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Crop residues integration with nitrogen rates reduces yield-scaled nitrous oxide emissions and improves maize yield and soil quality J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 M.S. Rahman, J. Ferdous, N.J. Mumu, M. Kamruzzaman, C. Eckhardt, M. Zaman, C. Müller, M.M.R. Jahangir
Maize production requires a large amount of nitrogen (N). However, a greater part of the N used gets lost to the environment as reactive forms including nitrous oxide (N2O). N2O emissions and assoc...
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More river pollution from untreated urban waste due to the Russian-Ukrainian war: a perspective view J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Vita Strokal, Anna Kurovska, Maryna Strokal
Since 24 February 2022, the Russian-Ukrainian war has impacted Ukrainian water resources including river pollution. In this perspective paper, our proposition is that the Russian-Ukrainian war caus...
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Individual-Based Model use in Marine Policy J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Chelsea Gray, Dale S. Rothman, Erin Peters-Burton, Cynthia Smith, E.C.M Parsons
Individual-based models (IBMs) are increasingly used in marine conservation research, making this is an ideal time to assess IBM use in marine policy. IBMs can contribute important information to m...
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Unlocking the interaction of social restriction and social protection in Indonesia’s COVID-19 policy: future risk and adaptation J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Yanu Endar Prasetyo, Gusti Ayu Ketut Surtiari, Nawawi
The Indonesian government has issued hundreds of regulations and policies to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. These various policies and regulations assess how a government responds, ...
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Do I have time to build the ark calmly? Characterizing attitudes towards climate change via sentiment analysis of social media J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Josep Pueyo-Ros, Enrica Garau
Public discourse about climate change is characterized by a wide variety of frames. Understanding how people integrate climate change narratives into their lives is essential for designing socially...
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Seeing the wood for the trees: a heuristic framework to enable the integration of sustainability education in higher education settings J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 Julie Gwilliam, Andrew Reeves, Natalia Timuș
ABSTRACT This paper puts forward a conceptual framework to support the dual challenges of strategic and practical integrative action of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) across Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). There are numerous existing resources and toolkits providing appropriate actions, guidance or approaches to monitor and measure ESD engagement. Our intended distinctive contribution
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Outcomes of migration as adaptation: a conceptual framework for migration governance J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Kali Abel, Brian Katz, Stefan Rose, David Wrathall
ABSTRACT Climate change – along with conflict, violence, and climate-related disasters – has the potential to accelerate many forms of human migration and mobility, and yet almost all of the key migration outcomes of interest (the decision to migrate, the timing of migration, the preferred destinations, the condition of migrants, outcomes of migration, etc.) are determined by governance decisions.
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Investigating biodiversity trends in different mitigation scenarios with a national integrated assessment model J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Ana Carolina Oliveira Fiorini, Pedro Rua Rodriguez Rochedo, Gerd Angelkorte, Fabio A. Diuana, Mariana Império, Lucas Silva Carvalho, Taísa Nogueira Morais, Eveline Vasquez-Arroyo, Roberto Schaeffer
ABSTRACT The inclusion of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in climate mitigation pathways is critical and can be reached by assessing their consequences through the deployment of appropriate indicators to that end. Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) are important tools for understanding possible impacts caused by adopting new policies. We investigate terrestrial biodiversity trends (life on land:
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A framework to assess the role of social cash transfers in building adaptive capacity for climate resilience J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Sayanti Sengupta, Cecilia Costella
ABSTRACT Climate change is increasingly affecting vulnerable groups and resulting in dire social and economic consequences, especially for those in the Global South. Managing current and emerging climate-related risks will require increasing individual’s and communities’ resilience, including enhancing absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities. Policymakers are now considering the role that
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Sustainable socio-ecological transformations in agriculture: cases from South Asia J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Pranav Prakhyat Garimella, Anjal Prakash
