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Exploring the relationship between water–energy consumption and urbanization in China: A urban-rural transformation perspective

IF 9.8 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107834

Menghang Liu , Chuanglin Fang , Yu Bai

Urbanization has significantly increased the demand for water consumption (WC) and energy consumption (EC). However, previous scholars have failed to explore resources reallocation between urban and rural areas, and studies on urbanization evaluation have generally ignored the interactions among various dimensions. Here, taking China—a rapidly urbanizing country with limited resources—as a case study, we examine the evolutions and relationships between water–energy consumption and urbanization during 2000–2022. Results show that WC remains relatively stable due to the offsetting trends of decelerated agricultural WC and accelerated domestic and ecological WC. EC exhibits significant upward trend in 83.3 % regions due to increased energy transformation losses and industrial final EC. We innovatively evaluate urbanization by considering the interactions of urban-rural transformation in population, land, and industry elements. Urbanization increases significantly with high performance in eastern but low in western China, and exhibits the positive correlations and unidirectional causality with resources consumption. WC gradually decouples from urbanization, while EC has not decoupled. Our findings could provide valuable insights for sustainable resource utilization and urban-rural development worldwide.

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The neglected cost: Ecosystem services loss due to urban expansion in China from a triple-coupling perspective

IF 9.8 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107827

Weilong Kong , Wencang Shen , Chaoyue Yu , Lu Niu , Huixin Zhou , Zhengfeng Zhang , Shan Guo

Urban expansion's direct ecological consequences are well recognized, but its indirect and remote effects remain unclear. This study explores how urban expansion in China drives a series of land use changes, causing ecosystem service (ES) loss through triple-coupling mechanisms: (1) Intra-coupling Loss from the direct occupation of natural land and cropland, (2) Peri-coupling Loss from converting surrounding natural land to compensate for lost cropland, and (3) Tele-coupling Loss from off-site cropland compensation. From 2000 to 2020, Intra-coupling, Peri-coupling, and Tele-coupling loss accounts for 61.31 %, 19.86 %, and 18.83 %, respectively, highlighting that nearly 40 % of the ES loss due to urban expansion stems from indirect effects. Intra-coupling Loss dominates in three coastal regions, while Peri-coupling Loss is prominent east of the Hu-Line, and Tele-coupling Loss is concentrated in Northwest, Northeast, and Southwest. The key factors determining the scale and pathways of ES loss include urban expansion extent, cropland holdings, and reserve resources of cropland. This means that vulnerable regions bear the negative consequences of urban expansion in more developed areas, indicating spatial injustice. Although Tele-coupling's share has decreased over the study period, its concentration has intensified, exacerbating pressure on vulnerable regions. Among various ES, carbon sequestration is most significantly indirectly affected, followed by habitat quality. This study enhances the systemic understanding of the ecological consequences of urban expansion and provides a basis for sustainable development strategies.

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How obesity and overweight affect the carbon footprint of China's healthcare: A dire situation calling for urgent action

IF 9.8 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Pub Date : 2025-01-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107831

Zhimin Shi , Lixiao Zhang , Pengpeng Zhang , Yan Hao , Xin Xiong , Xinqing Li , Ailing Liu

Excessive food intake is significantly contributing to the rising rates of obesity and overweight in China, creating substantial financial and environmental challenges for the healthcare system. This study employs a cost of illness method combined with environmentally extended input-output analysis to assess the carbon footprint associated with obesity and overweight within China's healthcare sector. In 2020, healthcare expenditures related to obesity and overweight reached approximately 324.7 billion Chinese Yuan (CNY), resulting in emissions of 31.5 Mt. CO₂e, which accounted for around 4.5 % of the total greenhouse gas emissions from the national healthcare sector. These emissions nearly negate the progress made in reducing greenhouse gas emissions in China's service sectors. The carbon intensity of the healthcare sector related to obesity and overweight is higher than that of the general medical sector, emphasizing the urgent need for more targeted and effective intervention measures. This study represents an initial effort to quantify the healthcare carbon footprint related to obesity and overweight, providing crucial insights into the potential resource and environmental savings achievable by addressing these issues. It highlights the necessity of understanding of the impact correlated to overweight and obesity, offering valuable perspectives for tackling the global challenges of obesity and climate change.

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An exploratory methodological approach to enhancing public health policy in Ghana's mining operations

IF 9.8 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107817

Joschka J. Proksik , Fritz Brugger , Martin A. Ayanore , Philip B. Adongo

Industrial mining significantly contributes to the economies and public revenues of numerous low- and lower-middle-income nations, with its importance set to grow due to the increasing demand for critical minerals in the energy transition. Concurrently, the negative externalities associated with large-scale mining are set to escalate if not rigorously managed. Among these adverse impacts, the negative effects on public health have long been disregarded in the governance of large-scale mining projects. This study examines the regulatory and policy landscape governing public health within impact assessment practices in large-scale mining operations, highlighting the inadequacy of current regulatory approaches, particularly the limited attention given to public health within Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs). Focusing on mineral-rich Ghana, we investigate stakeholder perceptions regarding the adequacy of current EIA policy frameworks in safeguarding public health. Applying Q-methodology, we explore diverse perspectives on policy action, priorities, and the involvement of relevant actors in shaping progressive public health regulation within the mining sector. Our findings offer valuable insights into the policy space and potential strategies for strengthening public health in mining activities, with implications for EIA environmental management practices. Moreover, our findings suggest that the divergent policy preferences uncovered in Ghana highlight key obstacles to greater public health consideration through the inclusion of Health Impacts Assessment (HIA), especially in contexts with limited administrative resources. Our study reveals how roles, responsibilities, and authority over impact assessment and mine licensing processes can significantly shape stakeholder policy preferences toward HIA.

