From the inbox:
Dr. Whitehead,
In hopes of establishing greater dialogue with past and future authors, reviewers and readers of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM), we write to give you an update on recent journal activities.
We are happy to report that JEEM continues to thrive. So far in 2016*, JEEM has received over 555 submissions, a roughly 32% increase over last year and a 44% increase since 2014. The quality of accepted papers remains high as evidenced by the journal’s low acceptance rate and high Impact Factor.
Listed below are a representative set of recently published articles in JEEM. For a limited time, these articles are available free for download at the links provided. ...
JEEM has sponsored a number of academic conferences and workshops in 2016. This support was made possible by the submission fees that you, the research community, paid over the years. As a gesture of good will and gratitude, we wanted to use these resources to support worthwhile activities that you value. In particular,JEEM submission fees have sponsored these events in 2016. In the future, we intend to allocate a portion of JEEM submission fees to support more conferences and workshops.
If you follow the "these events" link you'll see this:
Appalachian State Experimental & Environmental Economics Workshop, Blowing Rock, NC, USA
The list does not include the AERE summer meetings. AERE broke with JEEM because Elsevier wouldn't share the wealth and now Elsevier is happy to buy me dinner in Blowing Rock, NC. I don't want to bite the hand that feeds me (literally) but that seems a little weird.
