Biomass Use and its Health and Environmental Effects

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Dear Colleagues,

Biomass is a rich, sustainable, and renewable resource on Earth, and its rational utilization is an important measure to mitigate climate change in future low-carbon development scenarios. The utilization of biomass is multi-faceted and multi-level, playing a huge role in human production and life. However, any utilization method may have environmental and health impacts. Taking residential biomass as an example, its incomplete combustion can emit a large amount of pollutants including carbon monoxide, methane, nitrogen oxides, black carbon, organic carbon, brown carbon, etc., which may pose treat to both climate and human health. Therefore, it is urgent to comprehensively evaluate the environmental and health effects of different biomass utilization methods, achieve synergistic benefits of climate, environment, and health, and make biomass contribute more to sustainable development. In this Topic, we welcome papers on any utilization method of biomass, such as residential and industrial fuel, biochar, and other products made of biomass, as well as its environmental and health impacts.

Prof. Dr. Wei Du
Dr. Zhaofeng Chang
Dr. Yuanchen Chen
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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Atmosphere atmosphere	2.5	4.6	2010	15.8 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Energies energies	3.0	6.2	2008	17.5 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Sustainability sustainability	3.3	6.8	2009	20 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
Toxics toxics	3.9	4.5	2013	15.6 Days	CHF 2600	Submit
Applied Sciences applsci	2.5	5.3	2011	17.8 Days	CHF 2400	Submit

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