Circular Economy

 

Circular Economy

Multi-Domain Environmental Quality of Indoor Mixed-Use Open Spaces and Insights into Healthy Living—A Quarantine Hotel Case Study
29/10/2024 - In the post-pandemic context, data-driven design interventions that can endow architectural spaces with mixed-use and open characteristics that are adaptable and environmentally resilient are...
Research on the Factors That Influence and Improve the Quality of Informal Learning Spaces (ILS) in University Campus
30/10/2024 - Currently, with the intensification of global education competition, how to cultivate innovative and versatile talents has become the focus of education today. Informal learning spaces (ILS) have...
Assessment and Improvement of Daylighting Quality in Classrooms with Double-Side Windows
31/10/2024 - Daylighting in educational buildings is a key factor in ensuring visual comfort and maintaining indoor environmental quality. In this context, daylight quality plays a crucial role in enhancing the...
Prediction of Spatiotemporal Pollution of Soil Heavy Metal in Mining Areas Based on Grey Neural Network Algorithm
- The temporal and spatial prediction and early warning of soil heavy metal pollution are crucial for preventing and controlling soil environmental contamination and optimizing the utilization of...
From the highway to receiving water bodies: identification and simultaneous quantification of small microplastics (<?100 µm) in highway stormwater runoff
23/10/2024 - Highway stormwater (HSW) runoff is among the environment’s most important sources of microplastics. This study aimed to characterize via vibrational spectroscopy and quantify SMPs (small...
Bureaucrat incentives reduce crop burning and child mortality in South Asia
23/10/2024 - Air pollution in South Asia is a health emergency, responsible for 2 million deaths every year1. Crop residue burning accounts for 40–60% of peak pollution during the winter harvest...
Integrated Techno-Environmental Analysis of Finely Ground Silica Sand in Sustainable Mortar Production
18/10/2024 - The environmental impacts of cement production are becoming more urgent concerns. This study examined the mechanical characteristics of cement when it is partially replaced with finely crushed sand....
Advanced Graphene-Based Technologies for Antibiotic Removal from Wastewater: A Review (2016–2024)
- The increasing presence of antibiotics in wastewater poses significant environmental risks, including the promotion of antibiotic resistance and harm to aquatic ecosystems. This study reviews...
Development of a Building Evaluation Framework for Biophilic Design in Architecture
14/10/2024 - Biophilic design has gained prominence in architecture as a strategy to integrate natural elements into built environments, aiming to improve human comfort, well-being, and environmental...
Microplastic Pollution in Riparian Soils of the Rapidly Growing City of Thimphu, Bhutan
- Plastic has become a vitally important material for humans; however, the large amount of plastic waste generated annually pollutes the environment. Plastic decomposition generates microplastics...
QUAL2Kw Simulation for Pollution Control Strategies: A Case Study of the Cikakembang River, West Java, Indonesia
- The degradation of river ecosystems due to urbanization and industrial discharges is a pressing environmental issue affecting ecosystem health and sustainable human livelihoods. This study focuses on...
Assessing Human Influence and Vegetative Dune Dynamics on Barrier Islands via Satellite Raster Classification
- Barrier islands support ecological diversity and offshore ecosystems and provide critical protection to coastal communities. Climate change has intensified the frequency and severity of hurricanes...
Exploring the path of digital governance of urban industrial pollution: empirical evidence from 280 cities in China
04/09/2024 - Urban industrial pollution plays a dominant role in environmental pollution in China. Exploring the digital governance path of urban industrial pollution can provide strong support for improving...
Determining the Ecological Status of the Dinaric Karst Natural Lakes in Croatia: Eight Natural Lakes, Seven Lake Types, and One Very Significant Equation
- The delicate balance of aquatic environments and communities living in them is closely linked to water quality, making its assessment a crucial factor in environmental management. Despite the...
The Assessment of Heavy Metal Accumulation and Risks in Urban Rivers and Sediments of China’s Nine Major River Systems: A Meta-Analysis
- The objective of this study is to analyze the spatial–temporal patterns, identify risk zones and explore the co-occurrence correlation of eight heavy metals (HMs) in urban rivers in nine river...
Assessment of metal(loid) and natural radionuclide pollution in surface sediments of an estuary affected by mining and phosphogypsum releases
08/08/2024 - The prolonged impact over the Tinto River estuary by both the significant pollution by acid mine drainage (AMD) affecting this river and the polluted releases from phosphogypsum (PG) piles has led...
Testing the Influence of Tactics on an Intention to Participate in an Environmental Management Collaborative
- Complexity, uncertainty, and conflict characterize contemporary environmental challenges. Addressing these issues is beyond the purview of any one actor. A collaborative approach to environmental...
Decomposing scale, technique and composition effects of foreign direct investment on environmental quality
10/07/2024 - This study aimed to investigate how the decomposing scale effect, technique effect and composition effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) impact on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for 115...
LCA applied to comparative environmental evaluation of aggregate production from recycled waste materials and virgin sources
26/06/2024 - Nowadays, all productive sectors, including the construction industry, are facing the challenge of reducing their environmental impact. To achieve this objective, numerous actions are being...
One year of active moss biomonitoring in the identification of PAHs in an urbanized area—prospects and implications
28/05/2024 - Classical monitoring of air pollution provides information on environmental quality but involves high costs. An alternative to this method is the use of bioindicators. The purpose of our work was...