With this Issue, JEHR enters a new phase of development. A revised and enhanced Editorial Teamhas been recruited to provide even greater breadth and depth in the expertise available to take the Journal forward over the next five years. We are joined by Miss Julie Barratt, Professor Ian Blair, Dr Gai Murphy and Mr David Statham whose brief profiles appear on page 59.
We are also pleased to welcome Mr Bernard Forteath, President of` the Royal Environmental Institute of Scotland, who joins our growing list of distinguished guests who have written guest editorials; Bernard’s first editorial introduces this Issue. From the range of papers awaiting publication we have made a selection which we hope will be of interest and value to practitioners, academics and scientists. Our aim is to provide a variety of topics, to balance practical and academic issues and to recognise geographical diversity thus providing an eclectic appeal to those with an interest in environmental health. Let us know if we have achieved this to your satisfaction!
To provide convenient access to the papers we will continue to publish in three formats; ‘Full Printed’ version, ‘Printed Abstracts’ - which is distributed to all CIEH members - and an ‘On-line’ version. The on-line version provides open access and is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org) alongside 2500 other quality-controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
Dr Harold Harvey and Dr Paul Fleming