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China's green leadership in international aviation: Spatial patterns, influence factors and future trends of carbon emission under the Belt and Road Initiative 中国在国际航空领域的绿色领导:“一带一路”下碳排放的空间格局、影响因素及未来趋势
IF 11.2 1区 社会学
Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108206
Rundong Feng , Yufei Huang , Fuyuan Wang , Kaiyong Wang , Shenghe Liu , Heather Ho , Hubin Wei , Weidong Liu
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Spatial clustering of WEF-environment Nexus indicators for irrigation water operational performance: A feature-driven approach 灌溉水运行绩效的wef -环境Nexus指标空间聚类:特征驱动方法
IF 11.2 1区 社会学
Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108205
Dorsa Rahparast , Seied Mehdy Hashemy Shahdany , Abbas Roozbahani
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Strategic assessment in clean energy transition: Export diversification's impact on renewable energy capacity utilization 清洁能源转型的战略评估:出口多样化对可再生能源产能利用的影响
IF 11.2 1区 社会学
Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108207
Boqiang Lin , Yanhua Li
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Decoding CO₂ futures in representative Green Belt and road countries: Evidence from China, India, and Russia 解读绿色一带一路代表性国家的二氧化碳期货——来自中国、印度和俄罗斯的证据
IF 11.2 1区 社会学
Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-10-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108201
Yuqiong Long , Nanxizi Chen , Lulu Zuo , Chen Yang , Beijia Huang , Guanhan Zhao
{"title":"Decoding CO₂ futures in representative Green Belt and road countries: Evidence from China, India, and Russia","authors":"Yuqiong Long ,&nbsp;Nanxizi Chen ,&nbsp;Lulu Zuo ,&nbsp;Chen Yang ,&nbsp;Beijia Huang ,&nbsp;Guanhan Zhao","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108201","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108201","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rising global temperatures pose a critical challenge for Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) nations, which must sustain economic growth while transitioning to low-carbon development. However, existing models often oversimplify emissions dynamics and their key drivers. The study developed a Bagging GA-BiLSTM framework and evaluated its performance against three machine learning models (LSTM, Extreme Gradient Boosting, Random Forest) and a conventional STIRPAT-OLS model, enabling high-precision projection of sectoral emissions across multiple scenarios (SSP1, SSP2, SSP3) and variables for China, India, and Russia from 2023 to 2060. The Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) method was employed to assess the contribution of driving factors and decoupling patterns. The Bagging GA-BiLSTM achieves higher R<sup>2</sup> and lower mean squared errors than other models. Under SSP1, China's emissions peak at 12.81 ± 2 Gt in 2027 and decline to <span><math><mn>2.87</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>0.4</mn></math></span> Gt by 2060. Under SSP2 and SSP3, carbon peak emissions are delayed to 2029. India's emissions are projected to peak between 2050 and 2051, with substantial scenario-based variability. Russia exhibits a contraction-recovery-rebound trajectory, with emissions peaking at <span><math><mn>2.38</mn><mo>±</mo><mn>0.3</mn></math></span>Gt in 2058 under SSP1. LMDI decomposition reveals that carbon emission changes in China and India are primarily driven by industrial structure and energy intensity, reflecting the characteristics of rapidly developing economies. In contrast, Russia exhibits a post-industrial emission pattern dominated by economic and urbanization factors. These findings quantitatively reinforce existing policy pathways, proving that differentiated strategies-such as infrastructure investment in low-income countries, efficiency improvements in middle-income economies, and institutional reforms in resource-rich nations-remain essential for effective low-carbon transitions across the BRI. This study provides updated and detailed scenario-based evidence that strengthens and deepens the foundation for these established strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108201"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145217117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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An integrated framework combining deep learning and multicriteria decision-making for SDG-oriented urban low-carbon transition capacity assessment 面向可持续发展目标的城市低碳转型能力评估的深度学习与多标准决策相结合的集成框架
IF 11.2 1区 社会学
Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108194
Wentao Wang , Dezhi Li , Keyan Liu , Yongheng Zhao , Huan Zhou , Shenghua Zhou
{"title":"An integrated framework combining deep learning and multicriteria decision-making for SDG-oriented urban low-carbon transition capacity assessment","authors":"Wentao Wang ,&nbsp;Dezhi Li ,&nbsp;Keyan Liu ,&nbsp;Yongheng Zhao ,&nbsp;Huan Zhou ,&nbsp;Shenghua Zhou","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108194","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) play a critical role in guiding the assessment of Urban Low-Carbon Transition Capacity (ULCTC). However, existing research on ULCTC assessment often overlooks the synergies with the SDGs, as well as spatial-temporal effects and causal relationships among multiple factors within the assessment process. To address these gaps, this study develops an SDG-oriented ULCTC assessment framework and proposes an integrated assessment method that combines deep learning (DL) and multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) to explicitly incorporate complex attributes into the assessment. Using prefecture-level cities in China as a case study, the results reveal that: (1) the proposed DL model, integrating GCN and LSTM, achieves superior performance in capturing spatial-temporal effects compared to other models; (2) the MCDM approach distinguishes between “cause” and “effect” indicators, and prevents biased assessment outcomes where strong performance in one dimension conceals weaknesses in others, or vice versa; and (3) spatially, ULCTC exhibits strong clustering in regions such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Pearl River Delta, while temporally, ULCTC shows a steady upward trend, with provincial capitals experiencing the most significant improvements. This study establishes a theoretical bridge between ULCTC and the SDGs, redefines the role of DL in ULCTC assessment, and develops an approach that captures spatio-temporal attributes and causal relationships while balancing synergies and trade-offs, which not only enhances methodological robustness but also generates actionable insights for differentiated policy design, ensuring that low-carbon transition pathways avoid the risks of misjudging short- and long-term priorities or undermining SDG coherence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108194"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145217116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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System dynamics modeling of social sustainability in circular construction transitions: Causal loop analysis of stakeholder engagement mechanisms from selected developing countries' perspective 循环建设转型中社会可持续性的系统动力学建模:发展中国家视角下利益相关者参与机制的因果循环分析
