Article
Engineering, Aerospace
Fulya Aydin-Kandemir, Nusret Demir
Summary: This study evaluated the pre-fire species diversity and indirect effects of one of the largest wildfires in Manavgat, Turkey in 2021. The study found that 696 km2 of the total 4210 km2 study area were damaged by the fire, and there were 56 mammal species' habitats. The study also indicated that the post-fire species richness did not solely consist of endemic species.
ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH
(2023)
Editorial Material
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
James Derbyshire
Summary: The lack of preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries highlights the short-term planning horizons and limited attention from policymakers, which are influenced by fundamental uncertainty. Preparedness should focus on plausibility rather than subjective probability to effectively address such extreme events. Plausibility-based scenario planning can enhance preparedness for global pandemics and contribute to better communication of uncertainties in risk science.
Review
Environmental Sciences
Alice Hughes, Mark Auliya, Sandra Altherr, Brett Scheffers, Jordi Janssen, Vincent Nijman, Chris R. Shepherd, Neil D'Cruze, Emerson Sy, David P. Edwards
Summary: According to the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, exploitation of wildlife poses a significant threat to species survival. While illegal trade's detrimental effects are well-known, legal trade is often considered sustainable despite lacking evidence. This article reviews the sustainability of wildlife trade, the tools and frameworks to regulate it, and highlights the lack of data that hinders understanding of sustainability. The authors propose a more precautionary approach, strengthening data collection, linking trade quotas to international standards, improving databases, and enhancing understanding of trade bans and market forces.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jack Hooker, Paul Lintott, Emma Stone
Summary: Increasing levels of artificial light at night pose a major threat to global biodiversity, particularly for nocturnal species such as bats. A study found that part-night lighting strategies have negative impacts on bat feeding activity and potentially disrupt their foraging habitats.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Candace E. Fallon, Anna C. Walker, Sara Lewis, Joseph Cicero, Lynn Faust, Christopher M. Heckscher, Cisteil X. Perez-Hernandez, Ben Pfeiffer, Sarina Jepsen
Summary: The study found that 14% of firefly species in North America are threatened with extinction, primarily due to habitat loss, light pollution, and climate change. Additionally, 53% of the species could not be evaluated due to insufficient data, emphasizing the need for further research.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Clifford Warwick, Catrina Steedman
Summary: Pet trading and keeping globally involves a wide range of species, with significant concerns related to animal welfare, conservation, public health, and more. Negative list systems, which currently regulate pet trading and keeping, are not as effective as positive list systems in addressing the various issues associated with pet keeping. It is suggested to replace negative lists with objective positive list systems to improve the regulation of both wild and domesticated pets.
JOURNAL OF VETERINARY BEHAVIOR-CLINICAL APPLICATIONS AND RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Fritz-Julius Grafe, Harald A. Mieg
Summary: The Water Framework Directive aims to ensure high quality water services in Europe under the precautionary principle, creating pressure on cities to update their water infrastructures at great financial cost. Using the examples of London and Milan, this article explores how the precautionary principle affects urban water infrastructure provision and how regulating pollution risks can lead to both innovation and secondary risks in the sector.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Bosko Josimovic, Aleksandar Cvjetic, Danilo Furundz
Summary: Spatial determination planning for wind farms is a crucial and sensitive stage in development, balancing wind potential and environmental protection. Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) plays a key role in finding optimal solutions and avoiding problems in later stages. Applying SEA in the early planning stages is important to formally apply the precautionary principle and prevent disadvantageous issues during project implementation.
RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
(2021)
Article
Biology
Simone Cesarz, Nico Eisenhauer, Solveig Franziska Bucher, Marcel Ciobanu, Jes Hines
Summary: The use of artificial light at night (ALAN) is increasing worldwide, but its impact on the soil system has not been studied. This research shows that increasing ALAN reduces plant biomass and decreases soil water content. Soil respiration is further reduced under high ALAN, but microbial communities maintain stable biomass and exhibit higher carbon use efficiency. While ALAN does not affect microbial community structure, plant-feeding nematodes increase in abundance and nematode communities become more homogenous under higher ALAN levels, suggesting that soil communities may be more vulnerable to additional disturbances. In summary, ALAN alters soil communities and ecosystem functions, mediated by changes in plant productivity and soil water content.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Anders Melin
Summary: Synthetic biology has valuable applications but also poses risks, with bioterrorism being a major concern. Some scholars argue risks are exaggerated, while I believe certain risks, like the creation and spread of known pathogenic viruses, should not be underestimated.
FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Gill T. Braulik, Barbara L. Taylor, Gianna Minton, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Tim Collins, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Enrique A. Crespo, Louisa S. Ponnampalam, Michael C. Double, Randall R. Reeves
Summary: To understand the loss of biodiversity on a global scale, standardized tools are required. Using data from the IUCN Red List, the study assessed the conservation status and extinction risk of cetaceans. The results showed that 26% of cetacean species were threatened with extinction, with 11% near threatened and 10% data deficient. The proportion of threatened cetaceans has increased over time, and small geographic range and coastal and freshwater habitats pose the greatest threat. An analysis of distribution revealed a global hotspot of threatened cetaceans in Southeast Asia.
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Daniel Steel, Paul Bartha
Summary: This article addresses the issue of resource distribution in the presence of multiple catastrophic risks by extending the interpretation of the precautionary principle within the lexical utility framework. It provides insights into how to maximize lexical utility in allocating resources and recommends a balanced distribution between disaster prevention and other concerns.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jose Antonio Leon-Borges, Gabriela Josefina Aguirre-Garcia, Violeta Mendezcarlo Silva, Manuel Alejandro Lizardi-Jimenez
Summary: The Yucatan Peninsula is a crucial beekeeping region, but the presence of hydrocarbons and pesticides poses a double violation of the human right to a healthy environment. These substances not only directly impact human health due to their toxicological characteristics, but also pose a poorly quantified risk to the loss of biodiversity through the impairment of pollination. The precautionary principle demands that authorities prevent ecosystem damage caused by individual productive activities. This study presents a novel intersectoral analysis of risks in the Yucatan, encompassing the soy industry, swine industry, and tourist industry, and highlights the previously overlooked risk of hydrocarbon contamination. Furthermore, it demonstrates the need to avoid using hydrocarbons such as diesel and gasoline when employing non-genetically modified organisms in bioreactors.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Michael B. J. Harfoot, Alison Johnston, Andrew Balmford, Neil D. Burgess, Stuart H. M. Butchart, Maria P. Dias, Carolina Hazin, Craig Hilton-Taylor, Michael Hoffmann, Nick J. B. Isaac, Lars L. Iversen, Charlotte L. Outhwaite, Piero Visconti, Jonas Geldmann
Summary: The study used expert information from the IUCN Red List to generate global maps of the six major threats to terrestrial amphibians, birds, and mammals, showing that agriculture and logging are widespread in the tropics, and that hunting and trapping pose the most geographically widespread threat to mammals and birds. The study also highlights that current representations of human pressure on biodiversity underestimate the overall pressure, particularly in areas of high biodiversity importance.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jeffrey A. Brown, Julie L. Lockwood, Max R. Piana, Caroline Beardsley
Summary: While previous studies have focused on the negative effects of light pollution on arthropods, this research examines the impact on community-level responses. Through using different lighting and traps, the study found that artificial nighttime lighting caused shifts in the presence and abundance of predators, scavengers, parasites, and herbivores. These trophic shifts occurred immediately upon the introduction of artificial light and were limited to nocturnal communities, with levels reverting to their pre-light state after the removal of light.
Article
Optics
Constantinos A. Bouroussis, Frangiskos Topalis
JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER
(2018)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
George K. Adam, Panagiotis A. Kontaxis, Lambros T. Doulos, Evangelos-Nikolaos D. Madias, Constantinos A. Bouroussis, Frangiskos Topalis
Article
Optics
Constantinos A. Bouroussis, Frangiskos Topalis
JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE SPECTROSCOPY & RADIATIVE TRANSFER
(2020)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Constantinos A. Bouroussis, Annika K. Jagerbrand
Summary: This study investigates the relationship between road lighting uniformity and lighting design scenarios, energy performance, and risk for increasing spill light. The results show that increased uniformity levels can lead to higher energy consumption and spill light, but these impacts can be controlled by keeping the uniformity within certain limits. Improper lighting planning significantly increases adverse effects.
