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Environments, Volume 10, Issue 1

2023 January - 13 articles

Cover Story: The hydrogen economy is a potential option for enabling deep decarbonization for the future energy landscape. However, progress towards an operating hydrogen economy has seemed slow despite global efforts to accelerate it. This study uses bibliometric analysis and content analysis to understand whether there has been significant real progress in achieving a hydrogen economy, or whether the current interest is overly exaggerated (hype). Findings indicate that interest in the hydrogen economy has indeed progressed based on the growing number of academic publications, media coverage, and projects. However, various endogenous and exogenous factors have influenced the development of the hydrogen economy and created hype at certain points in time. View this paper
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Articles (13)

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,918 Views
22 Pages

The systemic transformation towards climate neutral cities depends on a dramatic reduction in the use of natural resources, whose use are directly or indirectly associated with greenhouse gas emissions. This means improving Urban Metabolism (UM) and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,392 Views
17 Pages

Species Sensitivity to Hydrologic Whiplash in The Tree-Ring Record of the High Sierra Nevada

  • Anabel G. Winitsky,
  • David M. Meko,
  • Alan H. Taylor and
  • Franco Biondi

The year-to-year variability of precipitation has significant consequences for water management and forest health. “Whiplash” describes an extreme mode of this variability in which hydroclimate switches abruptly between wet and dry condit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
17,149 Views
22 Pages

Global climate change concerns have pushed international governmental actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by adopting cleaner technologies, hoping to transition to a more sustainable society. The hydrogen economy is one potential long-term opt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,226 Views
16 Pages

Low-VOC Emission Label Proposal for Facemask Safety Based on Respiratory and Skin Health Criteria

  • Gabriela Ventura Silva,
  • Anabela O. Martins,
  • Susana D. S. Martins and
  • Teresa M. Mata

One of the main preventive measures recognized by WHO and implemented to mitigate the COVID-19 epidemic impact, by controlling the transmission of coronavirus, was the use of a facemask. Since a facemask is an accessory that can be used several hours...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,512 Views
21 Pages

Multifractal Patterns in 17-Year PM10 Time Series in Athens, Greece

  • Dimitrios Nikolopoulos,
  • Aftab Alam,
  • Ermioni Petraki,
  • Panayiotis Yannakopoulos and
  • Konstantinos Moustris

This paper reports the multifractal characteristics of lengthy PM10 time series from five stations in the Greater Athens Area (GAA), Greece. A novel methodology based on the multifractal detrended fluctuation analysis (MFDFA) is applied to raw and sh...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
12,925 Views
29 Pages

Process Evaluation of Scandium Production and Its Environmental Impact

  • Aratrika Ghosh,
  • Soniya Dhiman,
  • Anirudh Gupta and
  • Rohan Jain

With the advancement of technology and a global shift towards clean energy, the need for rare earth metals is increasing. Scandium, a rare earth metal, has been extensively used over the decades in solid oxide fuel cells and aluminum–scandium a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,811 Views
20 Pages

Kinetic and Equilibrium Isotherm Studies for the Removal of Tetracycline from Aqueous Solution Using Engineered Sand Modified with Calcium Ferric Oxides

  • Osamah Al-Hashimi,
  • Khalid Hashim,
  • Edward Loffill,
  • Ismini Nakouti,
  • Ayad A. H. Faisal and
  • Tina Marolt Čebašek

The novel aspect of this research is the fabrication, characterisation, and application of an engineered adsorbent made from quartz sand coated with calcium ferric oxides (QS/CFO) derived from the wastepaper sludge ash (WPSA) for the removal of tetra...

  • Review
  • Open Access
127 Citations
17,477 Views
25 Pages

Environment Friendly Pretreatment Approaches for the Bioconversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass into Biofuels and Value-Added Products

  • Surbhi Sharma,
  • Mei-Ling Tsai,
  • Vishal Sharma,
  • Pei-Pei Sun,
  • Parushi Nargotra,
  • Bijender Kumar Bajaj,
  • Chiu-Wen Chen and
  • Cheng-Di Dong

An upsurge in global population and rapid urbanization has accelerated huge dependence on petroleum-derived fuels and consequent environmental concerns owing to greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere. An integrated biorefinery uses lignocellulosi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,370 Views
20 Pages

Regional Climate Change Effects on the Viticulture in Portugal

  • Rainer Ferdinand Wunderlich,
  • Yu-Pin Lin and
  • Andrianto Ansari

The grapevine (Vitis vinifera) is widely cultivated for the production of wine and other commodities. Wine is globally traded, with an annual market value of approximately USD 4 billion in Portugal alone. However, climate change is expected to profou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,222 Views
14 Pages

Slow Pyrolysis of Quercus cerris Cork: Characterization of Biochars and Pyrolysis Volatiles

  • Umut Sen,
  • Marta Martins,
  • Everton Santos,
  • Maria Amelia Lemos,
  • Francisco Lemos and
  • Helena Pereira

Waste cork granules of Quercus cerris bark were subjected to isothermal and non-isothermal slow pyrolysis. The heat of the reaction, as well as the yields and properties of biochar, bio-oil, and pyrolysis gas were investigated by thermogravimetric an...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,435 Views
10 Pages

Ecological modeling refers to the construction and analysis of mathematical models aimed at understanding the complexity of ecological processes and at predicting how real ecosystems might evolve. It is a quickly expanding approach boosted by impress...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,595 Views
23 Pages

The aim of this study is to analyze the recent sedimentation rate in the center of the Limoncocha lagoon, a Ramsar site in the Ecuadorian Amazon, using the 210Pb dating method and identifying the potentially toxic elements along a 50 cm sediment core...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,747 Views
21 Pages

Industrial Symbiosis in the Balkan-Mediterranean Region: The Case of Solid Waste

  • Athanasios Angelis-Dimakis,
  • George Arampatzis,
  • Andreas Alexopoulos,
  • Antonia Vyrkou,
  • Andreas Pantazopoulos and
  • Vasilis Angelis

The treatment of waste and especially solid waste, the type with the highest increase in terms of annual generation over the last decade, is a key issue in the Balkan and Mediterranean region. Piecemeal efforts to deal with it within the prevailing l...

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Environments - ISSN 2076-3298