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Environmental Research

Virtual Special Issue on the assessment of occupational and environmental risks to prevent non-communicable disease

全文截稿: 2019-03-15

影响因子: 4.732

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 2区

  • 小类 : 环境科学 - 2区

  • 小类 : 公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生 - 2区

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

Health conditions and consequences of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as cancer, have a big impact on the lives of humans and environment. They pose an immense societal and economic burden. Risk assessment and management of hazardous agents has contributed significantly to the prevention of non-communicable diseases. However, over the past years it has become clear that current systems of chemical risk assessment have some limitations. We refer here to the discussions about the health risks of bisphenol A, glyphosate, gen-X, non-ionising radation and hexavalent chromium. An analysis with a focus on the use of scientific evidence in the process of human health risk assessment is required.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

Identification of health hazards of substances and mixtures, including product formulations or natural food products with contaminants/residues

Assessment of exposure of physical, chemical and biological risk factors, including studies that use human biological monitoring techniques

Studies that address questions and uncertainties related to the aetiology of NCDs in occupational and environmental health

Risk communication and communication strategies towards policy makers

Ethical aspects and responsibilities of several stakeholders

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Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways

全文截稿: 2019-07-01

影响因子: 3.445

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 工程技术 - 3区

  • 小类 : 运输科技 - 3区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-d-transport-and-environment

The IPCC recently published their 1.5 degree C report, indicating that the planet must achieve carbon neutrality by mid-century and virtually all sectors much be fully decarbonized by 2060. Transportation represents a particular challenge. Rising car ownership, freight movement, and air travel patterns will increase CO2 emissions unless strong actions are taken to change this course. A clear pathway of decreasing emissions must be in place by 2030.

Understanding the most promising options at both the micro and macro scale will be critical to making progress. At the micro scale, the potential CO2 abatement and cost from reductions in vehicle travel, modal shift to lower carbon modes, and technology and fuel options must be better understood, particularly in terms of how the options are likely to evolve into the future. At a macro scale, understanding the relative role of these options, how they may interact, what may be optimal combinations, and how policies can achieve these combinations, are greatly needed. The relative potential and cost of options varies with geography, as does political feasibility. Some measures can be overarching and international, but many will be national or local.

This special issue will be a collection of high-quality papers considering future transportation CO2 reduction options on a micro and macro scale. It will include studies of particular mitigation measures, technologies, and fuels, and will include studies that look across the landscape of such options to identify broad, promising strategies. It welcomes original research, reviews, and short communications on the following topics:

New and expected future trends, such as on-demand mobility, changes in freight distribution logistics, and vehicle automation, and how these may affect CO2 reduction

The potential market for electric vehicles, beyond the 0.2% global share they represent today; and their CO2 reduction potential and cost in different applications (2, 4 wheelers, trucks, etc)

The role of hydrogen relative to electrification, its relative costs and benefits, and markets where it may play an important role

The role of advanced biofuels for light and heavy duty futures, considering costs, availability, and net GHG impacts

The potential for the various alternative low-carbon technology and fuels in trucking, shipping, rail and aviation

Modeling efforts that incorporate and compare various strategies, or compare transportation emissions reductions to other sectors

Innovative policies towards achieving specific or combined strategies, within or across jurisdictions

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Journal of Cleaner Production

Call for Papers for a Special Volume of the Journal of Cleaner Production on “Why and how to achieve Sustainable Resource-Efficient and Effective Solutions based on circular economy thinking”

全文截稿: 2019-08-31

影响因子: 5.651

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 1区

  • 小类 : 工程：环境 - 2区

  • 小类 : 环境科学 - 2区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production

The goal of this Special Volume (SV) is to promote, with a proactive and integrated approach, design of business models and products/services, and to highlight ways these changes can be achieved through moreResource-Efficient and Effective Solutions Based on Circular Economy Thinking.

