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To support vital research being carried out into climate change, Mendeley has created the Climate Change Library – a collection of over 5,000 articles published across 412 Elsevier journals in 2018 and 2019. The articles are freely available until the end of 2019 for all existing and new Mendeley users to download and read.
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Evaluation of long-term urban transitions in a megacity's building sector based on alternative socioeconomic pathways
Evaluation of long-term urban transitions in a megacity's building sector based on alternative socioeconomic pathways
by Miho Kamei; Kiyo Kurisu; Keisuke Hanaki
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Climate change has been one of the central issues for long-term transformations of cities. However, environmental loads have not been effectively taken into account for future urban plans. Specifically, possible reductions of carbon emissions from cities significantly rely on technological progress and human lifestyle changes, among other factors, which may be a barrier to estimating future environmental loads for cities. There is, therefore, urgent need for developing methods to integrate...
Topics: Climate change, SSPs, Scenario analysis, Socioeconomic pathways, Sustainable cities
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Bio-economic evaluation of cropping systems for saline coastal Bangladesh: I. Biophysical simulation in historical and future environments
Bio-economic evaluation of cropping systems for saline coastal Bangladesh: I. Biophysical simulation in historical and future environments
by Md Jahangir Kabir; Donald S. Gaydon; Rob Cramb; Christian H. Roth
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Climate change, increased climate variability, extreme weather events, and increasing salinization pose a serious challenge to the sustainability of crop production in coastal Bangladesh. This study assessed yield performance of rice and non-rice crops under farmers’ current practices across five climate and three salinity scenarios in the south-western coastal zone. Representative village case studies in Khulna District were used to obtain data on current cropping practices and yields. A...
Topics: Climate change, Coastal zone, Crop simulation, Cropping system, Salinization, Sustainability
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Nanoparticle-Mediated Delivery towards Advancing Plant Genetic Engineering
Nanoparticle-Mediated Delivery towards Advancing Plant Genetic Engineering
by Francis J. Cunningham; Natalie S. Goh; Gozde S. Demirer; Juliana L. Matos; Markita P. Landry
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Genetic engineering of plants has enhanced crop productivity in the face of climate change and a growing global population by conferring desirable genetic traits to agricultural crops. Efficient genetic transformation in plants remains a challenge due to the cell wall, a barrier to exogenous biomolecule delivery. Conventional delivery methods are inefficient, damaging to tissue, or are only effective in a limited number of plant species. Nanoparticles are promising materials for biomolecule...
Topics: biomolecule delivery, gene editing, nanoparticle, plants
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Food-borne and water-borne diseases under climate change in low- and middle-income countries: Further efforts needed for reducing environmental health exposure risks
Food-borne and water-borne diseases under climate change in low- and middle-income countries: Further efforts needed for reducing environmental health exposure risks
by Guéladio Cissé
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This paper provides a view of the major facts and figures related to infectious diseases with a focus on food-borne and water-borne diseases and their link with environmental factors and climate change. The global burden of food-borne diseases for 31 selected hazards was estimated by the World Health Organization at 33 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in 2010 with 40% of this burden concentrated among children under 5 years of age. The highest burden per population of food-borne...
Topics: Climate change, Environmental health, Food-borne diseases, Infectious diseases, Water-borne diseases
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Elevated carbon dioxide and temperature imparted intrinsic drought tolerance in aerobic rice system through enhanced exopolysaccharide production and rhizospheric activation
Elevated carbon dioxide and temperature imparted intrinsic drought tolerance in aerobic rice system through enhanced exopolysaccharide production and rhizospheric activation
by S. R. Padhy; S. Nayak; P. K. Dash; M. Das; K. S. Roy; A. K. Nayak; S. Neogi; P. Bhattacharyya
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Elevation in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration and temperature coupled with moisture stress is anticipated by most of the climate change prediction models (IPCC, 2014). Climate change results in atmospheric warming that trigger water stress to rice and could influence soil health, functioning and biological activities. Therefore, it is required to quantify indicative parameters like soil-exopolysaccharides which indicates greater water holding capacity of soil and imparted drought...
Topics: Aerobic rice, Elevated CO2 and temperature, Exopolysaccharide, Labile carbon, Plant enzymes, Water...
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The impacts of climate change and human activities on alpine vegetation and permafrost in the Qinghai-Tibet Engineering Corridor
The impacts of climate change and human activities on alpine vegetation and permafrost in the Qinghai-Tibet Engineering Corridor
by Lihui Luo; Wei Ma; Yanli Zhuang; Yaonan Zhang; Shuhua Yi; Jianwei Xu; Yinping Long; Di Ma; Zhongqiong Zhang
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The Qinghai-Tibet Engineering Corridor (QTEC) in China may reflect the changes in the alpine ecosystem of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (QTP) that are driven by global climate change combined with intensive human activities. We used the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as an indicator of alpine vegetation activity and the permafrost active layer thickness (ALT) as an indicator of permafrost dynamics to understand the impacts of climate change, human activity, or their combination on...
Topics: Active layer thickness, Alpine vegetation, Climate change, Human activities, NDVI, Permafrost
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Use of ecosystems in coastal erosion management
Use of ecosystems in coastal erosion management
by A. Gracia; Nelson Rangel-Buitrago; Judith A. Oakley; A. T. Williams
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With a global increase in coastal development, together with increasing storminess and continuing sea level rise, coastal erosion has become a serious problem along a significant percentage of coastlines of many countries. Coastal erosion and shoreline management plans are often implemented on an action-reaction and post-disaster basis, resulting in installation of hard engineering structures, such as, groins, seawalls, revetments, gabions and breakwaters. These hard stabilization structures...
Topics: Ecosystems, Engineering, Management, Protection
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Analysis of environmental communication and its implication for sustainable development in Ethiopia
Analysis of environmental communication and its implication for sustainable development in Ethiopia
by Mekonnen Hailemariam Zikargae
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Background: Environmental issues have been causing debates around the globe. These issues have also got much attention in Ethiopia. Ethiopia has been adversely affected by the environmental crisis. Developing countries and the poor were depicted as unfortunate victims of climate change. The causes of climate change include deforestation, industries, mismanagement of the environment, and utilization of natural resources. One of the effects of climate change brought natural disaster what we call...
Topics: Dialogue, Environmental communication, Ethiopia, GreenCOM, Participation
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Assessing response of sediment load variation to climate change and human activities with six different approaches
Assessing response of sediment load variation to climate change and human activities with six different approaches
by Guangju Zhao; Xingmin Mu; Juying Jiao; Peng Gao; Wenyi Sun; Erhui Li; Yanhong Wei; Jiacong Huang
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Understanding the relative contributions of climate change and human activities to variations in sediment load is of great importance for regional soil, and river basin management. Considerable studies have investigated spatial-temporal variation of sediment load within the Loess Plateau; however, contradictory findings exist among methods used. This study systematically reviewed six quantitative methods: simple linear regression, double mass curve, sediment identity factor analysis,...
