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Coupled system approach to healthy earth environments and individual human resilience 耦合系统方法健康的地球环境和个人的人类恢复力

Sustainable Horizons Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.horiz.2023.100050

Didier Sornette, Ke Wu

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引用次数: 3

Erratum regarding missing Declaration of Competing Interest statements in previously published articles 关于先前发表的文章中缺少竞争利益声明的勘误表

Sustainable Horizons Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.horiz.2023.100051

引用次数: 0

Application of non-target screening by high-resolution mass spectrometry to identification and control of new contaminants: Implications for sustainable industrial development 高分辨率质谱法非靶筛选在新污染物鉴定和控制中的应用:对可持续工业发展的影响

Sustainable Horizons Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.horiz.2023.100049

Yujue Yang , Cui Li , Lili Yang , Minghui Zheng , Guorui Liu

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引用次数: 2

Sustainable Cu2(OH)2CO3/g-C3N4/cellulose acetate-derived porous composite membrane for Congo red and tetracycline removal with photocatalytic self-cleaning properties under natural solar irradiation 自然太阳照射下具有光催化自清洁性能的孔洞复合膜对刚果红和四环素的可持续去除

Sustainable Horizons Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.horiz.2023.100047

Lingchao Kong , Qinyu Wang , Yi Wang , Qinlin Yan , Wenhui Qiu , Chunmiao Zheng

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引用次数: 8

The carbon border adjustment mechanism: What does it mean for steel recycling? 碳边界调节机制:对钢铁回收意味着什么?

Sustainable Horizons Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.horiz.2023.100048

Daniel Rossetto

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引用次数: 5

Food Security Threats and Policy Responses in EU and Africa 欧盟和非洲的粮食安全威胁和政策应对

Sustainable Horizons Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.horiz.2022.100044

Fabio G. Santeramo , Munsu Kang

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引用次数: 7

Leveraging remotely-sensed vegetation indices to evaluate crop coefficients and actual irrigation requirements in the water-stressed Maipo River Basin of Central Chile 利用遥感植被指数评估智利中部缺水的Maipo河流域作物系数和实际灌溉需求

Sustainable Horizons Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.horiz.2022.100039

Benjamin D. Goffin , Rishudh Thakur , Sarah Da Conceição Carlos , Duncan Srsic , Caroline Williams , Kenton Ross , Fernando Neira-Román , Carlos Calvo Cortés-Monroy , Venkataraman Lakshmi

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引用次数: 5

Climate change may neutralize the sediment starvation in mega deltas caused by hydropower dams 气候变化可能会抵消水电站大坝造成的大三角洲沉积物饥饿

Sustainable Horizons Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.horiz.2022.100041

Xiaoxian Chen , Yi Zheng , Longfan Wang , Feng Han , Zhenzhong Zeng , Peng Xu , Guangtao Fu , Chi Zhang

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引用次数: 1

A comprehensive framework for detecting economic growth expenses under ecological economics principles in China 中国生态经济学原则下经济增长费用检测的综合框架

Sustainable Horizons Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.horiz.2022.100035

Zhou Fang , Huimin Wang , Shi Xue , Fan Zhang , Yixin Wang , Shiliang Yang , Qin Zhou , Changgao Cheng , Yuchun Zhong , Yang Yang , Gang Liu , Junyu Chen , Lei Qiu , Yanling Zhi

{"title":"A comprehensive framework for detecting economic growth expenses under ecological economics principles in China","authors":"Zhou Fang , Huimin Wang , Shi Xue , Fan Zhang , Yixin Wang , Shiliang Yang , Qin Zhou , Changgao Cheng , Yuchun Zhong , Yang Yang , Gang Liu , Junyu Chen , Lei Qiu , Yanling Zhi","doi":"10.1016/j.horiz.2022.100035","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.horiz.2022.100035","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent centuries have witnessed a considerable economic growth, but have also been accompanied by ecological deterioration which has led to the utility decline in every hard-won material wealth. Here we proposed a comprehensive framework for detecting these economic growth expenses, combining the ecosystem services chain with ecological economics principles. Remote sensing products, biophysical process modeling, and inferential geostatistics were comprehensively used in tracing the quantity and quality of natural capital, the total amount, and the fairness of human well-being in both ecological and economic aspects in the last two decades of China. We find that although the natural capital condition and ecosystem services in most parts of China are rising, they are declining in the most economically developed regions where the vast majority of the people lives. Furthermore, this decline is unequal, affecting different people due to the spatial mismatch between population and ecological services. Further promoting China's environment-friendly industrial system and the transaction of ecological products may help alleviate the decline and inequity of ecological well-being. This framework aims to provide an interdisciplinary dashboard to help identify and deal with risks on our way to prosperity for regions either within or beyond China.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":101199,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Horizons","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100035"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772737822000293/pdfft?md5=488ffd8aacefb0fd6072f84a2ef37c0d&pid=1-s2.0-S2772737822000293-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73412374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 7

Renewable energy driving microbial electrochemistry toward carbon neutral 可再生能源推动微生物电化学走向碳中和

Sustainable Horizons Pub Date : 2022-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.horiz.2022.100031

Bo Wang , Robin Bonné , Yifeng Zhang , Aijie Wang , Wenzong Liu

引用次数: 4