环境科学与工程 | 下半年截稿 | 高引SCI期刊专刊信息5条

全文截稿: 2021-10-15

影响因子: 4.577

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区

• 小类 : 环境研究 - 2区

• 小类 : 交通运输 - 2区

• 小类 : 运输科技 - 3区

网址：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-d-transport-and-environment

This special issue aims to garner the state-of-the-art knowledge on this neglected but important area of research. Specifically, it will provide a broad exploration of the relationship between the built environment and travel behavior in the smaller urban or rural context. It will focus on the development of smaller urban and rural areas, and the influence of changes in the built environment on travel behavior, as well as explore the relationship between the built environment and travel behavior in different spatial scales and forms. More importantly, it will bring together findings to develop a broader theoretical as well as practical framework for building a more sustainable and human-oriented society.

Moreover, most of the literature on the influences of built environment characteristics on travel behavior is strongly dominated by purely quantitative studies, often employing advanced statistical methods but rarely with explicit reflection on the nature of causal influences underlying observed statistical patterns. Lack of such theoretical and qualitative understanding is arguably the ‘Achilles heel’ of the mainstream research on built environment influences on travel. Theoretically reflective papers and papers based on studies combining quantitative and qualitative methods are therefore especially welcomed.

This special issue will be a collection of high-quality original research and reviews, with a focus on smaller urban and rural areas. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Data collection method for residents’ daily travel;

Short- and long-term effects of built environment characteristics on private car, motorcycle, e-bike and bicycle ownership and use;

The accessibility of educational facilities and student commuting;

Factors influencing long-distance travel of residents;

Effects of the built environment on travel-associated environmental and health outcomes;

Effects of built environment characteristic of the small urban area on travel behavior conditioned by its distance to larger cities and metropolitan centers;

Qualitative or mixed-method analysis of the relationship between the built environment and travel behavior.

全文截稿: 2021-10-31

影响因子: 5.778

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 2区

• 小类 : 环境科学 - 2区

网址：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/chemosphere

Numerous hazardous materials created by the domestic and industrial industries can be detected in the atmosphere, especially water bodies. These contaminants, in many cases, are very harmful and can generate highly toxic by-products in environments. The conventional methods for treatment and degradation of such contaminants are not effective. In addition, chemical detoxification that can be uses of to remove or reduce the presence of the contaminants from the environment by a different mechanism such as coagulation, and activated carbon adsorption are not usually accepted due to the raised concerns regarding the chemical residues and other consequences.

The application of emerging technology, such as nanotechnology for the degradation of hazardous materials from the environment, is among the hot research topics. Recently, MXene, as an emerging nanomaterial, has gained rapid attention owing to their unique mechanical, chemical, and electrical properties and many successful attempts have been focused on using MXenes in water treatment and environmental remediation applications. Based on the available data, the application of Mxene-based nanomaterial (MBN) technologies alone or combined with conventional techniques is in the primary stage of evaluation and their extensive applications for removing contaminations using MBNs technologies should be forecasted and encouraged.

This special issue aims to attract the recent findings on the degradation of various toxic residuals by using MBN technologies, which are the keys to the development of scientific-based prevention strategies aiming to save our environment. The academics, researchers, and professional engineers are encouraged to submit their hot and high quality researches in terms of following topics.

Specific topics:

Degradation of hazardous pollutants (e.g. antibiotics, pesticides, heavy metals, ions, bacterial pathogens and natural toxins residual) by MBN methods

Degradation of micro and nanoplastics by MBN methods

Application of MBNs in membrane materials for desalination

Application of MBNs in membrane materials for bacterial inactivation and degradation

