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Anppas 1 , begins 2013 with a historic milestone: this is our first bilingual issue. This initiative is in line with our continuous process of editorial innovation which not only foresees an increase in the number of publications to four per year, but also aims to boost our readership by offering an English version of published articles. In this way, we expect to further consolidate our intellectual and academic links with international researchers, allowing Revista Ambiente & Sociedade/the Journal of Environment & Society-an academic publication which has been highly regarded throughout its history-to significantly increase the number of its readers and provide the opportunity for Brazilian and Latin American research to become more widely disseminated, crossing borders and gaining new audiences. This innovation was made possible by the financial support of CNPq 2 , which is providing part of the editing and translation costs for 2013. In this issue, only one article was not translated into English. Volume 16-1 of the Journal of Environment & Society starts with the article Sustainability in the period of conferences on the environment and development-an insight into ecology and economics by Roberto Donato Silva Junior and Leila da Costa Ferreira. The authors present an analysis of the academic production in the field of ecology and economics on the issue of sustainability. It charts the conceptual transformations of the term during the period encompassed by the UN Conference on the Environment and Development-Rio 92 and the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development-Rio+20. The authors conclude that economics and ecology operate by employing the same epistemological "register" in that their analytic categories relate to each other without major conceptual disparities or large semantic conflicts. However, the incorporation of "social issues" and the dialogue with the social sciences only takes place in a small number of the academic papers analyzed. The three following articles deal with the topic of water management from different perspectives. In the article Environmental justice and water resources governance practices: reintroducing issues of equality to the agenda, Ana Paula Francalanza, Amanda Martins Jacob and Rodrigo Furtado Eça analyze how social vulnerability linked to environmental health is associated to environmental justice in Brazil.