Wei Shi , Wanli Lian , Shuai Tian , Xueliu Gong , Qiuyu Yu , Zilin Guo , Xin Zhang , Biao Ma , Rongjun Bian , Jufeng Zheng , Kun Cheng , Genxing Pan
{"title":"A review of agronomic and environmental properties of inorganic compounds in biochars","authors":"Wei Shi , Wanli Lian , Shuai Tian , Xueliu Gong , Qiuyu Yu , Zilin Guo , Xin Zhang , Biao Ma , Rongjun Bian , Jufeng Zheng , Kun Cheng , Genxing Pan","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100226","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49710550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Civil society organizations' institutional climate capacity for community-based conservation projects: Characteristics, factors, and issues","authors":"Ravi Sharma","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100218","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49710666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ruiling Ma , Xiulan Wu , Zhiwei Liu , Qi Yi , Man Xu , Jufeng Zheng , Rongjun Bian , Xuhui Zhang , Genxing Pan
{"title":"Biochar improves soil organic carbon stability by shaping the microbial community structures at different soil depths four years after an incorporation in a farmland soil","authors":"Ruiling Ma , Xiulan Wu , Zhiwei Liu , Qi Yi , Man Xu , Jufeng Zheng , Rongjun Bian , Xuhui Zhang , Genxing Pan","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100214","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100214","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49710675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carbon and energy footprint analysis of Hungarian transportation activities using a multi-region input-output model","authors":"Kadhim Abbood, Ferenc Mészáros","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100208","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49710725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fredrick U. Mbanaso , Stephen C. Theophilus , Maureen A. Sam-Ateki , Ernest O. Nnadi , Udeme A. Umoren , Nnedinma Umeokafor
{"title":"Investigation of impact of slow-release fertilizer and struvite on biodegradation rate of diesel-contaminated soils","authors":"Fredrick U. Mbanaso , Stephen C. Theophilus , Maureen A. Sam-Ateki , Ernest O. Nnadi , Udeme A. Umoren , Nnedinma Umeokafor","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100209","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49710738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nathan J. Cook , Tara Grillos , Krister P. Andersson
{"title":"Conservation payments and perceptions of equity: Experimental evidence from Indonesia, Peru, and Tanzania","authors":"Nathan J. Cook , Tara Grillos , Krister P. Andersson","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49732638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Positive matrix factorization-based receptor modelling of particulate matter in northwest India","authors":"Pallavi","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100233","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>India is facing a dearth in the area of particulate matter (PM) source apportionment studies. Frequent exceedances and unusual high concentrations of PM observed in North India further presses the identification and quantification of particulate pollution sources to plan mitigation measures. But most of the PM source apportionment studies performed here are concentrated in and around Delhi, so this paper sets to explore the sources of PM in an understudied region of North India. The present study employed positive matrix factorization (PMF) 5.0 model developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) for source characterisation of particulate matter quantified at Mohali in May 2012. Application of US EPA PMF 5.0 to a hybrid dataset of particulate matter and volatile organic compounds identified seven source factors, namingly, dust, wheat residue burning, biofuel use and waste disposal, mixed daytime, cars, two-wheelers) and industrial emissions and solvent use. The contributions of these individual source factors to PM<sub>10</sub> and PM<sub>2.5</sub> mass loadings were found to be 48.8%, 20.6%, 15.8%, 7.79%, 2.89%, 2.86%, 1.37% and 33.6%, 22.6%, 29.6%, 4.97%, 2.05%, 4.07% and 3.07% respectively. Dust and biomass burning were the major sources of PM in Mohali that contributed relatively highest average concentrations of PM<sub>10</sub> (∼321 μg/m<sup>3</sup>) and PM<sub>2.5</sub> (∼123 μg/m<sup>3</sup>) during morning hours (05:00–10:00 LT) in May 2012. This study reaffirmed the need to check anthropogenic activities and calls for strict air quality measures, especially in May to limit PM emissions in northwest India.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"6 ","pages":"Article 100233"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49709122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Typologies and drivers of the adoption of climate smart agricultural practices by smallholder farmers in rural Ghana","authors":"Philip Antwi-Agyei , Kofi Amanor","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2023.100223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49710585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Perceptions of transdisciplinary research – A comparative case study from Latin America","authors":"Angela Hahn, Sabrina Kirschke, Serena Caucci, Andrea Müller, Lucia Benavides, Tamara Avellán","doi":"10.1016/j.crsust.2022.100207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crsust.2022.100207","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34472,"journal":{"name":"Current Research in Environmental Sustainability","volume":"5 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49732993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}