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Ecological descriptors in environmental impact assessments: An urgent review of the method in Brazilian reports Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Ricardo Pedro Guazzelli Rosario, Maurício Lamano Ferreira, Elisabeth de Almeida Meirelles, Eduardo Luis Martins Catharino
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Enhancing sustainability: Exploring the evolution and dynamics of the grassland social-ecological system in Inner Mongolia over the past 260a Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Haibin Dong, Tariq Ali, Yongzhi Zhao, Sibo Liu, Saheed Olaide Jimoh, Xu Zhang, Yanting Yin, Xiangyang Hou
Understanding the intricate relationship between social-ecological systems (SES) coupling and long-term regional sustainable development is critical for effective management strategies. While recent research has predominantly focused on human-earth coupling, there is a dearth of knowledge concerning the transition of grassland SES from one regime to another and the underlying drivers. This study employs
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Visual aesthetic quality assessment of the streetscape from the perspective of landscape-perception coupling Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Ya-Nan Fang, Jian Tian, Aihemaiti Namaiti, Shaoqiang Zhang, Jian Zeng, Xuemei Zhu
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Analysis and prediction on carbon emissions from electrical and electronic equipment industry in China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Jie Wang, Ya-qun He, Yi Feng
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Green dreams, local realities: Complexities of the European Union's energy transition to ensure local health and well-being in a fossil fuel-based industrial region Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-05-04 Usha Dahal, Kati Orru, Hans Orru, Martin Dijst
European Union's Green Deal is a legal obligation to EU countries to shift towards environment-friendly energy systems from fossil-fuel-based systems. This transition will bring significant global health benefits by combating climate change, but it is crucial to understand the so far understudied impacts on local communities' lives and, thus, on their health and well-being. The study proposes a novel
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Assessing and managing safety risks to downstream communities (in hindsight): What went wrong in the licensing and impact assessment procedures of Brazil's deadliest dam breaks? Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Camila A. De Paiva, Cesar F. Barella, Alberto Fonseca
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a policy tool used all around the world to predict, mitigate, and manage the impacts and risks of development proposals. This tool, if well implemented and articulated with licensing procedures, can result in improvements of project design and in the prevention and mitigation of environmental and social harms. But sometimes EIA can fail, as illustrated the collapse
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Optimised diets for achieving One Health: A pilot study in the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolis in Germany Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Juliana Minetto Gellert Paris, Neus Escobar, Timo Falkenberg, Shivam Gupta, Christine Heinzel, Eliseu Verly Junior, Olivier Jolliet, Christian Borgemeister, Ute Nöthlings
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A new model for selecting valued components in environmental assessment: Lessons from an Indigenous-led cumulative effects management program Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Katerina Kwon, Murray Rutherford, Thomas Gunton
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Research evolution on low-carbon city measure study: A bibliometric analysis Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Meiyue Sang, Hongman He, Liyin Shen, Xiangrui Xu
The growing significance of low-carbon city (LCC) in addressing climate change has captured global scholarly attention. This study conducts a bibliometric analysis in the field of LCC measure with data from the Web of Science database between 2003 and 2022. The analysis employs methods including the Mann-Kendall test method, Hurst exponent method, academic influence metrics, social network analysis
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Aligning health, environment, and cost aspects of diets: Identifying sustainable dietary patterns in China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Hongyi Cai, Elise F. Talsma, Zhiyao Chang, Xin Wen, Shenggen Fan, Pieter Van ’t Veer, Sander Biesbroek
Considering the adverse effects of agricultural-food systems on both human health and the environment, this research aimed to identify sustainable diets, which are nutritious, culturally acceptable, affordable, and have low environmental impacts, based on self-reported diets in China. Dietary data was collected with a 3-day 24-h dietary recall and weight food record combined method among 10,324 subjects
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Do environmental regulation policies increase urban boundary pollution? Micro evidence from Chinese industrial enterprises Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Hongcheng Wang, Linfei Li, Xin Xu
Industrial organizations frequently opt to relocate their activities to regions bordering administrative boundaries, where regulatory oversight is comparatively lax, to hinder adherence to environmental regulations, which leads to boundary pollution concerns. Using a staggered DID model to Assess the influence of governmental environmental regulations on pollution at administrative boundaries using
