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Mitigating Pacific rim marine radioactive contamination: A multilateral nuclear monitoring data governance perspective 减轻环太平洋海洋放射性污染：多边核监测数据治理视角

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108163

Shumei Yue, Wenna Fan

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Evaluating the impact of soft management policies on construction and demolition waste recycling efficiency: A hybrid simulation-machine learning approach 评估软管理政策对建筑和拆除垃圾回收效率的影响：一种混合模拟-机器学习方法

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108161

Zhikun Ding , Xinping Wen , Yue Teng , Huanyu Wu

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Optimal siting of photovoltaic waste treatment facilities in China: A mixed-integer linear programming approach 中国光伏废弃物处理设施的优化选址：一种混合整数线性规划方法

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108153

Qian Liao , Guangzheng Wang , He Xu

{"title":"Optimal siting of photovoltaic waste treatment facilities in China: A mixed-integer linear programming approach","authors":"Qian Liao , Guangzheng Wang , He Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108153","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108153","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Facing the first wave of large-scale photovoltaic (PV) module decommissioning as the global leader in installed capacity, China urgently requires efficient nationwide PV waste recycling. This study projects regional PV waste volumes by 2050 using a Genetic Algorithm-optimized Backpropagation Neural Network (BPNN), revealing a distinct ring-shaped spatial distribution. Integrating multi-source data (transport, processing, operation, and other parameters), a Mixed-Integer Linear Programming (MILP) model is developed to minimize total costs and optimize the national siting of PV waste treatment facilities, comparing results with existing China-certified Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) treatment enterprises. The analysis identifies 91 optimal locations for PV waste treatment facilities, concentrated in the Northwest and North China waste-intensive zone, utilizing rail for cost-effective transportation. Some large hubs achieve significant economies of scale, while smaller local plants face scale limitations despite cost benefits. Although 76 of the current 109 certified WEEE treatment enterprises can potentially upgrade for PV waste treatment, facility shortages may persist in some regions, necessitating mobile collection and temporary transfer solutions. Therefore, to address the research gap in sub-provincial PV waste generation and transport networks, this study establishes a decision-support framework aimed at achieving efficient, economical, and sustainable recycling by projecting China's future waste distribution pattern and optimizing the siting of treatment facilities for 2050.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108153"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997296","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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Path dependency and differentiated driving mechanism: Revisiting the spatio-temporal evolution of rural settlement sustainable development for future policy insights 路径依赖与差别化驱动机制：乡村聚落可持续发展的时空演变与政策启示

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108156

Xiaozhen Dong , Guanghui Jiang , Yanbo Qu , Yong Yang , Wenqiu Ma , Yaya Tian

{"title":"Path dependency and differentiated driving mechanism: Revisiting the spatio-temporal evolution of rural settlement sustainable development for future policy insights","authors":"Xiaozhen Dong , Guanghui Jiang , Yanbo Qu , Yong Yang , Wenqiu Ma , Yaya Tian","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The intensifying rural decline poses escalating challenges to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), thereby underscoring the imperative for localized assessments and regulation of rural settlement sustainable development (RSSD). The integration of SDGs and rural settlement characteristics provides a crucial perspective for RSSD assessment. Given this, we propose a novel assessment framework for RSSD, involving ecological health, social well-being, and economic development. The coupling coordination degree, spatial Markov chain, and panel quantile regression model are employed to decode the spatio-temporal evolution and driving mechanisms of RSSD in China. The results show that China's RSSD improved continuously from 2006 to 2020, with marked progress in social well-being. However, RSSD faced inherent constraints of path dependency and the trade-offs between ecological health and economic development. Rural settlements with low sustainable development levels primarily relied on endogenous resources, while those with high levels were more driven by exogenous factors, such as fiscal expenditure and industrial structure upgrading. Neo-endogenous development impetus, fostered by positive interactions between endogenous and exogenous factors, can facilitate the transition of rural settlement towards more sustainable ones. Comprehensive strategies that highlight the assets value of natural resources, promote urban-rural integration, and extend rural industrial chains are expected to accelerate this process. This study offers valuable research perspective and decision-making references to support the achievement of SDGs in rural area.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108156"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145004642","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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Investigating methodological aspects of absolute environmental sustainability assessment based on planetary boundaries 研究基于地球边界的绝对环境可持续性评估的方法方面

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108154

Andrea Paulillo , Piotr Wierzgala , Fabrizio Biganzoli , Esther Sanyé-Mengual

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New evidence on the determinants of agri-food GHG emissions in low and middle-income countries 关于中低收入国家农业食品温室气体排放决定因素的新证据

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108155

Bartlomiej Rokicki , Tasfaye Fayisa

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To refine differential land use strategies by developing landscape risk assessment for urban agglomerations in the Yellow River Basin of China 以黄河流域城市群为例，开展景观风险评估，完善土地差异利用策略

