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{"title":"Economic, ecological and social perspectives of industrial hemp cultivation in Germany: A qualitative analysis.","authors":"Marius Michels, Adrian Brinkmann, Oliver Mußhoff","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126117","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126117","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hemp cultivation is experiencing a resurgence in Europe, with the European Commission identifying it as a strategic crop for achieving Green Deal objectives. This study investigates opportunities and challenges of hemp cultivation from German farmers' perspectives across all three sustainability pillars. We conducted qualitative interviews with 14 agricultural enterprises across northern Germany in 2024, analyzing data through deductive category formation. Economic findings reveal opportunities through diversified revenue streams and reduced input costs, though scale requirements and market uncertainties present challenges. Ecologically, farmers confirm hemp's benefits for soil health and reduced chemical inputs, while noting specific management requirements for water and soil conditions. Social acceptance is improving when hemp is effectively distinguished from the drug cannabis, though regulations and conservative attitudes remain barriers for adoption. Success in hemp cultivation requires establishing stable market structures, developing region-specific management practices, and implementing effective knowledge transfer programs. This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of European farmers' experiences with hemp cultivation and offers practical insights for policymakers, farmers, and industry stakeholders while connecting farmer perspectives with European Green Deal objectives.</p>","PeriodicalId":356,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"389 ","pages":"126117"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144293087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Sustainable technological innovations in agriculture: Financial challenges and investment priorities under the European Green Deal.","authors":"Francisco José Castillo-Díaz, Luis J Belmonte-Ureña, Francisco Jesús Gálvez-Sánchez, Francisco Camacho-Ferre","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126150","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126150","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study explores the important financial challenges faced by Spanish agricultural and livestock companies to meet stringent environmental regulations without compromising their competitiveness. Using a Delphi method integrated with a systematic literature review, the research identifies key sustainable technological innovations (STIs) that require significant financial investment. Priority STIs include renewable energy sources, water use efficiency, by-product management, alternative fertilizers, and digital technologies, among others, each of which plays a key role in mitigating environmental impacts and aligning with overarching European sustainability frameworks, notably the European Green Deal and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The findings support the formulation of specific policy recommendations aimed at overcoming the financial constraints that hinder the adoption of STIs. These include designing progressive financing schemes, launching green credit lines with subsidized interest rates, and increasing agri-environmental subsidies linked to STIs adoption. Furthermore, the study advocates the expansion of public-private investment frameworks and the establishment of technical advisory services to support producers in the selection, integration and implementation of appropriate technologies. These measures are essential to reduce economic barriers and accelerate the sector's technological transition to greater environmental and economic resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":356,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"389 ","pages":"126150"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144293137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"The impact of green finance reform and innovation pilot zones on corporate pollution and carbon reduction: From the perspective of dual objective constraints.","authors":"Min Fan, Weixuan Liu, Di Yao","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126110","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126110","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper explores the impact of green finance reform and innovation pilot zones on corporate pollution and carbon reduction based on panel data of A-share listed enterprises from 2010 to 2022. The study finds that green finance reform and innovation pilot zones promote the synergistic effects of corporate pollution and carbon reduction, with mechanisms such as alleviating financing constraints, promoting environmental investment, and enhancing green technological innovation playing important roles. The effects are more pronounced for heavily polluting enterprises, high-tech enterprises, and enterprises cities in low-carbon pilot with environmental courts and eastern area. Under effective economic and environmental objective constraints, green finance reform and innovation pilot zones will provide greater \"acceleration\" for corporate pollution and carbon reduction. The study indicates