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Material flow analysis and carbon footprint of water-packaging waste management Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Vera Amicarelli, Roberto Leonardo Rana, Mariarosaria Lombardi, Johann Fellner, Caterina Tricase, Christian Bux
Packaged drinking water represents one of the fastest growing commodities on a global scale, and several alternatives to plastic have been proposed, such as glass, cardboard or aluminum. The research has a twofold goal: (i) first, it calculates the amount of water-packaging waste generated in Italy in 2020, distinguishing among PET, glass, aluminum and cardboard materials, and it applies the material
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Optimal design of electromagnetic field exposure maps in large areas Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-27 P.L. López-Espí, R. Sánchez-Montero, J. Guillén-Pina, R. Chocano-del-Cerro, J.A.M. Rojas
The mapping of electromagnetic field (EMF) exposure over large areas is a very useful tool for the analysis of epidemiological data and risk assessment. Its production requires a costly measurement process. To optimize the effort and ensure the representativeness of the exposure map, criteria for the selection of the sites to be measured must be established. This paper presents a methodology for conducting
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Dynamic evolution of urban resilience and its coupling mechanism with EF3D-driven natural capital utilization: Case study in three typical urban agglomerations of China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Jing Li, He Peng, Yizhong Chen, Sisi Zhang, Pengming He, Lingzhi Yang, Minhui Si, Yiyang Yang
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Anticipating future photovoltaic waste generation in China: Navigating challenges and exploring prospective recycling solutions Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Guangzheng Wang, Qian Liao, He Xu
Photovoltaic (PV) is recognized as one of the efficacious pathways toward carbon neutrality, and has been significantly advocated and implemented in China. However, the improper handling of PV waste may result in considerable resource wastage and potential environmental pollution. This study conducts a comparative analysis and validation of four methodologies in forecasting PV installations, and subsequently
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Exploring the metabolic characteristic of express packaging waste to promote the synergy of pollution and carbon reduction Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Sui Zhang, Huimin Hou, Guangzheng Wang, Yijie Yao, Yang Zhang, He Xu
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Analysis of the spatial mismatch pattern of net carbon in agriculture and its influencing factors Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Jiafen Li, Jiachen Ning, Jianfeng Song, Xiaonan Chen
Agricultural production has dual functions as a carbon emitter and sink, and fully exploiting the carbon sink function of agriculture is highly valuable for ensuring carbon neutrality. The layout of net carbon in agriculture shows an imbalance, i.e., underscaling in areas with a net carbon advantage or overscaling in areas with a net carbon disadvantage, which restricts the fulfillment of agricultural
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Life-cycle carbon emission calculation and reduction for rural dwellings of “hollow village”: A case study in South China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Zujian Huang, Hao Tang, Yuhe Wen, Wenbo Sun, Hao Zhou, Borong Lin
The “hollow village” refers to villagers retaining their household registration and housing property in rural areas while spending most of their time living in urban areas. This has emerged from China's unique urbanization process, leading to massive construction redundancy and excessive carbon emissions (CEs). In order to identify the CE characteristics and carbon reduction priorities for the rural
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Assessing ecosystem service dynamics in China's coastal shelterbelt: Implications for ecosystem restoration Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Lixue Zhang, Lin Shi, Fan Yang
Influenced by human activities and natural changes, the ecosystem services (ESs) of the Coastal Shelter Forest (CSF) have been substantially transformed. This transformation has reduced the stability of the regional ecosystem and decreased the level of human well-being, seriously affecting the lives of coastal communities. To enhance the benefits and maintain the ecological stability of coastal areas
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Spatiotemporal evolution and influencing factors analysis of wilderness in China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Xiaoqi Tang, Jinyan Chen, Nana Wen, Yaqing Chen, Weiqing Meng, Wenbin Xu, Hongyuan Li
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Navigating expert judgment uncertainty in post-event environmental impact assessments for human-made disasters litigation Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Paola Gómez-Priego, Luis A. Bojórquez-Tapia, César A. Domínguez, Ana E. Escalante
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Accelerated reduction in China's cropland fires against the background of policy enhancement Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Chenqin Lian, Peng Li, Zhiming Feng
Cropland fires contribute significantly to the emission of air pollutants, with implications for the atmospheric environment, public health, and climate change. However, the development of cropland fires in response to straw burning policy interventions has not been fully explored. With the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer Collection 6 (MODIS C6) active fire products and China land-cover
