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Ecology
Juan C. Rocha, Linda B. Luvuno, Jesse T. Rieb, Erin T. H. Crockett, Katja Malmborg, Michael Schoon, Garry D. Peterson
Summary: This study reviewed the use, testing, extension, and revision of the panarchy concept, and explored its features and focal points in the scientific literature. The study found that the adaptive cycle is the most prominent feature, but there are challenges in grounding the metaphor empirically.
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
David G. Angeler, Ran Hur
Summary: This study assessed the effects of liming on ecological processes and resilience in lakes by analyzing the temporal fluctuation frequencies of benthic invertebrates and phytoplankton. The results showed that liming had a significant impact on littoral invertebrates, but had inconsistent effects on sublittoral invertebrates and phytoplankton. This suggests that liming may not create effective management effects at different temporal scales.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Matt Sehrsweeney, Alexandra Paige Fischer
Summary: Climate change has a dynamic impact on ecosystems, requiring more flexible and responsive ecosystem management. The ability to adapt management approaches depends on access to resources and social capital, which in turn are influenced by socio-political conditions. While there is extensive research on adaptive capacity at the individual, community, and organization level, there is less focus on adaptive capacity within governance networks involved in ecosystem management. This study analyzes three governance networks in the Pacific Northwestern US and identifies four key socio-political conditions that shape adaptive capacity: political power, legal power, institutional support, and extent of protected land.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Marc Escamilla Nacher, Carla Sofia Santos Ferreira, Michael Jones, Zahra Kalantari
Summary: The study utilized the adaptive cycle and panarchy to assess the dynamics of the social-ecological system in La Marjaleria, Spain, developing an 'adaptive curve' as a novel graphical representation of system change. The assessment provided new insights into the social and ecological dynamics of La Marjaleria, offering relevant departure points for future planning and decision-making.
Article
Environmental Sciences
David Weaver, Brent D. Moyle, Char-lee Mclennan, Luca Casali
Summary: Climate change is considered a wicked problem due to its complexity and involvement of multiple stakeholders. This paper proposes an integrated heuristic to facilitate management in diverse contexts and address the origins and dynamics of contemporary global socioenvironmental wicked problems.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
David G. Angeler, Craig R. Allen, Ahjond Garmestani, Lance Gunderson, Richard K. Johnson
Summary: The key challenge of the Anthropocene is to manage the complexity of human and natural systems. Panarchy theory emphasizes multiscale organization and dynamic system structure. Research suggests that liming may not be sufficient to create a self-organizing lake regime.
ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Business, Finance
Haiyue Liu, Jie Jiang, Rui Xue, Xiaofan Meng, Shiyang Hu
Summary: The study finds that firms with enhanced environmental governance scheme experienced more efficient investments during the COVID-19 outbreak, especially in non-state-owned enterprises, firms unlisted as key pollution monitoring units, and firms with higher financial constraints.
FINANCE RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Julia Touza, Carmen Lacambra, Alexandra Kiss, Rosa Mato Amboage, Paula Sierra, Martin Solan, Jasmin A. Godbold, Thomas Spencer, Piran C. L. White
Summary: This study investigates the impacts of El Nino and La Nina events on vulnerable mangrove-dependent communities in the Caribbean region of Colombia. It reveals how communities respond to these events and how certain coping measures can have maladaptive outcomes, exacerbating future livelihood vulnerabilities. Additionally, social barriers like perceptions of state abandonment and conflicts with authorities play a significant role in vulnerability, highlighting the need for cooperative adaptation strategies to manage multiple interacting environmental pressures.
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Management
Andreas Wieland
Summary: Traditional supply chain management theories often adopt reductionist and static views, overlooking the broader context in which supply chains operate and their vulnerability and harmfulness. Recent crises have highlighted the fluidity of supply chain structures and their interconnectedness with political-economic and planetary phenomena. Drawing on panarchy theory, this article reinterprets supply chains as social-ecological systems and presents a more contemporary vision of "dancing the supply chain."
JOURNAL OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Gordana Manevska-Tasevska, Andrea Petitt, Sara Larsson, Ivan Bimbilovski, Miranda P. M. Meuwissen, Peter H. Feindt, Julie Urquhart
Summary: This study focuses on the resilience capacity of farms in the context of multi-level adaptive governance. Results show that neither the farm level nor policy level adaptive processes alone have the capacity to fully enable farms to be robust, adaptable and transformable. The farm- and the policy level adaptive processes do not fit for attaining robustness and transformability.
FRONTIERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kieran Findlater, Robert Kozak, Shannon Hagerman
Summary: Climate change poses risks to the benefits of forest-dependent communities worldwide. The use of genomics-based assisted migration may help protect these benefits, but it also generates new risks and uncertainties. Different stakeholders have different perspectives on the risks and uncertainties associated with this strategy. The health and integrity of the forest ecosystem is considered the highest priority in forest management.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mahed-Ul-Islam Choudhury, C. Emdad Haque, Brent Doberstein
Summary: Building community resilience to climate-induced disasters requires collaboration and social learning at multiple institutional levels. Bridging organizations play a crucial role in documenting and scaling up lessons learned from episodic extreme weather events.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
David Weaver, Brent D. Moyle, Luca Casali, Char-lee Mclennan
Summary: This paper investigates the potential of transformative governance to address the wicked tourism problem of climate change. Soft transformative governance is proposed as a realistic path for escaping the traps and improving system resilience.
TOURISM MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Management
Barbara Flynn, David Cantor, Mark Pagell, Kevin J. Dooley, Arash Azadegan
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions and challenges for supply chain management, prompting researchers and practitioners to reevaluate existing assumptions in the discipline. The current issue of the Journal of Supply Chain Management aims to provide insights and discussions on the future direction of supply chain management, particularly in response to mega-disruptions like the pandemic.
JOURNAL OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Lisa Dilling, Meaghan E. Daly, William R. Travis, Andrea J. Ray, Olga Wilhelmi
Summary: Urban water systems need to adapt to increasing population and changing climate. This study explores the adaptive capacity of major metropolitan water systems in the US to drought and whether it enables transformative adaptation. The research finds that adaptive capacity can be influenced by specific actions taken and their effects on the system, and social dimensions such as public acceptance and collaboration are as critical as physical elements. Changes in practices during drought, combined with sustained engagement and education, can lead to long-lasting changes in values around water, a precursor to transformative adaptation.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Elizabeth Alvarez-Chavez, Stephane Godbout, Mylene Genereux, Caroline Cote, Alain N. Rousseau, Sebastien Fournel
Summary: This study evaluated the effect of alternative filtering materials and bed aeration on the retention of nutrients and fecal bacteria in woodchip bedded stand-off pads for cows. The results showed that the alternative biofilters were more efficient in removing COD, SS, TN, and NO3-N, while conventional biofilters were more efficient for PO4-P removal. Aeration did not have a significant effect under the tested temperature conditions.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yike Zhang, Zengyi Ma, Zhuoting Fang, Yuandong Qian, Zhiping Huang, Yilong Ye, Jianhua Yan
Summary: This study investigates the application of oxygen enrichment melting technology in the melting of municipal solid waste incineration fly ash. The results demonstrate that oxygen enrichment technology can reduce energy consumption and operating costs, as well as decrease pollution emissions.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Liangang Xiao, Mingkai Leng, Philip Greenwood, Rongqin Zhao, Zhixiang Xie, Zengtao You, Junguo Liu
Summary: This study investigates the effects of grazing exclusion on soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation and vegetation recovery. It finds that grazing exclusion can increase the potential for SOC accumulation, and higher annual precipitation is positively correlated with SOC accumulation.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Beatrice Cantoni, Jessica Ianes, Beatrice Bertolo, Selena Ziccardi, Francesco Maffini, Manuela Antonelli
Summary: This study evaluates the performance of ozonation and adsorption as in-series processes compared to standalone processes for the removal of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs) in drinking water. The combination of both processes proves to be more effective than adsorption and ozonation alone. Ozonation improves the adsorption performance of poorly-oxidizable CECs but worsens that of well-oxidizable compounds. This research highlights the importance of considering both processes in the removal of CECs in drinking water treatment plants.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Dan Li, Bingjun Liu, Yang Lu, Jianyu Fu