MBNs for adsorption of hazardous pollutants

Mxene-based electrodes for electrochemical hazardous pollutants degradation

Antimicrobial MBNs for water disinfection and microbial control

Novel method of synthesis of MBNs for hazardous pollutants degradation

Nanotoxicological effects of MBNs

全文截稿: 2021-10-31

影响因子: 5.715

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 2区

• 小类 : 环境科学 - 2区

• 小类 : 公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生 - 1区

网址：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-research

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) based materials have attracted great interest as excellent nanomaterials and precursors in water treatment fields such as adsorption, catalysis, membrane separation, desalination, etc. In the past decade, numerous exciting advances of MOFs and their derived materials have been made in recent water treatment related research fields and the large-scale production and implementation have also been operated in many industries. However, on the other hand, the actual cost effectiveness and stability of MOFs-based materials, as well as the ecological and health effects caused by its potential release into the environment, have caused public concerns and in-depth reflection. The primary reactive active sites and reaction mechanism towards contaminants are urgent problems to be solved. Moreover, the use-cost, recycling ability, transformation pathways, and ecological and human toxicity are required in the practical process. To resolve the beneficial applications and refrain harm to the environment of MOFs-based materials in water treatment, there is a call for the deeply research in terms of the material synthesis and interactions with contaminants.

This special issue coverage includes, but is not limited to, the following research topics and areas: 1) MOFs and their derived materials for water treatment; 2) Adsorption; 3) Advanced oxidation process (AOPs); 4) Membrane separation; 5) Capacitive deionization (CDI); 6) Detection.

全文截稿: 2021-11-01

影响因子: 4.577

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区

• 小类 : 环境研究 - 2区

• 小类 : 交通运输 - 2区

• 小类 : 运输科技 - 3区

网址：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/transportation-research-part-d-transport-and-environment

Virtual Special Issue in Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Pathway into Full Autonomy by Leveraging Infrastructure Enabled Automation

Infrastructure Enabled Autonomy (IEA) is an evolving field of transportation. Unlike conventional autonomy, where the individual vehicles process perception and make decisions, IEA distributes some of the work to roadside infrastructure. IEA potentially addresses two obstacles hindering a full roll-out of vehicle automation: i) accuracy and robustness of perception, and ii) high costs of equipment on vehicles. With fixed-location sensors, the accuracy of perception is improved to within a centimeter under all weather conditions. Additionally, vehicles do not require as much on-board computing capability as currently required for a fully autonomous driving mode. IEA offers the potential to make autonomy feasible at a lower cost to consumers. The role of transportation agencies or other stakeholders in managing and maintaining the needed roadside infrastructure is unknown.

Some researchers considered IEA to be critical for full automation, especially during a potentially long transitional period. The many impacts expected from IEA deployment include, but are not limited to, the following.

Changes in travel behavior, location choice, and land uses. Autonomy requires upgrading the current infrastructure. As a result, the road system will mix autonomy-friendly and traditional infrastructure for a long time. The uneven distribution of infrastructure upgrades could significantly affect route and location decisions of drivers and the distribution of land uses.

Consumer acceptance of vehicle autonomy and differential equity outcomes. As the cost of automated vehicles decreases, they will become affordable to a larger group of consumers. Quantifying the potential market size expansion in self-driving vehicle will be crucial for better policymaking. Additionally, when designing policies, policymakers need to consider not only how to deploy this technology quickly and safely, but also how to improve the well-being of those who need it most and avoid exacerbating barriers and increasing inequality.

Potential reductions in vehicle emissions. Cooperative driving, platooning, and other more efficient driving patterns could be implemented and automated by IEA, reducing harmful vehicle emissions. IEA’s central control could more effectively enforce these intricate driving patterns than the decentralized nature of fully automated vehicles, potentially enhancing emission reductions.

As of now, most studies focus on the technologies needed to enable IEA. Few studies explore policy and governance issues associated with IEA deployment and maintenance and the potential impacts of IEAon travel and the environment. Research in these areas is critical to planning for a sustainable future with IEA proactively.

Topics
This special issue will be a collection of high-quality papers on IEA-related policies and governance and the impact of leveraging IEA on travel behavior, the built environment, transport equity, and vehicle emissions. It welcomes original research and reviews on (but not limited to) the following topics:

Innovative policies addressing the deployment of IEA;

Governance issues associated with deploying and maintaining IEA;

Consumer acceptance of IEA;

Impacts of IEA on land use;

Impacts of IEA on travel behavior;

Impacts of IEA on energy and environment;

Equity issues associated with IEA.