ABSTRACT Climate change is becoming a defining factor for communities in South Asia. Forming one-fifth of the world population, the region increasingly faces climate-induced disasters such as floods, droughts, heatwaves, cyclones etc. This region also has one of the world’s poorest people who struggle to cope with the rapidly changing climatic conditions. Agriculture still employs many people in the
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Threats from weather events, urbanization and resilience: A case study of a coastal geography in India J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Satabdi Datta, Joyashree Roy
ABSTRACT Urbanized coastal geographies with high population density but with low adaptive capacity are more exposed to threats of both rapid and slow onset weather events. Altered coasts along the Bay of Bengal is one such geography where general urbanization trend coupled with new policy driven tourism activity promotion is increasing exposure to frequent and intense disaster events. Current study
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The importance of irrigation supply chains within the water footprint: an example from the Pakistani part of the Indus basin J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Abdul Wahab Siyal, Winnie Gerbens-Leenes, Maite M. Aldaya, Rozina Naz
ABSTRACT Many environmental studies have shown that a systems approach, including complete supply chains, is relevant for the assessment of the consequences of production and consumption on natural resources. This can also be applied to water. Although water consumption also includes water supply chains, often irrigation supply chains are excluded in water footprint (WF) studies. Using information
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Barriers to recycling plastics from the perspectives of industry stakeholders: a qualitative study J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Deborah Roy, Emma Berry, Karen Orr, Martin Dempster
ABSTRACT Previous research exploring the psychological, social, and environmental barriers to recycling has predominantly focused on consumer attitude and behaviour. However, the plastic system involves a chain of stakeholders with a role in decision-making and actions in relation to plastic production and management post-use, affirming the need to explore the barriers to recycle across various other
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Advancing sustainability leadership by shifting relational ‘agreement structures’: a transformational higher education change program J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 James L. Ritchie-Dunham, Ana C. Gonçalves, Maria A. Huerta, Carlos Mataix, Julio Lumbreras, Jaime Moreno-Serna, John D. Spengler, Wendy M. Purcell
ABSTRACT Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires leaders to navigate different fields and work across public, private, and plural sectors. Higher education (HE) is positioned uniquely to bring disciplines together and convene leaders from business, government, and civil society by designing customized learning encounters. Here we explore the creation and delivery of a change program
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Expertise for policy-relevant knowledge. IPBES’s epistemic infrastructure and guidance to make environmental assessments J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Karin M Gustafsson, Rolf Lidskog
ABSTRACT Organizations conducting global environmental assessments (GEAs) face the challenge of not only producing trustworthy and policy-relevant knowledge but also recruiting and training experts to conduct these GEAs. These experts must acquire the skills and competencies needed to produce knowledge assessments. By adopting an institutional approach, this paper explores IPBES’s epistemic infrastructure
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Distance and presence in interdisciplinary online learning. A challenge-based learning course on sustainable cities of the future J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Julia Kasch, V.A.J.M. Schutjens, M.C. Bootsma, F.W. Van Dam, A.F. Kirkels, M.K. van der Molen, A. Rimac, K.T. Rebel
ABSTRACT Addressing complex sustainability issues in higher education requires the combination and integration of various disciplines, perspectives and approaches. Challenge-Based Learning (CBL) can support interdisciplinary collaboration on sustainability issues. It requires students to actively explore, discuss, reflect on and integrate information and methods from various disciplines. Online learning
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Framing climate futures: the media representations of climate and energy policies in Finnish broadcasting company news J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-19 Suvi Vikström, Erkki Mervaala, Hanna-Liisa Kangas, Jari Lyytimäki
ABSTRACT Media representations of the future are a key component of climate change and energy policies. This study integrates media analysis with futures studies and focuses on the media framings and representations of futures related to key national-level energy and climate strategy documents. It utilizes qualitative content analysis of online news articles of Finland’s national public broadcasting
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Linking climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction: reconceptualizing flood risk governance in Mumbai J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Theresa Zimmermann, Swati Shinde, D Parthasarathy, NC Narayanan