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Exploring paths underpinning the implementation of municipal waste sorting: Evidence from China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Shizheng Tan, Wei Li, Xiaoguang Liu, Yaqi Wang, Mengxin Wang
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Exploring energy security in China: our distance to energy justice Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Yanling Zhi, Fan Zhang, Jinle Kang, Zhou Fang
Energy justice serves as a pivotal factor in the global shift towards energy transition. A comprehensive evaluation of energy security necessitates the integration of energy justice principles. Accordingly, this study introduces an energy security index (ESI) from the perspective of energy justice and assesses the energy security of 30 provinces in mainland China. The analysis, covering data from 2001
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Agricultural non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions in the farming-pastoral ecotone of Northern China from crop and livestock systems Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Yiqiong Du, Ziqiang Du, Fan Zhang
Carbon control involves more than just reducing carbon dioxide (CO). Since the industrial revolution, approximately 35% of greenhouse gas (GHG) radiation has been from non-CO emissions. In this study, an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change coefficient method was used to calculate the agricultural non-CO GHG emissions in the farming-pastoral ecotone of Northern China. The study clarified the spatial
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US-China trade friction and agricultural nitrogen loss in China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Juanli Wang, Shuao Yu, Levan Elbakidze, Yaru Xin, Shixiong Song, Yongxi Ma
Agricultural production, trade and environmental quality are interdependent. The US and China have been the world largest trade partners. However, trade tensions and interest in protectionist policies intensified in recent years. We use a price endogenous partial equilibrium model to systematically examine the impact of increased Chinese tariff on agricultural imports from the US on nitrogen (N) loss
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Environmental life cycle assessment of underground metro rail: A case study in Mumbai Metropolitan Region, India Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Amar Mohan Shinde, Anil Kumar Dikshit, Arti Soni
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Study on carbon footprint evaluation and carbon reduction path of cross-basin water transfer project – A case study of the Yellow River East diversion project in China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Yujie Zhang, Qingsong Wang, Jiong Zhang, Yue Xu, Shu Tian, Shuo Yang, Yuan Xu, Huibin Zhang, Xueliang Yuan, Qiao Ma, Chengqing Liu, Ziyang Li, Yunlong Dong
Inter-basin water transfers have become an important means of water allocation to address imbalances in regional water distribution. Inter-basin water transfers often have a huge amount of engineering efforts and are accompanied by a large amount of carbon emissions generated during the life cycle. Previous studies usually suffer from problems such as rough data lists, difficulty in obtaining some
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Construction of a large road infrastructure in a metropolitan area; what can the analysis of community complaints to noise tell us? Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Alexis Pinsonnault-Skvarenina, Véronique Guay, Renaud Leblanc-Guindon, Mathieu Carrier, Annelies Bockstael, Jean-Pierre Gagné, Tony Leroux
Few studies have investigated the association between noise complaints and construction noise. Reviewing complaint data could help better understand community annoyance to noise and help plan future major construction work. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between noise complaints and noise levels, and to develop a tool to analyze the complaints lodged by citizens concerning
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Just trade-offs in a net-zero transition and social impact assessment Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Yuwan Malakar, Andrea Walton, Luk J.M. Peeters, David M. Douglas, Dan O'Sullivan
Countries around the world are prioritising net zero emissions to meet their Paris Agreement goals. The demand for social impact assessment (SIA) is likely to grow as this transition will require investments in decarbonisation projects with speed and at scale. There will be winners and losers of these projects because not everyone benefits the same; and hence, trade-offs are inevitable. SIAs, therefore
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SEA for better climate adaptation in the face of the flood risk: Multi-scenario, strategic forecasting, nature-based solutions Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Xiaoling Qin, Shifu Wang, Meng Meng
Numerous scholars have warned that many cities in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) are threatened by severe flood risk, which is often underestimated. Considering this, we provide a scenario-based Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) approach to analyse the roles of adaptation strategies on the environment in response to climate change and flooding risk. Three strategies are proposed including a non-Nature-based
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The impact of specialization and large-scale operation on the application of pesticides and chemical fertilizers: A spatial panel data analysis in China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Zhenhua Zhang, Chao Hua, Ramamoorthy Ayyamperumal, Mengmeng Wang, Shaobo Wang
