Environments  

Shankar Adhikari, Himlal Baral and Craig Nitschke

Rural mountain communities in developing countries are considered particularly vulnerable to environmental change, including climate change. Forests and agriculture provide numerous ecosystem goods and services (EGS) to local communities and can help peop... see more

Olajumoke F. Kayode, Christoph Luethi and Eldon R. Rene

The main aim of this study was to identify the enabling conditions that can lead to better wastewater management by industries (non-oil and gas sector) in Nigeria. The relevant data and information’s required for this study were obtained through semi-stru... see more

Guy M. Robinson, Douglas K. Bardsley, Christopher M. Raymond, Tegan Underwood, Emily Moskwa, Delene Weber, Nicolette Waschl and Annette M. Bardsley

This paper reports on results from two major research projects conducted in South Australia. The first investigates adaptation to climate change in two of the state’s major grain and sheep farming regions, using semi-structured interviews and focus groups... see more

Simone Secchi, Giovanni Brambilla, David Casini and Gianfranco Cellai

The correlation between exposure to traffic noise and students’ performance and annoyance has been investigated in literature mainly considering the relationship between indoor equivalent A-weighted sound pressure level (LAeq) and students’ cognitive impa... see more

François Mancebo

This article envisions urban agriculture as a solution to address global warming by decreasing the urban heat island effect while also addressing many other urban sustainability issues, such as multi-functionality, creating new commons, amenities and ecos... see more

Zita Izakovicová, Jana Špulerová and František Petrovic

This article presents the integrated approach to sustainable land use management based on the assessment of land use and related land cover changes. Land use changes are conditioned by human activities producing changes in landscape cover and initiating p... see more

Muhammad Arfan, Guy Pe’er, Bianca Bauch, Josef Settele, Klaus Henle and Reinhard Klenke

We explored how presence data and expert opinions performed with respect to identifying the ecological preferences and the spatial needs of six butterfly species in the Federal State of Saxony, Germany. We used presence records and a land-cover map. In pa... see more

Agnese Attanasio, Livio Pascali, Vito Tarantino, Wanda Arena and Alessandro Largo

There is a growing interest in the construction sector in the use of sustainable binders as an alternative to ordinary Portland cement, the production of which is highly impacting on the environment, due to high carbon dioxide emissions and energy consump... see more

Yu-Pin Lin, Joy R. Petway, Wan-Yu Lien and Josef Settele

Assessments may underestimate the annual global water scarcity, driven by seasonal water availability and consumption distribution heterogeneity[...]

Bartolomeo Sebastiani and Stefano Falcinelli

Analytical data concerning the contamination on three officinal plants due to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), as organochlorine pesticides, are reported and discussed. Analyzed vegetation—“Graviola” (Annona muricata), “Mullaca” (Physalis angulata) a... see more

Yu-Pin Lin, Josef Settele and Joy R. Petway