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{"title":"Spatio-temporal Dynamics of Water Footprints of Food Consumption in South Korea: A Decomposition Analysis.","authors":"Qudus Adeyi, Bashir Adelodun, Golden Odey, Kyung Sook Choi","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02151-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02151-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>South Korea faces severe water stress, as classified by the OECD, with changing dietary patterns significantly impacting water resources. To ensure water conservation and food security, it is crucial to understand the driving factors of the water footprint of food consumption (WFC). This study examined the WFC in South Korea from 2007 to 2023, focusing on how dietary choices impact water use and sustainability, and identified the key driving factors of changes in WFC. Using the logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI), this study decomposed these drivers into water footprint intensity, dietary structure, average dietary intake per person, and population effect. Additionally, global and local spatial autocorrelation analyses were used to measure the degree of spatial aggregation and distribution of WFC across administrative units. Results revealed a significant increase in WFC, from 27.6 km³ in 2007 to 34.7 km³ in 2023, with an average annual growth of 2%. Among the drivers, water footprint intensity contributed most to the increase in WFC, while average dietary intake per person led to a decrease. Cereals, meats and fish collectively account for more than 76% of the total WFC during the study period. The findings suggest that the drivers influencing the changes in WFC vary across administrative units, underscoring the need for tailored policies and strategies to promote sustainable food consumption practices that could conserve water resources in each administrative unit.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143750612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Deciphering the Synergies between Carbon Tax and Water Conservation: A Water Footprint Analysis.","authors":"Lan Mu, Renjie Ma, Chuanzhen Zhang, Xuanwen Zeng, Qi Zhou","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02153-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02153-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Water poverty poses significant challenges to regional environmental conservation and socioeconomic development, with water footprints providing valuable insights into assessing the severity of this poverty. A carbon tax, an environmental charge imposed on the carbon emissions from energy sources, is known for quickly reducing emissions at minimal public expense, and can indirectly influence water footprints. While past research has detailed the previous characteristics of water footprints, it has not yet predicted how these characteristics might evolve under the influence of a carbon tax. In this paper, variations in the water footprint are examined using an input-output model, and the impacts of carbon taxes on water footprints are forecasted through a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. CGE models are essential for low-carbon policy design, enabling policymakers to simulate the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of interventions, thereby offering insights to refine integrated strategies for emissions reduction and water footprint efficiency. The simulation results indicated in the case of imposing carbon tax simulation, the coal industry experienced the largest reduction in virtual water content at 34.81%, followed by heavy industry and transport. Additionally, the carbon tax has a more pronounced effect on virtual water content in secondary industries compared to primary and tertiary industries. With carbon taxes set at 100 and 200, the total water footprint decreased by 3.15% and 4.72%, respectively, which corresponds to a reduction in water usage per person in China by 3.2% and 4.8%. Furthermore, the simulation also suggested that social welfare reached its maximum value of 181.36 when the carbon tax was 196 RMB/t-CO₂. Our research also provides a new point of view on assessing the effectiveness and fairness of carbon taxes and can further be used to develop compensation strategies that tackle emission and water limitations in the energy sector, thereby optimizing the benefits for water conservation that arise from emission reduction measures.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143750600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Donor Climate Coloniality, Ecological Debt and Vulnerabilities in Coastal Bangladesh: Redesigning Institutions for Recognition Justice.","authors":"Mohammad Anwar Hossen, David Benson, Mohibul Islam","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02139-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02139-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate change impacts create survival challenges for people in coastal areas of Bangladesh. Government responses are exercised through top-down adaptation governance, reflecting a neocolonial perspective evident in externally funded water development projects such as the Flood Control, Drainage and Irrigation (FCDI) scheme. Problematically, this form of donor 'climate coloniality' creates novel ecological debts that increase localised socioeconomic vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are concentrated within marginalised groups, although the impacts of one climate-related ecological debt, waterlogging, are not widely understood. Two critical research questions emerge from this context: (i) in what ways does waterlogging impact marginalised groups in coastal regions?; (ii) how could adaptation institutions be decolonised to reduce resultant vulnerabilities? Primary data from sociological research conducted in Jessore District in south western Bangladesh is utilised in answering these questions. The findings show that marginalised groups disproportionately endure the impacts of