Summary: A new Standardized compound Drought and Saltwater intrusion Index (SDSI) was developed to detect changes in the severity of CDSEs in six estuaries. The study found that saltwater intrusion plays a dominant role in influencing SDSI severity, and CDSEs vary in frequency, duration and severity among different estuaries.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yong-Qiang Li, Rui Sun, Chong-Miao Zhang, Zi-Xuan Liu, Rui-tao Chen, Jian Zhao, Hua-dong Gu, Huan-Cai Yin
Summary: In this study, an electron beam excitation multi-wavelength ultraviolet (EBE-MW-UV) system was established and found to have significantly higher microbial inactivation effects compared to single-wavelength UV-LEDs in water. Mechanism analysis revealed that EBE-MW-UV damaged microbial DNA and proteins, and generated additional reactive oxygen species, leading to microbial inactivation.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Kaili Ma, Xinxin Han, Qiujuan Li, Yu Kong, Qiaoli Liu, Xu Yan, Yahong Luo, Xiaopin Li, Huiyang Wen, Zhiguo Cao
Summary: This study reveals that the use of a tryptophan-degrading microbial consortium (TDC) can enhance the hydrolysis efficiency of waste activated sludge (WAS), increasing the yield and quality of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) and improving the solubilization and release of organic substances from WAS.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ling Xiong, Rui Li
Summary: Incorporating Ecosystem Service Value (ESV) into land use planning can provide informed land management decisions. This study evaluates the ESV of Guizhou Province in China's karst region. The results show an increase in total ESV over the past two decades due to ecological restoration projects.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
M. Geetha Jenifel
Summary: This article discusses the importance of water and the pollution of freshwater resources, and introduces the use of machine learning models and blockchain technology to predict and protect water quality.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Stanslaus Terengia Materu, Taotao Chen, Chang Liu, Daocai Chi, Meng Jun
Summary: The study showed that H2SO4-modified biochar can reduce P leaching, increase soil available P, and enhance plant P uptake in alternate wetting and drying irrigation systems. Biochar additions B20A and IAWDB20A-M were effective in improving yield, reducing P leaching, and increasing APB.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Amir Nouri, Ali Akbar Zinatizadeh, Sirus Zinadini, Mark Van Loosdrecht
Summary: This study focuses on the development of an air-lift bio-electrochemical reactor (ALBER) with a continuous feeding regime to enhance nitrogen removal from synthetic wastewater. The effect of temperature, hydraulic retention time (HRT), N -NH+4 /TN ratio, and current density on the reactor performance was investigated, and the ALBER achieved a maximum TN removal of 73%. The results suggest that the ALBER has potential for treating industrial wastewater at low temperatures.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Peifang Wang, Guoxiang You, Yang Gao, Juan Chen, Xun Wang, Chao Wang
Summary: This study investigated the ecological processes of microbial communities and N- and P-transformation processes in multistage agricultural drainage ditches. The results showed that the microbial communities were co-shaped by agricultural practices and ditch size, which further governed the N and P removal performance.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Xiaofeng Niu, Huan Wang, Tao Wang, Peiyu Zhang, Huan Zhang, Hongxia Wang, Xianghong Kong, Songguang Xie, Jun Xu
Summary: Microorganisms play a critical role in maintaining ecosystem balance, and environmental stressors can affect the assembly processes of microbial communities. The study found that different stressors have opposite effects on microbial community assembly in water and sediment, and warming has different influences compared to herbicides and nutrients.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yuqing Tan, Qiming Cheng, Fengwei Lyu, Fei Liu, Linhao Liu, Yihong Su, Shaochun Yuan, Wenyu Xiao, Zhen Liu, Yao Chen
Summary: The exacerbation of global warming, extreme weather events, and rapid urbanization have led to increased flooding in urban areas. China has adopted sponge city as an efficient means of preventing and controlling urban floods. Using a SWMM-FVCOM model, the hydrological reduction and control effect of sponge city construction (SPCC) within a university campus were evaluated. The study found that implementing SPCC effectively mitigates surface runoff and reduces the severity of urban flooding. However, the efficacy of runoff control decreases with longer rainfall return periods.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Zhonghan Chen, Qiuyan Li, Shibo Yan, Juan Xu, Qiaoyun Lin, Zhuangming Zhao, Ziying He
Summary: Tidal rivers are important biochemical reaction channels, receiving carbon from wastewater and agricultural drains, affecting CO2 emissions. Through modeling and data analysis, researchers explored carbon distribution, emissions, and greenhouse effects, emphasizing the potential of river management to change global CO2 emissions under climate change.
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
(2024)