The abuse of pesticides and Chemical fertilizers seriously affects human health and the ecological environment. This study constructed an absolute specialization index and a relative specialization index, investigating the effects of agricultural large-scale operations and two types of specialization on the application of pesticides and chemical fertilizers in China. Considering the vast and differentiated
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Are rice systems sustainable in Sri Lanka? - A case of Deduru Oya reservoir irrigation scheme Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 M.M.J.G.C.N. Jayasiri, N.D.K. Dayawansa, Karin Ingold, Sudhir Yadav
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Comparative study of green neighbourhood assessment tools for assessing existing urban form in MENA region Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Moureen Asaad, Ghada Farouk Hassan, Abeer Elshater, Samy Afifi
Urbanisation in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region has led to environmental challenges, particularly in urban form and its relationship with city structure. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs) 11 and 13 have actions at the city level to address this issue. They highlight the significance of assessing neighbourhood sustainability as building blocks of the city. However
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Visual impact control of urban waterfront development on the background mountain view: Examining its justifiability through two types of immersive virtual reality experiments Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Baek-Chan Kim, Seung-Nam Kim, Youngha Joo
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Multi-tier life cycle assessment for evaluating low carbon strategies in soil remediation Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Yun Xu, Luyao Wang, Keke Li, Liyuan Wei, Chang Chen, Luojing Xiang, Junxiong Cai, Zhen Wang
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Navigating illegal land use in the quest for a just energy transition Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Jusheng Yang, Fengbo Liang, Guopeng Hu
Illegal land use inhibits available land for renewable resource development and hinders a just energy transition, posing a significant challenge to sustainability. This article utilizes the TOE (Technology, Organization, Environment) framework to examine the impact of under-regulation on illegal land use in China. By employing a multidisciplinary approach, the study navigates the complexities of unscrupulous
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Aggregating midpoint-indicator results from Environmental Product Declarations for comprehensive evaluations of products' profiles, through the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach: An application in the Durum-Wheat Pasta Sector Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Carlo Ingrao, Agata Matarazzo, Giovanni Lagioia, Roman Słowiński
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Dietary shift can enhance the environmental benefits of crop redistribution Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Hui Wang, Wenxia Sui, Wen Zhang, Yanhui Guo, Saige Wang, Lin Jiang
Crop redistribution is widely recognized as an effective means of reducing the environmental costs of agricultural production without technological improvements. However, changes in food supply driven by dietary shift are rarely taken into account in crop redistribution. Based on inventory analysis of water consumption, land demand and carbon emission in crops production, this study constructed a linear
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Assessing uncertainties and discrepancies in agricultural greenhouse gas emissions estimation in China: A comprehensive review Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Hanbing Li, Xiaobin Jin, Rongqin Zhao, Bo Han, Yinkang Zhou, Pablo Tittonell
Due to diverse methodologies and data sources, China's agricultural greenhouse gas (AGHG) emissions estimates demonstrate significant variability. A quantitative review was conducted on the prevalence and application of various accounting methods to clarify and reduce discrepancies in AGHG emissions estimation techniques and data application. Using a systematic PRISMA framework, 4257 global studies
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Towards healthy cities: Modeling restorative potential of urban environments by coupling LiDAR-derived 3D metrics with panorama-based online survey Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Xudong Zhang, Jinda Qi, Ervine Shengwei Lin, Puay Yok Tan, Roger Ho, Angelia Sia, Xiao Ping Song, Radha Waykool, Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo
With the growing concern for the psychological well-being of urban dwellers, there has been a recognized need to explore the role of green environments in facilitating mental restorative benefits from the demands of city life. However, a significant gap exists in quantitatively modeling the restorative potential of urban environments, especially in terms of comprehensive 3D characteristics beyond mere
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Spatial correlation network of municipal solid waste carbon emissions and its influencing factors in China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Yuxin Gao, Ming Gao
Clarifying the provincial spatial correlation network of municipal solid waste (MSW) carbon emissions and its influencing factors is significant for reducing MSW carbon emissions and for ensuring cross-regional coordinated emission reduction. This study used a modified gravity model and social network analysis to explore the structural characteristics of the spatial correlation network of MSW carbon
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How to select the best approach for circular economy assessment? 3D positioning framework, decision support tool and critical analysis for bio-based systems Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Marta Macias Aragonés, Fátima Arroyo Torralvo
