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Reducing coal use is key to curbing toxic trace elements emissions in China driven by carbon neutrality policy 在碳中和政策的推动下,减少煤炭的使用是遏制中国有毒微量元素排放的关键
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.102965
Yujie Pan , Xiaorui Liu , Chaoyi Guo , Yaqing Guo , Emily Welsch , Zhuoer Feng , Xiaotian Ma , Guowangchen Liu , Meng Xu , Hancheng Dai
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Coping with decarbonisation: An inventory of strategies from resistance to transformation 应对去碳化:从抵制到转变的战略盘点
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.102968
Marie Claire Brisbois , Roberto Cantoni
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Environmental impacts and food loss and waste in the U.S. aquatic food system 美国水生食物系统的环境影响、食物损失和浪费
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-01-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.102964
David C. Love , Mark Brown , Silvio Viglia , Frank Asche , Jillian Fry , Taryn M. Garlock , Lekelia D. Jenkins , Ly Nguyen , James Anderson , Elizabeth M. Nussbaumer , Roni Neff
{"title":"Environmental impacts and food loss and waste in the U.S. aquatic food system","authors":"David C. Love ,&nbsp;Mark Brown ,&nbsp;Silvio Viglia ,&nbsp;Frank Asche ,&nbsp;Jillian Fry ,&nbsp;Taryn M. Garlock ,&nbsp;Lekelia D. Jenkins ,&nbsp;Ly Nguyen ,&nbsp;James Anderson ,&nbsp;Elizabeth M. Nussbaumer ,&nbsp;Roni Neff","doi":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.102964","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2025.102964","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Aquatic food systems support global food and nutrition security, livelihoods, and economies, but put significant environmental pressure on the planet. The United States (U.S.) is the world’s fourth largest consumer and the largest importer of aquatic food, which makes it a good case for studying aquatic food systems. Here, we estimate the energy use, greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe) and blue water use by species, production method, product form, and stage of the U.S. supply chain, while accounting for trade and food loss and waste. We identified wide variation across species for energy use (40.2 to 259.1 MJ/kg), GHGe (3.7 to 22.2 kg CO2 eq/kg), and blue water use (15.8 to 1,851 l/kg). Capture fisheries and aquaculture on average used similar amounts of energy per unit of edible aquatic food; however, aquaculture emitted 54 % more GHGe and consumed 784 % more blue water than capture fisheries, due to the high GHGe and blue water intensity of aquaculture feed. Products with the lowest energy use were canned, fresh, and frozen sockeye salmon, frozen pollock, and frozen catfish. Products with the lowest GHGe were canned, fresh, and frozen sockeye salmon, frozen pollock, canned and frozen tuna, and frozen Atlantic salmon, All wild caught species had significantly lower blue water use impacts than farmed products. The production stage had the largest environmental impacts, but measuring production alone would miss 64 % of the energy, 36 % of the GHGe, and 21 % of the blue water used in the remainder of the supply chain. The processing stage was an important contributor to resource use for species with energy and water efficient production practices. Aquatic food in the U.S. supply is lost and wasted at an overall rate of 23 %; lost and wasted seafood contains 22 % to 24 % of the embodied energy, GHGe, and blue water in aquatic food systems. Compared to findings identified in the literature, aquatic foods in this study were lower in GHGe than beef, had a range of GHGe that extended above and below pork and poultry, and had higher GHGe than most legumes, and nuts. Estimating the environmental impacts and food loss and waste in the U.S. aquatic food system can help identify opportunities to enhance sustainability and resilience and support science communication about lower-impact foods and dietary patterns.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":328,"journal":{"name":"Global Environmental Change","volume":"90 ","pages":"Article 102964"},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143180950","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}
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The financialization of rivers: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) subsidized hydropower in the Mekong Region’s basins at risk 河流的金融化:清洁发展机制(CDM)资助了湄公河地区处于危险中的流域的水电
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2025-01-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102962
Stew Motta , Isabella Böck , Johanna Koehler , Aaron T. Wolf , Philipp Pattberg
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Adaptive capacities of inland fisheries facing anthropogenic pressures 面对人为压力的内陆渔业适应能力
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2024-12-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102949
Gretchen L. Stokes , Samuel J. Smidt , Emily L. Tucker , Matteo Cleary , Simon Funge-Smith , John Valbo‐Jørgensen , Benjamin S. Lowe , Abigail J. Lynch
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Climate change in Africa: Impacts, adaptation, and policy responses 非洲的气候变化:影响、适应和政策应对
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2024-12-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102912
Lotsmart Fonjong , Frank Matose , David A. Sonnenfeld
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Carbon territoriality at the land-water interface 水陆交界处的碳领地
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102954
Michelle Ann Miller