IF 11.2 1区 社会学
Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-10-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108197
Nadar Khan, Khurram Iqbal Ahmad Khan, Hilal Khan
{"title":"System dynamics modeling of social sustainability in circular construction transitions: Causal loop analysis of stakeholder engagement mechanisms from selected developing countries' perspective","authors":"Nadar Khan,&nbsp;Khurram Iqbal Ahmad Khan,&nbsp;Hilal Khan","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108197","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108197","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The construction industry's transition toward circular economy principles in developing countries faces significant implementation challenges, with existing research predominantly focusing on technical and economic dimensions while critically neglecting social impact mechanisms and community-level consequences that determine long-term sustainability outcomes. This study developed a comprehensive system dynamics framework to analyze complex interdependencies between circular construction practices and social outcomes in developing country contexts, employing mixed-methods methodology integrating systematic literature review, expert surveys (<em>N</em> = 134), and dynamic modeling to examine causal relationships governing community well-being, employment generation, and social equity. Through factor prioritization analysis of 61 expert responses and statistical examination of 210 cause-effect relationships, the research identified 20 statistically significant causal connections (mean values 4.0–5.0) and developed validated system dynamics models comprising four reinforcing loops and two balancing loops. Key findings revealed Local Employment as the highest-ranked social factor (normalized score 0.0582), demonstrated accelerating Community Education patterns indicating compounding returns, and established that developing countries exhibit greater dependence on government responsiveness versus market-driven mechanisms documented in European contexts. This research provides essential theoretical foundations for socially inclusive circular construction implementation strategies while offering validated system dynamics methodology for analyzing complex social-technical transitions in resource-constrained environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108197"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145217115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Integrating monitoring systems: Exploring the link between urban planning and environmental assessment 综合监测系统:探索城市规划与环境评价之间的联系
IF 11.2 1区 社会学
Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108195
Ana Maria Pacetti , Tomás B. Ramos , Sara Moreno Pires , Alexandra Polido
{"title":"Integrating monitoring systems: Exploring the link between urban planning and environmental assessment","authors":"Ana Maria Pacetti ,&nbsp;Tomás B. Ramos ,&nbsp;Sara Moreno Pires ,&nbsp;Alexandra Polido","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108195","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108195","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The role of Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) in urban planning is becoming increasingly significant, as this tool can be valuable for promoting sustainability in cities, which are increasingly vulnerable to environmental and socio-economic impacts, such as climate change and biodiversity loss. Nevertheless, the practice of monitoring SEA processes and their respective plans remains underdeveloped, and it is primarily focused on narrow thematic approaches or on theoretical frameworks, lacking comprehensive data from real cases. Research that integrates and compares various environmental monitoring instruments across different assessments and plans is limited, with most studies focusing on thematic monitoring of individual SEAs or single plans. This research aims to analyze the relationship between spatial planning monitoring instruments and environmental assessment instruments, with a particular focus on how SEA processes may influence the design and content of spatial monitoring frameworks. Through a comparative analysis of 12 Portuguese municipalities using an analytical framework and content analysis of SEA and spatial planning monitoring reports, the study reveals that monitoring frequency is low, particularly for SEAs, where the practice is almost non-existent. The findings also indicate that the monitoring programs outlined in SEA Environmental Statements directly influence the development of one of the spatial planning monitoring instruments, the Report on State of Spatial Planning, highlighting opportunities to improve integration across environmental management tools. Additionally, this study emphasizes the need for further empirical research to deepen the understanding of challenges in monitoring SEAs within urban planning as in Municipal Master Plan frameworks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108195"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145217114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Assessing the impact of population urbanization on urban resilience: Empirical evidence from rapidly urbanizing China 人口城市化对城市弹性的影响评估:来自快速城市化中国的经验证据
IF 11.2 1区 社会学
Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108189
Shan Han , Wei Wu , Tongtong Shang , Pan Wu , Bin Yu
