Environments  

Haq Nawaz Abbasi, Viliana Vasileva and Xiwu Lu

Growing vegetables economically in the use of constructed wetland for wastewater treatment can play a role in overcoming water and food scarcity. Allium porrum L., Solanum melongena L., Ipomoea aquatica Forsk., and Capsicum annuum L. plants were selected ... see more

Annalisa Marzocca, Alessia Di Gilio, Genoveffa Farella, Roberto Giua and Gianluigi de Gennaro

Children spend a large amount of time in school environments and when Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) is poor, comfort, productivity and learning performances may be affected. The aim of the present study is to characterize IAQ in a primary school located in Tar... see more

Ranjan Kumar Datta

Interdisciplinary researchers and educators, as community members, creators of knowledge, and environmental activists and practitioners, have a responsibility to build a bridge between community practice, academic scholarship, and professional contributio... see more

Bartosz Szulczynski and Jacek Gebicki

The paper presents principle of operation and design of the most popular chemical sensors for measurement of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in outdoor and indoor air. It describes the sensors for evaluation of explosion risk including pellistors and IR... see more

Andreas Schütze, Tobias Baur, Martin Leidinger, Wolfhard Reimringer, Ralf Jung, Thorsten Conrad and Tilman Sauerwald

Monitoring of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is of increasing importance in many application fields such as environmental monitoring, indoor air quality, industrial safety, fire detection, and health applications. The challenges in all of these applica... see more

Andrea Spinazzè, Francesca Borghi, Sabrina Rovelli and Domenico Maria Cavallo

Concerns and uncertainties persist about potential environmental and health effects associated with exposure to emissions from widely adopted waste management facilities: despite a limited amount of evidence having been found for some exposure-effect asso... see more

Kaisa Kerminen and Merja Hannele Kontro

Herbicide atrazine easily leaches to groundwater, where it is persistent. We studied whether sonication accelerates atrazine dissipation (100 mg·L-1) in vadose zone sediment slurries. Sediments were from 11.3 to 14.6 m depths in an atrazine-contaminated g... see more

Tawatchai Na-U-Dom, Xingguo Mo and Monica Garc?a

Understanding long-term vegetation dynamics, their responses to climate, and other driving factors is crucial for integrated basin management in the Mekong River Basin (MRB) in a context of global change. In this study, Normalized Difference Vegetation In... see more

David Hera, Vaughan S. Langford, Murray J. McEwan, Thomas I. McKellar and Daniel B. Milligan

Direct analysis techniques have greatly simplified analytical methods used to monitor analytes at trace levels in air samples. One of these methods, Selected Ion Flow Tube-Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS), has proven to be particularly effective because of its... see more

Cho Chia Tan, Tohid Erfani and Rasool Erfani

The world is facing a more water constrained future as a result of urbanisation, population growth, industrialisation and the emergence of climate change. This has direct impacts on the resilience and performance of the energy and food industries, as wate... see more

Zifei Liu, Yang Liu, James P. Murphy and Ronaldo Maghirang

Prescribed rangeland burning in April is a long-standing practice in the Flint Hills region of eastern Kansas to maintain the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. The smoke plumes originating from these fires increases ambient PM2.5 concentrations and potentially... see more

Bishawjit Mallick, Bayes Ahmed and Joachim Vogt

Bangladesh is one of the most disaster prone countries in the world. Cyclone disasters that affect millions of people, destroy homesteads and livelihoods, and trigger migration are common in the coastal region of Bangladesh. The aim of this article is to ... see more

Juris Aigars, Natalija Suhareva and Rita Poikane

The polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are bioaccumulative, persistent, and toxic. They have a high risk of emission into the environment via volatile losses and diffuse sources, such as commercial product disposal or the use of sewage sludge. The PBD... see more

Wendolyn Aguilar-Salinas, Sara Ojeda-Benitez, Samantha E. Cruz-Sotelo and Juan Ramón Castro-Rodríguez

The consumer plays a key role in resource conservation; therefore, it is important to know consumer behavior to identify consumer profiles and to promote pro-environmental practices in society that encourage resource conservation and reductions in waste g... see more

Daniel Marton and Stanislav Paseka

The aim of this paper is to use a methodology to introduce uncertainty of hydrological and operational input data into mathematical models needed for the design and operation of reservoirs. The application of uncertainty to input data is calculated, with ... see more

Birte Mull, Lennart Möhlmann and Olaf Wilke

Photocatalysis is a promising technique to reduce volatile organic compounds indoors. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a frequently-used UV active photocatalyst. Because of the lack of UV light indoors, TiO2 has to be modified to get its working range shifted i... see more

Alison Ochs and Ahmed A. H. Siddig

Hemlock forests of the northeastern United States are declining due to the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) (Adelges tsugae). Hardwood species replace these forests, which affects soil properties that may influence other communities, such as red-back... see more

Jacek Gebicki, Tomasz Dymerski and Jacek Namiesnik

This paper presents the results of an investigation on ambient air odour quality in the vicinity of a municipal landfill. The investigations were carried out during the spring–winter and the spring seasons using two types of the electronic nose instrument... see more

Yu-Pin Lin, Tsun-Kuo Chang, Chihhao Fan, Johnathen Anthony, Joy R. Petway, Wan-Yu Lien, Chiu-Ping Liang and Yi-Fong Ho

In order to guarantee high-quality agricultural products and food safety, efforts must be made to manage and maintain healthy agricultural environments under the myriad of risks that they face. Three central system components of sustainable agricultural m... see more

Environments Editorial Office

The editors of Environments would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for assessing manuscripts in 2016.[...]

Vadim G. Lebedev, Elena O. Vidyagina, Alla A. Larionova and Konstantin A. Shestibratov

The genetic transformation of trees by wood modification genes for the improvement of forest plantations results in shifts in plant litter quality. These alterations in plant chemistry lead to changes in decomposition rates, thus affecting the carbon and ... see more

Zoran Vojinovic, Weeraya Keerakamolchai, Sutat Weesakul, Ranko S. Pudar, Neiler Medina and Alida Alves

The present paper describes a methodological framework that combines ecosystem services (flood protection, education, art/culture, recreation and tourism) with economic analysis for selection of multifunctional measures for flood resilience. The framework... see more

Thewodros K. Geberemariam

Drainage system infrastructures in most urbanized cities have reached or exceeded their design life cycle and are characterized by running with inadequate capacity. These highly degraded infrastructures are already overwhelmed and continued to impose a si... see more

Abel E. Navarro, Anibal Hernandez-Vega, Md Emran Masud, Loretta M. Roberson and Liz M. Diaz-Vázquez

Among several Puerto Rican algae, Sargassum sp. (SG) and Chaetomorpha (CM) showed the highest phenol adsorption capacity from aqueous solutions and were used in optimized adsorption batch experiments at room temperature. The effects of pH, adsorbent dose,... see more