Topics: Climate change, Empirical methods, Huangfuchuan watershed, Human activities, Sediment load change,...
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An uncertain future for the endemic Galliformes of the Caucasus
An uncertain future for the endemic Galliformes of the Caucasus
by Anouschka R. Hof; Andrew M. Allen
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Impacts of climate change are already evident in ecosystems worldwide. High-latitude and altitude regions are at greatest risk because the effects of climate change are greater in these regions, and species from these areas have limited ability to track their climate envelopes. The Caucasian snowcock (Tetraogallus caucasicus) and the Caucasian grouse (Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi) are both high-altitude specialists that are endemic to a restricted range in the Caucasus mountains of Europe. Little...
Topics: Birds, Climate change, Conservation, Land use, Species distribution modelling
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Joint forcing of climate warming and ENSO on a dual-cropping system
Joint forcing of climate warming and ENSO on a dual-cropping system
by Fei Li; Jiquan Chen; Jiajia Zheng
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Challenges for achieving food security with an increasing world population are stimulating many stakeholders to consider the impact of climate change on global-regional crop production. One major concern is how the covariations of climate warming and extremes (e.g., ENSO) affect agricultural systems and production. Here, a dual-cropping system in the Huaihe Plain was used as a testbed to address this issue. We found that climate warming during 1982–2013 ha s produced remarkable influences on...
Topics: Climate warming, Crop production, Dual-cropping system, ENSO, Huaihe Plain, Phenology,...
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A Review of Transparent Insulation Material (TIM) for building energy saving and daylight comfort
A Review of Transparent Insulation Material (TIM) for building energy saving and daylight comfort
by Yanyi Sun; Robin Wilson; Yupeng Wu
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Improving the energy efficiency of buildings is a key strategy in responding to climate change and resource challenges associated with the use of fossil fuel derived energy. The characteristics of the building envelope play a decisive role in determining building operation energy. Transparent Insulation Materials (TIMs) add to the strategies that may be used to sustain these improvements: they can reduce heat loss by providing high thermal resistance while effectively transmitting solar energy...
Topics: Optical performance, Thermal performance, Transparent Insulation Materials (TIM)
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Modeling population density based on nighttime light images and land use data in China
Modeling population density based on nighttime light images and land use data in China
by Minghong Tan; Xiubin Li; Shiji Li; Liangjie Xin; Xue Wang; Qian Li; Wei Li; Yuanyuan Li; Wenli Xiang
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Population change is a key variable that influences climate change, ecological construction, soil and water use, and economic growth. Census data are always point data, whereas planar data are often required in scientific research. By using nighttime light (NTL) images and land use data, combined with the fifth and sixth census data of China at the county level, we carried out spatial matching on the population of each county, respectively, and established population density diagrams of China...
Topics: Census data, China, Land use, Nighttime light images, Population density simulation
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Changes in selected physical water quality characteristics after thinning in a forested watershed
Changes in selected physical water quality characteristics after thinning in a forested watershed
by Betül Uygur Erdoğan; Ferhat Gökbulak; Yusuf Serengil; İbrahim Yurtseven; Mehmet Said Özçelik
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Climate change is a natural phenomenon with far-reaching impacts. Due to global warming, forest vegetation patterns in the Mediterranean region can be affected and the extent of forested areas can be altered. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of slightly decreased forest density on physical water quality parameters by employing 18% thinning with a paired watershed methodology in a broadleaf forest ecosystem. After a 70-month monitoring period that started in December 2005,...
Topics: Forestry activities, Selective cutting, Stream and air temperatures, Streamwater quality, Thinning
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Institutional Analysis in Climate Change Adaptation Research: A Systematic Literature Review
Institutional Analysis in Climate Change Adaptation Research: A Systematic Literature Review
by Alexander Bisaro; Matteo Roggero; Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
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Appropriate institutions are essential for climate change adaptation. Yet diverse approaches to institutional analysis are available, encompassing different ontological and epistemological assumptions, and thus yielding insights on very different aspects of institutions in adaptation. Therefore, efforts to expand knowledge in this domain can be usefully informed by an assessment of approaches to institutional analysis in the adaptation literature, which is to date lacking. We address this gap...
Topic: Post-Normal Science
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Can sponge morphologies act as environmental proxies to biophysical factors in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia?
Can sponge morphologies act as environmental proxies to biophysical factors in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia?
by Anita Mary George; Jon Brodie; James Daniell; Angela Capper; Michelle Jonker
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Sponges play a vital role in the world's most complex and vulnerable marine ecosystems. Various in situ studies have suggested that sponge morphologies (developed from exposure to a range of biophysical factors) can be considered as ecological indicators to current detrimental environmental changes such as climate change, overfishing, pollution and dredging for coastal development. Regional and long-term taxonomic data on sponges within each geographic range is not always available, especially...
Topics: Chlorophyll a, Current, Environmental indicators, GBRMPA, Great Barrier Reef, Marine protected...
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Relationship between regional climate change and primary ecosystem characteristics in a lagoon undergoing anthropogenic eutrophication, Lake Mokoto, Japan
Relationship between regional climate change and primary ecosystem characteristics in a lagoon undergoing anthropogenic eutrophication, Lake Mokoto, Japan
by Kota Katsuki; Koji Seto; Akira Tsujimoto; Hiroyuki Takata; Takeshi Sonoda
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Annual-scale environmental and ecosystem changes since the mid-19th century were reconstructed in a seasonally frozen lagoon, Lake Mokoto, located along the Okhotsk Sea coast of Hokkaido, northern Japan. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and diatom analyses of laminated sediment were conducted to determine the impact of short-term climate oscillations and anthropogenic eutrophication on the lagoon ecosystem. In this lagoon, eutrophication has progressed since the early 20th century due to deforestation...
Topics: Climate cycle, Diatom, Eutrophication, Lagoon, Sediment core, Varve
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Simulated adaptation strategies for spring wheat to climate change in a northern high latitude environment by DAYCENT model
Simulated adaptation strategies for spring wheat to climate change in a northern high latitude environment by DAYCENT model
by Xiaobo Qin; Hong Wang; Yong He; Yu'e Li; Zhiguo Li; Yunfan Wan; Budong Qian; Brian McConkey; Ron DePauw; Reynald Lemke; William J. Parton
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In order to identify strategies to support global food security while protecting the environment under future climate in northern high latitude environments such as the Canadian Prairies, the DAYCENT model was calibrated, validated, and subsequently used to project effects of climate change (increased carbon dioxide concentration, precipitation, and temperature), nitrogen (N) application rate, and yield potential (radiation use efficiency of biomass, RUE B ) of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum...
Topics: Adaptation strategies, Climate change, DAYCENT, Spring wheat
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Dynamic runoff simulation in a changing environment: A data stream approach
Dynamic runoff simulation in a changing environment: A data stream approach
by Qinli Yang; Heng Zhang; Guoqing Wang; Shasha Luo; Dongzi Chen; Wanshan Peng
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In this study, we introduce a data stream method for dynamic runoff simulation, which allows capturing the evolving relationship between runoff and its impact factors (e.g., temperature, rainfall). The basic idea is to view continuously arriving data of runoff and its impact factors as a data stream, and dynamically learn its relationship. To validate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we compare its performance with that of three data driven models (ANN, SVR, Random Forest) and six...
