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| Correction to: Identifying Key Stressors Driving Biological Impairment in Freshwater Streams in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, USA | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Decision Support Framework for Evaluating The Barriers To Salvage Logging: A Case Study on Private Forest Management in Slovenia | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract Natural disturbances have increased the extent of forest damage in recent decades and influenced the share of salvage logging and forest management practices in many European countries. These challenges have a significant impact on private forest owners, as 56% of all forestland in Europe is privately owned. The current study researched barriers to salvage logging in private forests in a three-phase framework. First, barriers were identified by conducting a literature review, and they were critically reviewed by experts. In the second phase, stakeholders were... | ||
| A SWMM-Based Screening Model for Estimating Wastewater Treatment Burden of Pesticides on the Urban Scale | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract To estimate the treatment load of pesticides for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) on an urban scale, we developed a SWMM-based screening model that integrates the mass balance of pesticides in residential soil and the storm-water runoff passing through residential lawns. Furthermore, we introduce an approximate approach that simplifies the simulation using the octanol–water partition coefficients (i.e., log KOW) of pesticides. The results indicate that the simulated transport factors (i.e., the dissipation kinetics-relevant property from the soil) of... | ||
| Environmental Impacts of Hurricane Harvey on the Neches-Brakes Bayou River System in Beaumont, Texas | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract Hurricane Harvey caused unprecedented floods across large regions of Southeast Texas resulting in several infrastructural issues. One of the notable failures was of a drinking water source pump in Beaumont, Texas, that necessitated the emergency use of a temporary pump intake station in the Neches River system. This study examines the environmental consequences of Harvey-induced flooding in the Neches River system by focusing on sensitive locations, including a Superfund site (International Creosoting, IC) and adjacent to the temporary pump intake. Post-Harvey... | ||
| Remediation of Chromium (VI) from Contaminated Agricultural Soil Using Modified Biochars | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract Chromium (Cr) is a potentially toxic metal occurring in the soil as a result of natural and anthropogenic activities and is mainly found in Cr3+ and Cr6+. The hexavalent chromium has toxic effects on plants, animals, humans and microorganisms depending on exposure level, duration and doses. Biochar is a stable carbon-based material that has been widely documented to immobilize metals in contaminated soils and for soil remediation effectively. The present 90 days incubation study was conducted to investigate the potential use of rice stubble and sawdust-derived... | ||
| Conceptual and Analytical Diversity of Environmental Governance in Latin America: A Systematic Review | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract The analysis of environmental governance and the analytical frameworks used to study this concept in Latin America show that the term is diffuse and polysemic. The term governance refers to democratic societies that theoretically encourage the plural participation of actors in decision making to solve public or collective socioenvironmental problems. However, in Latin America, there is a broad social perception of a democratic deficit that affects the socioenvironmental sphere. The objective of this work is to determine the main trends in studies on... | ||
| Green Environment-Social Protection Interaction and Food Security in Africa | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract Expanding food production to commensurate with population growth has often come at a cost resulting from environmental problems. Industries generate pollutants that destroy the environment and negatively affect the level of food security. These trends threaten the sustainability of food systems and undermine the capacity to meet food security needs. Against this backdrop, this study examines how the green environment influences food security in Africa. To further articulate the novelty and contributions of the research to the extant literature, the study also... | ||
| Analysis of the Relations Between Forestry Financial Supports and Forest Crimes | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract Forest crimes are among the serious threats destroying forests. To prevent the forest crimes there are various solutions proposed, such as fortification of the laws, increasing the penalties, or increasing the public awareness. This article, however, suggests an alternative solution of preventing the forest crimes by investigating the relations between the individual financial supports provided to forest villagers and the levels of various forest crime types in Turkey. The study shows that, when the forest villagers are given financial supports, the levels of... | ||
| Estimation of Anthropogenic VOCs Emission Based on Volatile Chemical Products: A Canadian Perspective | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in urban areas are of great interest due to their significant role in forming ground-level ozone and adverse public health effects. Emission inventories usually compile the outdoor VOCs emission sources (e.g., traffic and industrial emissions). However, considering emissions from volatile chemical products (e.g., solvents, printing ink, personal care products) is challenging because of scattered data and the lack of an effective method to estimate the VOCs emission rate from these chemical products. This paper aims to... | ||
| Adsorption of the First-Line Covid Treatment Analgesic onto Activated Carbon from Residual Pods of Erythrina Speciosa | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract In this study, the residual pods of the forest species Erythrina speciosa were carbonized with ZnCl2 to obtain porous activated carbon and investigated for the adsorptive removal of the drug paracetamol (PCM) from water. The PCM adsorption onto activated carbon is favored at acidic solution pH. The isothermal studies confirmed that increasing the temperature from 298 to 328 K decreased the adsorption capacity from 65 mg g−1 to 50.4 mg g−1 (C0 = 175 mg L−1). The Freundlich model showed a better fit of the equilibrium isotherms... | ||
