The South American country Brazil is one of the richest countries in terms of natural resources, representing 14 percent of the world’s total biocapacity. However, the biocapacity (biosphere’s ability to generate resources and sequester waste) per capita in Brazil has shown a massive decline over the last five decades, while economic growth and urbanization have rapidly increased for the same period. Brazil is one of the largest creditors of biocapacity to the world, and biocapacity loss in Brazil can lead to devastating environmental consequences. Therefore, this work empirically investigates the influence of urbanization, economic growth, and industrialization on biocapacity controlling human capital from 1961 to 2016 in Brazil. The Bayer and Hack cointegration test, the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) technique, and Hacker and Hatemi-J (J Econ Stud 39:144–160, 2012) causality tests are employed. The findings unfolded a U-shaped relationship between economic growth and biocapacity, evidencing that economic growth reduces biocapacity, but after achieving a threshold level, it promotes biocapacity. Urbanization has a negative relationship with biocapacity per capita, indicating that urbanization is a significant driver of the biocapacity loss in Brazil. Further, urbanization and economic growth Granger cause biocapacity. Lastly, relevant policy implications are proposed to overcome the reduction in biocapacity.
Background Sustainable development (SD) is a common concept. Knowledge and attitudes are essential in the SD process. This study assesses
the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of local people about SD. Aim To study the factors that influence the understanding of the concept, contents, and indicators of different aspects affecting
the health and environmental issues. Methods A cross-sectional study was carried out from June to July 2007 among 546 households in the Quang Tri province. Data were
gathered on basis of socio-demographic variables, namely age, gender, education, occupation, income, and region. Chi square
tests and multivariate analysis were performed on the obtained data. The data were cleaned and analysed using SPSS 15.0 for
windows. Results Occupation is related to knowledge, attitude, or practice. Income is related to knowledge or practice. Gender related to
only attitude. Lastly, region is related to attitude or practice. The proportion of wrong understanding about SD is 2.0 times
(95% CI: 1.3; 3.1, p < 0.001) higher than that of the people who have good understanding about it. The rate of willingness to do any related SD
programmes of the people who understanding is 2.1 times (95% CI: 1.4; 3.2, p < 0.001) higher than that of the people who have bad one. Conclusions This study shows that knowledge on sustainability of the local communities is low. Occupation and income influence understanding
of SD more than region, age, gender, and education. Most of the local people who do not understand SD in general, do not want
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A process of partial nitrification and denitrification in a sequencing batch reactor (SBR) treating leachate was simulated
by applying a modified version of activated sludge model no. 3 (ASM3), named ASM3_2step. This model modifies the ASM3 model
by separating nitrification and denitrification into two steps with nitrite as an intermediate substrate. Three periods, including
long term period, steady state and cycle evolution, were used for calibration. Three main processes were observed, including
biomass production, nitrification (focusing on nitrite accumulation) and denitrification. The kinetic and stoichiometric parameters
(
m\textA_NH \mu_{{{\text{A\_NH}}}} ,
Y\textA_NH Y_{{{\text{A\_NH}}}} ,
Y\textA_\textNO2 Y_{{{\text{A}}\_{\text{NO}}_{2} }} ,
Y\textH_\textO2 Y_{{{\text{H}}\_{\text{O}}_{2} }} , bA,
K\textA_NH K_{{{\text{A\_NH}}}} ), were determined from biokinetic and respirometry tests. Some of the default values of kinetic and stoichiometric parameters
available in the ASM3 model and in the literature were kept constant, while some others were adjusted step by step until observed
state variables fit with experimental data. The maximum specific growth rate of nitrite oxidizing bacteria (0.108 day−1) (simulated by the model) and that of ammonium oxidizing bacteria (0.61 day−1) (from biokinetic tests) are the parameters which have the highest influence on the nitrite accumulation, even more than
oxygen supply intensity or Kla value. Other important parameters were
K\textAO_NH K_{{{\text{AO\_NH}}}} and
K\textAO_\textNO2 K_{{{\text{AO}}\_{\text{NO}}_{2} }} , calibrated at the values of 1.37 and 1.59 mg O2/L, respectively. The modified model and values of the kinetic and stoichiometric parameters obtained from the modeling process
will be used for optimization of the partial nitrification in the next study. 相似文献
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We examined the daily inorganic arsenic (i-As) intake from drinking water and rice in 45 households (75 individuals) in the An Giang province, Southern Vietnam. The daily i-As intake ranged from 28-102 μg d(-1), equivalent to the daily dose of 0.6-1.9 μg d(-1) kg((body wt))(-1). Increased As concentrations were observed in human hair in the study location. Approximately 67% (n = 44), 42% (n = 28), and 15% (n = 10) of the hair samples had As levels exceeding 1, 3, and 10 μg g(-1), respectively. The total As concentrations in female and male hair correlated well with the total daily i-As intake. Measurement of As concentrations in the hair of people who were consuming or had previously consumed As from contaminated sources may help predict the onset of negative health effects. We suggested an application of the Bayes's theorem to calculate the probability that an individual in a population will acquire a negative health effect, given that the concentration of arsenic in the subject's hair has been determined. 相似文献
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