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Interpretable machine learning method empowers dynamic life cycle impact assessment: A case study on the carcinogenic impact of coal power generation

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107837

Shuo Wang , Tianzuo Zhang , Ziheng Li , Kang Wang , Jinglan Hong

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Does green supply chain management improve corporate sustainability performance? Evidence from China

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-01-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107828

Jing Ning , Bin Liu , Yahui Xu , Lina Yu

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A holistic approach to assessing visitor numbers on protected Natura 2000 beaches: The case of Western Peloponnese, Greece

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107824

Alexandra Ćulibrk , Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos , Giorgos D. Kokkoris , Maria Eleftheriadou , Ourania Tzoraki

{"title":"A holistic approach to assessing visitor numbers on protected Natura 2000 beaches: The case of Western Peloponnese, Greece","authors":"Alexandra Ćulibrk , Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos , Giorgos D. Kokkoris , Maria Eleftheriadou , Ourania Tzoraki","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107824","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107824","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Expanding on visitor carrying capacity estimations, this study developed a tailored approach to determine the maximum daily visitation numbers for twelve beaches within the Natura 2000 network on the western coast of Peloponnese, Greece. The methodology includes spatial delineation of beach sections for seasonal use, integration of environmental and social parameters and compliance with the national legislation for the evaluation of various carrying capacities estimates: Physical, Real, Efficient and Social. Unique to this study is the incorporation of the social dimension and legal constraints for coastal use in protected zones, previously omitted in such methodologies. The loggerhead sea turtle (<em>Caretta caretta</em>) and the sea daffodil (<em>Pancratium maritimum</em>) are key parameters due to the high density of nests and populations correspondingly on the beaches. Additional parameters include beach pathways, parking spaces, susceptibility to erosion and duration of sunlight. A comparison of the physical and efficient carrying capacity related to the seasonal infrastructure reveals the overexploitation by the coastal tourism sector. The social carrying capacity index is used as an additional tool to assess the perceptions of visitors regarding possible changes in visitor numbers at the study beaches. This framework showed that most of the studied beaches are experiencing increased anthropogenic pressure.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 107824"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132593","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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Has e-commerce promoted regional green consumption transformation? Evidence from Chinese provincial panel data

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107833

Zheng Liu , Pingyang Liu

{"title":"Has e-commerce promoted regional green consumption transformation? Evidence from Chinese provincial panel data","authors":"Zheng Liu , Pingyang Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107833","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107833","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The rapid advancement of e-commerce has brought new opportunities and challenges to green consumption transformation, which is of pivotal importance in achieving the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. Nevertheless, as an emerging platform of consumption, its impacts on green consumption have yet to be fully explored due to its inherent complexity and the lack of available data. This study employs the panel data of 30 Chinese provinces from 2012 to 2023 to explore the impact of e-commerce on green consumption and elucidates the mechanisms from the ‘production-circulation-consumption’ perspectives. The findings indicate that e-commerce promotes green consumption transformation through the improvement of residents' purchasing power, the upgrade of industrial structure and the greening production of enterprises, and the positive effects outweigh its negative impact on the whole. Furthermore, environmental regulations of government exert a significant positive moderating effect. The heterogeneity analysis demonstrates that the positive impact of e-commerce on green consumption is more evident in the eastern and central regions of China, or under the circumstances with higher level of pollution, or among population with lower education and income level. This study extends the theoretical investigation into the nexus between e-commerce and consumption, providing a basis for governmental and entrepreneurial strategic decision-making, thus further contributing to green development of economy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 107833"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132594","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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Exploring the relationship between water–energy consumption and urbanization in China: A urban-rural transformation perspective

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107834

Menghang Liu , Chuanglin Fang , Yu Bai

{"title":"Exploring the relationship between water–energy consumption and urbanization in China: A urban-rural transformation perspective","authors":"Menghang Liu , Chuanglin Fang , Yu Bai","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107834","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107834","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urbanization has significantly increased the demand for water consumption (WC) and energy consumption (EC). However, previous scholars have failed to explore resources reallocation between urban and rural areas, and studies on urbanization evaluation have generally ignored the interactions among various dimensions. Here, taking China—a rapidly urbanizing country with limited resources—as a case study, we examine the evolutions and relationships between water–energy consumption and urbanization during 2000–2022. Results show that WC remains relatively stable due to the offsetting trends of decelerated agricultural WC and accelerated domestic and ecological WC. EC exhibits significant upward trend in 83.3 % regions due to increased energy transformation losses and industrial final EC. We innovatively evaluate urbanization by considering the interactions of urban-rural transformation in population, land, and industry elements. Urbanization increases significantly with high performance in eastern but low in western China, and exhibits the positive correlations and unidirectional causality with resources consumption. WC gradually decouples from urbanization, while EC has not decoupled. Our findings could provide valuable insights for sustainable resource utilization and urban-rural development worldwide.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 107834"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132595","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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The neglected cost: Ecosystem services loss due to urban expansion in China from a triple-coupling perspective

