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{"title":"Adoption of multiple sustainable land management practices and its effects on productivity of smallholder maize farmers in Nigeria","authors":"Adetomiwa Kolapo ,&nbsp;Adekunle John Didunyemi ,&nbsp;Oluwatoba John Aniyi ,&nbsp;Oluwatosin Emmanuel Obembe","doi":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100084","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100084","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The problem of land degradation has resulted into low agricultural productivity over the last two decades in Nigeria thus encouraging sustainable land management practices. Thus, we examined the determinants of choice of sustainable land management practices and the factors influencing the adoption of multiple sustainable land management practices including the effects of adoption of sustainable land management practices on maize productivity using endogenous switching regression model (ESRM) in Nigeria. The result of the multivariate probit model found that gender, household size, marital status, farming experience, farm size, years of formal education, access to extension contacts, access to credit and owning a land influenced the maize farmers’ decision to choose between the different sustainable land management practices. The result of the ordered probit model showed that gender, marital status, farming experience, access to extension contacts, access to credit and owning a land influenced farmers decision to adopt multiple sustainable land management practices. Furthermore, the results of the effect of variables such as age, gender, marital status, farming experience, farm size, membership in association and access to extension services translates into increased maize productivity for the maize farmers who adopted sustainable land management practices. The result of the IPWRA showed that adoption of SLMP improves the productivity of the maize farmers. Enacting policy measures that will promote the adoption of SLMP where there is an improvement in farmers having access to financial support and improved extension services towards the smallholder farmers is required.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34479,"journal":{"name":"Resources Environment and Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100084"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666916122000317/pdfft?md5=3a0ea2182b9a25463ef234333dcbd0a3&pid=1-s2.0-S2666916122000317-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43587581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate change adaptation and its impacts on farm income and downside risk exposure","authors":"Chandra Dhakal ,&nbsp;Savin Khadka ,&nbsp;Cheolwoo Park ,&nbsp;Cesar L. Escalante","doi":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Multiple previous reports have established that climate change disproportionately impacts smallholder farmers in developing countries. This study investigates the impact of climate change adaptation, defined by farmers’ decisions to adopt the improved practices to mitigate or reduce the effects of climate change, on crop revenue and revenue risk exposure. We employ the control function approach in an endogenous switching regression framework to account for selection bias. Using the household survey data from Nepal, we find that climate change adaptation positively affects crop revenue and revenue risk reduction. Specifically, climate change adaptation leads to a 21.6% increase in farm revenue and a 6.4% reduction in downside risk exposure, which are robust to several specifications. Counterfactual analysis shows the considerable heterogeneities in the outcomes among adapters and non-adapters. In particular, adapting farm households realize substantial and distinguishable gains in revenues and declines in risk levels relative to their non-adapting peer households. Our findings imply that adapting to climate change can be an effective management practice to mitigate the risks associated with climate change and increase resilience.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34479,"journal":{"name":"Resources Environment and Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100082"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666916122000305/pdfft?md5=94185c0fb9fa5439b3c4870cedbc2fbf&pid=1-s2.0-S2666916122000305-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48310737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reflection of traditional farming operations on the sustainability of the main components of internal and external soils systems in the upstream elevation regions of Mazandaran province, Iran","authors":"Seyyed Akbar Sadaty","doi":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100088","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100088","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Soil is a vital resource and non-renewable biodiversity during a human life, and without soil living in the world is impossible. The results of global research between agricultural soils and community health, thinkers have not yet reached promising results. For this purpose, 10 years of important environmental information consist of; the type of soil texture system process and related factors were received from official centers as well as in a survey (field). In this regard, to evaluate, analyze and conclude the process of the research area, the strategic multidisciplinary model (SMM), Excel and SPSS program were used. The 10-year information trend of the region (heights of the upstream), which was the findings of the operational research, showed that the conventional agricultural situation is not associated with the principle of convergence on the unity of environmental practice. In this multidisciplinary study, the percentage of (PU), clay and silt, (SOC), the ratio of (B/C) and (DRW), (AR) have <strong>decreased</strong>. In contrast to the decrease components, the percentage of sand, and (ND), (TUL), (LLS) has <strong>increased</strong>. So, with such a very strong research strategy in the target area, we were able to provide technical information to politicians and executives about the conventional methods of erosion of the components involved with the operational environment, for agriculture and sustainable natural resources. In the continuation of our efforts, we have been able to change the traditional negative beliefs in the target area of the research, on the components that promote the production of opportunity maker crops (endogenous products) in the upstream elevation regions of Mazandaran province, Iran.