For almost a century, the consumption of products has been the dominant paradigm and mindset. It was promoted byJohn Maynard Keynes,who had a deep impact on modern macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. In his 1936 classic“The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money”(Keynes 1936) stated:“I should support at the same time all sorts of policies for increasing the propensity to consume. For it is unlikely that full employment can be maintained, whatever we may do about investment, with the existing propensity to consume.”Other influential economists, such as Victor Lebow (1955), also supported this paradigm:“Our enormously productive economy …demands that we make consumption our way of life,that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption …we need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.”

Today, however, the drawbacks following an ever-increasing consumption of materials and products (Sanne 2002) are becoming more obvious, and a move towards more sustainable solutions 1 based on Circular Economy (CE) thinking is needed (Tukker and Tischner 2006, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation 2013, Charter 2018). The rising awareness of growing environmental problems in society and among customers brings together environmental and resource-related requirements for the companies. On the 1stof January, 2016,the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Developmentofficially came into force, and these will affect both countries and companies (Ekins and Hughes 2016). Resources and resource efficiency are the topics of several recent large assessment reports, such as those by theInternational Resource Panel of the United Nations(e.g. UNEP (2010)), and the criticality assessments of minerals conducted in the EU (European Commission 2010). Currently, several initiatives are moving forward, in parallel, e.g. the EU Flagship initiative“A resource-efficient Europe”, andthe European Circular Economy package(European Commission 2014, European Commission 2015).

The general and common conclusion is that there is an urgent need for innovative solutions and strategies to prevent, reduce and solve environmental and resource problems. Solutions must be sought on many different levels, and given the magnitude of the challenges the effects must be significant compared to the existing situation (Weizäcker, Lovins et al. 1998, Tukker and Tischner 2006, Tukker 2015, Charter 2018).

One such level on which the challenges can be addressed is that of products. Innovative solutions for resource efficiency on a product level may lead to significantly reduced use of resources and impacts on the environment during raw material production, manufacturing, use and end-of-life. The key isto turn resource challenges into opportunities for change and innovation and to transform existing businesses to use less, reuse more, and to preserve the value of natural resources, while delivering more value to customers(Tukker and Tischner 2006, European Commission 2011, Baas and Hjelm 2015, Charter 2018). A challenge related to this is to not, manage business model design, product and service design, operation management, and policies as separate activities but instead to manage them as interrelated activities that have positive and negative effects on each other (Charter 2018).

Examples of possible papers for this SV “Why and how to achieve Sustainable Resource-Efficient and Effective Solutions based on circular economy thinking” include, but are not limited to the following:

· How to design and evaluate these types of solutions (integrating the design of business models and products/services)?

· How to transition from traditional sales to these types of solutions?

· How to manage challenges/opportunities when interlinking and managing business model designs, product and service design, operation management, and policies?

· What can be learned from case studies of these types of solutions?

· How can these types of solutions stimulate innovation?

· How to improve and evaluate policies that catalyse these types of solutions?

A solution in this chapter is defined as a combination of product(s) and service(s).

· What are the potential economic and environmental benefits from these types of solutions (e.g. reduced societal fossil-carbon footprints)?

· What are priority areas where such solutions will create most environmental gains?

· Which are the social, economic and environmental pros and cons, from different actors’ perspectives, with these types of solutions?

The planners of this SV are not interested in papers that contain theoretical models and methods (e.g. mathematical), unless they are based upon empirical data obtained from ‘real-world’ examples.

环境科学与工程

Journal of Cleaner Production

Call for papers for a special volume of the Journal of Cleaner Production: Climate Change and Social Inequality

全文截稿: 2019-08-31

影响因子: 5.651

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 1区

  • 小类 : 工程：环境 - 2区

  • 小类 : 环境科学 - 2区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production

We propose a virtual special issue in the Journal of Cleaner Production that focuses on the intersection of climate change and social inequality. We see a significant gap across the natural and social sciences in the study of climate change, in that much of the existing scholarship does not incorporate inequality broadly conceived (e.g., racial, ethnic, gender, class, etc.). The inattention to social inequality results in incomplete explanations and weaker predictions of the causes and consequences of climate change. It also hinders the design of inclusive policy responses. In order to help move the study of climate from narrow reductionist carbon-based models towards ones that are more socially-integrated, we need more diverse social science research agendas.