Topics: Climate change, Data stream mining, Land cover change, Runoff
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Knowledge and dialogue to deal with uncertainty
Knowledge and dialogue to deal with uncertainty
by Alexandre Quintanilha
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""Knowledge is power"" was written more than 400 years ago by Francis Bacon. Centuries later, Einstein cautioned: ""Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience."" We gain experience by promoting curiosity, imagination and the audacity to question authority. Most of us take for granted the advances in science that allowed our planet's population to have more than quadrupled and our average lifespan more than doubled in just...
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A simulation-based approach to assess forest policy options under biotic and abiotic climate change impacts: A case study on Scotland's National Forest Estate
A simulation-based approach to assess forest policy options under biotic and abiotic climate change impacts: A case study on Scotland's National Forest Estate
by Duncan Ray; Michal Petr; Martin Mullett; Stephen Bathgate; Maurizio Marchi; Kate Beauchamp
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The future provision of forest goods and ecosystem services is dependent, among other factors, on climate change impacts, forest management, and response to forest policies. To assess policy implementation targets for Scotland's National Forest Estate under climate change, we simulated forest growth through the 21st century - with and without the abiotic impacts of climate change, and with and without the biotic impacts of an important fungal disease. Eight different forest management...
Topics: Abiotic impacts, Biotic impacts, Climate change, Ecosystem goods and services, Forest management...
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Extreme ENSO-driven torrential rainfalls at the southern edge of the Atacama Desert during the Late Holocene and their projection into the 21th century
Extreme ENSO-driven torrential rainfalls at the southern edge of the Atacama Desert during the Late Holocene and their projection into the 21th century
by Cristina Ortega; Gabriel Vargas; Maisa Rojas; José A. Rutllant; Práxedes Muñoz; Carina B. Lange; Silvio Pantoja; Laurent Dezileau; Luc Ortlieb
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Extreme precipitation events and multi-annual droughts, especially in arid to semi-arid subtropical regions, are among the most critical El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and global climate change impacts. Here, we assess the variability of torrential rainfall during the Late Holocene and its projection into the 21st century at the southern edge of the hyperarid Atacama Desert. The analysis of historical data since the beginning of the 20th century reveals that most (76.5%) alluvial...
Topics: CMIP5, El Niño Southern Oscillation, Extreme rainfall events, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Pacific...
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Trichoderma harzianum: Inhibition of mycotoxin producing fungi and toxin biosynthesis
Trichoderma harzianum: Inhibition of mycotoxin producing fungi and toxin biosynthesis
by H. Braun; L. Woitsch; B. Hetzer; R. Geisen; B. Zange; M. Schmidt-Heydt
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A quarter of the world-wide crop is spoiled by filamentous fungi and their mycotoxins and weather extremes associated with the climate change lead to further deterioration of the situation. The ingestion of mycotoxins causes several health issues leading in the worst case to cancer in humans and animals. Common intervention strategies against mycotoxin producing fungi, such as the application of fungicides, may result in undesirable residues and in some cases to a stress induction of mycotoxin...
Topics: Aflatoxin, Alternaria, Aspergillus, Biological competition, Fungicides, Fusarium, Mycotoxins,...
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Economic Growth Quality, Environmental Sustainability, and Social Welfare in China - Provincial Assessment Based on Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
Economic Growth Quality, Environmental Sustainability, and Social Welfare in China - Provincial Assessment Based on Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI)
by Xianling Long; Xi Ji
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In order to devise scientific and sustainable development strategy, it is vital to assess the quality of economic growth. As a useful complement to traditional economic indicators, GPI's most reputed virtue is its great improvement in evaluating environmental and social costs. In this paper we estimate the GPI for all 31 provinces in mainland China from 1997 to 2016. GPI estimation is highly sensitive to income inequality, climate change damage, and depletion of non-renewables. We address...
Topics: Economic growth quality, Environmental sustainability, Genuine progress indicator, Relative...
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Predicted climate change effects on European perch (Perca fluviatilis L.) - A case study from the Curonian Lagoon, south-eastern Baltic
Predicted climate change effects on European perch (Perca fluviatilis L.) - A case study from the Curonian Lagoon, south-eastern Baltic
by Justas Dainys; Eglė Jakubavičiūtė; Harry Gorfine; Žilvinas Pūtys; Tomas Virbickas; Diana Šarauskienė; Diana Meilutytė-Lukauskienė; Arvydas Povilaitis; Arūnas Bukantis; Justas Kažys; Linas Ložys
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Climate change is likely to increasingly impact estuarine fish populations. Changes in water temperature or salinity can have deleterious effects on fish growth and behaviour. A decrease in the abundance of freshwater fish in the northern areas of the Curonian Lagoon has been attributed to increased salinity of inflowing water from the Baltic Sea. Thus, this study investigated the effects of possible changes in environmental salinity and temperature on the growth and behaviour of perch (Perca...
Topics: Behaviour, Freshwater fish, Growth, Salinity, Water temperature
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Nature-based solutions: Settling the issue of sustainable urbanization
Nature-based solutions: Settling the issue of sustainable urbanization
by Raffaele Lafortezza; Giovanni Sanesi
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Rapid urbanization presents one of the most urgent challenges of our times. Cities must cope with poor air quality, heat island effects, increased flood risk and the frequency/severity of extreme events (e.g., droughts and heat waves), increasing crime and social inequity, poverty and degraded urban environments, amongst other negative consequences. Climate change adaptation and mitigation as well as sustainable management are therefore key challenges for cities in Europe and around the world....
Topics: Climate change, DPSIR framework, Ecosystem services, Environmental policy implementation,...
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Does hot weather affect work-related injury? A case-crossover study in Guangzhou, China
Does hot weather affect work-related injury? A case-crossover study in Guangzhou, China
by Rongrong Sheng; Changchang Li; Qiong Wang; Lianping Yang; Junzhe Bao; Kaiwen Wang; Rui Ma; Chuansi Gao; Shao Lin; Ying Zhang; Chuandong Fu; Cunrui Huang
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Background: Despite increasing concerns about the health effects of climate change, the extent to which workers are affected by hot weather is not well documented. This study aims to investigate the association between high temperatures and work-related injuries using data from a large subtropical city in China. Methods: We used workers’ compensation claims to identify work-related injuries in Guangzhou, China during 2011–2012. To feature the heat effect, the study period was restricted to...