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Assessing the environmental impact of agricultural production structure transformation — Evidence from the non-grain production of cropland in China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Qiao Li, Wei Chen, Haimeng Shi, Sun Zhang
Achieving low-carbon agricultural development is a requirement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A sustainable agricultural production structure not only ensures food security but also promotes efficient resource utilization and environmental protection. However, the current research has not yet assessed the environmental impact of the agricultural production structure transformation
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Life cycle assessment of citrus tree nurseries in Uruguay: Are their environmental impacts relevant? Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 María Inés Cabot, Joanna Lado, Matías Manzi, Neus Sanjuán
Perennial fruit production at the commercial scale, such as citrus fruits, begins with seedling production in a nursery. This stage lasts several months and involves different phases and the use of substrates and infrastructure. As the seedling does not produce fruit but does consume inputs, studying the environmental impacts associated with this stage becomes relevant, especially to understand its
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Understanding China's agricultural non‑carbon-dioxide greenhouse gas emissions: Subnational insights and global trade dynamics Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Licheng Liu, Xintao Hu, Lexin Li, Zhongxiao Sun, Qian Zhang
Methane (CH) and nitrous oxide (NO) are the second and third most important greenhouse gases after carbon dioxide (CO), with 60% and 40% of global CH and NO emissions coming from agriculture, respectively. However, the global nexus of non‑carbon-dioxide greenhouse gas (NCGHG) emissions at the subnational scale in China, the world's largest producer and consumer of agricultural products, remains under-examined
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Multi-dimensional low-carbon assessments of wind-driven seawater desalination system via hybrid life cycle modeling Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Siyuan Liu, Di Song, Mengyao Han, Chao Ai, Quan Shan, Zihan Liu, Gengxin Zhang
Wind-driven desalination is a representative technology of renewable energy that not only alleviates water shortages but also reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by the utilization of fossil fuels. This study examined the GHG emissions from a wind-driven seawater desalination system by using the hybrid input-output life-cycle analysis (IO-LCA) to undertake a comprehensive low-carbon assessment
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Black soil conservation will boost China's grain supply and reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in the future Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Wenxuan Wang, Xiangzheng Deng, Hongxiao Yue
Black soils, renowned for their natural fertility, hold pivotal significance in global food production and play a crucial role in mitigating and adapting to climate change due to their excellent capacity for organic carbon sequestration. However, they are subject to moderate to severe erosion due to the land use change, overuse of agrochemicals and high-intensity ploughing. Nearly 50% of organic carbon
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Assessing the scale effect of urban vertical patterns on urban waterlogging: An empirical study in Shenzhen Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Yuqin Huang, Jinyao Lin, Xiaoyu He, Zhuochun Lin, Zhifeng Wu, Xinchang Zhang
Waterlogging disasters seriously affect residents' lives. Investigating the factors affecting waterlogging is crucial for mitigating waterlogging. Although waterlogging is closely related to land-use patterns, most of the previous studies have analyzed only the impact of urban horizontal patterns on waterlogging at a single scale. Few studies have focused on the role of urban vertical patterns from
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Assessing ecological conservation redline from element, structure, and function dimensions: A case of Zhejiang Province, China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Wenze Yue, Haoxuan Xia, Yong Liu, Jiren Xu, Jinhui Xiong
Ecological Conservation Redline (ECR) is a national strategy of ecological conservation required by Territorial Spatial Planning in China. Previous studies mainly focused on the techniques and methods of delineating ECR, without an integrated assessment of the rationality of ECR from a large scale like a province. Using Zhejiang as a case, this study attempted to conduct an integrated assessment of
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Modeling and quantification of agricultural waste recycling for agricultural industrial structure optimization in a novelty multi-village industrial complex Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Yongsheng Wang, Xiao Cui
The decoupling of crop planting, livestock breeding, and agro-processing has led to substantial agricultural waste discharge. Agricultural waste discharge not only poses a threat to the human and the natural environment but also leads to the abandonment of recyclable resources. Therefore, various regional practices of agro-industrial development and agricultural waste recycling have been explored in
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Allocation of CO2 emission target in China under the “1 + N” policy: Considering natural carbon sinks and wind-solar-hydropower endowments Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Jiandong Bai, I-Shin Chang, Chundan Zhang, Jing Wu
