{"title":"Assessing China's solar power potential: Uncertainty quantification and economic analysis","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107908","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107908","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Solar power is vital for China's future energy pathways to achieve the goal of 2060 carbon neutrality. Previous studies have suggested that China's solar energy resource potential surpass the projected nationwide power demand in 2060, yet the uncertainty quantification and cost competitiveness of such resource potential are less studied. Therefore, we applied an integrated framework to simulate China's solar photovoltaic (PV) technical potential, and incorporated potential uncertainty stemming from climate change, land use dynamics, and technological advancements. In addition, we constructed the solar energy supply curve for each province and calculated the economic potential. According to our results, approximately 78.6 % and 99.9 % of China's technical solar PV potential are priced lower than the benchmark price of coal-fired energy in pessimistic and optimistic scenario. These findings highlight the significant technical and economic potential of solar PV as a cost-effective alternative to coal-fired electricity to meet China's growing electricity demands.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21153,"journal":{"name":"Resources Conservation and Recycling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Methodology for measuring landfill dumping statistics globally using Digital Elevation Change maps","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107924","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107924","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Often countries don't have adequate systems in place to measure and centrally report waste disposal statistics, yet such data are necessary to inform waste policy and resource allocation. This study evaluates the possibility of using a global elevation change map dataset to remotely estimate volumetric changes – and therefore waste dumping patterns – in landfill sites around the world. The methodology is applied to 100 landfill sites across 5 continents, and the temporal coverage, error estimates, and a comparison with officially reported statistics for selected landfills are shown. The dataset coverage is 2018 to 2021, and 76 % of study sites had sufficient data to allow for volumetric change estimation. Median estimated volume change error in individual sites is 14.7 <span><math><mrow><msup><mi>m</mi><mn>3</mn></msup><mo>·</mo><mi>d</mi><mi>a</mi><msup><mi>y</mi><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow></msup></mrow></math></span>, but error increases with short temporal data coverage. Estimated volume changes agree with officially reported tonnages for considered sites. National waste authorities or non-governmental bodies could utilize this approach to improve waste statistics for underreported regions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21153,"journal":{"name":"Resources Conservation and Recycling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Global policy stocktake of urban climate resilience: A literature review","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107923","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107923","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cities are positioning themselves at the center of the Anthropocene, hosting most of the world's population and global socioeconomic activities. The increasing prospect of escalating climate hazards is threatening cities and citizens worldwide, indicating the unprecedented importance of urban climate resilience building. However, the disconnect between resilience scholarship and practical policymaking hinders effective, evidence-based policymaking. By analyzing case-based, peer-reviewed articles worldwide, this study reveals the status of current resilience-building policies and the gaps therein. The results suggest that less than a third of the literature discusses policy implementations, with a notable absence of macro-level policies and crisis management toolkits. The authors underscore the potential integrated pathways to transcending the traditional place- and community-based resilience building practices, emphasizing the importance of integrating scholarly insights into practical policy frameworks for a more resilient urban future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21153,"journal":{"name":"Resources Conservation and Recycling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142272216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comprehensive maps of material stock dynamics reveal increasingly coordinated urban development in the Yangtze River Delta of China","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107925","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107925","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Sustainable urban development critically depends on effectively managing the interplay between material stock (MS) and economic growth. This study combined convolutional neural network model and nighttime lights data to map building MS of Yangtze River Delta (YRD) urban agglomeration in China from 2000 to 2020 across 1 km × 1 km pixel scale, then uncovered the spatiotemporal dynamics of MS and its correlation with economic development. Our findings indicate that the model performed robustly on the test set (<em>R</em><sup>2</sup> > 0.88). YRD's MS surged over tenfold, reaching 20,772 teragram, primarily expanding along northwest-southeast developmental axes. Most YRD cities exhibited synchronized growth in material stock and GDP, suggesting an emergent pattern of sustainable urban expansion. However, cities at the developmental extremes highlighted the need for optimizing urban development strategies. By categorizing YRD cities into four distinct development modes, our study offers deep insights into the dynamics of urban development, underpinning targeted strategies that could guide cities towards more sustainable and resource-efficient growth trajectories.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21153,"journal":{"name":"Resources Conservation and Recycling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142239382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embodied carbon saving of reusing concrete elements in new buildings: A Swedish pilot study","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107930","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107930","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Reusing the building elements is the highest possible level of circularity for buildings that must be demolished, potentially slowing down climate change. This study explores the embodied carbon reduction of construction of a pilot building with structural elements of reused concrete. The assessment focuses on applying different methodological approaches and discussing the upscaling opportunities of reusing concrete elements from a global warming potential perspective. The assessment shows large embodied carbon savings compared to conventional building practices like recycling the concrete and building with new low-carbon and prefabricated elements. Embodied carbon saving is also obvious when applying alternative system modelling, future market projection and different allocation approaches of the production emissions of the elements. Finally, the study emphasises the need for further research in evaluating the benefits of reusing structural concrete elements broadly, like including the deconstruction impact related to elements for reuse, to be able to draw general conclusions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21153,"journal":{"name":"Resources