Topics: Case-crossover study, Climate change, High temperature, Occupational health, Work injury
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Viable and convivial technologies: Considerations on Climate Engineering from a degrowth perspective
Viable and convivial technologies: Considerations on Climate Engineering from a degrowth perspective
by Barbara Muraca; Frederike Neuber
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Faced with the urgency of climate change, Climate Engineering has been framed as a fast and feasible technological solution. At the same time, however, critique against it is getting increasingly louder. This paper articulates a critical analysis of Climate Engineering technologies from a point of view situated within the degrowth discourse. In the first part two approaches discussed within the degrowth debate are presented: the concept of viability based on a biophysical perspective and the...
Topics: Argumentative turn, Climate Engineering, Conviviality, Degrowth, Viable technologies
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A review on contemporary computational programs for Building's life-cycle energy consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions assessment: An empirical study in Australia
A review on contemporary computational programs for Building's life-cycle energy consumption and greenhouse-gas emissions assessment: An empirical study in Australia
by W. Y.Vivian Tam; K. N. Le; C. N.N. Tran; J. Y. Wang
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Choosing an effective and efficient building design option for energy management as well as for reducing greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions associated with a building life-cycle is always highly challenging to any designers in the battle to tackle global climate change issues. Researchers around the world are thriving in building optimization models for developing strategies that would result in an overall reduction of a building's energy consumption aside from decreasing GHG emissions. Despite...
Topics: GaBi, Green building, Green building rating systems (GBRSs), Green star, Life-cycle assessment,...
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Protecting threatened species from coastal infrastructure upgrades: The importance of evidence-based conservation
Protecting threatened species from coastal infrastructure upgrades: The importance of evidence-based conservation
by Lea T. Mamo; Brendan P. Kelaher; Melinda A. Coleman; Patrick G. Dwyer
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Increased coastal development and rising sea levels as a result of continuing climate-change put coastal regions at risk from flooding and inundation. A common mitigation response is the construction and upgrade of hard coastal protection structures, such as breakwaters, seawalls, and groynes. The alteration of the coast, together with the introduction of novel materials into coastal waters can negatively impact adjacent habitats and associated organisms. The implementation of management plans...
Topics: Coastal protection, Conservation, Ecological engineering, Evidence-based management, Macroalgae,...
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The Effect of Potential Climate Change on Infectious Disease Presentation
The Effect of Potential Climate Change on Infectious Disease Presentation
by Ellen Smith
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A changing climate may alter the expected patterns of infectious disease emergence in North America, requiring nurse practitioners to become familiar with these changes in infectious disease emergence in their local communities. This report reviews how potential climate change might affect seasonal patterns of infectious diseases, including the impact on the agents that cause them and alterations in host behaviors/the environment that may modify the pattern of infectious diseases locally. This...
Topics: climate, infectious diseases, seasonality
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Tree litter identity and predator density control prey and predator demographic parameters in a Mediterranean litter-based multi-trophic system
Tree litter identity and predator density control prey and predator demographic parameters in a Mediterranean litter-based multi-trophic system
by Adriane Aupic-Samain; Virginie Baldy; Caroline Lecareux; Catherine Fernandez; Mathieu Santonja
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Plant litter decomposition is an essential process of ecosystem functioning, driven by a complex soil food web. The identity and density of the predators, as well as the quality and quantity of litter, could conjointly affect the strength of trophic interactions within a soil food web. Pine and oak are dominant tree species in temperate and Mediterranean forests and, although they exhibit distinct litter characteristics, no previous study attempted to decipher how these two litters can affect a...
Topics: Acari, Collembola, Forest ecosystem, Litter traits, Plant-soil interaction, Predator-prey...
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10.1016 j.polgeo.2019.04.004
10.1016 j.polgeo.2019.04.004
by Will Smith; Wolfram Dressler
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Development of sustainability assessment tool for existing buildings
Development of sustainability assessment tool for existing buildings
by Sherif Mahmoud; Tarek Zayed; Mohammad Fahmy
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Under climate change impacts, the world is becoming one village. This motivated the application of sustainability rating systems of buildings away from their origins which is hindered by the different attributes and weights. Hence, this study developed a global sustainability rating tool for existing buildings, considering the regional variations through proposing sustainability assessment attributes and determining their weights utilizing fuzzy logic. Data was collected through Canadian and...
Topics: BREEAM, CASBEE, LEED, Sustainability ranking, Sustainable rating systems
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Bacterial symbionts in human blood-feeding arthropods: Patterns, general mechanisms and effects of global ecological changes
Bacterial symbionts in human blood-feeding arthropods: Patterns, general mechanisms and effects of global ecological changes
by J. Guillermo Jiménez-Cortés; Rodolfo García-Contreras; Martha I. Bucio-Torres; Margarita Cabrera-Bravo; Alex Córdoba-Aguilar; Giovanni Benelli; Paz M. Salazar-Schettino
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Due to their high impact on public health, human blood-feeding arthropods are one of the most relevant animal groups. Bacterial symbionts have been long known to play a role in the metabolism, and reproduction of these arthropod vectors. Nowadays, we have a more complete picture of their functions, acknowledging the wide influence of bacterial symbionts on processes ranging from the immune response of the arthropod host to the possible establishment of pathogens and parasites. One or two...
Topics: Bacterial symbionts, Cimicidae, Culicidae, Glossinidae, Integrated vector management, Ixodidae,...
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Modelling the impact of land use changes on peak discharge in the Urseren Valley, Central Swiss Alps
Modelling the impact of land use changes on peak discharge in the Urseren Valley, Central Swiss Alps
by Mathias Fercher; Matthias H. Mueller; Abdallah Alaoui
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In alpine regions, global climate change will likely alter rain and snowfall patterns and increase the frequency of extreme meteorological events such as floods. These events, combined with land use changes, may pose an immediate hazard to the life and properties of downslope inhabitants and to water resource structures downstream. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of land use changes (e.g., areas covered by grassland, green alder, and dwarf shrubs) on peak discharge for different...
Topic: Shrubs
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Surface and Interface Engineering in Copper-Based Bimetallic Materials for Selective CO2 Electroreduction
Surface and Interface Engineering in Copper-Based Bimetallic Materials for Selective CO2 Electroreduction
by Anthony Vasileff; Chaochen Xu; Yan Jiao; Yao Zheng; Shi Zhang Qiao
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The electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) can couple carbon-capture storage with renewable energy to convert CO2 into chemical feedstocks. For this process, copper is the only metal known to catalyze the CO2RR to hydrocarbons with adequate efficiency, but it suffers from poor selectivity. Copper bimetallic materials have recently shown an improvement in CO2RR selectivity compared with that of copper, such that the secondary metal is likely to play an important role in altering inherent...
Topics: CO2 reduction reaction, SDG7: Affordable and clean energy, alloys, density functional theory,...
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Effect of the alien invasive bivalve Corbicula fluminea on the nutrient dynamics under climate change scenarios
Effect of the alien invasive bivalve Corbicula fluminea on the nutrient dynamics under climate change scenarios
by J. P. Coelho; A. I. Lillebø; D. Crespo; S. Leston; M. Dolbeth
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The main aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of the alien invasive bivalve Corbicula fluminea (Müller, 1774) in the nutrient dynamics of temperate estuarine systems (oligohaline areas) under climate change scenarios. The scenarios simulated shifts in climatic conditions, following salinity (0 or 5) and temperature (24 or 30 °C) changes, usual during drought and heat wave events. The effect of the individual size/age (different size classes with fixed biomass) and density (various...
