Jeem workflow

JEEM Workflow Router (jeem-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It tells you which jeem- skill to use at the current stage* of a manuscript aimed at the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) — the flagship field journal in environmental and resource economics, published by Elsevier (ScienceDirect, ISSN 0095-0696), six issues a year. JEEM rewards papers where a real environmental or resource problem — pollution and climate, energy, natural-resource depletion, ecosystem services, environmental regulation, or the value of a nonmarket good — is attacked with credible economics: a causal design exploiting policy variation, a tractable resource/pollution-control model, or a revealed- or stated-preference valuation that pins down a welfare-relevant parameter.

Operational tells that you are at JEEM and not a sibling: it is a field journal (the environmental mechanism must carry the paper, not be window-dressing on a generic applied-micro result); nonmarket valuation (hedonics, travel cost, contingent valuation, discrete-choice experiments) is a first-class branch here in a way it is not at the general-interest journals; there is a submission fee and the paper may be desk-rejected for scope or style non-compliance before review; submission is via Elsevier Editorial Manager; JEEM has a long-standing data-availability / replication expectation. Editors as of 2026: Roger von Haefen and Andreas Lange (检索于 2026-06；以官网为准). Re-verify volatile specifics on the official ScienceDirect pages.

When to trigger

• The user asks "what should I do next?" on a JEEM-bound paper
• A draft needs its current bottleneck diagnosed
• Work is ping-ponging between design, the environmental mechanism, exhibits, and the response letter
• A JEEM decision letter arrived and the user needs to switch into revision mode

Routing table

Current symptom	Next skill
Scope/fit uncertain; is the environmental angle load-bearing?	jeem-topic-selection
Contribution vs. JAERE / JPubE / Ecological Economics is fuzzy	jeem-literature-positioning
Causal design (regulation DiD, permit-market, RD, weather/pollution IV) or valuation identification is shaky	jeem-identification
A resource/pollution-control or dynamic model needs sharpening	jeem-theory-model
Results may be specification-, sample-, spatial-, or inference-sensitive	jeem-robustness
Exhibits (maps, event-study plots, WTP distributions) do not answer the question	jeem-tables-figures
Intro/abstract miss the JEEM voice; mechanism→policy link is buried	jeem-writing-style
Data/code deposit, monitoring/satellite/admin data documentation	jeem-replication-package
Likely referee objections should be pre-empted	jeem-referee-strategy
Close to submission; need the Editorial Manager + fee + scope preflight	jeem-submission
A decision letter / referee report needs a response plan	jeem-rebuttal

Default order

1. jeem-topic-selection — lock the environmental/resource question and its policy stakes
2. jeem-literature-positioning — stake the contribution against the field and the siblings
3. jeem-identification — causal design or valuation identification
4. jeem-theory-model — resource/pollution-control or dynamic model where one is needed
5. jeem-robustness — specification, spatial, and inference stress tests
6. jeem-tables-figures — exhibits that show the environmental signal
7. jeem-writing-style — make the mechanism→welfare→policy chain land (intro last)
8. jeem-replication-package — assemble the data/code deposit (incl. restricted-data paths)
9. jeem-referee-strategy — anticipate the environmental-economics referee
10. jeem-submission — Editorial Manager preflight + fee + scope gate
11. jeem-rebuttal — after the decision letter

jeem-writing-style is a late-stage polish; do not rewrite the intro before identification and the environmental mechanism settle.

Routing by paper archetype

JEEM spans distinct branches, and the binding constraint differs by branch. Read the archetype, then enter the chain at the right link.

Archetype	Likely first bottleneck	Enter at
environmental-policy causal design (regulation DiD, cap-and-trade, RD in standards)	staggered-DiD credibility / permit-market confounders	jeem-identification
revealed-preference valuation (hedonics, travel cost)	spatial sorting, omitted amenities, market definition	jeem-identification → jeem-robustness
stated-preference valuation (CV, discrete-choice experiments)	survey design, hypothetical bias, scope sensitivity	jeem-identification → jeem-replication-package
resource/pollution-control theory model	the model must generate a testable or policy-relevant comparative static	jeem-theory-model
climate / weather IV / damage estimation	exogeneity of weather shocks, adaptation, spatial SEs	jeem-identification → jeem-robustness

Anti-patterns

• Treating JEEM as interchangeable with JAERE (AERE's own journal — the sibling it is most confused with), AEJ: Economic Policy, Journal of Public Economics, Ecological Economics, or Resource and Energy Economics
• A generic applied-micro result with environment bolted on (it will read as a JPubE or AEJ paper that lost its way)
• Polishing prose before the environmental mechanism and identification are stable
• Skipping jeem-replication-package until acceptance — the data-availability expectation bites earlier
• Quoting fees/editors/limits as permanent when the source map marks them volatile

Worked routing example (illustrative)

A user says: "My paper estimates that a county air-quality regulation raised house prices, but a referee says my hedonic could be picking up neighborhood sorting and my standard errors ignore spatial correlation." That is two distinct JEEM pushbacks — a valuation-identification threat (sorting / omitted amenities owned by jeem-identification) and an inference threat (spatial dependence owned by jeem-robustness). Route to identification first to defend the amenity capitalization claim, then to robustness for Conley/spatial SEs; only once the capitalization estimate is stable do you return to jeem-tables-figures to map it and jeem-rebuttal to defend it.

Minimal decision snippet

if decision_letter_arrived:           -> jeem-rebuttal
elif ready_to_submit:                 -> jeem-submission
elif anticipating_referees:           -> jeem-referee-strategy
elif data_code_packaging:             -> jeem-replication-package
elif exhibits_unclear:                -> jeem-tables-figures
elif results_fragile:                 -> jeem-robustness
elif model_needs_work:                -> jeem-theory-model
elif identification_or_valuation:     -> jeem-identification
elif contribution_fuzzy:              -> jeem-literature-positioning
else:                                 -> jeem-topic-selection