【环境科学类】高引期刊征稿信息3条

全文截稿: 2018-04-30

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 : 工程：环境 - 2区

  • 小类 : 环境科学 - 2区

  • 小类 : 绿色可持续发展技术 - 2区

网址: www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-cleaner-production

Most of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set up by the United Nations (United Nations, 2015) comprise a clear reference to resource and energy topics (Bringezu et al., 2016). This shows the crucial importance of sustainable resource management and sustainable energy supplies for the world’s current and future development. Thereby, the value chain from discovery, exploitation, processing, and manufacturing to use and disposal or recycling of resources and energy carriers are of central importance. It provides economic development, income and job satisfaction and the use value from the delivered products and services. However, at the same time, it has impacts on human health, ecosystems, and natural resources (UNEP, 2010). The economic development to the present state has been accompanied with increased utilization of materials and energy, which has led to increasing greenhouse gas emissions (Arto & Dietzenbacher, 2014; Franzen & Mader, 2016). To achieve the named sustainability goals requires a decoupling of economic development and population growth on the one hand and resource and energy use as well as greenhouse gas emission on the other hand. This demands reductions of material, energy, and carbon intensity of the economic development (Schandl et al., 2016). Thereby the decoupling is dependent on multiple efforts comprising analysis, assessment and planning methods and tools for resource and energy management. They are necessary to develop concepts, e.g. for more sustainable energy systems and for a circular economy, to measure the current status and achievements with regard to the sustainability objectives and to come to solutions which are superior from a sustainability perspective.

Following the overall aim of a more sustainable resource and energy management, this SV will focus on analysis, assessment, and planning problems. These problems should be approached with quantitative methods originating from Industrial Ecology, Operations Research or closely related fields such as Cleaner Production, Engineering, Natural Sciences or Business Informatics. Interdisciplinary approaches are welcome. Thus, the exchange between these fields, joint and cross-cutting works shall be stimulated.

The SV will address the following thematic areas, not exclusively:

Theme 1: Recent advances in the analysis and design of energy and production systems and networks

Methodological and computational advances made it possible to study a wide range of large scale and real world applications in the field of energy and production systems and networks. Methods such as decomposition techniques, acceleration strategies as well as tools to handle large data sets have been widely applied in this context. These advances allowed increasing the complexity and granularity of models, including additional topics and answering new research questions with demanding computational tasks. Examples are the consideration of technological development and the modeling of experience curves and the representation of power grids in combination with investment decisions. Within this call for papers, recent advances in the analysis of energy and production systems and networks with regard to real world applications and resulting policy conclusions are of special interest.

Theme 2: New I&C technologies and quantitative assessment and planning and control approaches and their contribution to more sustainable resource and energy management  

The operation of production and energy systems and value chains is crucial for achieving a more sustainable material and energy use. The mode of operation determines the efficiency of the systems, value chains, and networks. Thus, planning and control to find and achieve the best possible modes are crucial. Current research often deals with the question how digitalization may positively affect common economic performance measures or their substitutes such as lead times, missing parts, and tardiness. However, digitalization offers also the chance to improve the performance with regard to sustainability (Seele and Lock 2017). This holds also for the operation of production and energy systems. Advanced and new technologies and their dissemination, achievements in business analytics and information exchange between different stages of the value chain or within networks may offer possibilities to use resources and energy more efficiently, avoid emissions and close material loops. However, these chances need to be investigated further. Thus, we encourage submissions dealing with more and better information on processes, enhanced and new approaches for planning and control based on this information (including, e.g., flexible planning and online-optimisation) and how information sharing and following cooperation across different stages of the value chain / within the production and energy network can lead to better operations from a sustainability perspective.

Theme 3: Quantitative analysis, assessment, and planning approaches for a Circular Economy;

Circular economy describes an ideal case contributing to sustainability objectives of resource and energy management by a minimisation of primary resource and energy input, waste and emission output. Closing of material and energy loops can be achieved through the utilization of former waste streams on all stages of the production and energy system and thus substitute primary resources and energy by secondary sources. Further, non-renewable inputs can be substituted by renewable ones, e.g. in the provision of energy or in a material utilization of biomass. However, even in the vision of industrial ecosystems in industrial ecology, a permanent input of energy is needed in order to fuel the cycle of closed material loops (Lifset and Graedel, 2002). Cascade utilisations are envisaged, trying to keep both, material and energy flows as long as possible on a level of high value (Webster, 2015). Issues of the analysis, assessment, and design of such circular economy aspects with quantitative approaches have a comparable long tradition. The range of methods comprises economic assessments, optimisation and simulation approach from Operations Research as well as methods from industrial ecology, i.e. especially life cycle assessments, material flow analysis, and industrial symbiosis. We want to encourage especially contributions combining the methodical toolsets of business administration, operations research and industrial ecology with applications on the level of single technologies, (closed-loop) supply chains, production and energy networks up to whole economies.

Theme 4: Analysis of the relationship between material efficiency, energy efficiency, and greenhouse gas emissions

Aiming at more sustainable production and consumption patterns focuses often on efficiency of material and energy use and/or the minimisation of climate relevant emissions. Picking out one of these measures and enhancing it may lead to adverse effects on others, since they are often interrelated. Increasing material efficiency through, e.g. recycling, may have negative effects on the energy efficiency. The choice of the energy, in turn, has consequences on the emission of greenhouse gases and air pollutants. To achieve solutions which are from a holistic perspective superior requires considering these aspects in an integrated way. To support this, we encourage submissions which analyze these interrelations quantitatively in order to come to a better understanding the interdependencies. This can comprise studies on a micro level, i.e. focusing on enhancement measures within one process, studies considering production and energy networks on the meso level and /or studies economic studies on the macro level, taking into account, e.g. also factors such as economic growth.