ABSTRACT Climate-related hazards, urban development and changing vulnerability patterns compel cities across the world to deal with new and emerging forms of risk. Academic literature and recent international policy documents suggest potentials of conceptually and practically linking the fields of climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) and emphasize the need to mitigate climate-related
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Barriers and opportunities in achieving climate and sustainable development goals in India: a multilevel analysis J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Dhanapal G, Divya Gupta, Anjal Prakash
ABSTRACT Climate action plans are essential for climate mitigation and adaptation as well as to achieve climate and development goals like the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the development and implementation of climate action plans at multiple levels involve decision-making processes. In this article, we examine the barriers and opportunities to decision-making
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Climate change mitigation and SDGs: modelling the regional potential of promising mitigation measures and assessing their impact on other SDGs J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Anteneh G. Dagnachew, Andries F. Hof
ABSTRACT Measures that aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions also have impacts on achieving other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Given the enormous challenge of achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement and the SDGs, insight into these impacts provides information on how to improve the feasibility of climate change mitigation measures by maximizing the co-benefits and managing the risks of
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The influence of socioeconomic factors on individual and household adaptation strategies to climate change risks in Port Harcourt, Nigeria J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-13 Olasunkanmi Habeeb Okunola, Mulala Danny Simatele, Oluwaseun Olowoporoku
ABSTRACT Increasing temperatures and sea levels, changing precipitation patterns and more extreme weather pose severe threats for vulnerable communities, ecosystems, and livelihoods in cities of developing countries. Realizing these threats has heightened scholarly inquiry on future risk trends of climate change and adaptation strategies in the countries of Global South and North. However, most studies
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Balancing the sustainability in the 2030 agenda: the OECD countries J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-11 Carmen García- Peña, Bárbara Díaz, María M. Muñoz
ABSTRACT When assessing the achievement of the 2030 Agenda, the equilibrium among the dimensions of the sustainable development should be taken into account, recognizing the balanced and integrated nature of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To this end, we propose the use of a Balance Index to complement the performance indexes of the SDGs and the integration of sustainable development dimensions
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Innovative education for wicked problems: An impact study of the Wageningen University Honours Programme J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Aneeqah Tariq, Max van Deursen, Astrid Hendriksen
ABSTRACT Despite the growing consensus that academic curricula should play a crucial role in addressing wicked problems, academic curriculum designers often find themselves entering uncharted waters. This impact study addresses a number of challenges in the search for how innovative ways of learning affect students’ ability to deal with wicked problems. The empirical research focuses on the case study
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The climate change – inequality nexus: towards environmental and socio-ecological inequalities with a focus on human capabilities J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Alexia Faus Onbargi
ABSTRACT The climate change – inequality nexus has become an increasingly important concept advanced by inequality and sustainability experts as well as international organisations like the United Nations. In this perspective paper, two arguments are made to further our understanding of the nexus and to promote action on SDG 10 (”Reducing inequalities within and among countries”) and SDG 13 (”Climate
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Reaching the Rest: Embedding Sustainability in Undergraduate Student Learning J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 John Robinson, Ayako Ariga, Sean Cameron, Ryan Wang
ABSTRACT There exists a substantial literature on sustainability pedagogy. Much of it addresses individual courses, sustainability programs, or the learning competencies that are encouraged. The implicit focus is on students who have chosen to specialize on sustainability topics by obtaining a degree in programs such as , sustainability management, environmental science or studies. More recently, there
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Community Perceptions on Environmental and Social Impacts of Mining in Limpopo South Africa and the Implications on Corporate Social Responsibility J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Pl Seloa, Vm Ngole-Jeme
ABSTRACT Perceptions of communities about mining and its impacts influence their relationship with mining companies in their vicinity. This study investigated the perceptions of communities on environmental and social impacts of nearby mines in Limpopo South Africa. Data was collected using a questionnaire administered to male and females above 18 years living in five villages located around the mine
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Creating possibility spaces for the development of circular bioeconomy initiatives J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-25 Per-Anders Langendahl, Cecilia Mark-Herbert, Matthew Cook
ABSTRACT To help move society towards more sustainable states, policies have been developed in various countries to create a circular bioeconomy (CBE) in biobased sectors such as forestry and agriculture. In operationalizing CBE, initiatives must be created in which feedback loops between life-cycle stages are established to enable a “stock” of resources to be recirculated in the economy. By creating
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Correction J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-10-18
Published in Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences (Vol. 19, No. 1, 2022)
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Climate Governance in Southeast Asian small and mid-sized cities: undermining resilience and distributing risks unevenly J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Danny Marks, Gwenn Pulliat
ABSTRACT Secondary cities are home to most of the world’s urban populations vulnerable to climate change, yet researchers and policymakers have devoted less attention to them than large and megacities. To help address this gap, this paper explores the relationship between incomplete decentralized governance, climate change, and urban resilience. It does through the case studies of secondary cities
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Experiences with team-based learning in an introductory bachelor course on sustainability J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Mark A. J. Huijbregts, Steef Hanssen, Nicole Derks, Frank Collas, Ilse Erich, Rob S.E.W. Leuven, Ad M.J. Ragas, Aafke M. Schipper, Jacqueline A. Vos, Fanny Huijbregts-Verheyden
ABSTRACT Team-based learning (TBL) is a structured form of collaborative learning that is particularly beneficial in courses where students are expected to understand a significant amount of information to answer complex questions. Here we evaluate the implementation of TBL in a second-year undergraduate sustainability course. The course introduces structured and quantitative approaches for analysing
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Addressing climate goals and the SDGs through a just energy transition? Empirical evidence from Germany and South Africa J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Ramona Hägele, Gabriela I. Iacobuţă, James Tops
ABSTRACT In striving to achieve the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda, governments have the opportunity to implement their climate and sustainability goals more coherently. Such coherence requires the coordination of interdependent policies across different policy fields, sectors and actors. This paper explores how governments design and implement synergic solutions to concomitantly achieve both
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Social protection in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: A bibliometric and thematic review J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Irfan Ahmad Rana, Sifullah Khaled, Ali Jamshed, Adnan Nawaz
ABSTRACT Social protection has emerged as a strategy to minimize climate change impacts by building the resilience of vulnerable communities. It is increasingly being used in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. This study reviews the role of social protection in the scientific literature through bibliometric and thematic analysis. Web of Science database was used to retrieve the
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Coffee supply chain planning under climate change J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Rui Zhou, Yaoping Wang, Mingzhou Jin, Jiafu Mao, Xu Zheng
ABSTRACT The growing demand but uncertain supply makes the sustainability of the coffee industry a shared concern for all participants along the coffee supply chain. This study proposed a decision-making model that comprises the cultivation management, including shade management and annual agriculture management, and the supply chain logistics. A two-stage stochastic program is presented and used within
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Digitalization for transformative urbanization, climate change adaptation, and sustainable farming in Africa: trend, opportunities, and challenges J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-04-07 Abdul-Lateef Balogun, Naheem Adebisi, Ismaila Rimi Abubakar, Umar Lawal Dano, Abdulwaheed Tella
ABSTRACT In sub-Saharan Africa, mass rural-urban migration negatively affectthe agriculture sector that accounts for about 23% of the GDP and employs over 60% of the population. Together with a rapidly changing climate, unplanned urbanization poses serious threats to Africa’s agriculture sector with the risk of chronic food shortages in the future. To stem this tide, it is imperative to systematically
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Co-production of climate change vulnerability assessment : A case study of the Indian Lesser Himalayan region, Darjeeling J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 Parveen Kumar, Christopher Brewster
ABSTRACT The intensity and extent of climate change impacts differ significantly with the geographical and ecological structure of the landscape. This is especially evident in mountain ecosystems where topographic, climatic and biological gradients make them extremely vulnerable to global environmental changes . Designing strategies to mitigate and adapt to global climate change on such local landscapes
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Substitution, natural capital and sustainability J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Lucas Reijnders
ABSTRACT Substitutability of natural capital by human-made capital would seem to be limited. When human-made capital substitutes natural capital, there are currently commonly long-lasting negative impacts of such substitutions on constituents of natural capital. Long-lasting negative impacts on natural capital can be considered at variance with justice between the generations. In view thereof, there
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Evaluation of the potential environmental impacts of condom production in Thailand J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-07-28
ABSTRACT This study aims to analyse the potential environmental impact of natural rubber (NR) condoms over its entire life cycle. The environmental performance of the production process of NR condoms is also compared to that of synthetic polyisoprene (PI) condoms. Options to reduce the environmental impact of condom production are proposed and evaluated. The potential environmental impacts are quantified
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Risk assessment of mortality from acute exposure to ambient fine particles based on the different toxicities of chemical compositions in China J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Xin Li, Tao Xue, Bo Zheng, Yuxuan Zhang
ABSTRACT Health risks, including mortalities and morbidities, attributed to chronic or acute exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5), have been assessed based on the increments in ambient concentrations. Different toxicities of the various chemical compositions in PM2.5 mixtures have been confirmed by epidemiological evidence but have rarely been considered. We proposed an approach to calculate
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Transboundary rivers of Ukraine: perspectives for sustainable development and clean water J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Vita Strokal
ABSTRACT Transboundary river basins are responsible for over half of the global river discharges and accommodate 40% of the global population. Ukraine is part of the four large transboundary rivers that flow through more than ten European countries and experience pollution problems because of human activities in up-and downstream areas. The Ukrainian government calls for actions to achieve Sustainable
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Topical themes in biodiversity financing J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-03-21 Nowella Anyango-van Zwieten
ABSTRACT One of the often-cited challenges in biodiversity conservation is financing. But publications on financing are mostly confined to specific financial mechanisms, regions and actors. Fewer attempts have been made to find overall trends. Through a thematic review of 64 peer-reviewed articles, covering different disciplines and published since 2010, this study found three dominant themes recurring
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Challenges and strategies for agricultural green development in the Yangtze River Basin J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-02-19 Chaoyi Guo, Zhaohai Bai, Xiaojun Shi, Xuanjing Chen, David Chadwick, Maryna Strokal, Fusuo Zhang, Lin Ma, Xinping Chen
ABSTRACT The Yangtze River Basin (YRB) has been recognized as one of the key strategic development regions in China. Agriculture p52 roduction systems in the YRB have contributed considerably to China’s goal of food security. Realizing Agriculture Green Development (AGD) means agriculture production systems with high productivity, high resource use efficiency and low environmental costs. However, challenges
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A qualitative study of the migration-adaptation nexus to deal with environmental change in Tinghir and Tangier (Morocco) J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2021-01-20 Lore Van Praag
ABSTRACT Over the last two decades, migration-as-adaptation discourses have theorized and studied how migration could facilitate adaptation to deal with the effects of adverse environmental change. However, contextual factors, such as migration trends and local social and economic contexts, as well as perceptions of this linkage have often been neglected. This study aims to understand how people perceive
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Peri-urban territories and WEF nexus: the challenges of Brazilian agrarian reform areas for social justice J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Thainara Granero de Melo, Bruno Lacerra de Souza, Rosemeire Aparecida Scopinho
ABSTRACT Over the past three decades, agrarian reform areas have transformed urban and rural spaces across Brazil. Although these areas’ creation reduced inequalities and environmental problems, their residents still experience several constraints and vulnerabilities associated with water, energy, and food provision. Drawing on the water-energy-food (WEF) nexus’ critical and territorial perspectives
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Non-CO2 greenhouse gases: the underrepresented, complex side of the climate challenge J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 Mathijs Harmsen,Jillian Student,Carolien Kroeze
When it comes to mitigating climate change, the focus tends towards carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. However, human-induced emissions of non-CO2 greenhouse gases (GHGs) are important contributors to global warming. These include methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), fluorinated greenhouse gases (HFCs, PFCs and SF6) and ozone depleting substances. Other non-CO2 emissions, such as aerosols (e.g. black carbon
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Rethinking the urban Nexus - Resilience and vulnerability at the urban Nexus of Water, Energy and Food (WEF). An introduction to the special issue J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Patience Mguni,Bas J.M. van Vliet
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Urban nitrogen budgets: flows and stock changes of potentially polluting nitrogen compounds in cities and their surroundings – a review J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Wilfried Winiwarter, Barbara Amon, Zhaohai Bai, Andrzej Greinert, Katrin Kaltenegger, Lin Ma, Sylwia Myszograj, Markus Schneidergruber, Monika Suchowski-Kisielewicz, Lisa Wolf, Lin Zhang, Feng Zhou
ABSTRACT Concepts of material flow and mass consistency of nitrogen compounds have been used to elucidate nitrogen’s fate in an urban environment. While reactive nitrogen commonly is associated to agriculture and hence to large areas, here we have compiled scientific literature on nitrogen budget approaches in cities, following the central role cities have in anthropogenic activities generally. This
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Assessment of nitrous oxide emission factors for arable and grassland ecosystems J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 M. O’Neill, L. Gallego-Lorenzo, G. J. Lanigan, P. D. Forristal, B. A. Osborne
ABSTRACT We quantified seasonal nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions and the associated emission factors (EFs) from: (i) winter oilseed rape (WOSR) cultivated under conventional tillage (CT) and strip tillage (ST) at four fertilizer rates (0, 160, 240 and 320 kg N ha−1) in 2014/2015, and (ii) grassland plots receiving no fertilizer (0 kg N ha−1), or mineral nitrogen (67 kg N ha−1), and either cattle or pig
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The climate impact of land use change in the miombo region of south central Africa J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Sally A. Wilson, Robert J. Scholes
ABSTRACT The African woodlands known as miombo are one of the world’s largest currently relatively unexploited, but potentially arable, land resources. Miombo landscapes one of the top contemporary locations of conversion of dry forests to crop agriculture. This study investigates the net effect on climate forcing that results from different types of land use change in miombo, taking into account the
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Correction J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-10-08
(2020). Correction. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences: Vol. 17, Non-CO2 greenhouse gases (NCGG8), pp. ii-ii.
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No effect of warming and watering on soil nitrous oxide fluxes in a temperate sitka spruce forest ecosystem J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Junliang Zou, Bruce Osborne
ABSTRACT Soil fluxes of nitrous oxide (N2O) play an important role in the global greenhouse gas budget. However, the response of soil N2O emissions to climate change in temperate forest plantations is not yet well understood. In this study, we assessed the responses of soil N2O fluxes to experimental warming with or without water addition, using a replicated in situ heating (~2°C above ambient) and
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Studying residents’ flood risk perceptions and sense of place to inform public participation in a Dutch river restoration project J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-08-26 Bernadette F. van Heel, Riyan J.G van den Born
Public participation is becoming increasingly important in integrative river restoration projects. However, studies show that flood risk awareness is generally low among residents of flood-prone areas, making it (more) difficult for project managers to involve the public. We contribute to understanding this generally low flood risk perception by carrying out a survey (N = 631) among residents in a
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Methane emissions from fossil fuels: exploring recent changes in greenhouse-gas reporting requirements for the State of New York J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-08-25 Robert W. Howarth
ABSTRACT In 2019, New York State passed aggressive new climate legislation to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and laid out major changes for how emissions are reported. One change is the inclusion of emissions from outside of the boundaries of the State if they are associated with energy use within NY; the traditional inventory considered emissions only within the State. The new legislation also
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Correction J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-08-24
(2020). Correction. Journal of Integrative Environmental Sciences: Vol. 17, Non-CO2 greenhouse gases (NCGG8), pp. 1-1.