Editorial Material
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Christopher C. M. Kyba, Martin Aube, Salvador Bara, Andrea Bertolo, Constantinos A. Bouroussis, Stefano Cavazzani, Brian R. Espey, Fabio Falchi, Geza Gyuk, Andreas Jechow, Miroslav Kocifaj, Zoltan Kollath, Hector Lamphar, Noam Levin, Shengjie Liu, Steven D. Miller, Sergio Ortolani, Chun Shing Jason Pun, Salvador Jose Ribas, Thomas Ruhtz, Alejandro Sanchez de Miguel, Mathias Schneider, Ranjay Man Shrestha, Alexandre Simoneau, Chu Wing So, Tobias Storch, Kai Pong Tong, Milagros Tunon, Diane Turnshek, Ken Walczak, Jun Wang, Zhuosen Wang, Jianglong Zhang
Summary: The spatial and angular emission patterns of artificial and natural light emitted, scattered, and reflected from the Earth at night are more complex than those for scattered and reflected solar radiation during the day. This paper emphasizes the importance of the angular distribution of emitted light for remote sensing measurements and suggests the use of images at different angles to obtain information about Earth's atmosphere and night sky brightness.
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
(2022)
Article
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
G. A. Gourzoulidis, C. A. Bouroussis, A. Achtipis, M. Kazasidis, D. Pantelis, A. Markoulis, I. Konstantakopoulos, F. V. Topalis
Summary: This study assesses the photobiological hazards caused by the most commonly used arc welding technique, SMAW, which is used both in occupational and domestic environments. The emitted blue and visible light, ultraviolet, and infrared are measured using dedicated sensors, and the results show that there may be overexposure of up to one second at close distances, which is common in complex working environments.
PHYSICA MEDICA-EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL PHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
George A. Gourzoulidis, Efthymios Karabetsos, Constantinos Bourousis, Charilaos Tyrakis, Andreas D. Flouris, Nikolaos Vourgidis, Thomas G. Maris, Frangiskos Topalis
Summary: This study conducted an electromagnetic spectrum risk assessment in Greece and found that non-coherent metal arc welding can lead to sub-second overexposure to optical radiation. Maintenance procedures need proper attention, laser safety assessment reveals potential eye and skin hazards, and blue light exposure from computer monitors is below safety limits.
MEDICINA DEL LAVORO
(2022)
Letter
Construction & Building Technology
A. K. Jagerbrand, D. Gasparovsky, C. A. Bouroussis, L. J. M. Schlangen, S. Lau, M. Donners
LIGHTING RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Industrial
Fathia Chekired, Laurent Canale, Sidahmed Tadjer, Amira Louni, Constantinos A. Bouroussis, Amar Tilmatine
Summary: Researchers and engineers are working on developing new methods to reduce energy consumption, especially in the residential sector. The development of a microcontroller-based automation system for smart houses, with automatic lighting and thermal sensors combined with safety functions, provides a cost-effective solution that makes houses more comfortable and safer for inhabitants while consuming less energy.
2021 IEEE INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS SOCIETY ANNUAL MEETING (IAS)
(2021)
Proceedings Paper
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Fathia Chekired, Smail Houtti, Constantinos A. Bouroussis, Abdellah Rahmani, Amar Tilmatine, Laurent Canale
2020 20TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND 2020 4TH IEEE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL POWER SYSTEMS EUROPE (EEEIC/I&CPS EUROPE)
(2020)
Proceedings Paper
Automation & Control Systems
Constantinos A. Bouroussis, Elias D. Tsirbas, Laurent Canale, Pascal Dupuis, Frangiskos Topalis
IECON 2020: THE 46TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS SOCIETY
(2020)
Proceedings Paper
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Constantinos A. Bouroussis, Frangiskos V. Topalis
2016 IEEE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING (EEEIC)
(2016)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
I. D. Kateri, C. A. Bouroussis, F. V. Topalis
IET ELECTRIC POWER APPLICATIONS
(2007)