Topics: Droughts, Ecosystem functioning, Invasive alien species, Nutrient dynamics
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Limits to deployment of nuclear power for decarbonization: Insights from public opinion
Limits to deployment of nuclear power for decarbonization: Insights from public opinion
by A. Abdulla; P. Vaishnav; B. Sergi; D. G. Victor
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Decarbonization will require deployment of low-carbon technologies, but analysts have struggled to quantify which ones could be deployed in practice—especially where technologies have faced public opposition. For nuclear power, some analysts have tried to solve this problem with caps on deployment or nuclear-free scenarios; however, social science research has not offered nuanced guidance about these caps. We deploy an experiment involving a large U.S. sample (N = 1226) to disentangle public...
Topics: Climate change, Decarbonization, Dread, Energy modeling, Nuclear power, Risk perception
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How positive is “change” in climate change? A sentiment analysis
How positive is “change” in climate change? A sentiment analysis
by François Jost; Ann Dale; Shoshana Schwebel
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This paper describes the results of a non-computational sentiment analysis of the word ‘change’ on the subject of climate change, local climate innovation and development path change. Results were obtained from interviews conducted with local government officials in 11 communities across British Columbia: Victoria, Vancouver, Prince George, Dawson Creek, North Vancouver, Campbell River, Revelstoke, Surrey, T'Sou-ke First Nation, West Vancouver, and the Kootenay Regional Districts. The...
Topics: Change, Climate change, Community, Development paths, Local government, Sentiment analysis
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The influence of institutions, governance, and public opinion on the environment: Synthesized findings from applied econometrics studies
The influence of institutions, governance, and public opinion on the environment: Synthesized findings from applied econometrics studies
by Shouro Dasgupta; Enrica De Cian
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We synthesize the empirical contributions from the existing applied economics literature examining the influence of institutions and governance on environmental policy, environmental performance, and green investment. The literature on the influence of populism and public opinion on environmental policy adoption is also reviewed in line with the special issue. First, the paper describes how the relationship between institutions, environmental performance and environmental policy have been...
Topics: Environmental performance, Environmental policy, Governance, Institutions, Public opinion
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SMC ε , a coastal modeling system for assessing beach processes and coastal interventions: Application to the Brazilian coast
SMC ε , a coastal modeling system for assessing beach processes and coastal interventions: Application to the Brazilian coast
by O. Quetzalcóatl; M. González; V. Cánovas; R. Medina; A. Espejo; A. Klein; M. G. Tessler; L. R. Almeida; C. Jaramillo; R. Garnier; N. Kakeh; J. González-Ondina
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A user-friendly system designed to understand local littoral processes and design/evaluate coastal interventions, named the Coastal Modeling System (SMC ε ) is presented. The system, which comprises a set of numerical models, state-of-the-art methodologies and numerical databases, is prepared to provide a method for coastal practitioners, researchers and decision-makers to address coastal issues, such as erosion and flooding or to evaluate coastal defense structures. The system incorporates a...
Topics: 2000 MSC, 86A05, Brazilian coasts, Climate change, Coastal interventions, Coastal management,...
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Mining and climate change: A review and framework for analysis
Mining and climate change: A review and framework for analysis
by Scott D. Odell; Anthony Bebbington; Karen E. Frey
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In this paper, we demonstrate that climate change is critically important for the current and future status of mining activity and its impacts on surrounding communities and environments. We illustrate this through examples from Latin America, including a spatial analysis of the intersection between projected climate changes and existing mining operations. We then elaborate a framework to identify and investigate the relationships among mining, climate change, and public and private responses...
Topics: Extractive industries, Mining, Policy, Research priorities
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Modeling the carbon-energy-water nexus in a rapidly urbanizing catchment: A general equilibrium assessment
Modeling the carbon-energy-water nexus in a rapidly urbanizing catchment: A general equilibrium assessment
by Qiong Su; Hancheng Dai; Yun Lin; Huan Chen; Raghupathy Karthikeyan
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Energy and water systems are interdependent and have complex dynamic interactions with the socio-economic system and climate change. Few tools exist to aid decision-making regarding the management of water and energy resources at a watershed level. In this study, a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model and System Dynamics and Water Environmental Model (SyDWEM) were integrated (CGE-SyDWEM) to predict future energy use, CO 2 emissions, economic growth, water resource stress, and water...
Topics: CO 2 emission control in China, Computable General Equilibrium (IMED, Energy-water-carbon nexus,...
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Effects of atmospheric-plasma system on energy efficiency improvement and emissions reduction from a diesel engine
Effects of atmospheric-plasma system on energy efficiency improvement and emissions reduction from a diesel engine
by Ken Lin Chang; Kassian T.T. Amesho; Yuan Chung Lin; Syu Ruei Jhang; Feng Chih Chou; Hua Chun Chen
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Efficient energy usage and energy saving is one of the nowadays necessity for all scientists of IC engine. This is because of the current environmental challenges that have tremendously increased concerning air pollution, particularly pollutant emissions from vehicles. Yet, industries and governments alike have disregarded this phenomenon which has been considerably contributing to climate change. It is against this background that, the research works carried out in this present study is...
Topics: Atmospheric-plasma system, Carbonyl compounds, Diesel engine, Pollutant emissions, Saving energy
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Marine conservation in Oceania: Past, present, and future
Marine conservation in Oceania: Past, present, and future
by Alan M. Friedlander
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The people of Oceania have long relied on the ocean for sustenance, commerce, and cultural identity, which promulgated a sophisticated understanding of the marine environment and its conservation. Global declines in ocean health now require innovative solutions that can benefit from customary knowledge and practices, which in the past led to sustainable marine resource use. The resurgence of local stewardship, which incorporates customary practices and governance, has shown promise in many...
Topics: Climate change, Co-management, Marine conservation, Marine protected areas, Oceania, Traditional...
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A mechanistic model of climate change risk: Growth rates and microhabitat specificity for conservation priority woodland epiphytes
A mechanistic model of climate change risk: Growth rates and microhabitat specificity for conservation priority woodland epiphytes
by Christopher J. Ellis
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Climate change studies need to develop models for species risk that are mechanistic and predictive, with conservation strategies explored through the use of scenarios. This study focused on a diverse group for climate change analysis – lichen epiphytes – to develop a heuristic model for quantifying risk that has two key components. First, it draws on the classic ecological concept – ‘das Gesetz der relativen Standortskonstanz’ – which explains how the suitable niche space of a...