| Integrating Ecosystem Health and Services for Assessing Ecological Risk and its Response to Typical Land-Use Patterns in the Eco-fragile Region, North China | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract Changes in land-use patterns may increase the ecological risks faced by Eco-Fragile regions. It is vital for regional ecological restoration and management of Eco-Fragile regions to reasonably assess ecological risk and study its response to typical land-use patterns. Existing study on regional ecological risk largely ignored the internal representation of ecosystem health and ecosystem services to ecological risk, and also ignored the internal relationship between ecological risk and land use patterns. This study developed a regional ecological assessment model... | ||
| Variability in Nutrient Dissipation in a Wastewater Treatment Plant in Patagonia: A Two-Year Overview | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract Constructed wetlands are environmental solutions that mitigate the impacts of urban effluents. It is unclear how the performance of these wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) is affected by climatic conditions. The dissipation of nutrients, suspended solids, and changes in dissolved oxygen were investigated on a monthly basis over two years (2018/2019) at six sampling points across a WWTP located in Esquel, Patagonia. It was predicted that climatic variables (rain pattern and air temperature) would affect the functioning and efficiency of the WWTP (i.e., via... | ||
| A Method of Evaluating Safe Operating Space: Focus on Geographic Regions, Income Levels and Developing Pathway | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract Safe and Just Space (SJS) is a framework for determining the range where the use of natural resources within the Earth’s carrying capacity can maintain human well-being. However, there has been no systematic monitoring and evaluation of their sustainability across time and space. Here we developed and applied a model and a sustainable development human safe operation space (SDHSOS) index to assess the sustainability capacity and development path of 149 countries from 2000 to 2018. The results demonstrate that (1) The overall sustainable development capacity... | ||
| Convergence in Perceptions of Ecosystem Services Supports Green Infrastructure Decision-making in a Semi-arid City | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract Effective management of cities using ecosystem services from green infrastructure (GI) requires explicit consideration of the linkages between provision of services and ecosystem service demands (i.e., governance priorities). Identification of stakeholder knowledge and objectives in GI decision-making contexts with respect to ecosystem services may improve urban planning; yet this information is rarely explicit in local contexts and cases. We address this gap by surveying environmental stakeholders and practitioners to investigate how perceptions of ecosystem... | ||
| Evaluation of the costs of agricultural diffuse water pollution abatement in the context of Lithuania’s water protection goals and climate change | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract This study aimed at evaluating the scale and costs of an environmentally and economically optimal set of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for agricultural pollution abatement in Lithuania in order to reach water protection goals in both inland and marine waters by distributing BMPs optimally in space, while taking climate change impacts into consideration. The assessment of BMPs impact involved the use of the SWAT model by applying two climate change representative concentration pathways (RCP4.5 and RCP8.5) and two time horizons (mid-century and end-century... | ||
| Toward Collaborative Adaptation: Assessing Impacts of Coastal Flooding at the Watershed Scale | ||
| 01. April 2023 | ||
| Abstract The U.S. Mid-Atlantic coastal region is experiencing higher rates of SLR than the global average, especially in Hampton Roads, Virginia, where this acceleration is primarily driven by land subsidence. The adaptation plans for coastal flooding are generally developed at the municipal level, ignoring the broader spatial implications of flooding outside the individual administrative boundaries. Flood impact assessments at the watershed scale would provide a more holistic perspective on what is needed to synchronize the adaptation efforts between the neighboring... | ||
| Post-closure Cost Efficiency in Public Versus Private Landfills: The Case of Emilia-Romagna (Italy) | ||
| Abstract Waste management systems have developed in recent years toward the adoption of sustainable management principles and practices, such as circular economy, zero waste, resource efficiency, waste avoidance, re-use, and recycling. Nevertheless, landfills continue to be used for waste disposal despite their risks related to contamination and effects on urban development. Most research on landfills focuses on their operational and technical aspects, while the performance and cost efficiency in managing landfills is less commonly studied, especially their post-closure... | ||
| Small-Scale Farmers’ Vulnerability to Biophysical and Socio-Economic Risks in Semi-Arid Lowlands of Mwanga District, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania | ||
| Abstract Agricultural production systems in semi-arid areas are vulnerable to a myriad of risks. Using a systems approach of risk framework and a mixed-methods research design, this paper sought to explore selected biophysical and socio-economic risks that contributed to vulnerability of agricultural production systems in the semi-arid lowlands of Mwanga District, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. Despite the lack of statistically significant relationships between amounts of rainfall and crop production in the district, 30 focus group participants perceived that spatial and... | ||
| Determinants of Farmers’ Adaptation Intent And Adoption of Adaptation Strategies To Climate Change And Variability In Mwanga District, Tanzania | ||
| Abstract Pegged on Protection Motivation Theory, a modified socio-cognitive model of private adaptation to climate change and variability was deployed in order to provide a better understanding of the determinants of small-scale farmers’ adaptation intent and adoption of adaptation strategies in semi-arid lowlands of Mwanga District. In this regard, adaptation was conceptualized as a two-step process encompassing farmers’ perceptions that climate was changing and farmers’ response to changes. Basing on a pragmatic philosophy, a cross-sectional sequential explanatory... | ||
| Assessing The Effectiveness of Rainwater Harvesting Systems In Improving Wintering Bird Richness In Pre-Saharan Tunisia | ||
| Abstract The impact of rainwater harvesting systems on biodiversity in hyperarid North African areas has not been assessed to date despite its demonstrated usefulness. The present study investigated this impact by considering the richness of wintering birds (RWB) in the Tataouine region (pre-Saharan Tunisia). We used data from three sets of variables—rainwater harvesting system type, microhabitat conditions, and topography—to determine the best predictors causing variation in the RWB by means of generalized linear mixed models. Our results show that the jessour system... | ||