The CO emission control targets (CET) allocation faces the unavoidable issues of “energy equity” and “carbon sink equity”, which are complicated by changing regional characteristics. By combining regional characteristics assessment, energy consumption status in the “1 + N” policy, and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) modeling, two schemes for China's net CET allocation in 2020–2030 are implied to reveal
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Intra-rural inequality of diet-related carbon footprint in China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Xiang Kang, Mingxi Du, Xue Zhou, Haifeng Du, Qiuyu Liu, Jingxu Wang, Lulu Chen, Yulong Yin, Wei Zou, Zhenling Cui
The transition to sustainable diet has mitigated climate risks and improved human health. With the rapidly increasing demand for food and high carbon mitigation pressure, food consumption in rural China has emerged as a pivotal factor in the transition process. Although diet-related carbon footprint (DCF) has been widely discussed worldwide, little is known about intra-group differences in DCFs, particularly
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Regional decomposition and attribution analysis of carbon-emission intensity using an extended approach combined with a meta-frontier non-radial Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Jiaojiao Sun, Jue Cui, Feng Dong, Yajie Liu
Reducing carbon intensity is a key strategy in achieving carbon neutrality. Existing joint methods, including log-mean division index and production-theoretical decomposition analysis, were often linked to the Shepherd distance function to identify factors driving carbon intensity. However, this would overlook the biases in decomposition results caused by the disaggregated efficiency in different orientations
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Spatial-temporal distribution and multiple driving mechanisms of energy-related CH4 emissions in China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Liming Yao, Weijin Qian, Hongqiang Jiang
China's energy-related methane (CH) emissions account for >19.03% of global energy sector emissions, posing a significant threat to China's endeavors in mitigating climate change. However, research on the spatial-temporal patterns, drivers, and mitigation policies remains limited. This study aims to address this gap by building an innovative research framework to reveal the spatial and temporal distribution
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How does green communication promote the green consumption intention of social media users? Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Meifen Wu, Ruyin Long
Promoting green consumption is one of the most important ways to realize energy savings and emission reductions. Based on the perspective of green communication, this study focused on the influence mechanisms of green thinking (perception of green communication), social media marketing (way of green communication), and receptivity to green communication (emotional attitude towards green communication)
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Integrating spatial carbon factors into ecological network construction in an energy-intensive megaregion toward multi-objective synergy in northern China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Zhonggui Lu, Yushuang Geng, Wei Li, Rongwu Yue
In terms of achieving the dual goal of nature-positive and climate-neutral, there are more or less weaknesses in linking ecological networks (ENs) and carbon-related factors in both research and practice. Considering the widely recognized multifunctionality of ENs across ecological, economic, social, and aesthetic aspects, we propose to integrate spatial carbon emission as a proxy of human activity
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Decoupling inland navigation-induced risk of phytoplankton: An essay to prospective global-scale impacts on large rivers Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Malay Naskar, Sanjeev Kumar Sahu, Soma Das Sarkar
Inland waterways are heavily exploited for cost-effective navigational use worldwide. Despite several benefits, it has adverse effects on aquatic systems that are of global concern. Among others, the phytoplankton community is the most vulnerable to getting damaged. Quantifying their risk to navigation is significantly important and challenging, particularly using in situ field observation. This article
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A conceptual framework for constructing and evaluating directed ecological networks: Evidence from Wuhan Metropolitan Area, China Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Yanchi Lu, Dan Huang, Zhaomin Tong, Yaolin Liu, Jianhua He, Yanfang Liu
Many ecologists have demonstrated that building ecological networks (ENs) can resist habitat fragmentation. However, existing studies have not yet explored the directionality of ENs. In this study, we proposed a research framework for the construction and structural evaluation of directed ENs from the perspective of dynamic biological flows. The framework reveals the operational essence of ENs, which
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Life cycle analysis of bike sharing systems: A case study of Washington D.C. Environ. Impact Assess. Rev. (IF 6.122) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Yan Chen, Degui Zeng, Muhammet Deveci, D'Maris Coffman
In the past few years, shared bicycles have become a major form of green transport. There are two types of shared bicycle systems: pile-based and pile-less. These two types of systems have different carbon emission profiles when it comes to manufacture, operation and maintenance, and disposal. This research explicates these trade-offs through a thorough life cycle assessment of Capital Bikes' shared