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农学

Food and Bioproducts Processing

Special Issue - Towards a sustainable bioeconomy: Working in harmony with the environment-food-energy-water nexus

摘要截稿: 2018-11-15

全文截稿: 2019-01-31

影响因子: 2.744

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 工程技术 - 3区

  • 小类 : 生物工程与应用微生物 - 3区

  • 小类 : 工程：化工 - 3区

  • 小类 : 食品科技 - 2区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/food-and-bioproducts-processing

Summary: Biomass is a strategic resource that can be used to produce energy, fuels and other high-value products. Since the production of biomass requires a large amount of land and water, it competes with food production and can affect the ecosystem (e.g. deforestation, leaching of fertilisers and pesticides into water bodies), there is a delicate balance between all of these elements. Together, these are known as the environment-food-energy-water nexus, and all of the benefits associated with the use of biomass to meet our requirements for energy and other products must be considered along with the potential impact on the nexus as a whole. Therefore, it is important not only to understand how best to exploit the great potential of biomass but also to understand the detailed interactions among all of the elements in the nexus.

Purpose: There is a wealth of research on biomass valorisation and bio-refineries but very little of this has considered the wider impact of biomass production and utilisation on the nexus of food, energy, water, ecosystem services and biodiversity. This special issue aims to cover the lack of scientific literature in this crucial area, to highlight its importance and provide a platform for dissemination of the state-of-the-art and recent advances in this field. It is envisioned that this Special Issue will be a key reference for engineers, scientists, industrialists and policy-makers when shaping a future sustainable bioeconomy.

Scope of the Special Issue: The scope of this Special Issue includes research on development of sustainable resources and technologies that supports the solution to nexus issues of biomass conversion, systems engineering and integration, and techno-socio-economic-environmental impacts of the bioeconomy on the nexus.

Sustainable resources and technologies
o New feedstocks, including their characterisations, potential availability based on spatial modelling using Geographical Information Systems (GIS), and their potential value chains
o Sustainable agriculture, farming and land use
o Novel pre-treatment, extraction or conversion technologies for production of food and bio-products
o Novel processes or technologies that enhance nutrient recovery and re-use
o Novel thermal, biochemical, electrochemical and chemical conversion technologies that have scope for energy or water integration
o Techniques, processes and technologies that enhance water conservation and decrease the water footprint of biomass-based products
o Novel storage processes and technologies
Systems engineering and integration
o Process systems integration of biorefineries
o Novel process integration methods simultaneously considering multiple resources (e.g. energy and water, water and nutrients)
o Integration of biorefinery concepts with food processing
o Products made feasible through integration
o Techno-ecological integration with nutrient, water and/or energy recovery
o Supply chain modelling and optimisation
o Methods for integrating biomass supply chains with the environment-food-energy-water nexus
Assessment of techno-socio-economic-environmental impacts
o Novel methods or analyses of biomass production and conversion, accounting for the environment-food-energy-water nexus
o Resource accounting using established methods such as energy and exergy analysis
o Environmental assessment using carbon accounting, water footprint, or life cycle assessment
o Impacts of biomass production and conversion on ecosystem services
o Techno-economic studies including sensitivity and uncertainty analyses
o Stakeholder analysis
o Agent-based modelling

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Water Research

Special Issue on Challenges related to antimicrobial resistance in the framework of urban wastewater reuse

全文截稿: 2019-01-31

影响因子: 7.051

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 1区

  • 小类 : 工程：环境 - 1区

  • 小类 : 环境科学 - 1区

  • 小类 : 水资源 - 1区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/water-research

The special issue focuses on antimicrobial resistance and state-of-the-art research in relation to urban wastewater. It accepts contributions in the following thematic areas:

Thematic area 1:Fate of antimicrobial resistance in urban wastewater treatment plants

The microbiomes and resistomes of wastewater

Fate of clinically relevant antimicrobial resistant bacteria in wastewater treatment

Fate of non-cell associated antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) in wastewater

Horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance in wastewater treatment plants

Chemical, physical, and biological drivers affecting resistance evolution/selection in wastewater and recycled wastewater products


Thematic area 2: Antimicrobial resistance: From urban wastewater treatment plants to the environment

Behaviour, transmission and fate of antimicrobial resistance in receiving environments

Uptake, translocation and metabolism of antibiotics / acquisition of ARGs by plant associated bacteria (e.g. rhizosphere, rhizoplane, phylosphere and endophytes) during irrigation with treated wastewater.

