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A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 September 2023) | Viewed by 6585

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Prof. Dr. Hedi Ben Mansour

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Unité de Recherche Analyses et Procédés Appliqués à l’Environnement UR17ES32 – ISSAT, Mahdia 5121, Rejiche, Tunisia
Interests: environmental toxicology and sustainability

Dr. Asma Beltifa

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Unité de Recherche Analyses et Procédés Appliqués à l’Environnement UR17ES32 – ISSAT, Mahdia 5121, Rejiche, Tunisia
Interests: sustainability

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Dear Colleagues,

1) Due to the pervasive problems threatening ecosystems, scientists are increasingly interested in developing resilience strategies to lower environmental risk. Different concepts of resilience presume various assumptions about the system movement involved in resilience-based environmental risk and impact assessment. It is true that technical recovery dominates in the risk assessment literature, but this definition does not take into account the possibility that ecosystems exist in multiple regimes.

Water is an essential resource that enables life and is critical to our daily life and industry (agriculture, energy production, public services, fish farming, etc.). In order to maintain human health, the resilience of ecosystems and the prosperity of the economy, this resource needs to be protected. Thus, innovative and sustainable technologies preventing the release of compounds of emerging concern (CEC) and pathogens into water bodies, coastal areas and marine environment are crucial.

2) This Special Issue, “Resilience to Environmental Risks,” aims to add to the body of literature on chemical and pathogen contamination in the environment and to provide technical solutions to our dependence on water sources and their composition, considering regional, climatic, infrastructural and socioeconomic settings. This Special Issue will discuss system failure to show engineering resilience after disturbances, indicating a shift to a potentially undesired regime.

3) Suggest themes.

Original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

Resilience to environmental risks;
Coastal hazards;
Climate change and risks of coastal erosion and flooding;
Management of coastal hazards;
Socioeconomic consequences and adaptation of coastal zones to climate change;
Management, decision support tools and approaches for sustainable coastal zone management and marine spatial planning, including examples from African countries;
Coastal pollution and sustainable marine environments;
Phytoremediation and ecosystem restoration;
Environmental analyses and monitoring;
Assessment of risks and interactions of pollutants in the environment;
Assays of toxicity, endocrine disruption, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, ecosystem impact and health hazards;
Environmental and public health risk assessment, environmental guidelines and environmental policy for toxicants;
Conservation biology and sustainable agriculture;
Impact of chemicals/pollutants on human and animal health;
Environmental economics;
Environmental microbiology/biobased energy sources.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Hedi Ben Mansour
Dr. Asma Beltifa
Guest Editor

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resilience to environmental risks
coastal hazards
environmental toxicology
water contamination
sustainable technologies
environmental health
ecotoxicology
risk assessment

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Analyzing Community Perception of Protected Areas to Effectively Mitigate Environmental Risks Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis: The Case of Savu Sea National Marine Park, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia

by Chaterina Agusta Paulus, Akhmad Fauzi and Damianus Adar

Sustainability 2023, 15(23), 16498; https://doi.org/10.3390/su152316498 - 1 Dec 2023

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The Savu Sea holds significant importance as a conservation area in Indonesia that provides sustenance and livelihoods for local communities. However, the sea is currently facing various threats, including overfishing, pollution, and the impacts of climate change. Therefore, the effective management of this conservation area relies heavily on the active participation of local communities. This study aims to address the research question “What combination of variables leads to the positive outcome of strong participation and could thus mitigate environmental risk?” These variables include the socio-economic condition of coastal households, environmental awareness, the existence of community-based conservation areas, attitudes towards activities within the conservation area, and participation in multi-stakeholder institutions. This study employs the crisp-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) or csQCA methods. A survey was conducted among 22 coastal villages surrounding the Savu Sea, resulting in the identification of 14 different combinations of pathways that contribute to varying levels of perception regarding conservation. Of these 14 pathways, 10 were found to lead to the positive outcome of strong participation. Valuable lessons can be drawn from this study to enhance the design of policies aimed at effectively managing the Savu conservation area. Full article

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Characterization of the Tunisian Phosphate Rock from Metlaoui-Gafsa Basin and Bio-Leaching Assays

by Boutheina Messai, Ines Taieb, Sonia Ben Younes, Bruno Lartiges, Ezzedine Ben Salem and Ali Ellafi

Sustainability 2023, 15(9), 7204; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15097204 - 26 Apr 2023

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Soil contamination by heavy metals through the application of a phosphate fertilizer is a key issue for sustainable agriculture. Among contaminants, cadmium (Cd) is considered the most hazardous to human beings’ health and the surrounding environment. X-ray diffraction (XRD), combined with binocular mineralogical analysis and chemical analysis, was used to determine the C(I) and C(II) layers’ composition. In the C(II) (+71 µm)-size fraction, the presence of carbonate-fluorapatite, illite, and montmorillonite was revealed, whereas in the C(I) (−71 µm)-size fraction, carbonate-fluorapatite, calcite, quartz, sanidine, clinoptilolite, and taramovite were identified. The P₂O₅ and CaO contents were greater in the C(II) layer than that in the C(I) layer, whereas SiO_2, MgO, CO₂, Cd, Zn, and CO_rg were higher in the C(I) layer than that in the C(II) layer. The bioleaching of Cd from phosphate rock samples from the Kef Eddour deposit was investigated using three bacterial strains isolated from the local phosphate environment. A decrease in cell viability was noticed when the phosphate C(I) and C(II) samples showed toxicity in the samples. In addition, the isolated bacteria, which were initially moderately hydrophobic, changed to strongly hydrophobic. The use of the consortium (S1 + S2 + S3) was the most powerful combination to reduce the Cd content, which increased from 13.31% to 29.07% using S3 and the consortium (S1 + S2 + S3), respectively, when the C(II) (+71 µm)-size fraction sample was added to the medium. The same result was shown when the C(I) (−71 µm)-size fraction sample was used. The isolated strains could be used as a biological tool for bioleaching. Full article

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Assessing the Effects of Treated Wastewater Irrigation on Soil Physico-Chemical Properties

by Wiem Sdiri, Huda S. AlSalem, Soha T. Al-Goul, Mona S. Binkadem and Hedi Ben Mansour

Sustainability 2023, 15(7), 5793; https://doi.org/10.3390/su15075793 - 27 Mar 2023

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For assessing the effects of wastewater on soil physical and chemical properties, manual irrigation (MI) and surface drip irrigation (SDI) systems were investigated. The experiment was conducted over 12 months. Before and after the experiment, soil samples were collected from three depths (0–20 cm, 20–40 cm and 40–60 cm) for analysis. The obtained results indicated that wastewater application probably preserves soil quality by maintaining its pH-water values whatever the irrigation system used. This study suggested that nutrient input from wastewater promotes soil microbial activity and organic matter (OM) mineralization. In fact, at the soil depths of 0–20 cm and 20–40 cm, MI using treated wastewater (TWW) leads to decrease OM content. P input may justify treated wastewater fertilizing effect in the topsoil. Moreover, TWW fertilizing effect was demonstrated by increased potassium (K) amount in the two upper soil layers (0–20 cm and 20–40 cm) following SDI system. This last system may block metals (iron (Fe), copper (Cu), cobalt (Co) and selenium (Se)) translocation to plants and their accumulation in soil. In contrast, metal translocation was maintained by the MI system. The present data is encouraging to reuse TWW for agricultural purposes, especially for orchard irrigation. Full article

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