Showing papers in "Journal of Environmental Management in 2013"

TL;DR: The results show that households face considerable challenges in adapting to climate change, and the need for greater investments in rural and agricultural development to support the ability of households to make strategic, long-term decisions that affect their future well-being.

TL;DR: The objective of the present manuscript is to review the potential of electrocoagulation for the treatment of industrial effluents, mainly removal of dyes from textile effluent.

TL;DR: In this paper, using an urbanizing catchment in China as a case study, the effects of three LID techniques on urban flooding are analyzed and compared with the conventional drainage system design.

TL;DR: A systematic review on UESV in peer-reviewed scientific literature shows that this literature gives little attention to this issue and rarely reports cases where ESV has been put to actual use, even though such use is frequently referred to as founding the goal and justification of ESV.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that environmental awareness was significantly related to attitude towards recycling, whilst attitude and social norms had significant impact on recycling behaviour, however, convenience and cost of recycling were not significant reasons for recycling.

TL;DR: This case study examines infrastructure planning in the Swiss water sector and concludes that linking a stakeholder analysis, comprising rarely asked questions, with a rigorous social network analysis is very fruitful and generates complementary results.

TL;DR: The results of this study suggest that C. mexicana is one of the most promising candidates for simultaneous nutrient removal and high-efficient biodiesel production.

TL;DR: There is a need to evaluate the applications of the resource recovery methods in wastewater treatment plants from a life cycle perspective and the combined benefits and potential tradeoffs of these methods under different scales are evaluated.

TL;DR: The results indicate that electrostatic adsorbent-adsorbate interactions play an important role in TC adsorption processes when conducted at pH values that produce TC deprotonation.

TL;DR: A pervasive spatial expansion has been observed, where most of the studied cities are expanding at fast rates with falling densities trend, and although important differences in the rates of land consumption and densities exist, there is an underlying fragmentation trend towards increasing sprawl.

TL;DR: Current information on surface modifications of adsorbents is reviewed, the enhanced nitrate adsorption capacities achieved by the modifications, and the mechanisms of Adsorption are compared, and advantages and drawbacks of the techniques are presented.

TL;DR: The model holds for a sample of 377 Chinese manufacturers in six major industrial groups in Suzhou, Dalian, and Tianjin and suggests that institutions in developing countries with significant environmental concerns such as China should encourage and support ISO 9000 implementations by local firms.

TL;DR: By analyzing the assessment process, it is found that initial data uncertainty pervades the whole assessment and argues that the limited knowledge about the complexity of ecosystems is the focal origin of uncertainties.

TL;DR: It is indicated that biochar can ameliorate salt stress effects on plants through salt sorption, suggesting novel applications of biochar to mitigate effects of salinization in agricultural, urban, and contaminated soils.

TL;DR: This work identifies five principles underpinning the adaptive management actions used by successful grazing managers and the ecological, physiological, and behavioral framework they use to achieve desired conservation, production, and financial goals, and outlines knowledge gaps and present testable hypotheses to broaden the understanding of how planned multi-paddock grazing management can be used at the ranching enterprise scale to facilitate the adaptivemanagement of rangelands under dynamic environmental conditions.

TL;DR: The characterization of cultural benefits and impacts is least amenable to methodological solution when prevailing cultural worldviews contain elements fundamentally at odds with efforts to quantify benefits/impacts, but that even in such cases some improvements are achievable if decision-makers are flexible regarding processes for consultation with community members and how quantification is structured.

TL;DR: The results demonstrated that phenol adsorption capability is directly proportional to the micropore surface area as well as the combined level of the accessible carboxylic and lactonic groups.

TL;DR: Long-term household usage data showed that in all cases, the reduction in water use resulting from the interventions eventually dissipated, with water consumption returning to pre-intervention levels after approximately 12 months.

TL;DR: This review provides a short introduction to photocatalysis technology in terms of the present environmental remediation paradigm and, in particular, NOx photoabatement.

TL;DR: A critical review on urban reclamation technologies for irrigation is presented, presented by the four most important parameters for irrigation water quality: salinity, pathogens, nutrients and heavy metals.

TL;DR: Surprisingly, the removal of dyes was very similar for the two zeolites and they showed a considerable selectivity by the basic dyes in comparison with the acid dyes, and in the case of heavy metals, ER was more effective in the adsorption process showing a selectivity of: Pb(2+) > Ni(2+) >-Zn(2%) = Cd(2+.

TL;DR: The L-THIA-LID model can be used to inform management and decision-making for implementation of LID practices at the watershed scale and indicates that the application of 50% rain barrel/cistern, 50% porous pavement and 25% rain Barrel/ cistern combined with 25%, porous pavement are good retrofitting options in these watersheds.

TL;DR: The potential of food waste and food processing waste for bioHydrogen production and a brief overview of several physicochemical factors that affect biohydrogen production in dark fermentation are demonstrated and the economic viability of biohyd hydrogen production from food waste is discussed.

TL;DR: It is argued that participatory scenario development can empower stakeholders and lead to more consistent and robust scenarios that can help people prepare more effectively for future change.

TL;DR: The collision and displacement indices developed here for Scottish marine bird populations could be applied to populations elsewhere, and will help in identifying likely impacts of future offshore wind farms on marine birds and prioritising monitoring programmes, at least until data on macro-avoidance rates become available.

TL;DR: The development of a conceptual hydrological flux model for the long term continuous simulation of runoff and drought risk for green roof systems is outlined, and it is demonstrated that retention performance decreases significantly when high return period events are considered in isolation.

TL;DR: This work attempts to bridge the gap between laboratory-scale and larger scale biodiesel production by using cultivation and harvesting data from a commercial algae producer with ∼1000 m(2) production area, and compare that with a hypothetical scaled up facility of 101,000 m (2) (the future case).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the effectiveness of international marine protected area (MPAs) targets, focusing on the underlying risks posed by the global push for quantity versus quality of MPAs.

TL;DR: Major challenges to water sustainability in the Las Vegas Valley would be due to rapid population growth as well as to climate variability, however, with the combination of reduced population growth rate and water conservation policies, the Colorado River supply could meet the future demand of the LVV most of the time.

TL;DR: This paper develops a marine-specific ecosystem service typology and provides guidance to select appropriate indicators for all relevant ecosystem services and shows how the ecosystem services concept can be used in marine planning and management.