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108162

Xi Qing , Youran Li , Wei Li , Zhonggui Lu , Rongwu Yue

{"title":"To refine differential land use strategies by developing landscape risk assessment for urban agglomerations in the Yellow River Basin of China","authors":"Xi Qing , Youran Li , Wei Li , Zhonggui Lu , Rongwu Yue","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108162","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108162","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the aspect of coordinating land use and ecological security in the urbanizing areas, conventional methods are not applicable because of the weakness in addressing landscape ecological risks resulted from drastic land use changes. Attempting to align land use management with landscape ecological risk control in the five state-level urban agglomerations in Yellow River Basin, we analyzed the spatiotemporal changes in land use, identified landscape ecological risks from 1995 to 2020, and investigated the spatiotemporal heterogeneity and interactions of the revealed risk drivers. The results showed, the highest-risk area in the Jiziwan Metropolitan Area increased by 6.1 % in the study period, representing an increase of ten times that in the other agglomerations. Construction land proportion exhibited a stronger positive impact on the ERI in certain local areas. GDP per capita exhibited a broader spatial influence in positively affecting the ERI. Population density indirectly affects ERI mainly through NDVI, construction land, and GDP. Regarding the spatial characteristics and driver interactions of ecological risks, tailored land use measures were proposed for each urban agglomeration by concentrating on the highest-risk areas, areas with rapid risk variation, and ecologically vulnerable areas. This study demonstrates that a clearly defined landscape ecological risk assessment can support improved land use planning and more targeted zoning strategies for ecological security. It offers a methodological reference for identifying ecological risk drivers in large-scale urbanized regions and provides a foundation for implementing differentiated land use and risk management strategies in major river basins.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108162"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144989129","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 synergistic effects of GHGs and APs in typical resource-based urban areas:Co-abatement analysis, policy evaluation, and multi-scenario projections 评估典型资源型城市地区温室气体和ap的协同效应：共同减排分析、政策评估和多情景预测

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108160

Meihan De , Xiahong Shi , Junting Shi , Jinping Cheng

{"title":"Assessing synergistic effects of GHGs and APs in typical resource-based urban areas:Co-abatement analysis, policy evaluation, and multi-scenario projections","authors":"Meihan De , Xiahong Shi , Junting Shi , Jinping Cheng","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108160","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Resource-based cities are widely distributed across China and account for over 40 % of all cities. The synergistic control of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants (APs) in these cities is thus critical for the high-quality green development of China, yet research in this area remains relatively limited. Accordingly, this study first developed a bottom-up integrated emission inventory of GHGs and APs for a representative Chinese mature resource-based city and conducted a detailed synergistic analysis covering the identification of emission correlations, compositional characteristics, spatial distribution, co-emission hotspots, evaluation of sectoral co-reduction, environmental policy effectiveness, and multi-scenario emission projections. Results showed strong correlations between CO<sub>2</sub> and SO<sub>2</sub>, NOx, CO, PM<sub>10</sub>, and PM<sub>2.5</sub>. The spatial distribution of individual emissions of GHGs and APs, as well as their co-emission hotspots, were mainly located in southeastern plains, densely populated areas, industrial parks, and major transport routes. The coke making and chemical fiber industries within the industrial sector exhibited a trend of co-emission reduction for both CO<sub>2</sub> and APs. Furthermore, the effectiveness of the “Three-year Action Plan to Fight Air Pollution” policy in improving the air quality of the study city was confirmed. In the future, the city should adopt more stringent and integrated strategies, including energy substitution, green technology upgrades, and resource recycling, to achieve co-benefits of pollution reduction and carbon mitigation. This study provides a scientific basis for co-control policy development in resource-based cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108160"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144933564","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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Heat vulnerability and resilience-oriented solutions for diverse urban residential communities in Guangzhou, China 中国广州不同城市居住社区的热脆弱性和弹性导向解决方案

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108150

Tong Chen , Junyi Hua , Shifu Wang , Shi Yin

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Modeling the carbon footprint in the life cycle of PET and glass packaging for beverages 模拟饮料用PET和玻璃包装生命周期中的碳足迹

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108140

M. Medrek, L. Wiechetek, J. Banas, Z. Pastuszak

{"title":"Modeling the carbon footprint in the life cycle of PET and glass packaging for beverages","authors":"M. Medrek, L. Wiechetek, J. Banas, Z. Pastuszak","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108140","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.108140","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study presents a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) comparing the carbon footprint (CF) of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and glass beverage packaging. The analysis focuses on disposable glass, returnable glass, and PET bottles, using one packaging cycle as the functional unit to ensure comparability across systems with varying reuse and recycling characteristics. Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) was applied to simulate process variability using stochastic real-world parameters collected from beverage producers and distributors in Poland. Environmental impacts were assessed across the full life cycle, including production, distribution, and end-of-life phases.</div><div>A unified recovery factor was introduced to integrate reuse (for returnable glass), material recycling (all packaging), and energy recovery (for PET), enabling consistent simulation of emission reductions. Results show a strong inverse correlation between CF and recovery rates. Returnable glass bottles offer the greatest potential for CF reduction, up to five times under high return rates, while PET benefits from low material weight and moderate recovery. Disposable glass exhibits the highest CF due to the energy intensity of virgin and cullet-based production.</div><div>The findings highlight the importance of improving return and recycling systems to reduce emissions. The model also allows extrapolation to EU-level scenarios by applying country-specific recovery rates. This research provides relevant guidance for manufacturers and policymakers aiming to reduce packaging-related impacts in line with circular economy goals and EU waste directives. The integration of BPMN with LCA offers a novel, flexible simulation framework for evaluating packaging strategies and optimizing recovery performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"117 ","pages":"Article 108140"},"PeriodicalIF":11.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144933563","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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