Social inequality in all its forms interact in deep and meaningful ways with the drivers of climate change, its numerous effects, and the mitigation policies adopted to curb it. Social inequality stems from, and is reproduced by, persistent, underlying factors. There are many mechanisms through which economic, political, and cultural resources get (re)distributed across social groups, including but not limited to gendered and racialized labor markets, fiscal and other state policies, and subnational endowment of natural resources. In order to fight climate change effectively, scientists must do a better job at identifying some of the mechanisms by which social inequities persist well beyond the implementation of adaptation and mitigation policies. Without measuring the impact of inequality on the drivers and effects of climate change, any response remains ineffective and might increase the burden on already disadvantaged groups (Parks and Roberts 2006). Climate inequality shapes climate resilience. Scholars and activists in the field of environmental justice have been making this case for a long time (Konisky 2009; Mohai, Pellow, and Roberts 2009; Harrison 2014; Agyeman, Schlosberg, Craven, and Matthews 2016). In this special issue, we seek to contribute to the study of climate change and environmental justice with case-studies and data-driven research that span subnational, national, and global regions.

The proposal of this virtual special issue also finds its motivation in the policy world. The international climate agenda is focusing more and more on the relationship between climate change and inequality. In 2015, 195 countries signed the Paris Agreement of the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change under which they agreed "…to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change, in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty, including by holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels in the long term" (UNFCCC 2015). At the same time another important UN process culminated in countries agreeing to the Sustainable Development Goals with the aim of ending poverty and promoting sustainable growth, which are the two key items of the new sustainable development agenda adopted by the UN's General Assembly in September of 2015. These agreements are seen as an important foundation that is required to put the world nations on a sustainable pathway. They serve as examples of the recognition of the twin problem of climate change and poverty, but also as examples of how these important issues are treated relatively separate from one another, without too much concern for the ways in which the two are intertwined and mutually shape each other overtime. We posit that climate change and inequality are inescapably connected, and as such, are an example of complex ‘coupled’ social-environmental systems.

Thus, the main purpose of this virtual special issue is to reveal the inextricable link between climate change and social inequality. We also want to highlight the potential for greater natural-social science collaboration. It is undeniable that a deep understanding of human behavior and political institutions is needed to address climate change and achieve policy coordination across scales. While natural scientists took the early lead in modeling rising world temperatures, emerging natural-social interdisciplinary scholarship tackles the intersection of CO2 emissions and human behavior and institutions, with a focus on the human drivers of climate change (Ostrom 2008; Mooney et al. 2013; Bors and Solomon 2013; Berardo et al. 2017). There is growing recognition that social scientists are needed to navigate the distinct social, cultural, economic, and political systems entailed in the design and implementation of climate policy (Shove 2010; Adger et al. 2013; Aklin and Urpelainen 2014; Kahan 2015).

Potential contributors to this virtual special issue should submit papers that examine how climate change and social inequality intersect in one of three critical ways. Either focusing on:

(i) how social inequality and the patterns of CO2 emissions that cause climate change interact;

(ii) the well-established link between the negative consequences of global warming on marginal groups, and how climate change exacerbates existing social inequities;

(iii) how inequality interacts with policy responses –that is, how mitigation reinforces and reproduces existing social disparities.

Topical areas

The virtual special issue is built around contributions to an ongoing seminar series on the same topic at the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Maryland, College Park, organized by Professors Isabella Alcañiz and Klaus Hubacek. However, this Call is also open to those who wish to contribute their findings relevant to the topic of this VSI.

We welcome empirical papers using a broad variety of methodologies (e.g. qualitative and quantitative) and from a broad variety of disciplines across the social sciences (e.g. geography, sociology, economy, political science, anthropology). We are particularly interested in papers that tackle the intersection of climate change and social inequality by examining the effect of gender, ethnicity, race, and class in both developing and industrial countries, with a special focus on energy policy. We ask scholars to address through data-driven research one of the three research themes at the intersection of climate change and social inequality listed below:

Theme One: Relationship between social inequality and the patterns of CO2 emissions that cause climate change.

