https://ojs.sgsci.org/journals/jee <p><strong><em>Journal of Environment and Ecosystems</em></strong> is an international, peer-reviewed, and open-access journal published by Global Science Publishing. JEE is dedicated to advancing the understanding and conservation of the natural environment and ecosystems. The aim is to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and promote the dissemination of knowledge to address the urgent environmental challenges we face today. We encourage researchers to integrate multiple disciplines, including ecology, biology, chemistry, geography, and social sciences, to provide a comprehensive understanding of environmental systems and their interactions with human activities.</p> Global Science Publishing en-US Journal of Environment and Ecosystems https://ojs.sgsci.org/journals/jee/article/view/195 <p>The release of toxic effluents from a variety of sources into the environment has become a major worldwide concern. One of the main ingredients in these undesirable industrial effluents is heavy metals. Although heavy metals are naturally occurring components of the earth's crust, human activity has significantly changed the geochemical cycles and biological balance of these elements. Heavy metals are mostly found in the effluent of certain sectors, including electroplating, paints, plastics, tanneries, and batteries. The government and other public sectors are developing strategies and putting various techniques into practice to properly mitigate the pollution caused by heavy metals. Conventional methods of extracting metals are often expensive and dangerous due to the potential for producing toxic byproducts. Additionally, those methods of treatment (which are primarily chemical and physical and include reverse osmosis, chemical precipitation, ion exchange, and evaporative recovery).</p> Dipanwita Das Debargha Chakraborty Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Environment and Ecosystems 2024-07-15 2024-07-15 https://ojs.sgsci.org/journals/jee/article/view/591 <p>The coast of ‘<em>Les Havres</em>’ (Cotentin), bordering the western basin of the English Channel, extends from Cap de Carteret in the north to Cap de Granville in the south and includes eight <em>havres</em>, unique morphological features along the French coasts with a high common natural heritage interest. The human footprint is ancient and rich in local activities. Today, the development of shellfish farming, tourism and land use requirements has profoundly transformed the territory. While the coast of ‘<em>Les Havres</em>’ forms a unique geographical and morphological entity, its historical and economic development concerns the whole of a territory that has a shared common interest vulnerable to coastal erosion and the risk of submersion. Due to administrative divisions, coastal protection projects against the risks of submersion and erosion are carried out in a very sectoral manner without an overall vision. The area suffers from structural fragmentation at all levels (geographical, morphological, sedimentological, demographic, economic and political), without leadership capable of mobilizing a proactive and innovative development of the territory. Above all, the issues at stake are represented in a highly diverse manner. This study aims to show that the coast of ‘<em>Les Havres</em>’ has a territorial cohesion linked to its past and that it should share an integrated vision of its future that goes beyond the barriers of current administrative and local development divisions. Such problems are exacerbated by associations making demands against the State. This situation is not unique at the scale of the English Channel; a coastal sea shared between the United Kingdom and France. A Satoumi management approach would be well adapted to the coast of ‘<em>Les Havres</em>’; such an initiative seems essential today.</p> Jean-Claude Dauvin Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Environment and Ecosystems 2026-03-12 2026-03-12 0002 0002