Emerging contaminants: A One Health perspective

The Innovation, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 5(4), С. 100612 - 100612

Опубликована: Март 13, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Environmental Assessment of Dryland and Irrigated Winter Wheat Cultivation under Compost Fertilization Strategies

Plants, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 13(4), С. 509 - 509

Опубликована: Фев. 12, 2024

Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a strategic agricultural crop that plays significant role in maintaining national food security and sustainable economic development. Increasing technical performance considering lowering costs, energy, environmental consequences are aims for wheat cultivation. For drylands, which cover approximately 41% of the world’s land surface, water stress has considerable negative impact on output. The current study aimed to assess aspects chemical fertilizer combination with compost dryland irrigated winter production systems through life cycle assessment (LCA). cradle-to-farm gate was considered as system boundary based one tone yield four strategies: D-C (dryland compost), D without I-C (irrigated I compost). Based results, highest lowest amounts were related strategies 12.2 6.7 ton ha−1, respectively. LCA result showed strategy comparison other had human health (49%), resources (59%), ecosystem quality (44%), climate change (43%). However, resulted adverse effect 6% health, 1% resources, 10% quality, 11% change. Utilizing areas could ensure higher crops addition alleviating indicators.

Язык: Английский

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Micro- and nanoplastics in soil: Linking sources to damage on soil ecosystem services in life cycle assessment

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 904, С. 166925 - 166925

Опубликована: Сен. 9, 2023

Soil ecosystems are crucial for providing vital ecosystem services (ES), and increasingly pressured by the intensification expansion of human activities, leading to potentially harmful consequences their related ES provision. Micro- nanoplastics (MNPs), associated with releases from various have become prevalent in soil pose a global threat. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), tool evaluating environmental performance product technology life cycles, has yet adequately include MNPs-related damage ES, owing factors like uncertainties MNPs fate ecotoxicological effects, characterizing on species loss, functional diversity, ES. This study aims address this gap as first step an overview current understanding proposing conceptual approach link impacts damage. We find that pervade worldwide, introduced through pathways, including wastewater discharge, urban runoff, atmospheric deposition, degradation larger plastic debris. can inflict range ecotoxicity effects species, physical harm, chemical toxicity, pollutants bioaccumulation. Methods translate these into under development typically focus discrete, not fully integrated aspects along impact-to-damage pathway. propose framework linking different organisms diversity loss elaborate each link. Proposed underlying approaches Threshold Indicator Taxa Analysis (TITAN) translating quantitative measures damage; trait-based loss; ecological networks Bayesian Belief Networks With proposed framework, our constitutes starting point characterization LCA.

Язык: Английский

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What Is the Impact of Accidentally Transporting Terrestrial Alien Species? A New Life Cycle Impact Assessment Model

Environmental Science & Technology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 8, 2024

Alien species form one of the main threats to global biodiversity. Although Life Cycle Assessment attempts holistically assess environmental impacts products and services across value chains, ecological introduction alien are so far not assessed in Impact Assessment. Here, we developed country-to-country-specific characterization factors, expressed as time-integrated potentially disappeared fraction (PDF; regional global) native terrestrial due introductions per unit goods transported [kg] between two countries. The factors were generated by analyzing data on first records species, distributions, their threat status, well bilateral trade partnerships from 1870–2019. resulting vary over several orders magnitude, indicating that impact greatly varies transportation route trading partner. We showcase applicability relevance for transporting 1 metric ton freight France China, South Africa, Madagascar. results suggest can be more damaging biodiversity climate change during international transport commodities.

Язык: Английский

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Investigations on the performance of xanthan gum as a foam stabilizer and assessment of economic and environmental impacts of foam concrete production

Journal of Building Engineering, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 82, С. 108286 - 108286

Опубликована: Дек. 10, 2023

Язык: Английский

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Comparative selective pressure potential of antibiotics in the environment

Environmental Pollution, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 318, С. 120873 - 120873

Опубликована: Дек. 15, 2022

To guide both environmental and public health policy, it is important to assess the degree of antibiotic resistance selection pressure under measured concentrations (MECs), compare efficacy different mitigation strategies minimize spread resistance. this end, enrichment potential due emissions into environment must be analysed from a life cycle perspective, for wide range antibiotics, considering variations in underlying fitness costs between mutations genes. The aim study consistently derive cost-dependent minimum selective (MSCs) readily available bacterial inhibition data build MSC-based species sensitivity distributions (SSDs). These are then used determine antibiotic-specific predicted promote 5% exposed (RSC5). Using previously developed competition model, we provide estimated MSC10 endpoints 2,984 combinations; largest set modelled MSCs date. Based on constructed SSDs, RSC5 128 antibiotics with four orders magnitude difference their 'selective potential' environment. By comparing our MECs, highlight specific compartments (e.g. hospital wastewater effluents, lakes rivers), as well several ciprofloxacin, norfloxacin, enrofloxacin, tetracycline), scrutinized role dissemination. In addition enabling comparative risk screening multiple SSD-derived point departure calculating new cycle-based characterization factors strategies, thereby contributing towards 'One-Health' approach tackling global crisis.

Язык: Английский

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Life cycle assessment of fermentative xylitol production from wheat bran: A comparative evaluation of sulphuric acid and chemical-free wet air oxidation-based pretreatment

Journal of Cleaner Production, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 423, С. 138666 - 138666

Опубликована: Сен. 4, 2023

Язык: Английский

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To Split or Not to Split: Characterizing Chemical Pollution Impacts in Aquatic Ecosystems with Species Sensitivity Distributions for Specific Taxonomic Groups

Environmental Science & Technology, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 57(39), С. 14526 - 14538

Опубликована: Сен. 21, 2023

Bridging applied ecology and ecotoxicology is key to protect ecosystems. These disciplines show a mismatch, especially when evaluating pressures. Contrasting ecology, ecotoxicological impacts are often characterized for whole species assemblages based on Species Sensitivity Distributions (SSDs). SSDs statistical models describing per chemical across-species sensitivity variation laboratory toxicity tests. To assist in the aligning of improve decision-support uses SSDs, we investigate taxonomic-group-specific algae/cyanobacteria/aquatic plants, invertebrates, vertebrates 180 chemicals with sufficient test data. We that splitting improves pollution impact assessments specific mode action and, surprisingly, narcotic chemicals. provide framework can be serve environmental protection, life cycle assessment, management freshwater illustrate using split has potentially large implications SSD-based outputs around globe.

Язык: Английский

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Mapping life cycle assessment (LCA) scientific research in agriculture: what do we still have to do?

Environment Systems & Decisions, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 45(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 3, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Ecosystem Services in Drying River Networks: A Meta‐Ecosystem Conceptual Model

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Water, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 12(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

ABSTRACT All river networks are virtually prone to drying, which is dramatically increasing in space and time. This threatens the functions ecosystem services (ES) rivers provide societies. Here, we introduce a new conceptual model of provision ES drying (DRN), situating as pivotal element every network. Based on meta‐ecosystem perspective, contend that determined DRN by exchange abiotic biotic flows between terrestrial aquatic ecosystems catchment. Specifically, highlight three main components involved: intensity flows, biodiversity patterns, functioning rates. How they vary time due changes hydrological connectivity catchment‐DRN determines pattern along DRN. Although events cause great diversity naturally provided DRN, must perceive their anthropogenic increase major socio‐ecological risk factor.

Язык: Английский

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