historically path dependent, climate-related ecological debts through multiple vulnerabilities including declining crop production, loss of domestic animals, unemployment, price increases, gendered inequalities and health impacts, linked to their exclusion from adaptation decision-making. In response to this neocolonial perspective, such structural domination needs to be challenged by decolonising adaptation institutions through integrating recognition and procedural justice. Decolonised institutions based on this justice perspective could provide a governance space for recognising community voices related to coastal ecosystems and agricultural practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143750609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Responses of Ecological Stoichiometry of Plants and Soils to Degradation Levels in Alpine Wetlands of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.","authors":"Minxia Liu, Jianyang Shi, Xin Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02152-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02152-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alpine wetlands on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau play a crucial role in biodiversity conservation and global carbon cycling. However, degradation has altered plant-soil stoichiometric relationships, impacting ecosystem function. This study examined the effects of wetland degradation on the carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) dynamics in plant leaves and soil. We selected wetlands in Maqu County, China, and categorized them into four degradation levels: no degradation (ND), light degradation (LD), moderate degradation (MD), and heavy degradation (HD). Field sampling and laboratory analysis quantified plant and soil C, N, and P contents and stoichiometric ratios. Results showed that: (1) Increasing degradation reduced plant height, coverage, and biomass, while soil pH, bulk density, and electrical conductivity increased, and water content declined; (2) Leaf organic carbon and total phosphorus decreased with degradation, while total nitrogen followed the trend ND > HD > LD > MD; (3) Soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, C:P, and N:P ratios declined, whereas soil C:N increased; (4) Leaf C:N and C:P were highly sensitive to degradation, while leaf N:P remained stable; (5) Soil bulk density and water content were primary drivers of plant-soil nutrient shifts. These findings highlight the role of soil physical properties in mediating degradation effects and provide insights for targeted wetland restoration strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Safeguarding marine protected areas from cumulative effects: a review of methods, best practices, and applications.","authors":"Cathryn C Murray, Anya Dunham, Emily Rubidge, Fiona T Francis, Karen L Hunter, Lucie C Hannah","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02146-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02146-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are key ocean conservation tools that can safeguard the diversity and function of marine ecosystems in the face of an increasing footprint and intensity of human activities. To be effective, MPA design, implementation, and management must consider not only individual, but also cumulative effects of historical, current and foreseeable future activities both within and outside MPA boundaries. Cumulative effects are seldom incorporated into MPA management as it can be challenging for MPA practitioners to select appropriate methods of assessment and integration. This paper examines two aspects of cumulative effects related to MPAs: a review of how cumulative effects are currently considered in MPA management worldwide, and a review of the primary and grey literature addressing cumulative effects knowledge and application in MPA contexts. The review of 646 global MPA management plans revealed that 36% did not contain any cumulative effects-related search terms and therefore likely lacked any provisions for, or even mentions of, cumulative effects. The review of cumulative effects knowledge found that few projects included all cumulative effects steps: scope and structure, assessment, and decision-making. Although significant advances have occurred in risk-based and spatial cumulative effects assessment methods over time, decision-making is rarely included in any cumulative effects projects. To bridge the gap between theory and practice, we propose a framework that embeds cumulative effects within the MPA designation and adaptive management process which will enable comprehensive scoping, meaningful assessments, and clear and transparent decision-making with respect to cumulative effects.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143699404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Analysis of Alternatives - A Forgotten Component of EIA for Onshore Oil and Gas Upstream Industry in India.","authors":"Pulak Das","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02147-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02147-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Analysis of alternatives (AOA) is one of the most important components of environmental impact assessment (EIA) adopted worldwide, where it is analysed whether project location, technology, processes, design etc. have any other more feasible alternative (along with no project option) with less adverse consequences to environment. Its inclusion therefore decides the quality of EIA report. To explore the AOA practice in India, 47 EIA reports for onshore oil and gas upstream industry is involved in the present study. Onshore oil and gas upstream industry have known significant impacts on environment, and an impact assessment therefore is a mechanism to manage these environmental impacts beforehand. The AOA is studied with respect to four focus areas; types of alternatives, length of information, no-action alternative, and copy and paste practice. Important points observed in the study are