Editorial

Erika Pereira Felix; Danielle Caroline Schnitzler

Editorial

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VIII Brazilian Meeting of Environmental Chemistry (ENQAmb)

The Brazilian Meeting of Environmental Chemistry (ENQAmb) has been consolidated as a biannual event and it is the main national forum for scientific and academic discussions focused on the relationship between chemistry and environment.

The first edition of the ENQAmb was organized by researchers from the Institute of Chemistry of the State University of Campinas (IQ-Unicamp) and was performed in 1990 in Campinas (SP). After the first meeting, the Division of Environmental Chemistry was consolidated in the Brazilian Society of Chemistry (SBQ) including a significant number of researchers involved in environmental issues. In 2003 the second edition of ENQAmb was performed in Brasília (DF) with support of the Division of Environmental Chemistry. There was a significant number of abstracts submitted suggesting the need of periodic continuity of the meeting. Since 2006 the ENQAmb has been performed biannually.

The eighth edition of ENQAmb was realized from 3 to 6 October of 2017 in Federal Technological University of Parana, Curitiba Campus. The thematic chosen was: "The chemical and environmental challenges in today's society" and the main goal of the event was provided a forum of interactions between researchers from academia and industry presenting their research results and activities. This meeting was organized by Federal Technological University of Parana (UTFPR), Federal University of Paraná (UFPR); State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG) and the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI).

The meeting was the most important edition of this event considering the significant number of inscriptions and abstract submitted. The scientific program of the 8th edition of ENQAmb was composed by national and international speakers. There were 245 inscriptions, 221 papers presented, being 146 abstracts and 75 complete abstracts. Additionally, for the first time the meeting offered the opportunity for researchers publishing their results in Eclética Química Journal.