Showing papers in "Journal of Environmental Management in 2019"

TL;DR: The concentration of heavy metals in several sites, assessed in water, soil and sediment samples, affected by different pollution sources are reviewed, showing how human activities impact natural media and how the pollution spreads.

TL;DR: It showed that in ASEAN-5 countries, economic growth, financial development and FDI leads to an increase in environmental degradation, and the quadratic term for economic growth showed a negative impact on environmental degradation.

TL;DR: Information gathered from this review suggests that biochar amendment is a viable way of improving the quality of problem soils and enhancing crop production.

TL;DR: This comprehensive review focuses on recent achievements in a number of facile chemical synthesis methods for semiconducting polymeric carbon nitrides and their heterogeneous nanohybrids with various dopants, nanostructured metals, metal oxides, and nanocarbons, as well as the parameters influencing their physiochemical properties and photocatalytic efficiency.

TL;DR: This paper reviews the adsorption behavior of some representative antibiotics over various carbonaceous materials, and the knowledge gaps and research challenges have been highlighted, including design and optimization of thecarbonaceous materials for antibiotics adsor adaptation.

TL;DR: The linkage between biochar composition and function is discussed, the role biochar plays in soil fertility improvement and C sequestration is evaluated, and regulations and concerns regarding biochar's negative environmental impact are discussed.

TL;DR: This manuscript summarized the theories and applications of these approaches in detail, and concluded that appropriate processes should be selected in accordance with different characteristics of landfill leachate, in order to effectively remove nitrogen from all stages of landfillLeachate and reduce disposal costs.

TL;DR: A critical and up-to-date review has been conducted on the latest individual valorization technologies aimed at the generation of value-added by-products from food wastes in the form of bio-fuels, bio-materials, value added components and bio-based adsorbents.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the overall air quality has been significantly improved, although the still high PM level, the dramatically increasing O3 concentration, and the stagnant amounts of NO2 present further challenges, along with the intensification of regional compound air pollution problems.

TL;DR: This paper presents comprehensive information for the adsorption of heavy metal ions from water and waste water using various nanostructured adsorbents such as different clay minerals, carbon nanotube and nanocomposites, hence protecting water bodies from high pollution load.

TL;DR: Insight into preparation strategies and approaches of MGO's utilization for the removal of pollutants for sustainable water purification and some research challenges to accelerate the synthesized MGOs as adsorbents for the treatment of water pollutants such as toxic and radioactive metal ions and organic and agricultural pollutants are provided.

TL;DR: The changes of different microbiological indices and the mechanism of microbial response to heavy metal stress in soils are comprehensively summarized and future directions of the microbial ecotoxicological diagnosis of soil contamination by heavy metals are proposed and discussed.

TL;DR: Based on more than 200 papers, this review provides important information on the use, effectiveness, advantages and downsides of the various treatments aimed at removing the color from the wastewater with a look at the technologies still under development.

TL;DR: The most common EP reported were 17β-estradiol, bisphenol A and estrone; the UWC component with the greatest number of measurements in the reported studies were effluents from wastewater treatment plants.

TL;DR: It is suggested that improvements in the energy structure and the natural environment are prior choices for sustainable urban development.

TL;DR: This review summarizes the most significant recent advances in the use of laccases and their future perspectives in environmental biotechnology.

TL;DR: In this article, the current status of antibiotics occurrence in influent and effluent of WWTPs globally is discussed. But, when compared to simulated wastewater, limitations are persisted for the removal of antibiotics in real wastewater, owing to its difficulty in assessing and observing the compound under mixed nature.

TL;DR: Recent advances on CQDs nanocomposites including their applications in photodegradation of organic pollutants, sensing of heavy metal ions in water and water splitting are discussed critically to narrate the future prospects in this field.

TL;DR: The understanding of the relationship between labor migration and rural households' farmland abandonment in China can be enhanced to provide reference for the rational allocation of labor resources and the formulation of the policies related to ensuring food security.

TL;DR: A theoretical Circular Economy model for developing big cities in low-middle income countries is described within the study for effectively comparing which chances can spread for these countries as regard municipal solid waste exploitation.

TL;DR: The state-of-the-art approaches to treatments applied to leachate in Brazil are described, highlighting the new technologies and alternatives that are still in the research phase, and a comparison is compared with the current scenario in Brazil.

TL;DR: Lead (Pb) is the second most toxic heavy metal after arsenic (As), which has no role in biological systems, and its exposure at higher rates disturbs the plant water and nutritional relations and causes oxidative damages to plants.

TL;DR: The enzymatic pretreatment as one of the biological pret treatment methods which has received less attention in the literature than the other pretreatment methods is reviewed, and the current status of research to improve the biogas rate and yield from the AD of lignocellulosic biomass via enzyme pretreatment is reviewed.

TL;DR: 2nd life battery lifespan clearly depends on its use, going from about 30 years in fast electric vehicle charge support applications to around 6 years in area regulation grid services, and this study states that grid oriented energy storage applications will hardly offer environmental benefits in the nearby future.

TL;DR: The personal norm is found to be the major factor influencing intentions of Chinese residents towards waste sorting while both subjective norms and perceived behavioural control were unexpectedly found to have no significant influence thereon.

TL;DR: It is highlighted that efforts for managing invasive species need to safeguard livelihood benefits while mitigating negative impacts, and that future research and policy needs on the topic of invasive species, livelihoods and human well-being are highlighted.

TL;DR: The intensive CO2 emissions have promoted renewable energy technological innovation level, meaning that innovation process responds actively to climate changes, and energy price has an insignificant effect on innovation in renewable energy technologies.

TL;DR: A synthesis of the key factors that influence people's perceptions of invasive alien species is produced, and six broad-scale dimensions are identified in a context of considerable complexity and variation across time and space.

TL;DR: The developed nanocomposite has a potential for arsenic remediation and fitted well to Langmuir isotherm model, indicating a homogeneous process.

TL;DR: Biochar can assist in controlling unsuitable soil acidity/alkalinity/salinity and remediating a contaminated soil while increasing the retention of soil organic carbon, water content, and thereby high crop yield and thereby substantially increasing crop yield.