Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Michelle C. A. Picoli, Pedro G. Machado
Summary: Bioethanol production in Brazil has been driven by energy security measures in response to the oil crisis, but recent increases are also influenced by efforts to reduce GHG emissions. The study reviews policies aimed at developing bioethanol production, highlighting the need for more consideration of land use change and protection to achieve sustainability.
BIOFUELS BIOPRODUCTS & BIOREFINING-BIOFPR
(2021)
Article
Economics
Andre Felipe Danelon, Humberto Francisco Silva Spolador, Jason Scott Bergtold
Summary: During the 2000s, the Brazilian sugar-ethanol sector experienced growth due to the development of flex-fuel vehicles and rising international commodity prices. However, this growth also increased pressure on land -use change and management. This study examines the efficiency and productivity of the sugar-ethanol industry and suggests that small SE mills could benefit from merging with larger mills to improve their productivity and contribute to environmental policies in Brazil.
Article
Environmental Sciences
A. S. Duden, P. A. Verweij, Y. V. Kraak, L. P. H. van Beek, N. Wanders, D. J. Karssenberg, E. H. Sutanudjaja, F. van der Hilst
Summary: The study assesses the impacts of ethanol-driven sugarcane expansion on agricultural and hydrological drought in Brazil, revealing higher risks of drought in the Central West and Southeast regions, which could lead to significant agricultural losses and water scarcity issues. Policy makers can use this information to take precautionary measures to mitigate the negative hydrological impacts of increased ethanol demand.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Calliope Panoutsou, Sara Giarola, Dauda Ibrahim, Simone Verzandvoort, Berien Elbersen, Cato Sandford, Chris Malins, Maria Politi, George Vourliotakis, Vigh Eniko Zita, Viktoria Vasary, Efthymia Alexopoulou, Andrea Salimbeni, David Chiaramonti
Summary: Sustainable biofuels are crucial for reducing carbon emissions in the transportation sector, especially in aviation, maritime, and heavy-duty industries. This paper explores the potential of cultivating low indirect land use change risk biomass crops in European agro-ecological zones, providing additional feedstocks for biofuels with low environmental impact and economic benefits for farmers.
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
L. P. S. Vandenberghe, K. K. Valladares-Diestra, G. A. Bittencourt, L. A. Zevallos Torres, S. Vieira, S. G. Karp, E. B. Sydney, J. C. de Carvalho, V. Thomaz Soccol, C. R. Soccol
Summary: Sugarcane has become an important renewable raw material that can potentially reduce greenhouse gas emissions and decrease the dependence on fossil fuels. Brazilian government policies have created favorable conditions for the establishment of the first sugarcane biorefinery, which aims to produce biofuels, sugar, and bioelectricity in a sustainable and cost-effective manner. The development of 2G and 3G technologies further expands the potential of sugarcane for producing value-added biochemicals and reducing emissions through integrated systems with a non-waste vision and circular bioeconomy.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2022)
Article
Agricultural Engineering
Narie Rinke Dias de Souza, Tassia Lopes Junqueira, Otavio Cavalett
Summary: The study highlights the vast opportunities for bioenergy-livestock integration systems in Brazil, with significant positive techno-economic impacts and reduced greenhouse gas emissions, achieving up to 32% and 22% emissions reductions for meat and ethanol production, respectively. The expansion of BLI systems in Brazil has the potential to meet future biofuels demands by using less than 20% of the expected expansion area. Enhancements to BLI systems can be made through additional synergies such as co-digestion of sugarcane vinasse and cattle manure, integration of flex ethanol and biodiesel plants, and utilization of promising alternative industrial crops like macauba, sweet sorghum, energy cane, and short rotation eucalyptus coppice.
INDUSTRIAL CROPS AND PRODUCTS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yin Yulong, Meng Qingfeng, Ying Hao, Zhang Qingsong, Liu Ye, Zhenling Cui
Summary: Growing evidence suggests that climate change leads to increased nitrogen concentration in rice, reduced internal nitrogen use efficiency, and higher nitrogen uptake by crops, which may require a higher nitrogen application rate in the future to maintain current grain yields.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Aaron Montiel-Rosales, Nayeli Montalvo-Romero, Luis Enrique Garcia-Santamaria, Luis Carlos Sandoval-Herazo, Horacio Bautista-Santos, Gregorio Fernandez-Lambert
Summary: This systematic review focuses on the valorization of vinasse and analyzes trends in its management and bioproduct development. The study found that biological processes are the most commonly used method to obtain benefits from vinasse and that a percentage of the studies focus on its agricultural reuse.
Article
Environmental Studies
David O. Yawson
Summary: The study demonstrates a simple food balance approach to estimate virtual land use for feed barley in the UK in the 2050s, showing an increase in land area required due to population growth, climate change, and land use change. Additionally, the UK's contribution to global land losses due to productivity differences with partner countries should be taken into consideration for future land use planning.
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
P. Mellor, R. A. Lord, E. Joao, R. Thomas, A. Hursthouse
Summary: Concerns about global food security and land use change from bioenergy production require a better understanding of alternative land resources. A comprehensive definition and classification scheme for 'marginal' land resources, including non-agricultural land, have been proposed in this study, analyzing the potential role of different land types in sustainable bioenergy provision.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zia Ahmed, Shrinidhi Ambinakudige
Summary: This study analyzes the impact of anthropogenic factors on agricultural sustainability and food security in the southwestern region of Bangladesh. The findings reveal a decrease in agricultural land due to shrimp farming, as well as an increase in waterlogging and soil salinity. The study proposes a new framework for monitoring land-use change, salinity, and waterlogging to promote food security and achieve sustainable development goals.
ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Afshana Parven, Indrajit Pal, Apichon Witayangkurn, Malay Pramanik, Masahiko Nagai, Hiroyuki Miyazaki, Chanakan Wuthisakkaroon
Summary: Climate-related disasters pose a severe threat to the livelihoods and food security of people living in Bangladesh's deltaic areas. This study examines the impact of disasters on land use change, food security, and adaptive measures, using satellite images and interviews. The findings highlight significant changes in aquaculture and agriculture due to natural disasters, impacting socio-ecological systems, income, and migration in the area. The study emphasizes the importance of considering people's risk perceptions in local disaster management planning.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2022)
Article
Thermodynamics
Faik Bilgili, Emrah Kocak, Sevda Kuskaya, Umit Bulut
Summary: This paper investigates the relationship between fuel ethanol production and corn prices in the US and finds a conflict between the two over the past decade, with an increase in ethanol production leading to an increase in corn prices.
Article
Environmental Studies
Anastasia Hervas
Summary: The history of the Guatemalan oil palm industry is controversial, with expansion leading to threats to local food security and environmental protection.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Aline Mosnier, Guido Schmidt-Traub, Michael Obersteiner, Sarah Jones, Valeria Javalera-Rincon, Fabrice DeClerck, Marcus Thomson, Frank Sperling, Paula Harrison, Katya Perez-Guzman, Gordon Carlos McCord, Javier Navarro-Garcia, Raymundo Marcos-Martinez, Grace C. Wu, Jordan Poncet, Clara Douzal, Jan Steinhauser, Adrian Monjeau, Federico Frank, Heikki Lehtonen, Janne Ramo, Nicholas Leach, Charlotte E. Gonzalez-Abraham, Ranjan Kumar Ghosh, Chandan Jha, Vartika Singh, Zhaohai Bai, Xinpeng Jin, Lin Ma, Anton Strokov, Vladimir Potashnikov, Fernando Orduna-Cabrera, Rudolf Neubauer, Maria Diaz, Liviu Penescu, Efrain Antonio Dominguez, John Chavarro, Andres Pena, Shyam Basnet, Ingo Fetzer, Justin Baker, Hisham Zerriffi, Rene Reyes Gallardo, Brett Anthony Bryan, Michalis Hadjikakou, Hermann Lotze-Campen, Miodrag Stevanovic, Alison Smith, Wanderson Costa, A. H. F. Habiburrachman, Gito Immanuel, Odirilwe Selomane, Anne-Sophie Daloz, Robbie Andrew, Bob van Oort, Dative Imanirareba, Kiflu Gedefe Molla, Firew Bekele Woldeyes, Aline C. Soterroni, Marluce Scarabello, Fernando M. Ramos, Rizaldi Boer, Nurul Laksmi Winarni, Jatna Supriatna, Wai Sern Low, Andrew Chiah Howe Fan, Francois Xavier Naramabuye, Fidele Niyitanga, Marcela Olguin, Alexander Popp, Livia Rasche, Charles Godfray, Jim W. Hall, Mike J. Grundy, Xiaoxi Wang
Summary: There is an urgent need to transition national food and land-use systems towards global sustainability targets. A collaborative approach developed with the FABLE consortium is presented, which includes global targets, country-driven multi-objective pathways, and iterative refinement informed by national and international impacts. This approach strengthens policy coherence and identifies the need for greater national and international ambition to achieve global goals.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2023)
Review
Criminology & Penology
Philipp M. Dau, Christophe Vandeviver, Maite Dewinter, Frank Witlox, Tom Vander Beken
Summary: This systematic review examines the effectiveness of police presence and finds that it has a crime reduction effect on motor theft, property, violence, and guns. Police presence also reduces calls for service and improves traffic behavior. The review suggests that focusing police presence on specific areas, times, and types of crime achieves the greatest effectiveness.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL ON CRIMINAL POLICY AND RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Remote Sensing
Amna Qayyum, Bernard De Baets, Laure De Cock, Frank Witlox, Guy De Tre, Nico Van de Weghe
Summary: This paper explores the micro-scale traffic interactions at intersections and presents a novel approach to detect and represent the micro-scale traffic movement interactions at a non-signalized T-junction. The study shows that this approach allows for more detailed tracking of vehicle movements and plays an important role in traffic safety assessment.
GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Karim Naderi Mahdei, Seyed Mohammad Jafar Esfahani, Philippe Lebailly, Thomas Dogot, Steven Van Passel, Hossein Azadi
Summary: This study evaluated the environmental effects of cotton production in the South Khorasan Province of Iran using life cycle assessment (LCA) and data envelopment analysis (DEA). The findings revealed that respiratory inorganics, non-renewable energy, carcinogens, and global warming were the main environmental burdens of cotton production. Energy, on-system pollution, and waste played crucial roles in the environmental impacts of cotton processing. The study suggested improving farmers' knowledge to minimize the environmental impact of cotton production by optimizing the use of chemical fertilizers or substituting them with green fertilizers.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Development Studies
Javad Motamedi, Hossein Azadi, Ahmad Alijanpour, Abbas Banj Shafiei, Esmaeil Sheidai-Karkaj, Morteza Mofidi-Chelan, Saghi Movahhed Moghaddam, Steven Van Passel, Frank Witlox
Summary: This study assessed the economic indices of exploiting byproduct production in Shahindej, Northwest Iran, highlighting the importance of recognizing byproducts and their economic appraisal in documenting rangeland use prospects. The findings showed that by-product exploitation significantly contributes to the local economy, employment, and reduces grazing intensity, emphasizing the need to consider by-product earnings in range management schemes and comprehensive natural-area management.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Gholamhossein Abdollahzadeh, Mohammad Sharif Sharifzadeh, Petr Sklenicka, Hossein Azadi
Summary: Climate change poses a threat to agricultural production in Iran, particularly in the rain-fed southwest region. This study evaluates the adaptive capacity of four farming systems in Fars province, southwestern Iran. The results show that agro-enterprise farming system has a higher capacity for adaptation to climate diversity.
AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kristina Janeckova Molnarova, Iris C. Bohnet, Kamila Svobodova, Katerina Cerny Pixova, Michael Daniels, Jan Skalos, Kristyna Drhlikova, Hossein Azadi, Roman Zamecnik, Petr Sklenicka
Summary: The increase in farm plot size has significantly impacted central and eastern European agricultural landscapes since the 1950s. Efforts have been made to reverse this trend to restore important ecosystem functions and aesthetic values of landscapes. Visual landscape quality plays a crucial role in agricultural policies, but no comprehensive research has been conducted on the links between perceived visual landscape quality and farm plot size. This study found that people preferred smaller farm plot sizes in flat landscapes with low woody vegetation, and even a moderate decrease in plot size improved beauty scores.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Studies
Imaneh Goli, Hossein Azadi, Maryam Omidi Najafabadi, Farhad Lashgarara, Ants-Hannes Viira, Alishir Kurban, Petr Sklenicka, Kristina Janeckova, Frank Witlox
Summary: Adopting a qualitative approach, this study performs a gender analysis of the climate change effects on rice farmers' adaptation strategies in Mazandaran Province, Iran. The results showed that in climatic crises, human and social capital were the most vulnerable to women, while financial and physical capital were the most vulnerable to men.
Article
Transportation
Rong Hu, Mengyuan Huang, Junfeng Zhang, Frank Witlox
Summary: The green efficiency of the Multi-Airport System (MAS) in the Yangtze River Delta region was evaluated, and the existence of a reverse Matthew effect in airport efficiency was investigated. The study revealed that the reverse Matthew effect exists, and the spatial effect significantly influences this effect.
JOURNAL OF AIR TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Mohammad Akbari, Mohammad Sadegh Ebrahimi, Amir Mozafar Amini, Umer Shahzad, Kristina Janeckova, Petr Sklenicka, Astrida Miceikien, Hossein Azadi
Summary: One of the most important dimensions of cooperative systems in Iran is the rural production enterprises. This study examines the performance of rural production cooperatives in Iran in relation to the social capital components of the members. The results show that effective extension training and member satisfaction can play a crucial role in improving the performance of cooperatives.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2023)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Kristina Janeckova Molnarova, Petr Sklenicka, Iris C. Bohnet, Fred Lowther-Harris, Adrianus van den Brink, Saghi Movahhed Moghaddam, Vaclav Fanta, Vojtech Zastera, Hossein Azadi
Summary: Land consolidation is a common form of rural planning and is seen as an important tool for mitigating land degradation. However, there is a dichotomy in the understanding of land consolidation, with projects in different regions having different objectives and approaches. The effects of land consolidation on land degradation vary depending on the specific project, with projects including land management measures showing positive effects.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Urban Studies
Jun Cao, Tanhua Jin, Tao Shou, Long Cheng, Zhicheng Liu, Frank Witlox
Summary: Car-dominated daily travel has caused severe urban problems, and the relationship between car dependency and the built environment remains complex. This study reveals that living in high-density areas and increasing pedestrian-oriented road density can reduce car reliance. Moreover, diverse land use and destination accessibility also play a role in decreasing car use. These findings can guide urban planners in developing targeted interventions to reduce car dependency.
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Taraneh Sarami Foroushani, Hamid Balali, Reza Movahedi, Alishir Kurban, Rando Varnik, Ivana Janeska Stamenkovska, Hossein Azadi
Summary: Increased groundwater mining over the past half century has had significant social and economic implications. Various solutions and frameworks have been proposed globally to address these issues. This study analyzed the groundwater governance conditions of the Hamedan-Bahar plain using the Structural Equation Modeling approach. The findings indicate that policy-making, information and data, and stakeholder engagement have the greatest influence on groundwater governance, while the efficiency construct plays a major role in governing groundwater resources in the region.
GROUNDWATER FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Kilongo Bulambo, Hossein Azadi, Sylvie Polepole, Monique Nabintu, Emmanuel Bembeleza, Paul Dontsop, Jules Masimane, Barbara Haurez, Mamadou Fofana, Ludivine Lassois
Summary: The study analyzes consumers' preferences and behaviors towards local and imported rice in DRC and highlights the potential for development in the rice value chain. Consumers focus on local rice due to its affordability, but desire higher-quality rice. The findings suggest the need for investment in production, post-harvest practices, and marketing to improve the demand for local rice and reduce the dependence on rice imports.
Article
Agronomy
Rabia Mazhar, Hossein Azadi, Steven Van Passel, Rando Varnik, Marcin Pietrzykowski, Rytis Skominas, Zou Wei, Bi Xuehao
Summary: Land-tenure security is crucial for socioeconomic development in local communities. This study examines the impact of different contract-farming regimes on land-improvement investment, productivity, and technical efficiency of farmers in Punjab, Pakistan. The findings suggest that long-term contracts lead to higher yields, income, and profit for farmers, as well as greater investment in land-improvement measures and improved technical efficiency.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
M. Genovese, F. Piraino, P. Fragiacomo
Summary: This research proposes the concept of a hydrogen valley in southern Italy, where hydrogen is produced centrally and delivered via fuel cell hybrid trains to refueling stations, providing transportation services. The analysis from both technical and economic perspectives shows that the cost of hydrogen and energy efficiency reached competitive levels, and hydrogen rail transport offers significant benefits in terms of emissions reduction and economic gains compared to conventional diesel trains and fully electric trains.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Miaomiao Liu, Payam Nejat, Pinlu Cao, Carlos Jimenez-Bescos, John Kaiser Calautit
Summary: This article provides a critical review of the performance of windcatchers, pointing out the current research gaps and issues, and proposing directions for further investigation and market prospects.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Solomon Boadu, Ebenezer Otoo
Summary: Despite Africa's vast energy resources, including wind energy, the continent faces challenges in developing its wind energy industry. Northern African countries and South Africa currently dominate the wind energy sector in Africa. To uplift Africa's socio-economic status, strong political will, supportive policies, and institutional frameworks are needed to drive the development of wind energy and overcome existing challenges.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
E. K. Grubbs, S. M. Gruss, V. Z. Schull, M. J. Gosney, M. V. Mickelbart, S. Brouder, M. W. Gitau, P. Bermel, M. R. Tuinstra, R. Agrawal
Summary: As the global population grows, the demand for food, energy, and water will increase significantly. However, limited land availability and competition for solar resources pose challenges to resource generation technologies. In the United States, both agriculture and solar energy production have adopted densification schemes to improve yields and energy output per unit of land. This research proposes an Agrivoltaic food and energy coproduction architecture that optimizes power generation while maintaining crop productivity by implementing ideal anti-tracking during critical growth periods. This technology offers a viable pathway for widespread solar implementation throughout the contiguous United States.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Han Shao, Rui Henriques, Hugo Morais, Elisabetta Tedeschi
Summary: The integration of offshore wind energy into the electric grid provides opportunities in terms of environmental sustainability and cost efficiency, but poses challenges to power quality. This survey offers a deeper understanding of disturbance detection and classification tools, exploring root causes, disturbance locations, and algorithmic solutions. It highlights synchronized waveform measurement and discusses evaluation metrics for detection and classification algorithms. Additionally, a novel system-wide monitoring framework is proposed.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Eleni Davidson, Yair Schwartz, Joe Williams, Dejan Mumovic
Summary: A continued upward trend in global greenhouse gas emissions poses risks to global infrastructure and built assets. Maintaining high indoor environmental quality standards is a challenge for higher education institutions under future climates. Passive cooling mechanisms may be insufficient to tolerate predicted temperature increases. Different building typologies have varying energy demand projections.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Kexin Pang, Jian Zhou, Stamatis Tsianikas, David W. Coit, Yizhong Ma
Summary: This study proposes a new framework for long-term microgrid expansion planning, using deep reinforcement learning method to consider various uncertainties and constraints. The framework aims to enhance the effectiveness of microgrid expansion planning from the perspectives of economy, resilience, and greenhouse gas emission reduction.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Jun Zhao, Kangyin Dong, Xiucheng Dong
Summary: The continuous growth of global electricity penetration has provided modern energy for alleviating energy poverty, but its impact on carbon neutrality has been overlooked. The research reveals that clean electricity from traditional fossil energy and renewable energy has a positive influence on the greenhouse effect. Eradicating energy poverty can effectively alleviate the greenhouse effect, especially in non-Belt and Road Initiative (B&RI) nations.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hossein Shahbeik, Hamed Kazemi Shariat Panahi, Mona Dehhaghi, Gilles J. Guillemin, Alireza Fallahi, Homa Hosseinzadeh-Bandbafha, Hamid Amiri, Mohammad Rehan, Deepak Raikwar, Hannes Latine, Bruno Pandalone, Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Christian Sonne, Luigi Vaccaro, Abdul-Sattar Nizami, Vijai Kumar Gupta, Su Shiung Lam, Junting Pan, Rafael Luque, Bert Sels, Wanxi Peng, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo
Summary: This review explores the production of biocrude oil from biomass feedstocks through the process of hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL). It discusses the impact of process parameters on the quality, quantity, cost, and environmental impacts of biofuels. The review also highlights the challenges and prospects for the future development of biocrude oil.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Meysam Majidi Nezhad, Mehdi Neshat, Georgios Sylaios, Davide Astiaso Garcia
Summary: Digital twins promise innovation for the marine renewable energy sector by using modern technological advances and the existing maritime knowledge frameworks. This research presents critical aspects of digital twin implementation challenges in marine energy digitalization approaches that use and combine data systems.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yeganeh Sharifian, Hamdi Abdi
Summary: This paper discusses the background and objectives of the multi-area economic dispatch problem, as well as various techniques and methods applied in this field. It also covers comprehensive formulations of the problem and important issues in the field of probabilistic MAED, along with some related concepts and suggestions.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
J. G. B. Churchill, V. B. Borugadda, A. K. Dalai
Summary: The increasing global energy demand and the need to reduce fossil fuel reliance have created a demand for renewable and sustainable fuel sources. This review explores the potential of tall oil, a by-product of the pulping industry, as a feedstock for biofuels. The review provides an overview of tall oil production, purification, and treatment, and investigates recent trends and barriers towards tall oil-derived biofuels.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
David C. Broadstock, Xiangnan Wang
Summary: This study provides a general review of research on district cooling, identifying key topics and themes and highlighting potential research priorities for future studies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
L. Scharnhorst, D. Sloot, N. Lehmann, A. Ardone, W. Fichtner
Summary: This study investigates and analyzes the barriers to demand response in industrial and commercial sectors, highlighting their significance. Concerns about diminished product quality, disruptions to production processes, human resource management, and revenue uncertainty are identified as the most frequently cited barriers. Overcoming these barriers requires bridging knowledge gaps, allocating sufficient resources, and adapting external incentives and policies.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tong Feng, Yuechi Sun, Yating Shi, Jie Ma, Chunmei Feng, Zhenni Chen
Summary: Air pollution is a significant global challenge, and policymakers have implemented policies to reduce it. Evaluating the effectiveness of these policies is critical, and our study reveals trends and gaps in air pollution policy research. We found that research has shifted from focusing solely on air pollutants to including methodologies, policies, and health implications. China has emerged as a major contributor in this field of research.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2024)