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107827

Weilong Kong , Wencang Shen , Chaoyue Yu , Lu Niu , Huixin Zhou , Zhengfeng Zhang , Shan Guo

{"title":"The neglected cost: Ecosystem services loss due to urban expansion in China from a triple-coupling perspective","authors":"Weilong Kong , Wencang Shen , Chaoyue Yu , Lu Niu , Huixin Zhou , Zhengfeng Zhang , Shan Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107827","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107827","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban expansion's direct ecological consequences are well recognized, but its indirect and remote effects remain unclear. This study explores how urban expansion in China drives a series of land use changes, causing ecosystem service (ES) loss through triple-coupling mechanisms: (1) Intra-coupling Loss from the direct occupation of natural land and cropland, (2) Peri-coupling Loss from converting surrounding natural land to compensate for lost cropland, and (3) Tele-coupling Loss from off-site cropland compensation. From 2000 to 2020, Intra-coupling, Peri-coupling, and Tele-coupling loss accounts for 61.31 %, 19.86 %, and 18.83 %, respectively, highlighting that nearly 40 % of the ES loss due to urban expansion stems from indirect effects. Intra-coupling Loss dominates in three coastal regions, while Peri-coupling Loss is prominent east of the Hu-Line, and Tele-coupling Loss is concentrated in Northwest, Northeast, and Southwest. The key factors determining the scale and pathways of ES loss include urban expansion extent, cropland holdings, and reserve resources of cropland. This means that vulnerable regions bear the negative consequences of urban expansion in more developed areas, indicating spatial injustice. Although Tele-coupling's share has decreased over the study period, its concentration has intensified, exacerbating pressure on vulnerable regions. Among various ES, carbon sequestration is most significantly indirectly affected, followed by habitat quality. This study enhances the systemic understanding of the ecological consequences of urban expansion and provides a basis for sustainable development strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 107827"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132592","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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How obesity and overweight affect the carbon footprint of China's healthcare: A dire situation calling for urgent action

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-01-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107831

Zhimin Shi , Lixiao Zhang , Pengpeng Zhang , Yan Hao , Xin Xiong , Xinqing Li , Ailing Liu

{"title":"How obesity and overweight affect the carbon footprint of China's healthcare: A dire situation calling for urgent action","authors":"Zhimin Shi , Lixiao Zhang , Pengpeng Zhang , Yan Hao , Xin Xiong , Xinqing Li , Ailing Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107831","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107831","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Excessive food intake is significantly contributing to the rising rates of obesity and overweight in China, creating substantial financial and environmental challenges for the healthcare system. This study employs a cost of illness method combined with environmentally extended input-output analysis to assess the carbon footprint associated with obesity and overweight within China's healthcare sector. In 2020, healthcare expenditures related to obesity and overweight reached approximately 324.7 billion Chinese Yuan (CNY), resulting in emissions of 31.5 Mt. CO<sub>2</sub>e, which accounted for around 4.5 % of the total greenhouse gas emissions from the national healthcare sector. These emissions nearly negate the progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in China's service sectors. The carbon intensity of the healthcare sector related to obesity and overweight is higher than that of the general medical sector, emphasizing the urgent need for more targeted and effective intervention measures. This study represents an initial effort to quantify the healthcare carbon footprint related to obesity and overweight, providing crucial insights into the potential resource and environmental savings achievable by addressing these issues. It highlights the necessity of understanding of the impact correlated to overweight and obesity, offering valuable perspectives for tackling the global challenges of obesity and climate change.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 107831"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132531","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 exploratory methodological approach to enhancing public health policy in Ghana's mining operations

