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{"title":"Phytoremediation of ¹³⁷ Cs contaminated sod-podzolic soil in Northern Polissia white sweet clover ( <i>Melilotus albus</i> )","authors":"Volodymyr Snitynskyi, Serhii Razanov, Petro Hnativ, Oleh Bakhmat, Mykola Kutsenko, Oleh Kolisnyk","doi":"10.1080/00207233.2023.2270305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2270305","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on 26 April 1986 contaminated tracts of Europe with radionuclides. In Ukraine, two million hectares with radiation levels greater than 5.55 × 1011 Bq/km2 were removed from agriculture and 137Cs, with a half-life of 30 years, is still with us. Phytoremediation by vegetation that accumulates toxic elements has been widely applied. White sweet clover (Melilotus albus) accumulates caesium and heavy metals in its biomass but, at the same time, produces nectar and pollen of a safely low level of 137Cs; so this culture is safe for beekeeping in the Chernobyl contamination zone. Growing M. albus over two years (2021–2) on a sandy sod podzolic soil within the Zhytomyr region increased the soil’s easily-hydrolysable N by 29.9%, decreased mobile phosphorus by 18.2%, and mobile forms of Cd by 38.5%, Hg by 25%, Pb by 24.5%, Cu by 18.5%, Zn by 14.9%, 137Cs by 8%.KEYWORDS: Phytoremediationsoilheavy metalsradioactive caesium Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":14117,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135994830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental consequences of the Zaporizhzhya NPP situation","authors":"Matanat Ismayilzada, Anar Zhumadilova, Saulesh Minazhova, Zhanybek Kaliyev, Iryna Myskovets","doi":"10.1080/00207233.2023.2270307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2270307","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTZaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant was occupied by Russian troops on 3 March 2022. Since then, the lack of a proper management system has created repeated critical situations that have enforced a shutdown of the reactors. Further environmental challenges require urgent study. Realistic measures to manage the environmental situation at a local scale as well as measures to prevent a major nuclear disaster are proposed. We also examine the applicability of the norms and requirements of international law to resolve the situation.KEYWORDS: Radioactive contaminationcooling pondecosystemrisks Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":14117,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135994831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Petrochemical planet: multiscalar battles of industrial transformation <b>Petrochemical planet: multiscalar battles of industrial transformation</b> , by Alice Mah, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2023, xix + 218 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-1-4780-2512-2","authors":"Carolina Ibelli-Bianco","doi":"10.1080/00207233.2023.2270303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2270303","url":null,"abstract":"\"Petrochemical planet: multiscalar battles of industrial transformation.\" International Journal of Environmental Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":14117,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135859043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The trauma of war: implications for future generations in Ukraine (comparison with the Eastern European countries that were at war at the end of the 20th century)","authors":"Elona Limaj, Oleg M. Yaroshenko, Nataliia O. Melnychuk, Olena V. Moskalenko, Jun-Ki Chung","doi":"10.1080/00207233.2023.2267388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2267388","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper reviews work on psychological trauma related to armed conflict in Eastern Europe and Ukraine and on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Any aggression evokes emotions of fear, anger, despair, horror, confusion, and hatred. The research aims to determine the psychological consequences caused by the current hostilities that younger generations of Ukrainians will face in the future and compare them with similar experiences in Eastern European countries. The research results showed the presence of signs of depression and PTSD in all categories of respondents. The severe social and psychological problems caused by the hostilities in Ukraine have negative impact on family ties and intergenerational interaction. There need to be psychological forms of help that can improve the lives of victims and can prevent the negative impact of trauma on future generations.KEYWORDS: post-traumatic stress disordermental health Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":14117,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136352374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Investigating the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for CO ₂ emissions in Nordic countries","authors":"Ashim Kumar Kar","doi":"10.1080/00207233.2023.2263250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2263250","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThis paper examines the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden) over the period 1981–2018. The link between economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is analysed. The study includes causality analysis and controls for cross-sectional dependence (CSD), slope heterogeneity, stationarity and cointegration patterns. Estimations validate the EKC hypothesis for Denmark and Iceland, but not for Norway and Sweden. Finland data show no significantly visible trend.KEYWORDS: CO2EKCCSDheterogeneitycausalityNordic Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. The Nordic countries have been included in the developed, OECD, Arctic and ‘highly innovative’ country-clusters in previous studies, however.2. Carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, methane, sulphur hexafluoride, fluorinated gases are some of the GHGs.3. The studies of Dogan et al. [Citation3], Koçak and Ulucak [Citation70], Destek and Sarkodie [Citation45], Allard et al. [Citation9] were also followed to build the econometric model.4. These models generally