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Resources, Volume 13, Issue 9

September 2024 - 17 articles

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Cover Story: This systematic review examines the impact of various NRM practices on water quality and their subsequent effects on public health. Specifically, it focuses on interventions such as watershed management, pollution control, land use management, water treatment, and ecosystem restoration. We conducted a comprehensive search across PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science, supplemented by gray literature from Google Scholar, WHO reports, and government and NGO publications, and aimed to cover studies published between 2014 and 2024. The findings indicate that effective NRM practices, particularly those aimed at reducing pollutants, managing watersheds, and promoting sustainable land use, significantly improve the quality of water by lowering the levels of chemical contaminants, microbial pathogens, and physical pollutants. View this paper

Articles (17)

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2,276 Views
18 Pages

18 September 2024

Critical raw materials have significant economic and social impacts across numerous sectors. Numerous artifacts have been developed to assess their criticality. However, there is no univocity around the factors determining criticality. A systematic l...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
2,191 Views
15 Pages

18 September 2024

The lexical analysis of seminal policy-to-diplomacy documents from the socio-environmental discourse of the last fifty years of agendas has allowed examining the contextual affinities between resources, pollution, and health. The central role of reso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,359 Views
15 Pages

Allometric Models of Aboveground Biomass in Mangroves Compared with Those of the Climate Action Reserve Standard Applied in the Carbon Market

  • Carlos Roberto Ávila-Acosta,
  • Marivel Domínguez-Domínguez,
  • César Jesús Vázquez-Navarrete,
  • Rocío Guadalupe Acosta-Pech and
  • Pablo Martínez-Zurimendi

17 September 2024

The standardized methods used in carbon markets require measurement of the biomass and carbon stored in trees, which can be quantified through allometric equations. The objective of this study was to analyze aboveground biomass estimates with allomet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,601 Views
15 Pages

Effect of Alkaline and Hydrothermal Pretreatments in Sugars and Ethanol Production from Rice Husk Waste

  • José Ayala-Armijos,
  • Byron Lapo,
  • Carolina Beltrán,
  • Joaquín Sigüenza,
  • Braulio Madrid,
  • Estefanía Chérrez,
  • Verónica Bravo and
  • Diana Sanmartín

16 September 2024

This study investigates the effectiveness of hydrothermal and alkaline pretreatment methods in enhancing the concentration of fermentable sugars derived from rice husk waste. After the pretreatments, enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation processes we...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,228 Views
12 Pages

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Associated with Tree Pruning Residues of Urban Areas of Northeast Brazil

  • Yuri Rommel Vieira Araujo,
  • Bartolomeu Israel Souza and
  • Monica Carvalho

13 September 2024

There are environmental concerns (especially regarding climate change) associated with the negative effects of some pruning waste management practices. Converting urban tree waste into valuable products can help mitigate climate change, but it is imp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,637 Views
14 Pages

Evaluating the Global Processability of Anthropogenic Metals from Mining Waste

  • Qudsia Kanwal,
  • Muhammad Saqib Akhtar and
  • Sami G. Al-Ghamdi

13 September 2024

Natural resource depletion and increased mining waste pose significant challenges to global sustainability efforts. This study investigates the processability of mining waste during the metal recovery stage to evaluate its potential contribution to a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,353 Views
13 Pages

6 September 2024

The present study investigates territorial disparities in selected socioeconomic forces and environmental factors underlying soil degradation that may lead to early desertification processes in a dry Mediterranean region exposed to increasing human p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,465 Views
14 Pages

Assessment of the Chemical Composition and Antioxidant Capacity of Flowers, Seeds, and Seed Cake of Cactus Pear (Opuntia ficus-indica L.) and Their Application in Biscuits

  • Fatiha Brahmi,
  • Amira Oufighou,
  • Leila Smail-Benazzouz,
  • Nouna Hammiche,
  • Lydia Hassaine,
  • Lila Boulekbache-Makhlouf,
  • Khodir Madani and
  • Federica Blando

5 September 2024

Functional ingredients rich in bioactive compounds can be added to conventional ingredients for the formulation of food to increase its nutraceutical potential. Three prickly pear parts, namely flowers, seeds, and seed cake were utilized in the curre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,530 Views
15 Pages

4 September 2024

The goal of farmers operating in a market economy is to maximize profit. In view of the changing political situation, the main social interest, in addition to food security, should be energy security. Here is a refined version of that sentence: This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,863 Views
15 Pages

30 August 2024

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of solar drying and oven drying methods on the quality parameters of dried basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) leaves. The dried basil leaves were dehydrated at three different levels of temperature (T...

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