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34479,"journal":{"name":"Resources Environment and Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100088"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666916122000330/pdfft?md5=0a8f80ce860091942b3d770b26fdd467&pid=1-s2.0-S2666916122000330-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45260231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"ARIMA-based forecasting of the effects of wildfire on the increasing tree cover trend and recurrence interval of woody encroachment in grazing land","authors":"Mazbahul Ahamad","doi":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Invasive tree removal from grazing lands using costly brush management practices is widely employed. However, wildfire-like natural events can prevent the increasing trend of woody tree encroachment in grazing lands at no cost, instead of cost-oriented prescribed burning. This study aims to estimate the effects of wildfire in 2002 on woody tree encroachment trends during the post-wildfire period (2003–20), as well as the recurrence interval of the encroachment of a wildfire site in the United States. An autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model was employed to forecast the tree cover during the post-wildfire period. We found that the pre-wildfire tree cover was 4.26% of the total area, which decreased to 1.42% immediately after the wildfire. During 2003–20, wildfire contributed to an average lowering of woody-dominated areas of the wildfire site by 6.59%. The wildfire-recovered grazing area was converted to a woody area again after 8 years, which was due to recurring woody encroachment. Therefore, it is critical to implement brush management strategies to stop the recurrence of woody plant encroachment following wildfire.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34479,"journal":{"name":"Resources Environment and Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100091"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666916122000354/pdfft?md5=262bd09165c68d1bce8216b6d87b98c6&pid=1-s2.0-S2666916122000354-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44492465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Air quality valuation using online surveys in three Asian megacities","authors":"Jie-Sheng Tan-Soo ,&nbsp;Eric Finkelstein ,&nbsp;Subhrendu Pattanayak ,&nbsp;Ping Qin ,&nbsp;Xiaobing Zhang ,&nbsp;Marc Jeuland","doi":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Due to worsening air quality across many cities in developing countries, there is an urgent need to consider more aggressive air pollution control measures. Valuation of the benefits of clean air is crucial for establishing the rationale for such policies, but is methodologically challenging, often expensive, and therefore remains limited. This study assesses the potential for more standardized and cost-effective measurement of the demand for air quality improvements, applying a contingent valuation procedure via online surveys, in three Asian megacities facing severe but varying pollution problems — Beijing, Delhi, and Jakarta. The study’s primary contribution is to demonstrate the viability of this approach, which significantly enhances comparability of valuations and their drivers across locations, and thereby has great potential for informing policy analysis and targeting of specific interventions. A second contribution is to supply sorely needed data on the benefits of clean air in these three particular Asian cities, which collectively have a population of about 50 million people. The annual willingness-to-pay for air quality to reach national standards is estimated to be US$150 in Jakarta (where average PM<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mi>2.5</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> concentration, at 45 <span><math><mi>μ</mi></math></span>g/m³, exceeds national standards by the smallest amount, specifically a factor of 1.3), US$1845 in Beijing (PM<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mi>2.5</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> at 58 <span><math><mi>μ</mi></math></span>g/m³, 1.7 times the standard), and US$1760 in Delhi (PM<span><math><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mi>2.5</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> at 133 <span><math><mi>μ</mi></math></span>g/m³, 3.3 times the standard). The methods deployed could be applied more widely to construct a worldwide database of comparable air quality valuations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34479,"journal":{"name":"Resources Environment and Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100090"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666916122000342/pdfft?md5=ddb74fa4d9023c872f03d051263aae19&pid=1-s2.0-S2666916122000342-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47011487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An ontology-based KBE application for supply chain sustainability assessment","authors":"Liang Zhang,&nbsp;Anna Olsen,&nbsp;Andrei Lobov","doi":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100086","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100086","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) plays a key role in digital transformation demanded by Industry 4.0 and life cycle assessment, including sustainability assessment. Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) applications can support PLM by integrating heterogeneous knowledge from different stages throughout the product life. However, the integration of knowledge from different stages and teams can cause misunderstanding if not represented in a unified form. Furthermore, different forms of knowledge used by different software are neither machine-readable nor human-readable, which also sets obstacles to knowledge integration in KBE applications. Supply chain sustainability assessment is such a scenario that entails integrating knowledge from different sources. This paper firstly implements a sustainability assessment method from other scholar to calculate the supply chain sustainability performance and adapts a sustainability assessment ontology for supply chain sustainability assessment. Then, an example KBE application is developed by implementing the sustainability assessment ontology and calculation method to simulate the knowledge sharing and integration between different teams. Finally, through this example application, it is discussed that the implementation of ontology to represent knowledge in PLM application for collaborative tasks like sustainability assessment can increase the efficiency of data sharing and integration. This paper is a proof of concept for the ontology-based framework. This framework can facilitate to represent knowledge but not create new knowledge, which means it can increase the efficiency of the software development, but cannot provide a better calculation method and assessment framework for supply chain sustainability assessment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34479,"journal":{"name":"Resources Environment and Sustainability","volume":"10 ","pages":"Article 100086"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666916122000329/pdfft?md5=9c7b55353feb1cf03ae251e214288ffe&pid=1-s2.0-S2666916122000329-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42524808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Selecting south European wine based on carbon footprint","authors":"Georgios Archimidis Tsalidis ,&nbsp;Zoi-Panagiota Kryona ,&nbsp;Nestor Tsirliganis","doi":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100066","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100066","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The largest wine producers globally are located in Southern Europe and climate