Theme Two: Link between the negative consequences of global warming on marginal groups, and how climate change exacerbates existing social inequities.  

Theme Three: How does social inequality interact with policy responses?

环境科学与工程

Science of the Total Environment

Call for Papers on Special Issue: Applications of dendrochemistry in Environmental Sciences

全文截稿: 2019-09-14

影响因子: 4.61

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 2区

  • 小类 : 环境科学 - 2区

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/science-of-the-total-environment

This special issue would represent novel work that is of general interest for a broad audience of the journal given the implications of the environmental changes and its relationship with humankind across all biomes. Dendrochemical studies in forest ecosystems are still underdeveloped. Since trees are natural proxies of changes in the environmental conditions, temporal atmospheric or soil changes in the course of climate change may be registered in annual tree-rings. There exists a great concern on the effects of environmental stressors on 21st-century forests. As a consequence, tree-ring variables (nutrient content, stable isotopes, wood traits) are used as temporal proxies of tree functioning, forest health, changes in soil chemistry, pollution, climate change and cascade effects on tree-soil interactions. Changes in element availability, water use efficiency and element uptake of trees can be modulated by long-term human or natural impacts (pollution, volcanic eruptions, acidification, forest dieback, etc) or by short-term events (drought, heat wave, insect outbreaks, fire, etc). Although wood usually presents a low mineral nutrient concentration, the emergence of dendrochemistry, i.e., the chemical analysis of annually (seasonal) resolved wood tissues in high spatial resolution, has provided new data on long-term (from seasonal to centennial) series to reconstruct environmental changes and the nutritional status of trees and ecosystems.

In this SI, we aim to fill gaps on the application of dendrochemistry (including measurements of stable isotopes ratios, nutrients, trace elements, and organic components) on environmental research by asking for manuscripts which constitute original contributions on studies developing application in forest ecology, tree physiology, nutrient balances, forest pathology, human and forest health, pollution, environmental changes reconstructions, genetic, dendroprovenances, volcanology, as well as modelling or empirical studies aimed at improving our mechanistic understanding of short and long-term chemical variations in global ecosystems.

Keywords:Nutrient-use efficiency, Pollution, Environmental stress, Forest ecology and dynamic, Dendroecology, Tree physiology, Environmental risks, Stable isotopes, Micro X-ray fluorescence (μXRF), Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy, Ecohydrology, Human footprints, Climate Change

At the moment, about 13 papers have already signed up for this special issue, and several other authors have expressed their interest. If you are interested in our special issue, please feel free to contact us. Authors are encouraged to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Guest Editors in advance (dendrochemistry19@gmail.com) and please keep us posted.

Science of the Total Environment (STOTEN) is an international multi-disciplinary journal for publication of original research on the total environment, which includes the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, and anthroposphere.

环境科学与工程

Environmental Research

Call for Papers for Special Issue:“Emerging Environmental and Human Health Issues in Fast Changing China and Asia”

全文截稿: 2019-09-30

影响因子: 4.732

中科院JCR分区:

  • 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 2区

  • 小类 : 环境科学 - 2区

  • 小类 : 公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生 - 2区

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

During the past decade, China and the rest of Asia have gone through unprecedented transformation. China specifically has become predominantly urban, with a fast-growing economy. At the same time, China has experienced many environmental challenges, marked by heavy pollution and rapid ecological deterioration. Episodes of severe ambient air pollution, reports of ground water contamination, and concerns about soil and water contamination have united policy makers, researchers and the public alike to understand the environmental impact on human health and beyond. There has been growing interdisciplinary effort to decipher the implications of environmental changes of such immense scale: How is urbanization affecting the environment and population? How are environmental policies affecting population? What are the environmental determinants of urban health? These questions are at the center for researchers worldwide, and answers to those questions are not only pertinent to China, but also relevant to the rest of Asia. With fast evolving detection technology, monitoring systems, and China’s effort in comprehensive recording of environmental data, we now have more tools to work with in answering the central question: what are the emerging environmental and human health issues in fast changing China and Asia?

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