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Exploring inconsistent and susceptible reservoir storage areas using frequency and rule-based decision tree approach

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101146

Swades Pal , Priyanka Das , Rajesh Sarda

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Dynamics and perceived drivers of land use and cover change in the Kassena-Nankana West district of Ghana

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101154

Philip Aniah , Katherine Kaunza-Nu-Dem Millar , Joseph Nyaaba Akongbangre

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Herding resilience: Surveys and Bayesian spatial models for Africa’s livestock

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101141

Tamás Krisztin , Michiel van Dijk , Philipp Piribauer

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Changes in gross primary productivity: A past and future approach to climate, land use and wildfires in the western Amazon, Brazil

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101150

Caio Gabriel Santos da Cruz , Rafael Coll Delgado , Marcos Gervasio Pereira , Henderson Silva Wanderley

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Urban agriculture and water recycling: A comprehensive outlook on current panorama

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101156

Maicon S.N. dos Santos , João H.C. Wancura , Carolina E.D. Oro , Francisco D. Vezaro , Lissara P. Ody , Marcus V. Tres , Giovani L. Zabot

{"title":"Urban agriculture and water recycling: A comprehensive outlook on current panorama","authors":"Maicon S.N. dos Santos , João H.C. Wancura , Carolina E.D. Oro , Francisco D. Vezaro , Lissara P. Ody , Marcus V. Tres , Giovani L. Zabot","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101156","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101156","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban agriculture (UA) is increasingly recognized for its role in addressing contemporary challenges related to food security, climate change, and urbanization, aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined in the United Nations 2030 Agenda. As urban populations surge, the demand for food, space, and natural resources intensifies. UA emerges as a strategic solution, offering local, sustainable food production while enhancing urban environmental sustainability and resilience. This practice includes growing food and raising animals within or near urban areas, adapting to diverse urban settings worldwide. Nonetheless, one significant challenge is ensuring access to quality water for irrigation, especially in water-scarce regions. This has directed to exploration of wastewater treatment (WWT) as a viable solution. WWT transforms wastewater from urban, industrial, and agricultural areas into a safe resource for irrigation and crop fertilization, conserving water resources and reducing environmental pollution. This strategy contributes to sustainability by conserving water, minimizing pollution, and promoting more sustainable agricultural practices. This study explored the current panorama of WWT application in UA, highlighting its positive impacts on achieving the 2030 Agenda. It underscores the potential of WWT to establish a sustainable and equitable future by addressing water scarcity, enhancing food security, and conserving water resources. Therefore, the work also indicated economic and legislative aspects and recently patented inventions, offering a comprehensive understanding of how these technologies can be successfully integrated into urban agricultural systems to boost food security and conserve water resources.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101156"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158685","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}

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Schoolyard revegetation as a dual mechanism for environmental education and overheat mitigation

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101144

Antonio Serrano-Jiménez , Israel Marques-Valderrama , Rosa Ana Jiménez-Expósito , Carmen Díaz-López , Ángela Barrios-Padura , Marta Molina-Huelva , José Antonio Becerra-Villanueva , Ricardo Chacartegui

{"title":"Schoolyard revegetation as a dual mechanism for environmental education and overheat mitigation","authors":"Antonio Serrano-Jiménez , Israel Marques-Valderrama , Rosa Ana Jiménez-Expósito , Carmen Díaz-López , Ángela Barrios-Padura , Marta Molina-Huelva , José Antonio Becerra-Villanueva , Ricardo Chacartegui","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101144","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101144","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Current research gaps in environmental action guidelines that tackle urban heat island effects and improve environmental education to students are identified in order to address urban and environmental challenges. This research aims to promote revegetation patterns in schoolyards through a scientific-educational strategy of planting trees, thereby increasing the shaded area and promoting environmental activities in schools in warm climates. This study provides a standardised strategy in five phases for the diagnosis, decision-making, proposal, and monitoring of tree planting, which can be replicated in multiple climatic and urban contexts. This study presents a real-life pilot experience that tests and applies this strategy in Itaca secondary school, in Southern Spain, within an H2020-European research project, in which a diagnosis of the schoolyard and an in-situ tree-planting strategy is developed by researchers together with students. The collaborative methodology is based on a multidisciplinary evaluation involving a selection of tree species and their in-situ planting by the students, thereby filling the gap with an action strategy towards greener practices in schools and highlighting key outcomes for upcoming bioclimatic policies. The results confirm an increase in the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) from 0.15 to 0.74 in tree-planting areas, and 91.5% of the 142 participants in the educational community have perceived this tree-planting strategy as highly satisfactory for increasing outdoor comfort. The conclusions reveal multiple insights that contribute to sustainable development goals, based on the environmental education between researchers and students and on the advantages in mitigating the effects of overheating in schoolyards.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101144"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158723","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}