Theme 5: Analyses with regard to emission trading and emission reduction strategies in energy and production systems and networks

System analyses with regard to emission trading and emission reduction strategies in energy networks are of special interest for this call for papers. This includes topics like the interdependencies between demand reduction, renewable extension, conventional technologies and their impact on CO2-mitigation and CO2-prices as well as questions related to the design of emission trading and emission reduction schemes and their specific impacts. Energy systems are often double or even multiple regulated, in the sense that one regulation measure (e.g. renewable extension) has an impact on another measure (e.g. emission trading). Here, also supranational (e.g. European) regulation measures and state individual measures (and energy policy goals) may interact or even conflict. Moreover, CO2-emission regulation may also have an impact on welfare distribution between countries, customer groups and industrial sectors. This call for paper especially addresses the analysis of real-world applications on the above-mentioned topics.

摘要截稿: 2017-12-10

全文截稿: 2018-06-15

影响因子: 2.341

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

The continued dominance of privately-owned, petroleum-powered vehicles used primarily by single occupants is a major contributor to several societal problems, including climate change, air pollution, excessive congestion, and land-use impacts. Many policymakers and other stakeholders have explored and supported efforts to transition towards more sustainable forms of mobility, with recent interest increasing for three particular categories of innovation: electric mobility, autonomous vehicles and shared mobility. These sociotechnical innovations, individually or in some combination, could play important roles in future transformations of transportation sectors—substantially impacting the environment, energy use, and social well-being. However, there remains enormous uncertainty about the likelihood, magnitude and net impact of these innovations.

This Special Issue focuses on the role of users in such transitions, including vehicle owners, operators and passengers and potentially other actors. To date, much of the research in this field has neglected or overly simplified the user perspective. Many studies take a purely technical or optimization approach—assuming that users will take whatever actions are necessary to “optimize” the system. Others have relied on a rational actor approach, representing consumers as self-focused users with known, unchanging preferences that guide deliberative decision-making—often with an exclusive focus on financial attributes of the technologies. Neither approach is considered to be behaviourally realistic. Arguably, neglect of behavioural realism can lead to incomplete or misleading results in models and analyses. On the cutting edge, some researchers continue efforts to improve our understanding of the human dimension of transport innovations—which this Special Issue aims to support.

This call invites papers that seek to improve our understanding of the roles of users in potential transitions to low-carbon transport innovations, using the cases of electrified, autonomous and shared mobility. The contributions of these papers can be conceptual, theoretical, methodological or empirical. Topics can include (but are not limited to):

- Critiques of behavioural assumptions in existing studies;

- Analysis of empirical data from surveys or interviews;

- Methods to better represent consumer heterogeneity or segments;

- Bringing behavioural realism into systems, optimization or simulation models;

- Using multi-method approaches to improve behavioural realism;

- Interdisciplinary approaches, e.g. drawing from psychology, innovation studies, science and technology studies, sociology and/or economic theories;

- Development and proposal of new or existing user theories;

- Expanding the consideration of users beyond just "end-users", e.g. citizens that may interact these innovations, as well as other actors; and

- Informing policy design with consideration of user behaviour.

全文截稿: 2018-10-01

影响因子: 4.9

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: www.journals.elsevier.com/science-of-the-total-environment

Check dams are transverse structures designed and built in watersheds mainly to control water and sediment flows, conserve soil and improve land. Their stabilization role across stream-beds and gullies being well known since many years, national, regional and local governments have spent in the last century, and still currently spend, important funds for maintenance and new implementations of check dams as basin scale erosion-control measures throughout the world. However, some projects experience disappointing results due to many different circumstances, such as poor construction quality, inadequate check dam location and lack of adequate design criteria. In addition, these structures induce secondary effects: for instance, different studies have pointed that check dams represent one of the most dominant forms of human impact upon mountain fluvial systems, as they disrupt the downstream transfer of water and sediments; observations of channel cross sections and bed material in several studies for instance indicate that check dams may increase erosion downstream. Furthermore, in spite of many and eminent studies focusing on laboratory and field researches, the complex hydraulic functioning of the structures (in particular for open check dams, proposed to smooth the adverse effects of the traditional structures) is not completely understood. Thus, there is a lack of full knowledge to optimize existing dams and define the best-adapted design to a given site, also considering the variety of factors (materials, size, number, type, etc.) of these engineering works and effects (morphological, hydraulic, sedimentary, ecological and so on) played by them.

The special issue welcomes contributions related to:

- The morphological, hydraulic, sedimentary and ecological effects of check dams (based on long term field observations) with the aim to evaluate the effectiveness and functioning of the existing engineering works.

- Proofs of effectiveness and feedback, sometimes partially disappointing, from long term monitoring of existing systems or from extreme events experienced by structures.

- New monitoring and modelling techniques aiming at improving design definition and structure adaptations.

- Innovative design criteria of traditional and open check dams (based on numerical approaches and feedback from tests and trials), in order to support the optimization of future installation in the different geomorphological and ecological contexts.

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