Topics: Climate change, Epiphyte, Fecundity, Generation time, Population simulation
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Unraveling the intricate dynamics of planktonic Arctic marine food webs. A sensitivity analysis of a well-documented food web model
Unraveling the intricate dynamics of planktonic Arctic marine food webs. A sensitivity analysis of a well-documented food web model
by Blanche Saint-Béat; Frédéric Maps; Marcel Babin
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The extreme and variable environment shapes the functioning of Arctic ecosystems and the life cycles of its species. This delicate balance is now threatened by the unprecedented pace and magnitude of global climate change and anthropogenic pressure. Understanding the long-term consequences of these changes remains an elusive, yet pressing, goal. Our work was specifically aimed at identifying which biological processes impact Arctic planktonic ecosystem functioning, and how. Ecological Network...
Topics: Amundsen Gulf, Arctic, ENA, Ecosystem functioning, Food web, Linear inverse modeling, Sensitivity...
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LST retrieval algorithm adapted to the Amazon evergreen forests using MODIS data
LST retrieval algorithm adapted to the Amazon evergreen forests using MODIS data
by José Gomis-Cebolla; Juan Carlos Jimenez; José Antonio Sobrino
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Amazonian tropical forests play a significant role in global water, carbon and energy cycles. Considering the importance of this biome and climate change projections, the monitoring of vegetation status of these rainforests becomes of significant importance. In this context vegetation temperature is presented as a key variable linked with plant physiology. In particular some studies showed the relationship between this variable and the CO 2 absorption capacity and biomass loss of these tropical...
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Realizing smart meter connectivity: Analyzing the competing technologies Power line communication, mobile telephony, and radio frequency using the best worst method
Realizing smart meter connectivity: Analyzing the competing technologies Power line communication, mobile telephony, and radio frequency using the best worst method
by G. van de Kaa; T. Fens; J. Rezaei; D. Kaynak; Z. Hatun; A. Tsilimeni-Archangelidi
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The world is faced with various societal challenges related to e.g. climate change and energy scarcity. To address these issues, complex innovative systems may be developed such as smart grids. When these systems are realized challenges pertaining to renewable energy and sustainability may, in part, be solved. To implement them, generally accepted common standards should be developed and used by firms and society so that the technological components can be connected and quality and safety...
Topics: Best-Worst Method, Competing technologies, Dominant design, Platform, Smart metering, Standard
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The role of air pollution and climate on the growth of urban trees
The role of air pollution and climate on the growth of urban trees
by Giuliano Maselli Locosselli; Evelyn Pereira de Camargo; Tiana Carla Lopes Moreira; Enzo Todesco; Maria de Fátima Andrade; Carmen Diva Saldiva de André; Paulo Afonso de André; Luciana Schwandner Ferreira; Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva; Marcos Silveira Buckeridge
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The urban environment features poor air quality and harsher climate conditions that affect the life in the cities. Citizens are especially vulnerable to climate change, because heat island and impervious exacerbates extreme climate events. Urban trees are important tools for mitigation and adaptation of cities to climate change because they provide ecosystem services that increase while trees grow. Nonetheless, the growth of trees may be affected by the harsher conditions found in the urban...
Topics: Climate change, Dendrochronology, Ecosystem services, Mitigation, Particulate matter, Tree ring
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The connectivity between soil erosion and sediment entrapment in reservoirs
The connectivity between soil erosion and sediment entrapment in reservoirs
by Christiane Zarfl; Ana Lucía
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Rivers are characterized by their water flow regime and sediment transport. Sediments are crucial for channel morphology, water quality, providing habitat for aquatic organisms and, finally, for sustaining deltas. Rivers are, however, fragmented by dams and will face an additional building boom due to actions to mitigate climate change (with hydropower) and water scarcity. Reservoir siltation is a serious challenge for reservoir management but also entails downstream morphological impacts....
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MaxEnt modeling for predicting suitable habitats and identifying the effects of climate change on a threatened species, Daphne mucronata, in central Iran
MaxEnt modeling for predicting suitable habitats and identifying the effects of climate change on a threatened species, Daphne mucronata, in central Iran
by Seyed Mohammad Reza Abolmaali; Mostafa Tarkesh; Hossein Bashari
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Climate changes pose serious challenges to the persistence of plant species, especially those with narrow habitats. Failure to adopt timely measures would lead to the permanent loss of valuable endangered species. This study used maximum entropy to predict the geographical distribution of a medicinal and vulnerable plant species, Daphne mucronata Royle, under current and future climatic conditions (A2a/HadCM3) in central Iran. A total of 100 locations with the species occurrence were recorded....
Topics: Climate change scenario, Maximum entropy, Niche shift, Vulnerable species
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Spatial optimization of the food, energy, and water nexus: A life cycle assessment-based approach
Spatial optimization of the food, energy, and water nexus: A life cycle assessment-based approach
by Kuang Yu Yuan; Ying Chen Lin; Pei Te Chiueh; Shang Lien Lo
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Since the Bonn 2011 Conference, the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus has become one of the most popular global research topics. Understanding and addressing the complex interactions between the FEW components is essential for sustainable development. This study proposes an environmental impact minimization model, which considers the FEW nexus under four climate change scenarios, to optimize the spatial distribution of three energy crops (rice, corn, and sugarcane). Life cycle assessment (LCA),...
Topics: "Climate change, Food, energy and water nexus (FEW nexus), Life cycle assessment,...
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Ca and Sr isotope constraints on the formation of the Marinoan cap dolostones
Ca and Sr isotope constraints on the formation of the Marinoan cap dolostones
by Guang Yi Wei; Wei Wei; Bin Wen; Zheng Gong; Tao Yang; Zhao Feng Zhang; Hong Fei Ling
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Neoproterozoic cap dolostones, which ubiquitously overlie Marinoan glacial diamictites, may record marine and climatic paleo-environmental conditions at the termination of the largest glacial epoch in Earth's history. Many geochemical indices have been used to interpret cap dolostone formation in the context of extreme climate change in the aftermath of the Marinoan glaciation. However, there are significant debates about whether these geochemical data represent global signals or regional...
Topics: Marinoan cap dolostone, calcium isotope, deglaciation climate, meltwater, mixing model, strontium...
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Life cycle assessment of permanent magnet electric traction motors
Life cycle assessment of permanent magnet electric traction motors
by Anders Nordelöf; Anne Marie Tillman; Mikael Alatalo; Torbjörn Thiringer
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Ongoing development of electrified road vehicles entails a risk of conflict between resource issues and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In this study, the environmental impact of the core design and magnet material for three electric vehicle traction motors was explored with life cycle assessment (LCA): two permanent magnet synchronous machines with neodymium-dysprosium-iron-boron or samarium-cobalt magnets, and a permanent magnet-assisted synchronous reluctance machine (PM-assisted...
Topics: Electric motor, Ferrite, Life cycle assessment (LCA), Magnet, Neodymium, Samarium
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10.1016 j.tej.2018.09.008
10.1016 j.tej.2018.09.008
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10.1016 j.tej.2018.09.008
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A survey of governance approaches to ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction: Current gaps and future directions
A survey of governance approaches to ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction: Current gaps and future directions
by Annisa Triyanti; Eric Chu
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Climate change will increase the unpredictability, magnitude, and frequency of both slow and rapid onset disaster events. Although large-scale engineered interventions have been common for the purposes of risk reduction and adaptation in the past, emerging ecosystem-based approaches are gaining attention. In contrast to ‘hard’ infrastructure, ecosystem-based solutions that integrate risk management priorities with natural processes are touted as being more cost effective, socially...
Topics: Eco-DRR, Ecological engineering, Ecosystem-based approaches, Governance
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Bacterial tetraether lipids in ancient bones record past climate conditions at the time of disposal
Bacterial tetraether lipids in ancient bones record past climate conditions at the time of disposal
by James T. Dillon; Sam Lash; Jiaju Zhao; Kevin P. Smith; Peter van Dommelen; Andrew K. Scherer; Yongsong Huang
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Assessing impacts of climate change on ancient human societies requires accurate reconstructions of regional climate variations. However, due to the scarcity of in situ climate indicators in archaeological sites, climate interpretation often relies on indirect, geographically distant data from geological archives such as lake or ocean sediments, ice cores and speleothems. Because many cultural changes occurred abruptly over periods of years to decades, and are regional or even local in scale,...
Topics: Archaeology, Bone, Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraether, Paleoclimate
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Business models for sustainable consumption in the circular economy: An expert study
Business models for sustainable consumption in the circular economy: An expert study
by V. S.C. Tunn; N. M.P. Bocken; E. A. van den Hende; J. P.L. Schoormans
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Combining sustainable consumption with the circular economy concept could help tackle challenges, such as resource scarcity and climate change by reducing resource throughput and increasing cycling of products and materials within the economic system, thereby reducing emissions and virgin material use. To achieve sustainable consumption in a circular economy production and consumption practices need to change. Business models can potentially influence both practices as it defines how a company...
Topics: Business model, Circular economy, Clothing industry, Expert interview, Sufficiency, Sustainable...
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A detailed household carbon footprint analysis using expenditure accounts – Case of Flanders (Belgium)
A detailed household carbon footprint analysis using expenditure accounts – Case of Flanders (Belgium)
by Maarten Christis; Koen Breemersch; An Vercalsteren; Evelien Dils
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Within national carbon footprints, households are responsible for bulk of the overall direct and indirect carbon emissions. Also, the wide spread in household characteristics (e.g. size, income, age)leads not only to different carbon footprints, but also includes an underlying difference in the contributions of the consumption domains. Therefore, it is essential that policies focussing on climate change mitigation should be customized to take into account these differences. In this study we...
Topics: Carbon footprint, Household budget survey, Household consumption, Input-output analysis
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Impacts of future climate change on water resource availability of eastern Australia: A case study of the Manning River basin
Impacts of future climate change on water resource availability of eastern Australia: A case study of the Manning River basin
by Hong Zhang; Bin Wang; De Li Liu; Mingxi Zhang; Puyu Feng; Lei Cheng; Qiang Yu; Derek Eamus
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Hydrological responses of catchments to climate change require detailed examination to ensure sustainable management of both water resources and natural ecosystems. This study evaluated the impacts of climate change on water resource availability of a catchment in eastern Australia (i.e. the Manning River catchment) and analyzed climate-hydrology relationships. For this evaluation, the Xinanjiang (XAJ) model was used and validated to simulate monthly rainfall-runoff relationships of the...
Topics: Climate change, Eastern Australia, GCMs, Runoff, Xinanjiang (XAJ) model
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Techno-economic and environmental assessment of renewable jet fuel production in integrated Brazilian sugarcane biorefineries
Techno-economic and environmental assessment of renewable jet fuel production in integrated Brazilian sugarcane biorefineries
by Bruno Colling Klein; Mateus Ferreira Chagas; Tassia Lopes Junqueira; Mylene Cristina Alves Ferreira Rezende; Terezinha de Fátima Cardoso; Otavio Cavalett; Antonio Bonomi
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The use of renewable jet fuel (RJF) in substitution to fossil jet fuel is one of the main initiatives towards the reduction of impacts derived from carbon emissions by airline operations. This study compares different routes for RJF production integrated with sugarcane biorefineries in Brazil. Eight scenarios with sugarcane mills annexed to three ASTM−approved RJF production technologies, i.e. Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids (HEFA), Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis (FT), and Alcohol to Jet...
Topics: Biomass, Biorefinery, Life cycle analysis, Renewable jet fuel, Sugarcane, Techno-economic assessment
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Mass balanced based LCA of a common carp-lettuce aquaponics system
Mass balanced based LCA of a common carp-lettuce aquaponics system
by Christophe Jaeger; Pierre Foucard; Aurélien Tocqueville; Sarah Nahon; Joël Aubin
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An aquaponics system (AS) is an integrated system that combines a recirculating aquaculture system and a hydroponics system (HS). It is designed to recover nutrients released from fish and transfer them to plants to provide a system more environmentally-friendly than the two systems working separately. As a result, several AS are under development, but little information is available about their overall performances. The aim of this study was to assess nutrient-use efficiency and environmental...
Topics: Climate change, Eutrophication, Nitrogen, Phosphorus
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Sub-lethal UV radiation during early life stages alters the behaviour, heart rate and oxidative stress parameters in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Sub-lethal UV radiation during early life stages alters the behaviour, heart rate and oxidative stress parameters in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
by Selma Hurem; Thomas W.K. Fraser; Tȃnia Gomes; Ian Mayer; Terje Christensen
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Environmental UV radiation in sufficient doses, as a possible consequence of climate change, is potent enough to affect living organisms with different outcomes, depending on the exposure life stage. The aim of this project was to evaluate the potentially toxic effects of exposure to sub-lethal and environmentally relevant doses of UVA (9.4, 18. 7, 37.7 J/cm2) and UVB radiation (0.013, 0.025, 0.076 J/cm2) on the development and behaviour in early life stages (4.5–5.5 h post fertilization,...
Topics: Heart rate, Lipid peroxidation, Locomotor, ROS, UV, Zebrafish
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Confronting learning challenges in the field of maritime and coastal engineering: Towards an educational methodology for sustainable development
Confronting learning challenges in the field of maritime and coastal engineering: Towards an educational methodology for sustainable development
by Miguel Ortega-Sánchez; Antonio Moñino; Rafael J. Bergillos; Pedro Magaña; María Clavero; Manuel Díez-Minguito; Asunción Baquerizo
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This paper presents an integrated educational methodology to provide better, more extensive training to students in engineering disciplines. The methodology integrates both existing and ad hoc tools to improve mainly the following skills: holistic and comprehensive views of real problems, working in teams, communication abilities, and handling advanced numerical models and scientific computing. Experience by the authors with the implementation of the proposed methodology revealed a significant...
Topics: Communicative skills, Educational methodology, Scientific computing, Sustainable development,...
