环境科学与工程 | 高引SCI期刊专刊信息4条

全文截稿: 2021-03-15

影响因子: 5.431

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

网址: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/waste-management

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Economics of Waste - Micro-economic Perspective of the Provision of Municipal Waste Service

Within the wider field of research of Economics of Waste, the empirical analysis of waste management services has deserved a special role. Since the 70s, many scholars have applied econometric techniques to investigate the determinants of waste management service cost.

Many studies have found statistically significant relations associated to geographical and social factors, institutional factors, industry regulation, transactions costs, intensity of competition and so on. Other scholars have investigated the presence of economies of scale and scope.

In more recent times, this already consolidated stream of literature has met new challenges and research questions.

Waste management services have evolved from simple labour-intensive blue-collar activities, mostly focused on garbage collection and urban cleaning, towards industrially complex capital-intensive services. This evolution takes place in parallel with the emergence of environmental policy as a key driver of demand. Besides the more traditional “urban hygiene” waste management needs to deliver security of supply, environmental protection and “circular economy”.

This evolution affects dramatically the key factors that influence service performance and determines the patterns of competition available, the interaction with upstream and downstream markets.

On the one hand, this evolution also affects the measure of economic performance and the concept of efficiency, forcing scholars to include quality aspects in the specification of output. Output can no longer be understood simply as quantity of waste collected, but crucially includes environmental performance as well.

This has also determined new patterns of industrial organization along the supply chain and has affected the patterns of competition as well as the comparative advantage of public vs. market-based solutions.

Finally, the availability of data has improved, making it possible to adopt more sophisticated econometric approaches, such as panel regressions, stochastic frontiers, non-parametric frontiers and so on.

The special issue searches for advances in the state-of-the-art of the economic research in this field, with a particular focus on the impact that the circular economy approach is having on the economics of waste management services.

The following topics are especially welcomed:

External factors influencing the efficiency (innovative approaches to the analysis of competition and its intensity, ownership, inter-municipal cooperation, economies of scale and scope, economies of density etc.)

Internal factors influencing the efficiency (e.g. institutional arrangement, public vs. professional management, or setting goals)

Specification of the output and its significance (incl. quality dimensions and performance indicators, benchmarking)

Financing of municipal waste services and the budget balance (incl. charging schemes, deposits, EPR systems)

Recycling behavior and its impacts on the municipal waste management system efficiency (incl. waste minimization, waste prevention etc.)

Municipal waste treatment and its economy within the municipal waste management system (incl. vertical and horizontal integration, optimization approaches - e.g. based on GIS, GPS etc.)

Circular economy and consequences on the service performance and efficiency

Innovative approaches to the evaluation (e.g. new methodological approaches, or international comparisons)

全文截稿: 2021-03-31

影响因子: 5.108

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

The current trend and moving forward to the foreseeable horizon in the area of waste treatment, rapidly converge on the theme “sustainable and green” treatment of waste discharge. From this perspective, converting solid biomass waste into nanomaterials (i.e. catalyst, adsorbent) for the treatment of wastewater, for example, represents a sustainable and possibly greener pathway to treat effluent from agriculture, industrial and domestic sectors. Using wastes to treat another form of waste may form a close-loop that is beneficial to the environment, ultimately.

Consequently, the aim of the present special issue is to focus on (but not limited):

Techniques to synthesize nanomaterial from biomass waste with capability to treat various types of wastes, such as agriculture waste, industrial waste and also domestic waste (leachate, for example)

Adsorption behaviour of biomass derived adsorbents towards wastewater

Thermocatalytic, photocatalytic, electrocatalytic and also photoeletrocatalytic studies of agricultural waste, industrial waste and also domestic waste (leachate, for example)

Intensified catalytic processes (Ultrasonic, Microwave, etc.) in treatment of the aforementioned wastes

Mechanism study of reaction pathway and also physical pathway in treatment of the aforementioned waste.

全文截稿: 2021-03-31

影响因子: 4.051

中科院JCR分区:

• 大类 : 工程技术 - 2区

• 小类 : 运输科技 - 3区

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

In societies around the world, class, racial, ethnic, religious, linguistic and gender inequities form daunting headwinds on the path to creating just, inclusive and thriving societies. Our transportation systems reflect, reinforce, and exacerbate these inequities by addressing the needs of affluent populations while ignoring the needs of more vulnerable populations and excluding the perspectives of vulnerable populations in transportation planning and design efforts. In general, drivers enjoy faster travel times and better employment outcomes than those who use other modes, cyclists of color are more likely to be killed or injured in crashes and subject to law enforcement than white cyclists, and wealthier populations are more likely to live near high-quality transit than low-income residents. Further, transportation’s continued dependence on fossil fuels is endangering the global climate, creating massive refugee movements, and destroying lives and property through extreme weather events, and it is well documented that the harms of climate change will fall on those already most vulnerable. Our transportation systems, therefore, can be important sites for advancing and implementing equity and justice ideals.

We consider “the environment” to encompass the places where people live, work, learn, and play. Accordingly, we are interested in research addressing the extent to which transportation planning, construction, and operations allow people to achieve their full potential and lead healthy and fulfilling lives. Transportation systems support health outcomes and quality of life not just by minimizing pollution and noise exposure, but by facilitating employment, social connections, and access to healthy food and healthcare. This special issue will feature research in these areas spanning both traditional problem-oriented analyses of disparities and also work highlighting solutions designed to reduce disparities at many scales

This special issue seeks to deepen our understanding of Transportation Justice. Potential paper topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

● Equity in policies, programs, engineering, system design, construction and operations

● Engagement, participation, representation in planning and design processes

● Issues in data representation

● Real-estate, housing, and gentrification interaction with transportation improvements

● Labor impacts from automation (possible racial and gender dynamic to job losses and sector shifts)

● Disparities in COVID-related impacts (e.g., mode shifts, transit service cuts, transportation labor impacts, commute service impacts, accessibility and other spatial impacts, impacts related to school closures)

● Travel needs (unmet and unrevealed needs) of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), low-income, Limited English Proficiency, recent immigrants and refugees, youth, older adults, mobility-challenged, and LGBTQ+ populations

● Rural, small town, and tribal areas issues in transportation needs, investments, policies

● Understanding and serving diverse cyclists and pedestrians (location/corridor, use/trip purpose, choice vs/ recreation riders) and understanding market segments, diverse needs, and unmet needs

● New modes, micromobility, shared modes, microtransit

● Unequal access to new digital payment systems and internet-based travel information, trip planning, and reservation systems

● Traditional transportation burdens (air quality, noise, infrastructure impacts, community cohesion)

● Health impacts and transportation systems

● Climate and extreme weather

● Risk to vulnerable road users (cyclists and pedestrians)