Social chemistry

This article is both an essay to propose social chemistry as a new scientific discipline and a preface of the books Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World. Environmental chemistry is a fast emerging discipline aiming at the understanding the fate of pollutants in ecosystems and at designing novel processes that are safe for ecosystems. Past pollution should be cleaned, and future pollution should be predicted and avoided (Lichtfouse et al. 2005a). Such advices are still not applied by humans as demonstrated by the Fukushima nuclear event and global warming. Human errors are repeatable. We therefore suggest a possible solution, which involves bridging chemistry and society by integrating social sciences in chemical research. In particular, citizen discourse analysis should be useful to design chemicals that are both innovative and accepted by society. Then, we present the recent success of environmental chemistry through the foundation of the Association of Chemistry and the Environment; the increase in the impact factor of Environmental Chemistry Letters from 0.814 in 2006 to 2.109 in 2009; and over 35,000 chapter downloads of the book Environmental Chemistry. Lastly, we highlight major topics of the new book series Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World (Lichtfouse et al. 2011a, b). The two first volumes are entitled Nanotechnology and Health Risk, and Remediation of Air and Water Pollution.     

环境生物技术的应用及发展趋势

环境生物技术在环境治理中起着越来越重要的作用，环境治理要依赖对生物，尤其是对微生物及其生理，生化特性的了解和认识，从而可以对其生理，生化和遗传方面的性能加以利用。文章重点论述了环境生物技术在这些方面的应用及发展趋势。     

Comparisons of human risk assessment models for heavy metal contamination within abandoned metal mine areas in Korea

Environmental Geochemistry and Health - This study was initiated to develop a model specialized to conduct human risk assessments (HRAs) of abandoned metal mine areas in Korea. The Korean guideline...     

Determinants of CO2 emissions: empirical evidence from Egypt

Environmental and Ecological Statistics - This paper aims to explore the main determinants of environmental quality in Egypt by utilizing the data covering the years from 1971 to 2014. These...     

Assessment of risk from lead intake in mining areas: proposal of indicators

Environmental Geochemistry and Health - This study discusses an estimate of the risk associated with the intake of soil contaminated by lead, based on the nature of the source, through a detailed...     

Welcome

The Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)is pleased to launch the Review of Environmental Economics andPolicy with this inaugural issue. The need for a new journal aimed toward a broad audience haslong been recognized by AERE members and has been actively discussedfor several years by the AERE Board. The time was finally judgedright to initiate a careful review of the need and prospectsfor such a journal,     

欧美国家规划层次上的战略环境评价的理论与实践

介绍了欧美国家战略环境评价研究进展及其在实践中的应用,分析了欧美国家规划层次上的战略环境评价的特点、作用与不足,总结了战略环境评价应用到规划中在介入时机、技术方法等方面的经验,对我国开展规划环境影响评价具有很大的借鉴意义。     

Preparing and presenting environmental impact statements in support of mining operations with particular reference to uranium mining

Throughout the world, the preparation of Environmental Impact Statements is rapidly becoming an integral part of any mining development. It would also appear to be a growing trend to have such Impact Statements submitted to a public forum before a decision on the proposed development is made. The proper preparation and presentation of a mining proponent's Environmental Impact Statement can make the difference between a lengthy and costly approval process and a more expeditious one.As a result of public concern over questions related to radioactivity, uranium mine projects have received special emphasis in the field of Environmental Impact Statements. This paper reviews briefly the background of various environmental hearings which have dealt with uranium mines in Canada and Australia and stemming from this analysis and the authors' experiences in respect of such hearings, makes suggestions on how Environmental Impact Statements can be prepared and presented from a technical and legal point of view so as to minimize the length of time and expense involved in the approval process and to maximize the chances of obtaining approval for the project.     

Geostatistics under preferential sampling in the presence of local repulsion effects

Environmental and Ecological Statistics - This paper presents an extension of the Geostatistical model under preferential sampling in order to accommodate possible local repulsion effects. This...     

