Journal of Environmental Management,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
352, P. 119992 - 119992
Published: Jan. 8, 2024
This
paper
investigates
the
non-monetary
motivations
of
farmers'
adoption
agri-environmental
policies.
Unlike
monetary
(income)
motivations,
drivers
can
not
be
directly
observed
but
identified
from
observational
data
within
appropriate
quasi-experimental
designs.
A
theoretical
justification
choices
is
first
formulated
and
a
consequent
natural
experiment
setting
derived.
The
latter
admits
heterogeneous,
i.e.
Individual,
Treatment
Effects
(ITE)
that,
in
turn,
interpreted
terms
more
targeted
tailored
policy
expenditure.
Causal
Forest
(CF)
approach
adopted
to
estimate
these
ITEs
for
both
treated
units.
applied
two
balanced
panel
samples
Italian
Farm
Accountancy
Data
Network
(FADN)
farms
over
2008-2018
period
concerns
policies
delivered
through
Common
Agricultural
Policy
(CAP).
Results
show
how
heterogeneous
response
associated
be,
thus
indicating
room
efficient
design.
Journal of Cleaner Production,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
451, P. 141996 - 141996
Published: April 1, 2024
Internal
combustion
engines
(ICEs)
have
served
as
the
primary
powertrain
for
mobile
sources
since
1890s
and
also
recognized
significant
contributors
to
CO2
emissions
in
transportation
sector.
In
order
achieve
"carbon
neutrality"
sectors,
ICE
vehicles
(ICEVs)
are
facing
substantial
challenges
meeting
regulations
intense
competition
from
battery
electric
fuel
cell
vehicles.
Consequently,
new
technologies
of
ICEs
continually
emerging
enhance
competitiveness
reducing
environmental
impacts.
However,
limited
studies
on
life
cycle
assessment
(LCA)
make
it
difficult
evaluate
actual
contributions
a
perspective.
Conducting
systematic
review
LCA
could
identify
weaknesses
gaps
these
scenarios.
Therefore,
this
article
presents
first
provide
an
overview
current
state
knowledge.
A
total
87
between
2017
2023
using
Scopus
database
were
identified
after
searching
keywords
"Sustainability
assessment"
OR
"Life
AND
"Internal
engine*"
"ICE*"
carefully
screening,
then
classified
analyzed
by
six
aspects
including
sustainability
indicators,
phases,
inventories,
(including
alternative
fuels),
types
systems.
It
is
concluded
that
there
quite
solely
focusing
ICEs,
lacks
consideration
of:
1.
pollution,
human
health
socio-economic
aspects,
2.
production
process
maintenance
&
repair
phase,
3.
small
developing
countries,
4.
zero
carbon/carbon-neutral
fuels,
5.
large
high-power
heavy-duty
hybrid
technologies.
Ecological Informatics,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
80, P. 102465 - 102465
Published: Jan. 11, 2024
Promoting
positive
emotional
experiences
for
tourists
is
crucial
sustaining
development
in
rural
areas.
However,
existing
research
has
limited
focus
on
the
built
environment,
particularly
developing
a
framework
to
evaluate
environmental
sentiment
small
medium
scale
with
detailed
indicators.
This
study
addresses
this
gap
by
examining
impact
of
environment
tourists'
emotions.
Natural
Language
Processing
(NLP)
technologies
are
employed
analyze
web
text
data
and
determine
average
index
traditional
villages
Fuzhou,
China.
Additionally,
were
acquired
through
HRnet
segmentation
model
Matlab.
To
assess
association
between
indicators
index,
we
used
eXtreme
Gradient
Boosting
(XGBoost),
SHapley
Additive
exPlanation
(SHAP)
model,
ArcMap
software.
The
demonstrated
that
(1)
spatial
distribution
was
significant.
Houfu
Village
(9.91),
Qianhu
(9.88),
Ximen
(9.75)
had
highest
scores,
while
Doukui
(−0.85),
Jiji
(0.2),
Qiaodong
(0.55)
lowest.
(2)
have
most
significant
Openness,
Greenness,
Color
Complexity,
contribution
value
above
0.7—followed
Enclosure,
Visual
Entropy,
Ground
Exposure,
0.5
0.7.
Furthermore,
analyzing
interaction
mechanism
showed
non-linear
relationship.
characteristics
associated
high
scores
openness
range
0.2
0.5,
greenness
0.4
0.6,
color
complexity
0.3
0.5.
provides
observations
pertinent
sustainable
village
environments.
findings
contribute
an
understanding
how
these
elements
might
be
effectively
designed
improve
settings.
