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{"title":"A new approach for spatial optimization of crop planting structure to balance economic and environmental benefits","authors":"Mengmeng Hu,&nbsp;Huajun Tang,&nbsp;Qiangyi Yu,&nbsp;Wenbin Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>With limited land resources and water scarcity, scientifically optimizing crop layouts is essential for ensuring the sustainable development of agricultural systems. This study introduces a hybrid approach to crop layout optimization in Heilongjiang Province, focusing on planting the most suitable crops in appropriate regions. The approach integrates multi-objective interval parameter programming, life cycle assessment, maximum entropy (MaxEnt), and the dynamic conversion of land use and its effects (Dyna-CLUE) model. The results indicate that slope, population density, and mean temperature of the coldest quarter are the main factors influencing the distribution of rice, maize, and soybeans, respectively. Highly suitable areas for rice cultivation account for 10.3 % of the province's land area, primarily in the Three Rivers Plain. Comparisons of the optimal planting structure from the optimized simulation to the 2021 baseline show that although economic benefits may decrease by 1.7 % to 4.2 %, the crop carbon footprint could be reduced by 9.3 % to 10.7 %. These findings highlight the importance of balancing economic and environmental benefits in optimizing crop structures. Furthermore, the proposed model shifts the focus from quantitative optimization of crop planting to spatial optimization, emphasizing the importance of determining where crops should be planted rather than solely focusing on how much to plant.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"53 ","pages":"Pages 109-124"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143133110","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}

{"title":"Review of the current knowledge and identified gaps in assessing the social and environmental impacts of mining processes in the Lithium Triangle","authors":"Ricardo Gabbay Souza ,&nbsp;Ana Mariele Domingues ,&nbsp;Anna Spindlegger ,&nbsp;Claudia Mair-Bauernfeind ,&nbsp;Florian Part","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.11.031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.11.031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The energy transition is placing an increasing demand on lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Lithium is one of the most important critical minerals, with the largest global reserves located in the Lithium Triangle (LT), a region between Argentina, Bolivia and Chile. The extraction and concentration of lithium from brines in the LT results in high material, water and land consumption, as well as social impacts on local communities. The aim of this study was to analyse the environmental and social impacts of lithium mining in the LT, in order to identify cause-and-effect mechanisms (impact pathways) that will support future decision-making. To gain insight into the interrelationships between environmental and social impacts, a comprehensive literature review was conducted, encompassing life cycle assessment (LCA) and social LCA (SLCA) studies, life cycle inventory (LCI) data collection, systems thinking and causal mapping techniques. The results demonstrate that, while the literature has addressed key environmental impacts, such as water consumption, there is a need for more comprehensive LCIs and updated LCAs to evaluate the broader environmental impacts of lithium processing. This should include more precise estimates of water uptake, a more detailed chemical composition of tailings, and assessing a broader range of impact categories that encompass toxicity and land use. The brine extraction process has been identified as the main cause of several categories of social impact, associated with the areas of protection (AoP) of human health and well-being, social justice, economic stability and prosperity. Indigenous people are particularly vulnerable. The focus of future SLCA should be on a systematic assessment of impacts to these AoPs. Despite of data gaps and resulting uncertainties, SLCA can be a valuable tool for future political and strategic decisions, particularly when addressing the legal framework for mining, and increasing process efficiency in terms of water and land use.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"53 ","pages":"Pages 40-63"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143133141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainable phenol production: Evaluating high phenolic bio-oil from olive pomace via fast pyrolysis combined with chemical and thermochemical pretreatment","authors":"Dimastyaji Yusron Nurseta,&nbsp;Jesus Manuel Garcia-Vargas,&nbsp;Luz Sanchez-Silva","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Phenol manufacturing industries contribute significantly to CO₂ emissions and harmful substances, posing environmental risks and accelerating global warming. To address these issues, sustainable alternatives are needed. This study evaluates the environmental performance of phenolic bio-oil production from olive pomace using chemical and thermochemical pretreatments combined with fast pyrolysis. A process simulation and life cycle assessment (LCA) were conducted with a functional unit of 100 kg/h of phenol to compare environmental impacts. The results show that acid and hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) pretreatments are resource-intensive and emit harmful substances, while torrefaction offers superior environmental performance with lower emissions, higher bio-oil yield, and reduced resource consumption. These findings indicate that torrefaction is a promising, eco-friendly alternative for phenol production from renewable sources like olive pomace.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 75-87"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158668","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}