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Using self-affirmation to encourage recycle and reuse behaviors in New York State

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101149

Prerna Shah, Janet Z. Yang

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Green leaders and global change: Uncovering the drivers of corporate environmental sustainability

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101148

Saltanat Suieubayeva , Eduardo Sánchez-García , Javier Martínez-Falcó , Bartolomé Marco-Lajara , Assel Sadenova , Johnny Vicente Montalvo-Falcón

{"title":"Green leaders and global change: Uncovering the drivers of corporate environmental sustainability","authors":"Saltanat Suieubayeva , Eduardo Sánchez-García , Javier Martínez-Falcó , Bartolomé Marco-Lajara , Assel Sadenova , Johnny Vicente Montalvo-Falcón","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101148","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101148","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The growing global pressure for the implementation of sustainable business practices highlights the need for companies, especially those with a significant environmental impact, such as the wine industry, to adopt strategies that promote the transition to a more environmentally friendly economy. The main objective of this research is to examine the impact of green transformational leadership on the environmental performance of wine companies, as well as the role of green organizational culture and green motivation as mediating factors in this relationship. Primary data is analyzed using PLS-SEM technique, which has been obtained from a sample of 196 wine enterprises. The results show positive and significant relationships between the dimensions analyzed, evidencing the influence of effective green leadership on the environmental performance of companies both directly and indirectly, through green organizational culture and green motivation, being underscored how these leaders serve as key change agents in promoting eco-friendly practices and values, and fostering a culture of sustainability within organizations, ensuring that environmental considerations are integral to organizational decision-making processes. This analysis has important theoretical, managerial and policy implications, that underscore the relevance of deepening the analysis of the main factors that reduce the environmental impact of the entrepreneurial activities, of implementing and fostering leadership styles that integrate environmental management into the core of business operations to ensure long-term sustainability of the wine industry, and of developing policies that support green leadership skills development programs to drive the transition to a fully sustainable business environment in both environmental and economic terms.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101148"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143158960","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}

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Predicting and regulating potential zone for heavy metal re-contaminated farmland: Case study in Taiwan

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101147

Jieh-Haur Chen , Mu-Chun Su , Meng-Fen Yeh , Wei-Jen Lin , Tzuyang Yu , Ming-Chung Yeh

{"title":"Predicting and regulating potential zone for heavy metal re-contaminated farmland: Case study in Taiwan","authors":"Jieh-Haur Chen , Mu-Chun Su , Meng-Fen Yeh , Wei-Jen Lin , Tzuyang Yu , Ming-Chung Yeh","doi":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101147","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101147","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Taoyuan City ranks second in Taiwan for land pollution area. Despite government remediation efforts, the dynamic nature of land characteristics continues to present risks of recontamination. This study utilizes the Random Forest (RF) algorithm to predict and manage potential heavy metal recontamination zones in farmland. Key model parameters were identified through a literature review, leveraging a dataset of 1,555 records from Taoyuan City's managed agricultural lands collected over 19 years (2004–2022). The proposed RF model demonstrates exceptional performance, achieving 75.76% accuracy in predicting soil monitoring concentration variations and an outstanding 99.95% accuracy for soil heavy metal concentration increments. It outperforms alternative models, including MLP, SVM, and DT, in establishing prediction thresholds for heavy metal recontamination, such as cadmium (Low: 0.0022, High: 0.0045), copper (Low: 0.1095, High: 0.1826), and zinc (Low: 0.2374, High: 0.5479), measured in mg/kg-day increments. This model provides critical insights into areas susceptible to heavy metal pollution, with a specific focus on cadmium, copper, and zinc contamination. By leveraging its predictive capabilities, authorities can proactively devise and implement strategies to mitigate risks, safeguarding both the environment and public health.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54269,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Development","volume":"54 ","pages":"Article 101147"},"PeriodicalIF":4.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377933","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}

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Sustainability and challenges of renewable energy in ASEAN countries: Insights from the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework

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Environmental Development Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1016/j.envdev.2025.101145

Chengling Yang , Zifeng Lin , Jiapei Li , Chuangbin Chen

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