Sustainable Development, Earthscan Publications, London, pages 122-146 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:3"><p>"Environment & Urbanization: Briefs". Archived from the original on 2010-06-28. Retrieved 2010-07-28. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100628073409/http://www.environmentandurbanization.org/eandu_briefs.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20100628073409/http://www.environmentandurbanization.org/eandu_briefs.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:4"><p>"SAGE journal: Environment and Urbanization ASIA". Retrieved 2010-07-28. <a href="http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal201993/title" target="_blank">http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal201993/title</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
<li id="fn:5"><p>"城市社区参与治理资源平台 >> 首页". Ccpg.org.cn. Archived from the original on 2012-03-07. Retrieved 2012-03-07. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120307202237/http://www.ccpg.org.cn/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120307202237/http://www.ccpg.org.cn/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li>
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