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107817

Joschka J. Proksik , Fritz Brugger , Martin A. Ayanore , Philip B. Adongo

{"title":"An exploratory methodological approach to enhancing public health policy in Ghana's mining operations","authors":"Joschka J. Proksik , Fritz Brugger , Martin A. Ayanore , Philip B. Adongo","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107817","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107817","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Industrial mining significantly contributes to the economies and public revenues of numerous low- and lower-middle-income nations, with its importance set to grow due to the increasing demand for critical minerals in the energy transition. Concurrently, the negative externalities associated with large-scale mining are set to escalate if not rigorously managed. Among these adverse impacts, the negative effects on public health have long been disregarded in the governance of large-scale mining projects. This study examines the regulatory and policy landscape governing public health within impact assessment practices in large-scale mining operations, highlighting the inadequacy of current regulatory approaches, particularly the limited attention given to public health within Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs). Focusing on mineral-rich Ghana, we investigate stakeholder perceptions regarding the adequacy of current EIA policy frameworks in safeguarding public health. Applying Q-methodology, we explore diverse perspectives on policy action, priorities, and the involvement of relevant actors in shaping progressive public health regulation within the mining sector. Our findings offer valuable insights into the policy space and potential strategies for strengthening public health in mining activities, with implications for EIA environmental management practices. Moreover, our findings suggest that the divergent policy preferences uncovered in Ghana highlight key obstacles to greater public health consideration through the inclusion of Health Impacts Assessment (HIA), especially in contexts with limited administrative resources. Our study reveals how roles, responsibilities, and authority over impact assessment and mine licensing processes can significantly shape stakeholder policy preferences toward HIA.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 107817"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From ecological entities to the entire coastal zone: An improved ecological risk assessment methodology in Jiangsu, China

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107826

Jian Fang, Min Xu, Min Wu

{"title":"From ecological entities to the entire coastal zone: An improved ecological risk assessment methodology in Jiangsu, China","authors":"Jian Fang, Min Xu, Min Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107826","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107826","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Coastal ecosystems face disturbances from multiple risk sources. However, few studies have explored how to overcome land–sea heterogeneity in complex coastal zones to quantify ecological risk (ER) and provide spatial insights into the driving mechanisms of ER in coastal zones. This study proposed an improved ecological risk assessment method based on an exposure–consequence framework from natural and anthropogenic risk sources to investigate spatiotemporal changes in the ER of ecological entities along the Jiangsu coastal zone from 2000 to 2022. The ER of ecological entities was fused to the entire coastal zone to realize the risk correlation between them and calculated ER of shore sections by carrying value. The explanatory power and spatial heterogeneity of the driving factors for coastal ER were determined using geographical detector (GeoDetector) and multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) models. For ecological entities, the very low to low-risk of the nature reserves were transferred the most in 2000–2010 (516.7705km<sup>2</sup>). Very low-risk areas of along the entire coastal zone decreased by nearly 50 %; the lower and higher risks areas were transferred to each other due to natural risk. The main driving factors of ER were GDP, underlying surface type, and development intensity, with a tendency for high-impact areas to expand gradually over time. The explanatory power of socio-economic factors was greater than that of natural factors. This novel ecological risk assessment framework elucidates the patterns and drivers of ER in coastal zones and serves as a practical reference for developing effective risk prevention strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 107826"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132530","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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Environmental, socio-cultural, and economic sustainability in care facilities: Evaluating the impact of person-centered building renovation in Aragon, Spain

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Environmental Impact Assessment Review Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107822

Irene González-Fernández, Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno

{"title":"Environmental, socio-cultural, and economic sustainability in care facilities: Evaluating the impact of person-centered building renovation in Aragon, Spain","authors":"Irene González-Fernández, Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno","doi":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107822","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107822","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The increasing aging population, life expectancy, and dependency rates in Spain have led to a growing demand for long-term care places, presenting a significant challenge for care facilities for older people. Transitioning from institutional care homes to a person-centered care model is essential for improving the well-being and quality of life of residents. This paper focuses on Aragon, a region in Spain facing territorial disparities and aging-related issues. The study proposes a holistic sustainability approach that encompasses socio-cultural, environmental, and economic dimensions to evaluate the impact of renovating institutional long-term care facilities into person-centered care environments. The research methodology involves creating a holistic database of care facilities in Aragon and assessing their sustainability through socio-cultural indicators (size, living units, and single rooms) and environmental factors (construction year, energy consumption, and carbon emissions). Several design measures, such as implementing living units and improving insulation, are proposed to evaluate economic sustainability. The findings reveal that 25 % of care facilities need to reduce their capacity, with only 7.7 % having adopted living units. Additionally, over 80 % of the building stock is energy inefficient. Renovating these care facilities in line with a sustainable, person-centered approach is estimated to cost between 101 and 170 million euros. The paper concludes that a holistic approach combining socio-cultural, environmental, and economic sustainability is crucial for implementing a person-centered care model in Aragon's facilities. Furthermore, effective public-private collaboration is needed to ensure equitable access to care services and uphold quality standards that safeguard the well-being of older adults.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":309,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Impact Assessment Review","volume":"112 ","pages":"Article 107822"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143132535","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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