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Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally 气候变化信息可促进全球对气候行动的支持
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102951
Matthew T. Ballew , Laura Thomas-Walters , Matthew H. Goldberg , Marija Verner , Jessica Lu , John Marshall , Seth A. Rosenthal , Anthony Leiserowitz
{"title":"Climate change messages can promote support for climate action globally","authors":"Matthew T. Ballew ,&nbsp;Laura Thomas-Walters ,&nbsp;Matthew H. Goldberg ,&nbsp;Marija Verner ,&nbsp;Jessica Lu ,&nbsp;John Marshall ,&nbsp;Seth A. Rosenthal ,&nbsp;Anthony Leiserowitz","doi":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102951","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102951","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate change communication campaigns can reach many audiences cost-effectively. However, some climate messages may not work universally as there may be heterogeneity in message effects across audiences. An online experiment (<em>N</em> = 57,968) across 23 countries found that three climate messages had modest positive effects on support for climate action. An “Urgency &amp; Generational” message had the strongest effect overall and had, on average, stronger effects in countries with lower baseline support for climate action (e.g., developed countries, democratic countries). While the size of this message’s positive effects varied across countries, effects were positive across all audience subgroups investigated and there was no evidence of backfire effects. For instance, this message had positive effects across the political spectrum and effects were marginally stronger among the political Right. Although the average message effects were small, the results indicate that, when deployed at a large scale, climate change messages have the potential to strengthen public support for climate action.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":328,"journal":{"name":"Global Environmental Change","volume":"90 ","pages":"Article 102951"},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142698108","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}
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Habitability for a connected, unequal and changing world 互联、不平等和不断变化的世界的宜居性
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2024-11-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102953
Harald Sterly , Marion Borderon , Patrick Sakdapolrak , Neil Adger , Ayansina Ayanlade , Alassane Bah , Julia Blocher , Suzy Blondin , Sidy Boly , Timothée Brochier , Loïc Brüning , Simon Bunchuay-Peth , David O’Byrne , Ricardo Safra De Campos , Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe , Florian Debève , Adrien Detges , Maria Franco-Gavonel , Claire Hathaway , Nikki Funke , Caroline Zickgraf
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The curve: An ethnography of projecting sea level rise under uncertainty 曲线:在不确定情况下预测海平面上升的人种学研究
IF 8.6 1区 环境科学与生态学
Global Environmental Change Pub Date : 2024-11-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102947
Jessica O’Reilly , Michael Oppenheimer
{"title":"The curve: An ethnography of projecting sea level rise under uncertainty","authors":"Jessica O’Reilly ,&nbsp;Michael Oppenheimer","doi":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102947","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2024.102947","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing from a multiyear series of interviews with sea level rise assessors during the development of IPCC’s Working Group I volume of the Sixth Assessment Report—the first time access had been granted to researchers to observe the IPCC process—this article analyzes the social and epistemic challenges and tools (both technical and social) involved in assessing complex, uncertain science questions. This study shows that “the curve”, a representation of future sea level rise, is an example of the human dimensions of the science/policy interaction in three ways. First, IPCC authors’ experiences demonstrate that it is not just the communicative outcomes or political feedback from assessment reports that matter, but also the social and expert processes that produce these assessments. Attempting new assessment techniques to improve understandings of climate science can also improve broader society’s understanding of climate science, impacts and solutions. Second, the human side of global environmental assessments influences the credibility of these organizations. Expert authors accept these volunteer jobs for multiple reasons but their perception of the social experience of assessment influences their buy-in, and ultimately, the legitimacy of the organization. Third, the IPCC is increasingly formalizing its procedures for figure design and generally supports author experimentation with figures. However, less is known about how the social dynamics of chapter teams influences figure design and other assessment elements: we demonstrate this through our ethnographic analysis of the creation of curve figure and text box. The IPCC is a living, breathing organization: assessment work is not formulaic. To understand the science decisions in the report, we must understand how these decisions were made.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":328,"journal":{"name":"Global Environmental Change","volume":"89 ","pages":"Article 102947"},"PeriodicalIF":8.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142663187","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}
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