Sustainability: Environmental Studies and Public Health

invited to be the guest editor, and to oversee the refereeing process and subsequent selection of timely, relevant and high quality papers highlighting particularly novel aspects concerned with sustainability issues in environmental studies. Contributions that have a significant impact on solving public health problems were particularly encouraged. It follows that major public health issues, sustainable water management and environmental risk were topics of particular interest to the editorial team and reviewers. Ten papers comprising various scientific contributions including technical and critical review papers relevant for a worldwide audience were selected. Three comprehensive critical review papers were published. Remoundou and Koundouri [1] reviewed the economic literature on the effects of environmental changes on public health, in both the developed and the developing world. They focused on the economic methodologies that are available for the evaluation of the effects of environmental changes on public health. Fleming et al. [2] explored the notion of ecological sustainability in the context of public health education and the contribution that Universities can make in creating environments that include ecologically sustainable practices. Finally, Rodriguez et al. [3] reviewed indirect potable reuse as a sustainable water supply alternative. This paper provided a state of the art review of water recycling for drinking purposes with emphasis on key membrane treatment processes. An overview of significant indirect potable reuse projects has been presented followed by a description of the epidemiological and toxicological studies evaluating any potential human health impacts.