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From ecological entities to the entire coastal zone: An improved ecological risk assessment methodology in Jiangsu, China

IF 9.8 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107826

Jian Fang, Min Xu, Min Wu

Coastal ecosystems face disturbances from multiple risk sources. However, few studies have explored how to overcome land–sea heterogeneity in complex coastal zones to quantify ecological risk (ER) and provide spatial insights into the driving mechanisms of ER in coastal zones. This study proposed an improved ecological risk assessment method based on an exposure–consequence framework from natural and anthropogenic risk sources to investigate spatiotemporal changes in the ER of ecological entities along the Jiangsu coastal zone from 2000 to 2022. The ER of ecological entities was fused to the entire coastal zone to realize the risk correlation between them and calculated ER of shore sections by carrying value. The explanatory power and spatial heterogeneity of the driving factors for coastal ER were determined using geographical detector (GeoDetector) and multiscale geographically weighted regression (MGWR) models. For ecological entities, the very low to low-risk of the nature reserves were transferred the most in 2000–2010 (516.7705km²). Very low-risk areas of along the entire coastal zone decreased by nearly 50 %; the lower and higher risks areas were transferred to each other due to natural risk. The main driving factors of ER were GDP, underlying surface type, and development intensity, with a tendency for high-impact areas to expand gradually over time. The explanatory power of socio-economic factors was greater than that of natural factors. This novel ecological risk assessment framework elucidates the patterns and drivers of ER in coastal zones and serves as a practical reference for developing effective risk prevention strategies.

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Environmental, socio-cultural, and economic sustainability in care facilities: Evaluating the impact of person-centered building renovation in Aragon, Spain

IF 9.8 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Pub Date : 2025-01-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107822

Irene González-Fernández, Lucía C. Pérez-Moreno

The increasing aging population, life expectancy, and dependency rates in Spain have led to a growing demand for long-term care places, presenting a significant challenge for care facilities for older people. Transitioning from institutional care homes to a person-centered care model is essential for improving the well-being and quality of life of residents. This paper focuses on Aragon, a region in Spain facing territorial disparities and aging-related issues. The study proposes a holistic sustainability approach that encompasses socio-cultural, environmental, and economic dimensions to evaluate the impact of renovating institutional long-term care facilities into person-centered care environments. The research methodology involves creating a holistic database of care facilities in Aragon and assessing their sustainability through socio-cultural indicators (size, living units, and single rooms) and environmental factors (construction year, energy consumption, and carbon emissions). Several design measures, such as implementing living units and improving insulation, are proposed to evaluate economic sustainability. The findings reveal that 25 % of care facilities need to reduce their capacity, with only 7.7 % having adopted living units. Additionally, over 80 % of the building stock is energy inefficient. Renovating these care facilities in line with a sustainable, person-centered approach is estimated to cost between 101 and 170 million euros. The paper concludes that a holistic approach combining socio-cultural, environmental, and economic sustainability is crucial for implementing a person-centered care model in Aragon's facilities. Furthermore, effective public-private collaboration is needed to ensure equitable access to care services and uphold quality standards that safeguard the well-being of older adults.

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Assessment of environmental product declaration and databases: Towards ensuring data quality assurance practices

IF 9.8 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Pub Date : 2025-01-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2024.107803

Oludolapo Ibrahim Olanrewaju, Wallace Imoudu Enegbuma, Michael Donn, Oluwatobi Nurudeen Oyefusi

Environmental product declaration (EPD) is a vital tool for sustainable decision-making. However, limited studies have considered electronic databases' importance in shaping EPD adoption's future. The rise in EPDs globally has raised concerns about data quality assurance issues. Therefore, assessing the current EPD and its databases is important to provide a robust pathway for ensuring data quality assurance practices. This study adopted a mixed research approach to address the concerns, including desk research, focus group discussion, and the use of natural language processing (NLP) for analysis of sample EPDs. The desk research includes data scrapping of EPD data from the ECO Platform and expert ranking agreement based on pre-defined attributes. The study revealed a need to improve the current EPD databases to enhance user experience and the structure of construction EPDs due to the poor association between EPDs published by different programme operators. It is also important to note that the top three EPD databases based on expert ranking agreement are: ECO Platform, EPD Norway, and EPD Ireland. The study proposed a conceptual framework and system architecture aimed at improving data quality assurance practices. The findings from this study have direct implications for EPD programme operators, manufacturers, EPD data users, and policy-makers.