is a major factor in wine production. The European Union aims to complement the consumer’s choice for wine with information about environmental sustainability. The carbon footprint is a worldwide-standardized indicator that both wine producers and consumers perceive as the most important environmental indicator. So far, environmental life cycle assessment studies show variability in the system boundaries design and functional unit selection, and review papers do not include life cycle inventory data, and consider vineyards in various locations worldwide. This study aimed to investigate what are the key factors affecting the carbon footprint of red and white wine production in South European countries with the same climatic conditions, and benchmark both wine types. The results showed that the carbon footprints of white and red wines are comparable. The average carbon footprints were 1.02, 1.25, and 1.62 CO₂ eq. bottle of wine ⁻¹ for organic red wine, conventional red wine, and conventional white wine, respectively. The viticulture, winemaking, and packaging stages affect greatly the carbon footprint. Diesel consumption at the viticulture stage, electricity consumption at the viticulture and winemaking stages, and glass production at the packaging stage are the largest contributors to the carbon footprint. Wine consumption stage was omitted from most studies, even though it can increase the carbon footprint by 5%. Our results suggest that consumers should choose (conventional or organic) red wine that is produced locally.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34479,"journal":{"name":"Resources Environment and Sustainability","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100066"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666916122000214/pdfft?md5=c6e75b31c5944cfff79d59b80f61089c&pid=1-s2.0-S2666916122000214-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44598370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Impact evaluation of an energy efficiency network policy programme for industrial SMEs in Sweden","authors":"Ida Johansson ,&nbsp;Simon Johnsson ,&nbsp;Patrik Thollander","doi":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100065","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100065","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Improved energy efficiency is a key factor in the shift towards sustainable energy systems and net zero emissions, both locally, regionally and globally. The total energy efficiency potential in industrial SMEs is high, but despite this large potential for improved energy efficiency, the full potential is not realized due to several barriers to implementation of energy efficiency measures. The barriers vary based on e.g., geographic location, company size, sector, etc., but for industrial SMEs the main barriers are other priorities, lack of time and lack of information about energy efficiency measures. Energy efficiency networks help companies with the support needed to successfully work with energy efficiency on site, such as conducting an energy audit, making an energy and implementation plan, and monitoring the results. However, there is so far a scarcity of ex-post evaluations of energy efficiency network policy programmes. The aim of this paper is to provide an ex-post impact evaluation of a Swedish regional energy efficiency network programme and propose a general method on how to evaluate energy efficiency networks. Results show that the achieved energy efficiency for the evaluated network policy programme is higher than previously evaluated stand-alone energy audit programmes, and that the majority of deployed energy efficiency measures are found among the support processes, such as space heating, ventilation and lighting.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34479,"journal":{"name":"Resources Environment and Sustainability","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100065"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666916122000202/pdfft?md5=186272fb3753c9cc09528b0eae997b42&pid=1-s2.0-S2666916122000202-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48726787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Distributed recycling system with microwave-based heating for obsolete alkaline batteries","authors":"Shoki Kosai ,&nbsp;Daiki Kurogi ,&nbsp;Keita Kozaki ,&nbsp;Eiji Yamasue","doi":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100071","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100071","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the recycling sector, the transition in system networks from centralization to decentralization is an emerging concept. The feasibility to decentralize the recycling of e-waste needs to be analyzed, considering the different characteristics of each municipality. We propose a distributed recycling system for obsolete alkaline batteries using microwave apparatus as a small-scale recycling technology. Firstly, the reactivity of obsolete alkaline batteries with microwave irradiation was empirically examined. In lab-based experiments, pyrometallurgical microwave-based heating successfully separated a mixed sample of Mn₃O₄ and ZnO contained in obsolete alkaline batteries and recovered MnO and Zn separately, achieving a recovery rate of 97% under an ambient atmosphere. It was also found that the recovery rate of zinc obtained by microwave-based heating is 1.5-fold that using conventional electric furnace-based heating, with less than half of the heating time required. The experimental results were then used to analytically determine the energy efficiency of the distributed recycling system for the treatment of obsolete alkaline batteries with microwave apparatus compared with the centralized recycling system. In an analytical study which considered the characteristics of 1710 municipalities in Japan, it was found that an annual energy and greenhouse gas reduction of 26,500 GJ and 1.54 Gg-CO₂eq, respectively, can be achieved at the national level by creating a well-balanced harmony between the centralized and distributed systems. The method applied in this study to determine the effectiveness based on population and intercity transport distance can be readily implemented in any city for the adoption of a distributed recycling system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":34479,"journal":{"name":"Resources Environment and Sustainability","volume":"9 ","pages":"Article 100071"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266691612200024X/pdfft?md5=939f744da0cf1da916bdeed26188690e&pid=1-s2.0-S266691612200024X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47028586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effect of station density in geostatistical prediction of air temperatures in Sweden: A comparison of two interpolation techniques","authors":"E. Njoku, P. E. Akpan, Augustine Edet Effiong, I. Babatunde","doi":"10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resenv.2022.100092","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34479,"journal":{"name":"Resources Environment and Sustainability","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47455874","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}