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Land-use change and Biogeochemical controls of soil CO2, N2O and CH4 fluxes in Cameroonian forest landscapes J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-07-20 Louis V. Verchot, Michael Dannenmann, Steve Kwatcho Kengdo, Charles Baudouin Njine-Bememba, Mariana C. Rufino, Denis Jean Sonwa, Javier Tejedor
ABSTRACT Deforestation and land-use change are accelerating in the Congo Basin and elsewhere in the tropics affecting the soil-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases (GHG). There is a lack of data from Central Africa. We quantified fluxes of CO2, CH4, and N2O at the soil-atmosphere interface in a secondary forest, a cocoa agroforest, and an unfertilized cropland. Soil respiration was highest in the
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The implications of residential air conditioning refrigerant choice on future hydrofluorocarbon consumption in the United States J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-06-03 David S. Godwin, Rebecca Ferenchiak
ABSTRACT As the primary alternative to ozone-depleting refrigerants, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) have increased in use and emissions in the United States. This increase, and a large portion of total U.S. HFC consumption, is expected due to the use of HFCs in residential air conditioning (RAC). The RAC market primarily relied upon chlorodifluoromethane, a hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) known as HCFC-22
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Statistical analysis of factors driving surface ozone variability over continental South Africa J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-06-03 Tracey Leah Laban, Pieter Gideon Van Zyl, Johan Paul Beukes, Santtu Mikkonen, Leonard Santana, Miroslav Josipovic, Ville Vakkari, Anne M. Thompson, Markku Kulmala, Lauri Laakso
ABSTRACT Statistical relationships between surface ozone (O3) concentration, precursor species and meteorological conditions in continental South Africa were examined from data obtained from measurement stations in north-eastern South Africa. Three multivariate statistical methods were applied in the investigation, i.e. multiple linear regression (MLR), principal component analysis (PCA) and –regression
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The conceptual basis of water-energy-food nexus governance: systematic literature review using network and discourse analysis J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-04-15 Alberto Matenhauer Urbinatti, Lira Luz Benites-Lazaro, Carolina Monteiro de Carvalho, Leandro Luiz Giatti
ABSTRACT In the last decade, the debate on the governance of water, energy, and food (WEF) has intensified, spurring the emergence of the term “nexus governance.” In general, the reduction of trade-offs and construction of synergies between WEF have been placed on the scientific, political, and economic agenda. However, although increasingly used, it is difficult to find a clear meaning and definition
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Adaptive decision-making under conditions of uncertainty: the case of farming in the Volta delta, Ghana J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2020-01-01 Rebecca Sarku,Art Dewulf,Erik van Slobbe,Katrien Termeer,Gordana Kranjac-Berisavljevic
ABSTRACT Farming in Ghana’s Volta delta is increasingly affected by variability in rainfall conditions and changes in land-use patterns. Under such socio-ecological conditions, little is known about farmers’ decision-making in response to uncertainties in uncertain rainfall conditions. To fill this gap and add to the literature on adaptive decision-making, we addressed the central question: what are
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A dynamic impact assessment method for rainstorm waterlogging using land-use data J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2019-12-29 Xiaochen Zhu, Bo Zhou, Xinfa Qiu, Yan Zeng, Wei Ren, Shoubo Li, Yong Wang, Xinming Wang, Youjie Jin
As a result of rapid urbanization and climate change, many large- and medium-sized cities in China frequently undergo urban disasters with severe impacts that result in many casualties, induce significant economic losses, and restrict sustainable social and economic development. Providing timely and accurate early warnings is the most effective measure for disaster prevention and mitigation before
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Evaluation of satellite-based products for extreme rainfall estimations in the eastern coastal areas of China J. Integr. Environ. Sci. (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2019-12-29 Qin Jiang, Weiyue Li, Jiahong Wen, Zedong Fan, Yunnan Chen, Marco Scaioni, Jun Wang
Remotely sensed rainfall plays an important role in providing efficient approaches for global or regional rainfall analysis. However, the accuracy of satellite-based products is mainly affected by the errors in sensor observation and retrieval algorithms, particularly with respect to extreme rainfall estimates. The objective of this study is to evaluate the accuracy of satellite-based products in capturing