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Sustainability on the plate: Unveiling the environmental footprint of pasta supply chain through Life Cycle Assessment

IF 9.8 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107821

Eleonora Catellani , Sophia Manfredini , Clarissa Amico , Federica Ciccullo , Roberto Cigolini

The sustainability transition of the agri-food supply chain presents numerous challenges, with agriculture alone contributing significantly to climate change, water use, and soil degradation. Cereals represent the largest share of people's dietary patterns, and their production is connected to diverse environmental challenges, which require a holistic approach that encompasses the entire agri-food supply chain. Life Cycle Assessment has been extensively employed to estimate the environmental impacts of agri-food supply chain and more specifically of dry durum wheat pasta. However, no studies have been developed yet for gluten-free pasta and fresh stuffed pasta with increasing consumption patterns that might reshape the environmental sustainability of the food supply chain. This study applies Life Cycle Assessment technique to assess – through a cradle-to-grave approach – the sustainability of gluten-free and fresh stuffed pasta produced in Northern Italy and makes use of 18 Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) on durum wheat pasta to compare the environmental impacts of different pasta recipes. Results reveal that gluten-free pasta is characterized by a strong negative impact in the cultivation stage, due to water-demanding practices adopted to grow rice and corn. Fresh stuffed pasta production is associated to higher impacts both in the distribution phase, due to the energy needed for refrigeration, and in the production of ingredients, because of the additional animal-based products in the recipe. This study could offer a quantitative baseline to pave the way to implement specific mitigation actions and sustainability strategies aimed at improving the environmental performance of pasta supply chain.

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Does land management scale influence farmers' utilization of straw resources? Empirical evidence from rural China

IF 9.8 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107820

Jialan Zhang , Ruohan Zhang , Kuan Zhang , Dingde Xu , Yanbin Qi , Xin Deng

Non-resource utilization, such as burning straw, exacerbates the frequency of extreme climate events and presents significant obstacles to global sustainable development. Identifying methods to enhance straw resource utilization (SRU) is essential for achieving environmentally sustainable agricultural development and mitigating climate change. Large-scale land management has become a cornerstone of contemporary agriculture. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the influence of land management scale (LMS) on farmers' SRU behavior. Specifically, the mechanisms through which LMS impacts farmers' SRU remain unclear. Utilizing comprehensive survey data from rural revitalization efforts in China in 2020, this study employs an IV-Probit model to investigate the quantitative impact and mechanism of LMS on farmers' SRU. The findings indicate that: (1) LMS significantly enhances farmers' SRU behavior, with a one-unit increase in LMS correlating with a 3.90 % rise in the probability of farmers engaging in SRU. This conclusion holds true even after robustness testing. (2) Heterogeneity analysis reveals that LMS exerts a more pronounced influence on SRU among new-generation farmers, large-scale farmers, high-income farmers, pure farmers, and farmers in the southern region. (3) LMS enhances farmers’ SRU behavior by increasing their awareness of environmental protection and economic considerations. The mediating effects of environmental protection awareness and economic considerations on SRU behavior are 5.45 % and 7.82 %, respectively. These findings offer valuable theoretical guidance for refining and enhancing SRU practices in rural areas.

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Mortality attributable to ambient PM2.5 pollution in China's aging population

IF 9.8 1区社会学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Pub Date : 2025-01-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2025.107823

Lei Wan, Hilary Bambrick, Michael Tong

Background

As China's population is aging rapidly, understanding the shifts in PM_2.5 attributable mortality within this context is crucial for informing future clean air policies.

Methods

We adopted a Fusion relative risk model, combined with 100 m resolution age structure data, to better estimate China's age- and cause-specific mortality attributable to PM_2.5 over 2010–2019, and projected attributable mortality in 2030 and 2060 at a 0.1° spatial resolution under three scenarios: Baseline, Carbon-peak and Carbon-neutral. We also assessed the impact of population aging using a decomposition method at the grid level.

Results

PM_2.5 attributable deaths declined by 9.2 % from 2010 (1.95 million, 95 % UI: 1.80–2.09) to 2019 (1.77 million, 95 % UI: 1.64–1.90), with population aging contributing an increase of 0.48 million deaths. The elderly population constituted over 70 % of total attributable mortality during 2010–2019, and this share is expected to increase to over 90 % in 2060 under three future scenarios. Under Baseline scenario, attributable deaths are expected to increase, with population aging as the major contributor. Under Carbon-peak scenario, the projected mortality declines over 2019–2030 and 2030–2060 will be partly offset by population aging. Under Carbon-neutral scenario, population aging is projected to increase attributable deaths by 0.57 million and 1.27 million over the two periods, largely offsetting the reductions achieved by the declines in PM_2.5 concentrations and cause-specific baseline mortality rates.

Conclusions

Population aging is the main factor that increases PM_2.5 attributable mortality. Specific measures considering the vulnerability of the elderly are needed to further alleviate future health burden from air pollution.

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