{"title":"Resource consumption and GHGe of future new construction: Hotspots for mitigation efforts in Denmark","authors":"Buket Tozan,&nbsp;Endrit Hoxha,&nbsp;Christian Grau Sørensen,&nbsp;Harpa Birgisdóttir","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The construction industry, which accounts for 37 % of global greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe), is a crucial sector in which efforts must be made to mitigate such emissions. Understanding future resource demand and related GHGe is essential to pinpointing where these efforts must be concentrated. Based on Denmark, this study aims to estimate future resource consumption and GHGe caused by new buildings annually between 2024 and 2050 and to identify hotspots where mitigation efforts should be focused. Combining spatiotemporal predictions of new construction with life cycle assessments (LCA) of 289 buildings' GHGe, it is found that an average of 6.6 million m² of new buildings are expected to be constructed yearly. This results in an annual use of 7 million tons of resources, i.e., building materials, varying between 2.1 and 13.8 million tons, and the emission of 3 million tons of CO₂e, ranging between 1.5 and 5 million tons. Overall, 91 % of future GHGe is related to embodied emissions. Moreover, of all the new construction considered in the study, residential and office buildings will be responsible for 78.4 % of annual resources and 76.5 % of GHGe between 2024 and 2050. Identified hotspots reveal that mitigation efforts must focus on building-envelope elements for all building typologies, such as roofs, walls, and slabs. Also, three main types of material – mineral products, steel, and insulation materials – contribute significantly to GHGe, indicating the necessity of focusing mitigation on these products in the future.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143159238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reforming plastic packaging regulation: Outcomes from stakeholder interviews and regulatory analysis","authors":"Hope Johnson ,&nbsp;Katherine Keane ,&nbsp;Laura McGillivray ,&nbsp;Afshin Akhtar-Khavari ,&nbsp;Lewis Chambers ,&nbsp;Christopher Barner-Kowollik ,&nbsp;Mark Lauchs ,&nbsp;James Blinco","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Regulators worldwide are considering how to significantly improve the regulation of plastic packaging in response to the world's plastic pollution crisis and the future UN treaty on plastics. In Australia, where plastic packaging regulations have remained largely unchanged for over two decades, the government now aims to introduce comprehensive reforms. This study, which brings together a team of chemists and lawyers, seeks to understand the key reform options and the ways in which these interventions should be designed to ensure accountability and sustainability and avoid unintended consequences. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with twenty-six (26) stakeholders within the plastic packaging sector from leading government, industry and civil society bodies. A qualitative analysis was conducted of the interviews to identify common ground among stakeholders regarding reform options and to develop an understanding of the various issues regulators would need to consider when developing new regulations for plastic packaging. This qualitative component was interlinked to a regulatory analysis of both the broad trends in laws and policies for plastic packaging worldwide and Australia's existing regulatory responses to plastic packaging. Results show that stakeholders commonly agree on several regulatory interventions, but that each intervention brings a host of complexities within the current system that regulators will need to address to ensure success. This paper's findings are valuable for actors seeking to improve plastic packaging regulation within their own jurisdiction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 52-63"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating industry 4.0 for enhanced sustainability: Pathways and prospects","authors":"M. Imran Khan ,&nbsp;Tabassam Yasmeen ,&nbsp;Mushtaq Khan ,&nbsp;Noor Ul Hadi ,&nbsp;Muhammad Asif ,&nbsp;Muhammad Farooq ,&nbsp;Sami G. Al-Ghamdi","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0), characterized by the integration of advanced digital technologies and intelligent systems, presents a transformative opportunity for achieving sustainable manufacturing. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of how Industry 4.0 technologies, such as artificial intelligence, the Industrial Internet of Things, blockchain, digital twins, big data analytics, advanced robotics, and additive manufacturing, can be leveraged to foster environmentally responsible, socially equitable, and economically viable industrial practices. The study examines the impact of these technologies across diverse industrial sectors and evaluates their effects on the three pillars of sustainability: environmental, economic, and social. Specifically, the study identifies the manufacturing processes that most benefit from Industry 4.0, including resource efficiency, waste minimization, and supply chain optimization. It identifies key areas of manufacturing that stand to benefit, such as resource efficiency, waste reduction, and supply chain optimization. The analysis reveals that the enhanced connectivity and real-time data processing capabilities of Industry 4.0 technologies - such as real-time data acquisition, predictive maintenance and closed-loop manufacturing - improve supply chain transparency, enhance operational efficiency, reduce energy consumption, and promote the circular economy - leading to positive economic, and environmental outcomes. These advancements drive positive social outcomes, including improved workforce safety, the creation of new skill-based jobs, and more equitable access to digital infrastructure. However, the study also highlights that while these technologies can improve resource efficiency and reduce environmental impacts, their widespread implementation may also intensify social challenges, such as job displacement and inequality, and exacerbate environmental trade-offs, particularly in energy consumption. To navigate these complexities, the study proposes an integrative framework that encompasses technological, cultural, and policy dimensions, providing a valuable roadmap for aligning Industry 4.0 advancements with robust governance mechanisms and fostering a culture of sustainability within organizations and society at large.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 149-189"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143159338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate IMPACT of EU building materials: Data compilation and statistical analysis of global warming potential in environmental product declarations","authors":"Endrit Hoxha ,&nbsp;Harpa Birgisdottir ,&nbsp;Martin Röck","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Knowledge about and the management of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with the production and processing of building materials play a critical role in mitigating the construction sector's climate impact. However, crucial data on the GHG emissions intensity of various construction products remain challenging for practitioners and researchers to access, as it is scattered across decentralized databases. This study compiles and analyses GHG emissions data for construction products from the 27 European Union (EU-27) member states. A unified database was developed by aggregating Global Warming Potential (GWP) scores from publicly available Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). Descriptive statistics were applied to analyse GWP results across four regions and each EU-27 country by categorizing construction products into various distinct groups. The study demonstrates the feasibility of consolidating building materials and products into twelve distinct categories. Among these materials, aluminium exhibits the highest GWP average score at 21 kg CO2e/kg, while concrete has the lowest at 0.09 kg CO2e/kg. Most variation coefficients fall within the range of 33 % to 80 %. Overall, the raw material supply stage (A1) contributes 80 % of the total GWP, followed by transport (A2) at 1 %, production (A3) at 7 %, transport (A4) at 3 %, construction (A5) at 3 %, the use phase (B1-B3) at less than 1 %, waste processing (C3) at 1 %, and disposal (C4) at 3 %. The findings of this study are critical for modelling the embodied and whole life-cycle GHG emissions of buildings and building stocks across Europe.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 64-74"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unveiling the microplastics degradation and its transformative effects on soil nutrient dynamics and plant health – A systematic review","authors":"Abdul Rehman ,&nbsp;Shan Zhong ,&nbsp;Daolin Du ,&nbsp;Xiaojun Zheng ,&nbsp;Muhammad Saleem Arif ,&nbsp;Samra Ijaz ,&nbsp;Muhammad Raza Farooq","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.018","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.018","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A growing web of microplastic pollution and a long human love affair with plastic use could leave a hidden legacy that silently suffocates the ecological balance and disrupts the soil-plant nexus. Therefore, the present systematic review aims to provide an updated understanding on microplastics transformation in soil via various degradation mechanisms affecting nutrient dynamics and plant health, with important perspectives for future research. A query comprising of potent keywords was run on pronounced databases, and retrieved records were screened out using PRISMA guidelines considering recent research advances. Microplastics are persistent and take a long time to degrade due to their polymeric structure. However, photochemical and microbial degradation remained in the foreground, whereby the degradation of microplastics by fungi is estimated to be higher than the bacteria. The presence of microplastics favors increased microbial activity and altered soil physicochemical properties, which can disrupt nutrient dynamics. Despite slow mineralization, microplastics containing a considerable amount of carbon can alter the C/N ratio and microbial interaction. Microplastics led to a notable rise in the diversity of soil microbes responsible for N-fixation and P-solubilization. Furthermore, plant health can also be directly affected by the uptake of secondary microplastics via roots or stomata and/or indirectly by microplastic-induced alteration in soil properties, microbial activities, and/or nutrient dynamics. The ecotoxicity of microplastics may depend on the type of soil, polymer, and plant species types, but clear effects on growth parameters, photosynthesis, the antioxidant system, and enzymatic activities. Finally, research gaps are highlighted as an outlook for future studies on the complexity of soil ecosystems, plant health, and food security in response to microplastics pollution.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 25-42"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158669","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}

{"title":"Is it food or is it waste? Determinants of decisions to throw food away","authors":"Anita Eves ,&nbsp;Bora Kim ,&nbsp;Charo Hodgkins ,&nbsp;Monique Raats ,&nbsp;Lada Timotijevic","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.016","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.016","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Domestic ‘Food waste’ is influenced by a complex interplay of contextual and cultural factors and is often preventable. Despite being the largest source of food waste, it remains under-researched and food disposal decisions, even less so. The study employed a realistic scenario-based approach within a questionnaire administered to a nationally representative sample of United Kingdom consumers (<em>n</em> = 2046). It investigated possible influences on food disposal decisions for a variety of foods, including optimistic bias, place attachment, trust in government and food involvement. Results showed that a large proportion of food may be thrown away, including food that, in principle, would be safe to eat. The multifaceted nature of food waste decisions was unveiled, including the significant role of less-studied predictors, including optimistic bias, which 60 % of respondents exhibited. These people were significantly (up to three times) more likely to throw some foods away. Ongoing confusion over the meaning of durability indicators was also shown, suggesting that food waste might result from ill-informed food disposal decisions in the home, vindicating the removal of best-before dates. The need for behaviour-change communications to appropriately benchmark levels of personal food waste was identified, so that people recognise their role in waste production and, thus, can contribute to the United Nations Sustainability Development Goal 12.3 of Responsible Consumption and Production.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 43-51"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Quantifying uncertainties in absolute environmental sustainability assessment: A general framework applied to French electricity production","authors":"Gonzalo Puig-Samper ,&nbsp;Mikołaj Owsianiak ,&nbsp;Julie Clavreul ,&nbsp;Camille Jeandaux ,&nbsp;Anne Prieur-Vernat ,&nbsp;Natacha Gondran","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2024.12.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Assessing the environmental performance of products and systems from an absolute perspective, in relation to the Earth's carrying capacities, is highly uncertain. This is mainly due to value-based choices that must be made to downscale carrying capacities to the assessed activity, often making assessment results highly dependent on one's interpretation of distributive justice. We present a framework for evaluating uncertainties in the downscaling of carrying capacities in absolute environmental sustainability assessment (AESA) of products and systems. The framework considers 19 possible approaches to share carrying capacities, grounded in four theories of distributive justice (like egalitarianism and utilitarianism) and seven enacting metrics, such as final consumption expenditure or prior emissions. Application to French power using the PB-LCIA impact assessment method showed that impact scores were statistically significantly higher than the downscaled carrying capacity (i.e., frequency of no-transgression ≤0.95) in seven out of ten planetary boundaries. For example, the median biosphere integrity impact score with a 90 % uncertainty interval was 0.0081 (0.0047–0.012) % of biodiversity intactness index (BII) loss, as opposed to the median downscaled planetary boundary equal to 0.0032 (0.00032–0.017) % BII loss, corresponding to a frequency of no-transgression equal to 0.21. This highlights the need to consider uncertainty in AESA of products and systems for more robust quantification of their performance, and setting better-grounded reduction targets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"54 ","pages":"Pages 12-24"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143159239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}