Predicting the fate of antimicrobial resistance determinants in receiving environments using modeling approaches

Stress mechanisms and environmental impacts related to dissemination of ARGs


Thematic area 3: Emerging processes and technologies to meet urban treated wastewater reuse requirements in relation to antimicrobial resistance

WWTP technologies to address reuse challenges

Disinfection processes and technologies to address reuse challenges

Emerging technologies to address reuse challenges


Thematic area 4: Risk assessment and policy development to tackle antimicrobial resistance in the urban water cycle

Data management, monitoring and prioritisation, coordinated surveillance

Risk assessment and approaches and frameworks

Methodological challenges in the determination and evaluation of ARGs in effluents

Inclusion of molecular tools for antimicrobial resistance in legislation

农学

Ocean & Coastal Management

Special issue on Changing estuaries, coasts and shelf systems - Diverse threats and opportunities

全文截稿: 2019-02-01

影响因子: 2.276

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 4区

  • 小类 : 海洋学 - 3区

  • 小类 : 水资源 - 3区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ocean-and-coastal-management

The editors of Ocean & Coastal Management (OCMA) like to highlight any progress in the journal’s core field by stimulating the publication of Special Issues.

The present Special Issue is one of the results of a symposium organized by the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA), the publishing house Elsevier and Murdoch University Australia under the acronym ECSA57.

Since there was for the symposium in Perth a very long list of suggested themes and special sessions we have decided to offer opportunity to all delegates to submit a paper to our journal (OCMA) or, depending on the content in relation to the journal’s scope, to Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science (ECSS).

We invite empirical, methodological and conceptual papers from a broad range of disciplines which address issues pertaining to the following non-exhaustive list of topics:

People and management in relation to
a. Sustainable natural resource exploitation
b. Marine Protected Areas
c. Aquaculture
d. Societal values
e. Citizen science
f. Ecosystem service delivery

Topics related to the Symposium Special Sessions
g. Coastal challenges for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
h. Destination Ocean: Challenges of global tourism to ocean and coasts
i. Policies for improvement of artisanal fisheries in developing countries
j. Assessing and valuing our environment: Challenging the ecosystem service approach
k. Estuarine ecology, fishery resources, threats and solutions towards a sustainable management

Topics related to EMECS (Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas)
l. Socio-ecological dynamics, resilience and regime shifts
m. Integrated management – cumulative risk assessment and tradeoffs
n. Case studies of eco-engineering and ecosystem restoration
o. Effective governance – regional to international scales
p. Integrated observing systems and modelling
q. Assessing cumulative impacts and risks to marine ecosystem values
r. The Great Barrier Reef - A rapidly changing and degrading ecosystem: The need for urgent management and current opportunities
s. Mangrove restoration: reality or utopia
t. Balancing good marine health status and blue growth
u. Novel approaches to monitoring estuaries, coastal and shelf waters
v. Communicating the risk of coastal degradation under the Climate Change scenario: Challenges and opportunities
w. Taking Social Sustainability to the Sea: How to Strengthen the Social Dimension of Coastal and Marine Governance
x. Applied solutions for sustainable and resilient estuaries and coasts
y. Keeping major urban estuaries, ports and harbours viable
z. Modelling threats to coastal systems and restoration options

农学

ABS 2019

International Conference on Agricultural and Biological Sciences

全文截稿: 2019-05-22

开会时间: 2019-07-22

会议难度: ★★

会议地点: Macao, China

网址：http://www.absconf.org/

The 5th International conference on Agricultural and Biological Sciences (ABS 2019) will be held from July 22nd to 25th, 2019 in Macao Science Center, Macau. International Conference on Agricultural and Biological Sciences is convened annually to gather related eminent experts, researchers, students and delegates to exchange innovative ideas and experiences in the field of agricultural and biological sciences.

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