TL;DR: A framework of ecosystem services is suggested for systematizing the evidence on the provision of bio-physical benefits as well as social and psychological benefits that enable coping with or reducing the adverse effects of climate change.

TL;DR: Recent developments in climate change observations and projections, observed and projected impacts on European forests and the associated uncertainties are reviewed and synthesised with a view to understanding the implications for forest management.

TL;DR: The present review discusses on the types of chromate reductases found in different bacteria, their mode of action and potential applications in bioremediation of hexavalent chromium both under free and immobilize conditions.

TL;DR: Soil was the most effective material for the removal of As(V), yet it could not strongly retain metal anions compared to biochars, as a significant amount of the adsorbed metal was released during desorption experiments.

TL;DR: This review presents a comprehensive overview of the diverse range of practice, applications, and researches of CW systems for removing various contaminants from wastewater in developing countries, placing them in the overall context of the need for low-cost and sustainable wastewater treatment systems.

TL;DR: It is found that the delivery of tangible benefits early on in the research process helps to ensure continued motivation and engagement of likely research users and where possible, steps should be taken to ensure a legacy of ongoing knowledge exchange beyond initial research funding.

TL;DR: More comprehensive approaches for the evaluation of environmental (ERA) and human health risk assessment (HRA) are included and analytical methods required to detect bioaccumulation of pharmaceuticals are discussed.

TL;DR: Slow pyrolysis at 600 °C was undertaken to determine how yields and characteristics of biochars differ when produced from eight different agricultural residues, finding that biochar macronutrient content was low in comparison to biochar produced from more nutrient rich feedstocks.

TL;DR: A series of practical guidelines are provided to enable social values to be better considered in ecosystem management and research.

TL;DR: Research analysis shows that application of alkaline CFA with or without other amendments can help remediate at least marginally metal contaminated soils by immobilisation of mobile metal forms, and CFA land application with SS or other source of organic carbon, N and P can help effectively reclaim/restore mining-affected lands.

TL;DR: Since energy seems to be at the heart of the environmental problem it should also form the core of the solution, and therefore some extensions of the EKC are provided by including renewable energy sources as explanatory variables in the proposed models.

TL;DR: This study suggests that in the context of water conservation, normative inclination is a key dimension and it may be useful to consider the role of positive, self-rewarding feelings for farmers when setting up policy measures in the region.

TL;DR: Estimating resource fluxes entering, leaving and circulating within the city-watershed system and estimating the economic benefits associated with implementing water-sector innovations show that the selection of the best technological innovation depends on which resource is the focus for improvement.

TL;DR: This study provides additional evidence for a nonlinear relationship between environmental performance and disclosure in emerging markets, and suggests environmental disclosure may not be a valid signal to differentiate good performers from poor performers in contemporary China.

TL;DR: All demographic characteristics were perceived to be influenced by cultural-historical patterns leading to cohort effects or socialised differences in the relationship with environmental behaviour, indicating that more work is required on the issue of causality.

TL;DR: The new relations established between the components of the Theory of Planned Behavior show that social norms significantly determine the attitudes, moral norms and perceived behavioral control of individuals.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the role of anthropogenic nutrients in promoting HABs is site-specific, with hydrodynamic processes often determining whether blooms occur, and there is a lack of evidence of widespread significant adverse health impacts from anthropogenic nutrient-generated Habs, although this may be partly due to a lacks of human/animal health and HAB monitoring.

TL;DR: This study advances contemporary ideas promoting the importance of managing wastes as resources such as closed-loop or circular material economies, and sustainable materials management by reinforcing the notion of a resource-based paradigm rather than a waste-based one.

TL;DR: The equilibrium study showed that the Freundlich model can adequately describe the sorption process for the majority of samples examined and suggested that the main mechanisms of As(V) and Cr(VI) removal were possibly metal precipitation and electrostatic interactions between the modified biochars and the adsorbate.

TL;DR: The current status of waste management for the hospitality sector, in general, is examined, with a focus on food waste management in particular, and how waste mapping, an innovative yet simple strategy, can significantly reduce the waste generation of a hotel is described.

TL;DR: Assessment of the real polluting potential of stillage, and the implications of its land disposal and/or discharge into water bodies, indicates that its treatment prior to disposal is essential to make fertigation an environmentally suitable practice.

TL;DR: A social-psychological model of trust, risk perceptions and acceptance was developed and tested in Toowoomba, Australia and showed that the more community members perceived that the water authority used fair procedures, the greater their sense of shared identity with the water authorities.

TL;DR: The different pore-forming agents from renewable or mineral resources as described in the literature are reviewed and the impact of these agents on the physical, mechanical and thermal properties of clay bricks is presented.

TL;DR: Digestate dewaterability was improved significantly by reducing food waste particle size and methane production rate and specific methane yield were significantly higher in the digester with fine food waste.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate it is possible to achieve large improvements in habitat availability with little loss in economic returns, and emphasize the importance of careful landscape level forest management planning because optimal combinations of management regimes were taxon-specific.

TL;DR: It was observed that bioaugmentation contributed to the highest diesel oil biodegradation efficiency, whereas the addition of rhamnolipids did not notably influence the treatment process.

TL;DR: The kinetics of the anaerobic digestion process were accelerated by thermal pretreatment at lower temperatures (<120 °C) only, and the enhanced biomethane production with ozonation pretreatment is insufficient to supply the required energy for the ozonator.

TL;DR: This model was used to evaluate carbon dioxide emissions and operational costs under different scenarios in an apparel manufacturing supply chain network and showed that the higher the social cost rate ofcarbon dioxide emissions, the lower the amount of the emission of carbon dioxide.

TL;DR: The results show that: 1) the quality of an evaluation strategy often remains too poor to understand well the link between a restoration project and ecological changes; 2) in many cases, the conclusions drawn are contradictory, making it difficult to determine the success or failure of a Restoration project.