全文截稿: 2021-12-31

影响因子: 6.33

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 环境科学与生态学 - 2区

• 小类 : 生态学 - 2区

• 小类 : 环境科学 - 1区

• 小类 : 环境研究 - 1区

网址：
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/ecosystem-services

The objective of this Special Issue in the Ecosystem Services journal is to open up a new frontier of trailblazing research that will build on the common challenges, synergies and overlaps between two complementary research fields – on ecosystem services (ES) and life cycle assessment (LCA) – and interactive web-based databases to support environmental decision-making. This can create the foundations for an international, credible, and acceptable ES governance standard as well as new directionalities to capture i) on one hand, the value of environmental externalities and embed it into decision-making through robust guidelines, toolkits, databases and standards, ii) on the other hand, novel or emerging solutions and stimulate new research at the interface between ES and LCA to facilitate ES governance, broadly intended as a current gap in both knowledge and practice.

Nowadays an increasing demand from public and private sectors exists for environmental accounting and assessment of products and services that may encompass the consideration of ES, encouraging comprehensive ecosystem footprinting analyses, valuation and standardization as tools to improve decision-making on ecosystem conservation, restoration and sustainable production and consumption. These are proven to be successful at the “territorial” scales of socio-economic system (urban, region, nation,…), where the interaction between man- and nature-based processes is mainly driven by land uses. While high data collection and monitoring costs generally hinder those evaluation tasks, established techniques for optimal ecosystem services assessment (ESA) exist and innovative solutions for integrated impact assessment (IIA) are emerging. More specifically, public and private sector investors, multilateral and intergovernmental authorities, regulators, landowners and land users, entail best-in-class, customized and harmonized standard monitoring and management practices, instruments and guidelines to systematically incorporate considerations related to the impact on ES in their decision-making processes. However, mainstreaming ESA and IIA knowledge into policy and decision-making practice requires the harmonization of definitions, the standardization of classification processes, the generation of comprehensive databases and the streamlining of methodological and epistemological properties of ES accounting, quantification, valuation and mapping approaches.

In this regard, recent efforts to combine ES valuation methodologies with the LCA and related approaches show promising avenues to overcome the current taxonomic and methodological challenges to quantify and valuing ES. One of the strengths of LCA is that this method is under continuous methodological refinement, whereby LCA developers and practitioners are operating through large networks of practitioners and working groups to capture the best available cross-cutting knowledge to improve the methodology. In contrast to the territorial scales useful for ES assessment applications, LCA is globally acknowledged to be an effective tool to support sustainable decision-making at the scales of “product” and “economic sector”. At these scales, the need for detailed technological information when building life cycle inventories is compensated by the interest of private (industry) actors of improving their environmental (and economic) good or service performance. The ES community could learn from the methodological harmonization process (for example in terms of guidelines and databases) occurred over the last 30 years in the field of LCA and its family of related life cycle approaches (e.g. life cycle costing, carbon footprint, water footprint, environmentally-extended input-output analysis, etc.), as well as from the various on-going initiatives devoted to bring more consensus among the variants of, or the complementary methods for, LCA (e.g. consequential Vs. attributional LCA, territorial LCA, organizational LCA, social LCA, etc.). In turn, the LCA community could make a step forward to better incorporate ES knowledge in the modelling framework for life cycle inventory and impact assessment, without necessarily denaturizing its role of environmental accounting methodology for products analysis and comparison. Moreover, encompassing the higher assessment granularity of the ES approach could be useful to improve current LCA effort to addressing territorial challenges, where functional units are not necessarily products or economic sectors but urban and regional systems. This mutual effort can bring to an integrated approach that takes full advantage of win-win research developments in the ES and LCA communities. Two strongly linked thematic areas have been identified that may allow cross-fertilizations between state-of-the-art practices, methods and tools in and outside practice, whose interaction and operationalization for an integrated “ES–LCA” based framework can contribute addressing the abovementioned challenges of incorporating ES values, trade-offs and impacts in public and private decision-making: