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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Hengyu Pan, Xiangyu Zheng, Xu Tian, Yong Geng, Xiaohong Zhang, Shijiang Xiao, Ziyan Gao, Yuanxiang Yang, Xincong Liu, Li Li, Chengyi Huang, Shihuai Deng, Qiang Liu
Summary: This study evaluates the overall sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions of crop production in China using emergy analysis and carbon footprint analysis. The results show that the overall sustainability of crop production decreased due to increasing non-renewable resource inputs, while the total carbon footprint increased due to straw burning and fertilizer application. Key factors influencing sustainability and carbon footprints were identified as crop productivity, land use intensity, and agricultural population. Policy recommendations were provided to promote sustainable crop production and address climate change challenges.
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
(2022)
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Thermodynamics
Amir Baniassadi, Jannik Heusinger, Pablo Izaga Gonzalez, Stephan Weber, Holly W. Samuelson
Summary: This paper examines a public housing project in Phoenix, AZ, using various tools to calculate economic, environmental, and health metrics associated with three levels of energy efficiency. Results show that energy-saving strategies may significantly improve financial attractiveness when considering health and climate costs.
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Environmental Sciences
Kaitlyn E. Coomes, Jonathan J. Buonocore, Jonathan I. Levy, Calvin Arter, Saravanan Arunachalam, Laura Buckley, Alique Berberian, Jonathan Gunasti, Frederica Perera
Summary: This study estimates the benefits of different cap-and-investment scenarios on child health in New York City neighborhoods. The results show that reducing carbon emissions can significantly improve children's health, with greater benefits for Black and Hispanic children.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Review
Construction & Building Technology
Ayyoob Sharifi, Minal Pathak, Chaitali Joshi, Bao-Jie He
Summary: This study reviews the health co-benefits of urban climate change adaptation measures and finds that existing evidence is mainly related to some categories while other categories are relatively underexplored. It also recognizes the potential health trade-offs of some adaptation measures which need further study.
SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND SOCIETY
(2021)
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Urban Studies
Duran Fiack, Jeremy Cumberbatch, Michael Sutherland, Nadine Zerphey
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Environmental Sciences
Erika Garcia, Jill Johnston, Rob McConnell, Lawrence Palinkas, Sandrah P. Eckel
Summary: This study evaluated the benefits of using low-emission vehicles (ZEVs) on respiratory health and air quality in California, and found a slower adoption rate of ZEVs in areas with lower educational attainment. The results showed that the adoption of ZEVs was associated with improvements in air quality and a decrease in asthma-related emergency department visits, but the adoption gap among low-income populations threatens the equitable distribution of these benefits.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
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Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Tomas Chaigneau, Sarah Coulthard, Tim M. Daw, Lucy Szaboova, Laura Camfield, F. Stuart I. I. I. I. I. I. Chapin, Des Gasper, Georgina G. Gurney, Christina C. Hicks, Maggie Ibrahim, Thomas James, Lindsey Jones, Nathanial Matthews, Colin McQuistan, Belinda Reyers, Katrina Brown
Summary: Well-being and resilience are considered to be related or even synergistic dimensions of sustainable development, but evidence suggests that they may actually work against each other in practice, highlighting potential trade-offs that could threaten sustainable development outcomes.
NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
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Energy & Fuels
Jiawei Zhang, Miaomiao Liu, Jun Bi
Summary: This study explores the potential carbon peaking paths and health co-benefits for cities in different industrialization stages using ten typical cities in China as cases. The results show that reaching carbon mitigation goals brings significant health benefits to cities and energy substitution plays a significant role in achieving carbon peaking commitments.
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Environmental Sciences
Noah Scovronick, David Anthoff, Francis Dennig, Frank Errickson, Maddalena Ferranna, Wei Peng, Dean Spears, Fabian Wagner, Mark Budolfson
Summary: The co-benefit of air quality motivates reduced emissions and requires global cooperation to prevent runaway temperature rise under different climate policy regimes. Even in the self-interested case, air quality co-benefits may lead to high levels of mitigation in certain regions, expanding the range of possible policy outcomes.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2021)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Changsoon Choi, Pam Berry, Alison Smith
Summary: Climate change poses risks to natural and human systems, prompting the need for solutions such as green infrastructure (GI). While the climate benefits of GI have been studied extensively, the connections between these benefits, co-benefits, and trade-offs remain unclear. This study systematically reviews evidence from 141 papers to provide a comprehensive overview of these linkages, categorizing GI types along a green-grey continuum for easy access by researchers and practitioners. Furthermore, the analysis includes recommendations for maximizing benefits and minimizing trade-offs to promote climate-resilient pathways through GI.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
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Economics
Harsha Vajjarapu, Ashish Verma
Summary: This study evaluates the emissions contribution of different income-gender groups to urban transportation mitigation policies. The findings indicate that a combination of various policy instruments has the highest mitigation potential across all groups. Additionally, the study reveals that the majority of female groups show the highest potential for reducing emissions of both CO2 and PM2.5 in 2030 and 2050.
JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT GEOGRAPHY
(2022)
Editorial Material
Emergency Medicine
Timothy Spruell, Hannah Webb, Zoe Steley, James Chan, Alexander Robertson
Summary: This article highlights the impact of climate change on emergency medicine and proposes measures to improve environmental sustainability. The issue of carbon emissions in the healthcare sector needs to be addressed, and there is a need to fill the knowledge gap in environmentally sustainable emergency care.
EMERGENCY MEDICINE JOURNAL
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Arun Khatri-Chhetri, Ciniro Costa Junior, Eva Wollenberg
Summary: Global agricultural development programs have been successful in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, especially through forest management and promotion of improved agroforestry systems. Improved crop management and grassland management also contribute significantly to emissions reduction. However, the impact of soil organic carbon sequestration needs to be carefully interpreted. In order to achieve emission reduction goals and ensure food security, global agriculture development programs should prioritize the development and implementation of agricultural policies.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2022)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daniel Crespo, Jose Albiac, Ariel Dinar, Encarna Esteban, Taher Kahil
Summary: The paper emphasizes the importance of considering ecosystem benefits in water management decision-making. By evaluating different water management policies, the study finds that protecting environmental flows can enhance social welfare, but tradeoffs exist between economic and environmental benefits. The study provides insights for the protection of environmental flows in the Ebro Basin, especially considering the imminent impacts of climate change on water availability.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Daniel Crespo, Jose Albiac, Ariel Dinar, Encarna Esteban, Taher Kahil
Summary: This paper evaluates various alternative water management policies by considering the interrelationships between economic and environmental uses of water, using a hydroeconomic model to analyze adaptation strategies for reduced water availability in the Ebro Basin of Spain.