represent an IPAT approach, (i.e., Influence = Population, Affluence, and Technology) originally introduced by Ehrlich and Holdren [Citation71] but later reformulated by Rosa and Dietz [Citation49].5. Many studies have also included a cubic term of Y (i.e., Y3) to check whether the EKC curve is N-shaped.6. Balsalobre-Lorente and Álvarez-Herranz [Citation72] and Allard et al. [Citation9] suggest that the EKC will adopt different shapes as follows: (i) β1 = β2 = 0 ⇒ Either no link between environmental degradation and income or a flat pattern, (ii) β1 >0 and β2 = 0 ⇒ Environmental degradation increases with income monotonically, (iii) β1 <0 and β2 = 0 ⇒ Environmental degradation increases with income monotonically, (iv) β1 >0 and β2 <0 ⇒ The classical inverted U-shaped EKC, and (v) β1 <0 and β2 >0 ⇒ A U-shaped relation between environmental degradation and income.7. StataMP 18 and various user-written routines of this programme were used for the empirical analysis. All of these results are reproducible. Data and software commands are available upon request.8. The feedback hypothesis suggests that if sustainable management options are adopted in the production and consumption of natural resources, the rate of natural resource depletion and environmental stress declines.","PeriodicalId":14117,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Studies","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135645188","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantification, distribution and cancer risk assessment of pesticides in mango orchards of Kerala, India","authors":"Chandini Palakkunnel Kuttappan, Jayasooryan Kazhuthoottil Kochu, Naveena Kannegowda, Mahesh Mohan, Rajathy Sivalingam, Syamkumar Reghu Nandanan Pillai, Gayathry Olodathil Sadanandan, Maneesh Kumar Shappumkunnath","doi":"10.1080/00207233.2023.2261271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2261271","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTMuthalamada in the Western Ghats has been a prominent mango-cultivating region of Asia for the last three decades. In the present study, soil samples from Muthalamada mango orchards were analysed for pesticide contents and estimated associated cancer risk indices. Sixteen pesticides, including organochlorines, organophosphates, synthetic pyrethroids, and carbamates were detected in the region. The concentration of chlorpyrifos (2.05–720.27 mg/kg) was the highest level reported from any agroecosystem in India. Community health risk assessment indicates high carcinogenic risk and greater susceptibility in children. The study demonstrates the need for immediate interventions to reduce the ecological and human cancer risks in the mango orchards.KEYWORDS: PesticidesoilcarcinogenMuthalamada: health risk AcknowledgmentsThis research was funded by Kerala state E-grantz fellowship. We would like to thank all the farmers in Muthalamada Panchayat for their collaboration. In addition, we would like to thank Seal Lab laboratories, Kochi, Kerala, India for the analysis of pesticides.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2261271.","PeriodicalId":14117,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135829677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Application of flocculated sewage sludge for growing miscanthus on post-mining lands","authors":"Mykola Kharytonov, Nadia Martynova, Mykhailo Babenko, Oleksandr Kovrov, Liliya Frolova, Paloma Hueso González","doi":"10.1080/00207233.2023.2262867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2262867","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTMiscanthus yields well on raw subsoil where organic matter and nutrients are supplied by sewage sludge; the yield is directly dependent on the amount of sludge applied; the greatest productivity (12.9t/ha) was achieved by adding 60t/ha of flocculated sludge. Among the macronutrients, nitrogen is most actively absorbed, the intensity of biomass accumulation of phosphorus and potassium is much lower; other essential elements can be ranked as Fe → Zn → Mn → Cu. Cobalt, nickel and cadmium do not accumulate in biomass but chromium does. The introduction of sewage sludge affects the thermal characteristics of the miscanthus biomass. The proportion of incombustible residue increases when sludge is applied at high doses. Application of 20t/ha flocculated sludge appears to be optimal for ensuring environmental safety and suitability as a fuel.KEYWORDS: Sewage sludgeloess-like loamelemental accumulation Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":14117,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135895275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Naturnationalparker og de store dyrs genkomst <b>Naturnationalparker og de store dyrs genkomst</b> , by Rune Engelbreth Larsen, Tranbjerg J, Forlaget Dana, 2023, 417 pp., 300 DKK (hbk), ISBN 978-87-92961-12-9","authors":"Peter Neerup Buhl","doi":"10.1080/00207233.2023.2261277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2261277","url":null,"abstract":"\"Naturnationalparker og de store dyrs genkomst.\" International Journal of Environmental Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2","PeriodicalId":14117,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Studies","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136236096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Water conservation behaviour: evidence from Kuwait","authors":"N. Burney, Ahmad Sh. Alawadhi, A. Gelan, S. Al-Fulaij, A. Al-Khayat, Marwa Al-Musallam","doi":"10.1080/00207233.2023.2252683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2252683","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14117,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41540734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"No miracles needed: how today’s technology can save our climate and clean our air","authors":"R. D. Fardilah, Asma Fauziah","doi":"10.1080/00207233.2023.2255453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00207233.2023.2255453","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14117,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Environmental Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47613292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}