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The Environmental Evidence Library contains a collection of systematic reviews of evidence on the effectiveness and impacts of human interventions. These reviews are rigorous objective evaluations of the positive and negative effects of our actions. They may also report on the economic costs. Each review contains a summary of main findings for the benefit of the user community and may be accompanied by supplementary lists of articles, explanatory notes and policy briefs.
All submitted Systematic Reviews undergo a period of consultation, both at draft protocol and draft review stage, whereby feedback on draft documents is solicited from stakeholders, academic experts and the user community. The Library’s procedures are similar (but more interactive and supportive) to those of a peer-reviewed journal and it has an Editorial Board. All documents submitted to the website undergo a peer review process: please see our peer review policy and document handling procedures for more information.
Subject Scope
We consider all systematic reviews of relevance to the environment, environmental change, environmental management, impacts of human activity and relationships between the environment and human wellbeing. The focus may be on physical, chemical or biological aspects of the environment and all types of environment from natural to urban are included. Systematic reviews usually address questions on effectiveness of interventions or impacts of exposure, but other foci such as prevalence of an agent or test accuracy are also acceptable.
Submission procedure
Submission of a systematic review to the Library is an interactive stepwise process as follows;
- Submission of a draft protocol to the CEE at info@environmentalevidence.org outlining the review question and planned conduct of the review. Please also complete and return the protocol submission check list with your protocol. If acceptable after an initial screening, the draft protocol will be posted on the CEE website and sent out for peer review. Comments will be returned to the authors and appropriate revisions may be requested to finalise the protocol.
- The finalised protocol is submitted to the Environmental Evidence Library, posted on the website and the Systematic Review is recorded as being ‘in progress’.
- Submission of a draft review to the CEE at info@environmentalevidence.org with completed review check list. If acceptable after an initial screening, the draft review will be posted on the CEE website and sent out for peer review. Comments will be returned to the authors and appropriate revisions may be requested to finalise the review.
- The revised and completed Systematic Review (and associated supplementary materials) is submitted to the Environmental Evidence Library and posted on the website as finalised.
On submission of a draft protocol a dedicated webpage is created for the review and the Review Team is encouraged to use this page to advertise the review process, post supplementary information and engage with stakeholder groups.
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