that green financing serves as a viable strategy to enhance the combined impact of corporate efforts in reducing both pollution and carbon emissions. It also represents a practical approach to simultaneously achieving economic development and ecological environmental goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":356,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"389 ","pages":"126110"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144293138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Auto-photocatalytic valorization of ZnS into ZnS/ZnO nanocomposite using O₃/UV oxidation for photocatalytic dye degradation.","authors":"Jamshid Behin, Pegah Amiri, Sahar Ghabaee","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126166","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126166","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Cost-effective valorization of zinc sulfide (ZnS), by-product from desulfurization of zinc oxide (ZnO), poses a significant challenge due to energy requirement under high temperature and reaction time. This study introduces an innovative synthesis of ZnS/ZnO nanocomposites (NCs) from ZnS nanoparticles (NPs) for environmental remediation. Aqueous colloidal solution of ZnS NPs (10 g/L) was oxidized in an airlift photoreactor (5 L) at room-temperature using ozone (O₃) and ozone/ultraviolet (O₃/UV), respectively. The effects of pH (3-11), time (10-90 min), and oxidation modes were explored on oxygen content (OC) of NCs. The optimization results using RSM showed that higher pHs and longer reaction times led to increased OC of NCs up to 7.14 and 11.12 wt% in O₃ and O₃/UV oxidation, respectively. Interaction of O₃/UV and ZnS exerts a dual-effect involving O₃-induced oxidation of ZnS, and promoted-photocatalytic role of ZnS precursor (auto-photocatalytic effect). This effect facilitates ZnS to ZnO conversion and enhances reaction kinetics across a broader pH range. Optical bandgap analysis revealed a decrease in the bandgap energy from 3.70 eV for ZnS NPs to 3.41 eV for ZnS/ZnO NCs synthesized under O₃/UV (pH: 11 and time: 90 min). The proposed method was subsequently applied to spent ZnS NPs, yielding in ZnS/ZnO NCs with an OC of 9.32 wt%. The NCs synthesized from virgin and spent ZnS NPs were used for photocatalytic degradation of Congo red dye and the efficiencies of 91 and 98 % were achieved, respectively. Both NCs demonstrated reusable and environmentally friendly waste valorization, retaining 62-72 % efficiency after four recycling cycles. Cost-effectiveness of the suggested approach was also demonstrated in photocatalytic dye degradation.</p>","PeriodicalId":356,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"389 ","pages":"126166"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144300903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Performance analysis of machine learning algorithms for the prediction of disinfection byproducts formation during chlorination: Effect of background water characteristics.","authors":"Gamze Ersan, Eda Goz, Tanju Karanfil","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126144","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126144","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated the comparison of the nonlinear machine learning algorithms and linear regression models to predict the formation of trihalomethanes (THM4), haloacetic acids (HAA5 and HAA9), and haloacetonitriles (HAN4 and HAN6) under uniform formation conditions in chlorinated waters. A wide range of water sources including wastewater effluent organic matters (EfOM), laboratory grown algal organic matters (AOM) samples from different algal species, and raw/treated/isolated natural organic matter (NOM) samples were selected to investigate background water effect on the model performance. Models for THM4, HAA5, HAA9, HAN4 and HAN6 formation were developed for all water sources combined (including NOM, AOM, and EfOM-impacted waters) and for NOM separately. The results showed that Least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) delivered the best performance for both regulated THM (R²_train/R²_test: 0.92/0.80) and HAA5 (R²_train/R²_test: 0.91/0.72), while Kernel extreme learning machine (KELM) outperformed the other models for unregulated HAN4 (R²_train/R²_test: 0.89/0.70) and HAN6 (R²_train/R²_test: 0.91/0.41), across all water sources. For individual NOM waters, the Artificial neural network (ANN) model outperformed in predicting THMs (R²_train/R²_test: 0.97/0.94), HAA9 (R²_train/R²_test: 0.92/0.84), HAN4 (R²_train/R²_test: 0.98/0.96), and HAN6 (R²_train/R²_test: 0.98/0.89), emphasizing its ability to generalize across narrower, more specific datasets. This suggests that while LS-SVM and KELM models are more effective for both regulated and unregulated disinfection byproducts (DBPs) modeling as the variability in water source characteristics increases, the ANN model excels for more homogeneous DBP precursor types. These findings indicate the importance of selecting the appropriate modeling approach and the characteristics of the datasets for DBP modeling.