{"title":"Assessing the impact of population urbanization on urban resilience: Empirical evidence from rapidly urbanizing China","authors":"Shan Han ,&nbsp;Wei Wu ,&nbsp;Tongtong Shang ,&nbsp;Pan Wu ,&nbsp;Bin Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108189","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The accelerated process of population urbanization (PU) highlights the critical need to assess its correlation with urban resilience for contemporary resilient city building. Yet, limited research has systematically examined this relationship. Existing studies often overemphasize the disaster risks linked to PU while overlooking its potential positive contributions to urban resilience. We pioneeringly integrate both PU and urban resilience into the urban sustainable development research system, contributing to provide insights for the current resilient city building by comprehensively considering the development opportunities and disaster risks associated with PU. By extending the two-way FE and the SDM using panel data from 280 Chinese key cities (2011−2022), we empirically examine its direct impacts, spatio-temporal heterogeneity and spatial spillover effects. Results demonstrate that: (1) PU enhances urban resilience, primarily through economic agglomeration and technological innovation, and synergies between the two mechanisms. (2) PU positively influences urban economic and engineering subsystem resilience but moderately reduces urban social and ecological subsystem resilience. (3) The marginal effect of PU on overall and subsystem resilience increases progressively over time. (4) The influence of PU on urban and subsystem resilience is greater in relatively underdeveloped regions. (5) PU exhibits' positive spatial spillover impacts on surrounding cities' resilience within a 300 km radius.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108189"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145217113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Extraterritorial political representation in environmental planning: Patterns and practices under the UNECE Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context 环境规划方面的治外法权政治代表性:欧洲经委会欧洲经委会跨界环境影响评估公约规定的模式和做法
IF 11.2 1区 社会学
Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108186
Matthew Cashmore , Dmytro Skrylnikov
{"title":"Extraterritorial political representation in environmental planning: Patterns and practices under the UNECE Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context","authors":"Matthew Cashmore ,&nbsp;Dmytro Skrylnikov","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108186","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108186","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe) Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context is significant in the context of environmental governance because it was one of the first multilateral environmental agreements to formalise extraterritorial actors’ involvement in the environmental planning of sovereign nation states. In this article, we examine patterns and practices of extraterritorial political representation under the Espoo Convention and consider its strengths and limitations in extending representation beyond national borders. The analysis draws upon data contained in publicly available national reports submitted by Parties to the Convention under compliance procedures. The data covers the latest two compliance reporting periods: 2016–2018 and 2019–2021. We assert that the available data indicate that the Espoo Convention has provided relatively modest – in terms of number and extent – opportunities for extraterritorial political representation amongst Parties to the Convention, but its contribution to regional and international environmental governance is considered important, nonetheless. A number of weak or potentially problematic practices are identified, including concerning the requirement for early notification, limited public involvement in decisions on the response to a notification, and limited use of Article 7 on post-project analysis. A particular area of controversy concerns the lack of specifications for a linguistic and translation regime; inconsistent practices herein potentially restrict equivalence in opportunities for involvement between domestic and supranational actors, a fundamental goal of the Espoo Convention. We conclude by outlining three themes for future research covering implementation practices, environmental justice, and the substantive outcomes of the Convention.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108186"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145155232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Developing a decision support system for regulating urban runoff by centralized blue-green infrastructure 开发集中式蓝绿基础设施调控城市径流的决策支持系统
IF 11.2 1区 社会学
Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108190
Enguang Li , Xin Fu , Jihua Song , Longhao Jing , Bei Zhang , Xinhao Wang
{"title":"Developing a decision support system for regulating urban runoff by centralized blue-green infrastructure","authors":"Enguang Li ,&nbsp;Xin Fu ,&nbsp;Jihua Song ,&nbsp;Longhao Jing ,&nbsp;Bei Zhang ,&nbsp;Xinhao Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108190","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108190","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The expansion of impervious surfaces and climate change have weakened urban drainage systems (UDSs), resulting in frequent urban waterlogging. Compared to decentralized green infrastructure, centralized blue-green infrastructure (CBGI) offers greater storage capacity and better adaptability to future uncertainties. However, the integration of CBGI with gray infrastructure for intelligent runoff assignment and enhanced UDS resilience remains underexplored. This study develops a Smart Stormwater Management ApplicaTion for CBGI (SSMAT-CBGI) to support dynamical and adaptive runoff assignment and storage management for CBGI. By integrating spatial analysis, SWMM, and the NSGA-II algorithm, SSMAT-CBGI can simulate and evaluate different runoff assignment strategies in real time, respond rapidly to rainfall events, and automatically identify optimal control solutions through built-in decision support tools. SSMAT-CBGI was applied to the Central Green Corridor Park in Xixian New Area, Shaanxi Province, China, to evaluate its applicability and control stability under various uncertainty conditions by simulating twelve scenarios. As the return period increased from 5- to 50year, the UDS resilience with CBGI remained above 0.76 (out of 1), and the maximum reduction in peak outflow at the outlet of UDS reached 48.69 %. Even under climate extremes and increased impervious ratio in the future, CBGI can still regulated over 25.93 % of the runoff from drainage units. SSMAT-CBGI with intuitive user interface enables stakeholders to express their concerns and preferences, while also supporting real-time updates and result visualizations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108190"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145155231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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