Conservation and Recycling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344924005238/pdfft?md5=8f5cad5fe2e461a42058473f686d882e&pid=1-s2.0-S0921344924005238-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142239383","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Residential carbon emission flows embedded in population migration over time in China: A geospatial dynamics analysis","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107919","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107919","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Population migration is a key driver in reshaping the geospatial pattern of energy consumption and associated carbon emissions. However, the extent of shifts in the geospatial pattern and their primary drivers have not yet been quantitatively validated. We develop an integrated system and a novel structural decomposition analysis (SDA) method and for estimating the residential carbon emissions flows embedded in interprovincial population migration in China from 2010 to 2020. Interestingly, despite the significant increase in the scale of population migration between Chinese provinces (79.94 to 122.83 million), the net increase in carbon emissions due to population migration is decreasing (+23.42 to +5.16 Mt CO<sub>2</sub>). Lots of rural-urban migration flows from inland to coastal areas shift from increasing carbon emissions in 2010 to decreasing carbon emissions in 2020. The SDA indicates that the primary driver behind the decline in residential carbon emissions can be attributed to urbanization (-20.82 Mt CO<sub>2</sub>). Overall, this study can inform other developing countries on sustainable urbanization and geospatial management for energy decarbonization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21153,"journal":{"name":"Resources Conservation and Recycling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142232379","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparative life cycle assessment of three types of crumb rubber modified asphalt under different system boundaries","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107922","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107922","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study employs a life cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify the environmental impacts of three crumb rubber recycling technologies in asphalt rubber (AR) mixtures: wet, dry, and terminal blend. The analysis identifies key factors affecting their environmental performance across the life cycle. Results were characterized into climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, fine particulate matter, terrestrial acidification, marine eutrophication, freshwater ecotoxicity, human toxicity, and Land use. Dynamic rankings of the three AR technologies along their life cycle stages in each impact category would enable identification of the influencing factors and provide reference for the further improvement. This study reveals that dry technology is likely to have the most significant environmental impacts across all categories (51.85 %-100 %), whereas terminal blended technology generally presents the lowest impact (51.85 %-88.89 %), with the exception of freshwater ecotoxicity (33.33 %) and human toxicity (22.22 %), where wet technology shows the least impact. The analysis underscores the importance of asphalt mixture designs, with appropriate binder content, potential reduction in surface course thickness, and reduced maintenance frequency, as strategies to enhance the environmental performance of AR technologies. The study concludes that the environmental performance of AR pavement is highly dependent on their in-service durability, with scenario-based analysis indicating that adequate durability ensures environmental effectiveness.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21153,"journal":{"name":"Resources Conservation and Recycling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142232378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cradle-to-gate GHG emissions and decarbonization potentials of minivan-equipped hydrogen fuel cell system","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107877","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107877","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hydrogen fuel cell is promising option for low-carbon transportation but poses concerns regarding potential emission increase in production activities. Limited by insufficient primary data, previous studies relied on incomplete material and energy inventory, leading to uncertain knowledge of life-cycle impacts of fuel cell. This study provided real-world data of material composition and in-plant energy demand for a refined evaluation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and mitigation potentials of fuel cell. Result showed cradle-to-gate emissions of an 83.5 kW fuel cell applied to minivan were 5952 kg CO<sub>2</sub>-eq, equally contributed by upstream materials production and in-plant electricity and hydrogen consumptions. By 2030, proposed low-carbon strategies are expected to mitigate 66% emissions. The impacts assessed here were higher than preceding studies, which disregarded or underestimated manufacturing stage inputs. It emphasizes the necessity of large-scale field surveys and meta-analyses to maturate accounting standard and refine life-cycle assessment of fuel cell in the future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21153,"journal":{"name":"Resources Conservation and Recycling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142229190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seven principles for monitoring the physical economy","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107902","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107902","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21153,"journal":{"name":"Resources Conservation and Recycling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921344924004956/pdfft?md5=ca52724c6530eae0a6e53d202f21362a&pid=1-s2.0-S0921344924004956-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142173150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reassessing China's virtual water trade with a global value chain framework: Participation, inequality and multi-scenario analysis","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107904","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107904","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>With the rise of global value chain (GVC), traditional accounting methods for virtual water (VW) trade have failed to reflect the inherent VW flow generated by the production of intermediate goods in shared production processes. Here, we reassess China's VW consumption in 2020 based on a new GVC framework, and propose the concept of VW consumption embodied in forward and backward GVC activities (VWF/VWB). We clarify China's role in GVC activities and reveal VWF/VWB inequalities under multiple scenarios. Our results show that the maximum share of VWF and VWB reaches 64.4% and 86.1%, respectively, far exceeding the traditional trade share. China's VWB primarily sources from developing countries in Asia, while VWF primarily serves the United States. VWF/VWB inequalities are exacerbated by China's GVC activities and exhibit considerable variation under multiple scenarios. Our findings provide new insights into reconciling China's GVC participation and narrowing regional disparities in VW consumption.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":21153,"journal":{"name":"Resources Conservation and Recycling","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142173259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}