</p>","PeriodicalId":356,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"389 ","pages":"126144"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144300915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"The impact of cyber threats on environmental, social, and governance performance.","authors":"Kaouther Chebbi","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126184","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126184","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates the relationship between cybersecurity risk and corporate Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance, with a particular focus on the moderating role of CEO duality in shaping strategic responses to digital threats. Drawing on a large sample of 14,036 firm-year observations from U.S.-listed firms between 2005 and 2018, we find that heightened exposure to cybersecurity risk is significantly associated with improved ESG performance, particularly in the environmental dimension. Our results further indicate that this positive association is amplified in firms where the CEO also serves as the board chair, suggesting that centralized leadership structures enhance strategic agility and resource allocation in response to emerging risks. We address potential endogeneity concerns using robust econometric techniques, including two-stage least squares (2SLS) and Heckman selection models, confirming the reliability of our findings. These insights extend current ESG frameworks by incorporating digital resilience as an emerging driver of sustainability performance and enrich governance theory by highlighting the contextual influence of CEO duality on risk management strategies. The study offers practical implications for corporate leaders, investors, and policymakers. Firms can leverage cybersecurity risk management as a catalyst for strengthening ESG practices, particularly in sectors exposed to high digital risks. Governance structures that enable swift decision-making may enhance firms' capacity to align cybersecurity and sustainability goals. Policymakers are encouraged to consider integrating cybersecurity metrics into ESG disclosure frameworks to promote more comprehensive corporate accountability and resilience in the digital era.</p>","PeriodicalId":356,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"389 ","pages":"126184"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144324077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Advantages of marketable habitat enhancement plants for pollinator protection notably in low-and middle-income countries.","authors":"Stefanie Christmann, Youssef Bencharki, Ahlam Sentil, Moulay Chrif Smaili, Axel Ssymank, Athanasios Tsivelikas, Aden Aw-Hassan","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126088","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126088","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The decline of pollinators is reported worldwide. The most widely promoted protection approach, wildflower strips, is disliked by farmers and therefore often supported by agroecological schemes. They can neither bend pollinator decline in the European Union nor is this approach affordable for the Global South. Wildflower strips address pollinator decline at the level of plant-pollinator networks, while in the Anthropocene, humans are the crucial factor. Therefore, we tested an alternative approach, Farming with Alternative Pollinators (FAP), which focusses on humans' interests, e.g. productivity, income, and pest control as farmers' interests. Based on 31 trials in 233 smallholder fields in four very different agroecosystems with seven main crops and 27 marketable habitat enhancement plants (MHEP) and an ex-post farmer survey in Morocco, we analyzed the potential of MHEP to sustain diverse flower visitors, promote pest control and adoption by farmers. The four agroecosystems are common across the Mediterranean region. MHEP attracted higher diversity and abundance of flower visitors and natural enemies over a prolonged flowering period. MHEP supported pest control by push-pull effects. 68 % of FAP farmers adopted their use. Some MHEP have been identified as best performing both by scientists and farmers, so that in Morocco, the antagonism between scientists requesting pollinator protection and farmers insisting on business requirements has been minimized. We recommend similar multidisciplinary studies for more regions to clarify whether, in the long-term and globally, MHEP and the FAP approach could promote pollinator protection more economically and effectively than wildflower strips and agroecological schemes.</p>","PeriodicalId":356,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"389 ","pages":"126088"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144339772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Multivariate statistic validation of pH and ORP data as control inputs for biological nitrogen removal at full scale.","authors":"A Robles, D Aguado, A Ríos-Mejía, J P Gallardo-Mejías, L Pastor, M V Ruano","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126255","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126255","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The objective of this study was to validate oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) and pH as input data for different advanced control strategies aimed at optimizing biological nitrogen removal under minimum aeration energy demand. For this purpose, a statistical multivariate projection approach was applied to different control inputs calculated from on-line ORP and pH data provided by several sensors installed in different locations of a full-scale plug-flow reactor, aiming to find the strongest correlations with the data provided by nitrogen-based sensors. It has been shown that pH and ORP data can be used as control inputs for optimizing the performance of continuous nitrification, SND, and denitrification processes. Specifically, the controllers were implemented based on the derivative signals from pH and ORP instead of on their absolute values. Multivariate projection methods have displayed and evidenced strong correlations of derivative pH and ORP data with the data obtained from nitrogen-based sensors. Moreover, pH and ORP derivative signals enhance the controller's resilience to sensor faults and data biases, as these signals are less affected by these issues compared to absolute signals and signal differences from different locations along the biological process.</p>","PeriodicalId":356,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"389 ","pages":"126255"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144336161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Inter-basin water transfer and water security: A landscape sustainability science perspective.","authors":"Xin Wang, Zhifeng Liu, Jianguo Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126326","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126326","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inter-basin water transfer (IBWT) projects have been implemented worldwide as a strategy to enhance water security. However, there have been increasing concerns about the unsustainability of such projects due to their environmental and socioeconomic impacts. This study aims to provide a state-of-the-science overview of sustainability assessments of IBWT, with the objectives of identifying key knowledge gaps and suggesting future research directions. Through a systematic review of 232 publications on this subject, we synthesized environmental, socio-cultural, and economic gains and losses of IBWT for both the donor (or source) and recipient basins. Our results show that most of the IBWT sustainability-related studies were from Asia and North America, with China contributing the largest share. These studies predominantly focused on a single dimension of sustainability-environmental, economic, or social. The findings suggest that IBWT projects influence the sustainability of both the donor and recipient basins in diverse and context-dependent ways. We identify three major knowledge gaps: limited understanding of the underlying environmental and social processes, insufficient multiscale and holistic perspectives, and the lack of robust, integrated sustainability assessment methods. To help fill the gaps, we propose a framework for assessing the sustainability of IBWT projects from a landscape sustainability science perspective. This new framework considers both the donor and recipient basins as an integrative regional social-ecological system, with a dynamic relationship between landscape patterns and ecosystem services mediated by water transfer.</p>","PeriodicalId":356,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"390 ","pages":"126326"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144525731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}

{"title":"Is green an effective signal for investors? Impacts of corporate environmental performance on debt financing cost.","authors":"Jiayang Shi, Yuanchun Zhou, Qi Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126152","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126152","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Companies are under growing pressure from diverse stakeholders to meet environmental requirements, which is likely to influence the expectations and decision-making of investors. However, the gap between assessed corporate environmental performance and investors' focus, along with potential corporate greenwashing issues, poses obstacles to accurately evaluating the impact of corporate environmental performance on investment decisions. While existing institutions and studies have attempted to develop environmental performance evaluation systems, many of them rely heavily on self-reported data or symbolic metrics and emphasize voluntary initiatives or process-oriented indicators, which are susceptible to greenwashing practices and fail to reflect actual compliance risks. To address these limitations, this study constructs a novel evaluation framework grounded in regulatory compliance pressures, utilizing authoritative government data to minimize information distortion and enhance objectivity. After assessing the environmental performance of listed companies from 2018 to 2020, we further estimate the impact of corporate environmental performance on financing costs to explore how environmental factors affect investment decisions. Our findings reveal that companies with higher ratings benefit from lower debt financing costs, indicating that firms with superior environmental performance may attract more investor favor. This study demonstrates the significant role of corporate environmental performance in shaping investor decision-making and highlights the necessity of accurately assessing corporate environmental performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":356,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Environmental Management","volume":"389 ","pages":"126152"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144293093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"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}