An in-depth human health risk assessment of potentially toxic elements in highly polluted riverine soils,Příbram (Czech Republic)

Environmental Geochemistry and Health - Environmental pollution by potentially toxic element (PTE) and the associated health risks in humans are increasingly becoming a global challenge. The...     

Modeling farmer adaptations to climate change in South America: a micro-behavioral economic perspective

Environmental and Ecological Statistics - This paper evaluates behavioral adaptation models to climate change using South American agricultural data. This paper finds that the Ricardian model with...     

Evaluating the impact of interdisciplinary networking in environmental geochemistry and health: reviewing SEGH conferences and workshops

The Society for Environmental Geochemistry and Health (SEGH) is a forum for multidisciplinary interaction relating the geochemical environment to health. With national funding, SEGH identified collaborative opportunities through the MULTITUDE series of workshops (2007–2011). We reviewed the meetings by electronic questionnaire (39?% response). Smaller meetings saw most returning delegates, suggesting networking and personal interaction is a key positive feature of SEGH; 31?% of practitioners and 25?% of academics participated in more than one meeting. Collaboration between SEGH participants resulted in joint funding (13 academics, 4 practitioners, 1 other) and joint papers (19, 5, 3). Evidence of behavioural change was seen in comments in five themes regarding the impacts of the conferences: support for current direction; impact on education practice (academics); new approaches; networking; multidisciplinary work. Multidisciplinary meetings and resulting networking were seen as having real value by many respondents, who encouraged further active pursuit of these activities. SEGH is eager to continue these activities which transform research, education and practice, resulting in a better understanding of the structure and processes comprising the broad geochemical environment on health. Comments showed the value and strength of small, well-organised conferences, bringing together a mixed group of disciplines, both research and applied, in a relaxed atmosphere. The absence of serious negative critique along with clear, positive comments suggests that there is a substantial level of support for, and even pleasure in, SEGH multidisciplinary conferences and workshops over the past years. It is encouraging that annual European conferences are viewed as such a positive achievement.     

Firm behaviour under regulatory control of stochastic environmental wastes by probabilistic constraints

Environmental regulation by deterministic constraints is not really meaningful when, as is common in practice, effluent generation is inherently stochastic. In such a case, “probabilistic constraints” are more appropriate. This paper examines the regulatory control of firm behaviour under mean and percentile probabilistic constraints.     

Engineered nanomaterials for biomedical applications and their toxicity: a review

Environmental Chemistry Letters - Nanotechnology has revolutionized the field of biomedical sciences with smart approaches of imaging and treatment. This transformation has led to the development...     

Pollution,human health risk assessment and spatial distribution of toxic metals in urban soil of Yazd City,Iran

Environmental Geochemistry and Health - Heavy metal pollution significantly reduces the quality of the environment and threatens human health, especially in industrial cities. This study...     

Reply to "Down-to-Earth" is Imperative! On the Problems of Landscape-Ecological Regionalisation by Means of Multivariate Statistical Methods Friedrich Weller (Ravensburg, Germany) in DIE ERDE 2009, 140:113-125

This report provides a brief review of the fourth joint meeting of the German Language Branch of Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC GLB) and the Working Group "Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology" of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) held from 6^th to 9^th of September 2010 at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) in Dessau-Rosslau (Germany). For the first time a governmental institution was responsible for the local organization, a novelty that was expressed in the meeting's main theme "From insight to decision (making)". 366 participants discussed 105 oral and 125 poster presentations and three invited key speakers from government, academia and industry. The best oral and poster presentations of the meeting were awarded. Moreover, the annual young scientist award of SETAC GLB for the best diploma and doctoral thesis and the best publication award of the GDCh-Working Group "Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology" were officially handed over. The reader of the meeting (mostly in German language) including the meeting program and all abstracts is for free available via: http://www.setac-glb.de     

Geochemical transformation of soil cover and vegetation in a drained floodplain lake affected by long-term discharge of effluents from rayon industry plants,lower Don River Basin,Southern Russia

Environmental Geochemistry and Health - Lake Atamanskoye is one of the most polluted aquatic environments in the South of Russia. This water body was affected by long-term pollution by effluent...