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Identification of environment friendly tillage implement as a strategy for energy efficiency and mitigation of climate change in semiarid rainfed agro ecosystems
Identification of environment friendly tillage implement as a strategy for energy efficiency and mitigation of climate change in semiarid rainfed agro ecosystems
by G. Pratibha; Arun K. Shanker; Anamika Jha; M. Uday Kumar; K. Srinivasa Rao; K. Sammi Reddy
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Agriculture and associated sectors have a significant impact on environment such as GHG emissions, depletion of mineral and fossil resources. Agriculture contributes 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions of which seed bed preparation has a significant share. It contributes 23–44% of total CO 2 emissions due to fossil fuel consumption and soil organic carbon oxidation. Increasing consciousness on environment and food security has created interest towards low-energy agriculture and reduction...
Topics: Clean environment, Cleaner production, Climate smart implement, Energy use, Global warming...
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Grey areas in green grabbing: subtle and indirect interconnections between climate change politics and land grabs and their implications for research
Grey areas in green grabbing: subtle and indirect interconnections between climate change politics and land grabs and their implications for research
by Jennifer C. Franco; Saturnino M. Borras
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This paper builds on the literature on green grabbing. It makes a fresh contribution by bringing in aspects of green grabbing that are less visible and obvious. These are subtle, fluid and indirect interconnections between climate change politics and land grabs. It is difficult to see these interconnections from an ‘either black or white’ perspective. It is likely that the extent of this ‘grey area’ intersection in terms of affected social relations, nature and land use change is quite...
Topics: Agrarian climate justice, Climate change politics, Land grabbing
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A simulation-based evaluation of warehouse check-in strategies for improving inbound logistics operations
A simulation-based evaluation of warehouse check-in strategies for improving inbound logistics operations
by Dustin Smith; Sharan Srinivas
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Inbound logistics is a vital step in warehouse receiving processes and has a direct impact on supply chain cost and performance. As a result of an inefficient check-in operation, the incoming trucks may experience inordinate wait times between arrival and check-in, which in turn leads to unnecessary cost to the company in the form of detention fees (a penalty for holding the truck and driver beyond the agreed upon time) and delayed delivery of subsequent consignments. Moreover, prolonged idling...
Topics: Environmental pollution, Traffic congestion, Truck check-in, Warehousing receiving process
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Increased chemical stability but decreased physical protection of soil organic carbon in response to nutrient amendment in a Tibetan alpine meadow
Increased chemical stability but decreased physical protection of soil organic carbon in response to nutrient amendment in a Tibetan alpine meadow
by Dingyu Shen; Chenglong Ye; Zhengkun Hu; Xiaoyun Chen; Hui Guo; Junyong Li; Guozhen Du; Sina Adl; Manqiang Liu
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Nutrient amendment increases plant productivity but the effects and mechanisms on soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation and stability remain unclear, especially in nutrient deficient alpine ecosystem. Here, based on an experiment combining nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) input continuously for 15 years, we found that nutrient amendment did not affect total SOC content, but increased mineral-associated C with decreasing soil aggregate stability. Despite increased total phospholipid fatty acid...
Topics: Aggregate stability, Carbon chemistry, Climate change, Microbial community, Nitrogen (N) and...
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Holistic Approaches in Lipid Production by Yarrowia lipolytica
Holistic Approaches in Lipid Production by Yarrowia lipolytica
by Zbigniew Lazar; Nian Liu; Gregory Stephanopoulos
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Concerns about climate change have driven research on the production of lipid-derived biofuels as an alternative and renewable liquid fuel source. Using oleaginous yeasts for lipid synthesis creates the potential for cost-effective industrial-scale operations due to their ability to reach high lipid titer, yield, and productivity resulting from their unique metabolism. Yarrowia lipolytica is the model oleaginous yeast, with the best-studied lipid metabolism, the greatest number of genetic...
Topics: Yarrowia lipolytica, lipid metabolism, metabolic engineering, synthetic biology, systems biology
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The threats endangering Australia's at-risk fauna
The threats endangering Australia's at-risk fauna
by Adriana Allek; Ariadna S. Assis; Hawthorne L. Beyer; Nicoli Eiras; Thais P. Amaral; Brooke Williams; Nathalie Butt; Anna R. Renwick; Joseph R. Bennett
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Reducing the rate of species extinctions is one of the great challenges of our time. Understanding patterns in the distribution and frequency of both threatened species and the threatening processes affecting them improves our ability to mitigate threats and prioritize management actions. In this quantitative synthesis of processes threatening Australian at-risk fauna, we find that species are impacted by a median of six threats (range 1–19), though there is considerable variation in numbers...
Topics: Body mass, Conservation, Extinction risk, Prioritization, Threatened species, Vulnerability
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Competencies on environmental health and pedagogical approaches in the nursing curriculum: A systematic review of the literature
Competencies on environmental health and pedagogical approaches in the nursing curriculum: A systematic review of the literature
by I. M. Lopez-Medina; N. Huss; M. Huynen; J. Richardson
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It has been suggested that climate change is the biggest threat to public health for the 21st Century; increased demand on health services will impact on already overstretched resources and systems will need to be able to respond. However limited attention is given to climate change and sustainability in nursing education; there is no clear guidance on curricula content for nurses or recommendations regarding the skills and competencies that will be required. Literature published in Dutch,...
Topics: Climate change, Education, Nursing, Sustainability
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Holocene hydroclimate and environmental change inferred from a high-resolution multi-proxy record from Lago Ditkebi, Chirripó National Park, Costa Rica
Holocene hydroclimate and environmental change inferred from a high-resolution multi-proxy record from Lago Ditkebi, Chirripó National Park, Costa Rica
by Jiaying Wu; David F. Porinchu; Nicole L. Campbell; Taylor M. Mordecai; Evan C. Alden
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Multi-proxy analysis of a sediment core recovered from Lago Ditkebi in Chirripó National Park, Costa Rica, was undertaken to develop a multi-decadal to sub-centennial-scale reconstruction of Holocene hydroclimate and environmental change for the region. Analyses of sub-fossil chironomid assemblages, macroscopic charcoal, and bulk sediment geochemistry suggest that the glacial highlands in Chirripó National Park experienced notable hydroclimate variability, periodical burning by wildfires and...
Topics: 5200 cal yr BP event, Abrupt climate change, Charcoal, Chironomids, Fire history, Sediment...
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When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight
When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight
by Flurin Babst; Stefan Klesse; David J.P. Moore; Kristina Seftigen; Jesper Björklund; Olivier Bouriaud; Andria Dawson; R. Justin DeRose; Michael C. Dietze; Annemarie H. Eckes; Brian Enquist; David C. Frank
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The demand for large-scale and long-term information on tree growth is increasing rapidly as environmental change research strives to quantify and forecast the impacts of continued warming on forest ecosystems. This demand, combined with the now quasi-global availability of tree-ring observations, has inspired researchers to compile large tree-ring networks to address continental or even global-scale research questions. However, these emergent spatial objectives contrast with paleo-oriented...
Topics: Anthropocene, Climate change, Data integration, Dendrochronology, Forest growth, Forest inventory,...

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