About the journal General information Nordic Environmental Law Journal is electronic. ISSN: 2000-4273. Issues and articles can be downloaded from this website without cost. The owner of the journal is Professor Gabriel Michanek, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is also the editor and the publisher. Co-editors are: - Professor Helle Tegner Anker, Institute of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, - Professor Ole Kristian Fauchald, Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway - Professor Timo Koivurova, Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, University of Lapland (Rovaniemi), Finland The journal publishes articles of importance for environmental law research and development in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden). The articles focus on environmental law from a national, EU or international perspective. The journal's objective is to address environmental legal theoretical issues related to sustainable development. From that perspective the journal may include a wide range of topics including, inter alia, the quality of land, water and air (including climate), maintaining biodiversity, efficient use of natural resources and energy, control of waste and chemicals, the relation between trade and the environment and environmental perspectives on human rights. The journal’s languages are Danish, Norwegian, Swedish or English. The first issue was published 2009. The intention is to publish at least two issues per year. All articles are subject to peer review. The Directory of Open Access Journals includes information about the journal and each article: www.doaj.org The start of the journal was funded by Emil Heijnes Stiftelse för rättsvetenskaplig forskning. Photo on front page: The mountain Städjan in northern Dalarna, Sweden (photo: Gabriel Michanek, March 2009). The mountain has for many years been subject to exploitation plans (installations for downhill skiing). The plans were disapproved by the government in 2007. The mountain is protected as a Special Conservation Area (Natura 2000). It is also of "national interest" for nature conservation and for Sami reindeer herding. Do you want to publish an article in the journal? Articles should not exceed 40 pages A4 (about 20000 words), articles with 10-25 pages are preferable. Please send your proposed article to the editor as an attached file on address: gabriel.michanek@jur.uu.se. If the article after a prior assessment is considered to match with the journal’s objective (see general information), the editor submits the article to one or, where appropriate, two referees for peer review. The referee recommends the article to be published or not. The referee may also suggest how to improve the article. It is always the editor that finally decides if the article will be published or not. Writing instructions General The journal is digital and specific requirements on the submitted manuscripts apply. The purpose is to make the transformation from manuscript to published article as smooth as possible. The journal has A4-format and the articles are published in two columns. This operation is carried out by the person formatting the journal, not by the author. There is a rather liberal approach to how the author includes references etc., however the editor or a referee may have remarks on possible indistinctness. References etc. As a general rule, footnotes (in bottom of each side) are used. If references are many or long the author must instead use endnotes (placed after the entire text). However, it is generally recommended not to use long and many footnotes. The editor may advice the author to reduce the size or number of references. The editor may also transform footnotes to endnotes. The author is free to include a list of references in the end of the article. Such lists are often not necessary, the full information of the work may instead be provided in the footnote where the reference is first mentioned. Illustrations The journal may include illustrations (pictures, figures etc.). These may cause problems in the transformation. The author must therefore observe the following: Make the illustrations as small as possible, but still easily readable. Strive to use illustrations not wider than one column. Illustrations wider than that (up to the width of two columns) are accepted but may be placed on another page than preferred by the author. Illustrations higher than 30 % of the text space of the page may also be placed distant from the corresponding article text. Many readers will read the journal in black and white. The author must take this into account when making the illustration. Format The author may use any format (Open office, Word or other text program), but is required also to submit the manuscript as a RTF-file (Rich Text Format). It shall be possible to format the article out of a RTF-file, in which illustrations are inserted. In this way, the formatting will not be governed by different authors’ computer traditions while at the same time the author may work using his or hers own program. Referees The referees connected to the journal are all academics (doctor of laws) from the Nordic states with experience from research and education in environmental law. Together they represent a highly qualified group of expertise covering different fields of environmental law on international, EU and national levels. Professor Helle Tegner Anker, Institute of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Professor Inge Lorange Backer, Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway Professor Ellen Margrethe Basse, Law School, University of Aarhus, Denmark Professor Hans Christian Bugge, Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway Professor Jason Czarnezki, Environmental Law Centre, Vermont Law School, USA Professor Jan Darpö, Faulty of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden Professor Jonas Ebbesson, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University, Sweden Professor Ole Kristian Fauchald, Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway Associate Professor Lena Gipperth, Department of Law, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Associate Professor Tore Henriksen, Faculty of Law, University of Tromsø, Norway Professor em. Erkki Hollo, Helsinki, Finland Professor Aðalheiður Jóhannsdóttir, Faculty of Law, University of Iceland (Reykjavik), Iceland Professor Timo Koivurova, Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, University of Lapland (Rovaniemi), Finland Professor Kai Kokko, Faculty of Law, University of Lapland (Rovaniemi), Finland Professor Annika Nilsson, Faculty of Law, Lunds University, Sweden Professor Birgitte Egelund Olsen, Department of Law, Aarhus School of Business, University of Aarhus, Denmark Professor Peter Pagh, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Associate professor Christina Voigt, Department of Public and International Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway Professor em. Staffan Westerlund, Uppsala, Sweden Associate Professor Charlotta Zetterberg, Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, Sweden © Nordisk Miljörättslig Tidskrift 2012