limited discussion on alternative types, repetition of same content in many EIA reports, no or limited comparison and evaluation of alternatives, and trying for project justification citing financial benefits of project in no-action alternative. More than 57% of the reports are found to either did not have chapter on AOA or only one page dedicated for AOA. Length of content of AOA ranged from one sentence to around seven pages, with average of less than two pages per report. The type of alternatives observed are location/site, technology, resources, and no-action, in 68.1%, 63.8%, 10.6%, and 42.6% of the reports respectively. No-action alternative is observed in only 20 reports out of 47. In two reports, criteria based meaningful alternatives are analysed. It is concluded that incorporating early AOA, synchronised with project cycle, training of EIA preparers for AOA, and more vigilant appraisal may help in improving quality of AOA in Indian EIA system.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143699398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Impacts of Fire-fighting Chemicals on Native Fauna and Ecosystems in Australia: Identification of Key Knowledge Gaps and Research Priorities.","authors":"Clare Morrison, Laura F Grogan, Nick Clemann, Chantal Lanctôt","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02143-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02143-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Increasing global wildfire frequency and intensity due to climate change has led to increasing use of fire-fighting chemicals (FFCs). While there is information relating to the environmental impacts of these FFCs in some regions, to date, there is little information on the impacts of FFCs on native fauna species and ecosystems in an extremely fire-prone country, Australia. We elicited input from a national-level interdisciplinary cohort of experts in fire research and management to identify fundamental gaps in knowledge and research priorities in the use and ecological impacts of FFCs in Australia. We used an anonymized online survey consisting of 21 close-ended, Likert-style and open-ended questions to collect expert opinion on the impacts and management of fire in Australia, focusing on the key knowledge gaps and research priorities relating to FFC use. Knowledge gaps and research priorities were identified in the areas of (1) the different types of FFCs recommended for use in Australia, (2) short and long-term effects of FFCs on fauna species and ecosystems, particularly in aquatic systems, and (3) interactions between FFCs and other environmental stressors. Addressing these knowledge gaps and research priorities will provide scientific-based evidence and recommendations for FFC use to inform future fire management practice and policy in Australia and can guide similar approaches in other countries requiring extensive FFC use for wildfire management.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143699401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Correction to: Urban River Policies: Multilevel Analysis and Community Engagement in Curitiba.","authors":"Mario Prokopiuk, Altair Rosa, Paulo Nascimento Neto","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02127-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02127-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143673123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Social-Hydrological Dynamics along the Yellow River Belt: A Temporal-Spatial Investigation of Regional Groundwater Use in a Source-to-Sink Manner.","authors":"Xintong Niu, Jingyu Liu, Yinmao Zhao, Xudong Wu, Man Guo","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02148-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02148-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As a key industrial production base in China, Yellow River Belt regions are faced with immense pressure on their groundwater resources. Revealing the socio-hydrological dynamics of groundwater resources in the context of regional economic integration is essential for formulating sustainable water use. As an important aspect to reflect the socio-hydrological dynamics of regions along the Yellow River Belt, this study adopted a source-to-sink manner to quantitatively track regional groundwater use and the virtual groundwater transfer via domestic supply chains. The results indicated that the Yellow River Belt regions accounted for nearly a quarter of the national total groundwater use embedded in intraregional trades within China. It was found that regions along the Yellow River Belt primarily exported groundwater use to the Yangtze River Delta and South coastal region, with significant contributions coming from sectors such as chemical & mineral manufacturing, food & tobacco and agriculture. Water-deficient regions such as Inner Mongolia and Henan were revealed to supply substantial amounts of virtual groundwater use to other regions along the Yellow River Belt, exacerbating groundwater pressure in these areas that were scarce of water resources. These findings underline the importance of establishing intraregional and interregional cooperation mechanisms in coordinating water resources and economic development within the regions along the Yellow River Belt.</p>","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143676719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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":"Correction to: Collaborative management of hydrological ecosystem services: a multilevel social network analysis of a Mexican watershed.","authors":"Angel Merlo Galeazzi, Véronique Sophie Ávila Foucat, María Perevochtchikova","doi":"10.1007/s00267-025-02138-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00267-025-02138-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":543,"journal":{"name":"Environmental Management","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143673121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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}