Does Tolling Per Kilometre Compensate for the External Costs of Trucks? A Geographical Approach for Belgium
status: accepted
Sedimentation of metals in Sundarban mangrove ecosystem: Dominant drivers and environmental risks.
Published in Environmental geochemistry and health
Metal contamination from upstream river water is a threat to coastal and estuarine ecosystem. The present study was undertaken to unveil sedimentation processes and patterns of heavy metal deposition along the salinity gradient of a tropical estuary and its mangrove ecosystem. Sediment columns from three representative sites of differential salinit...
Downstream Distribution and Postdepositional Mobilization of Cadmium in Alluvial Soils
status: published
Air-stagnation episodes based on regional climate models part I : evaluation over Europe
Estimating the impact of climate change and emission scenarios on air pollution can be done using regional climate models (RCMs). Climate uncertainties are commonly estimated using RCM ensembles such as provided by EURO-CORDEX. Despite the strong relations between the weather and air pollutants, interactions are usually complex and require meteorol...
Indoor and outdoor air quality assessment in daycare centres in Ghent (Belgium) in view of outdoor sleeping in an urban ...
Within Flanders, there is an increasing trend to let children sleep outdoors while in daycare. However, within an urban environment, the densely spread emission sources might affect the air quality and possibly limit the areas where outdoor sleeping is favourable. Nevertheless, there is a lack of data regarding the atmospheric pollution levels in a...
Does Tolling Per Kilometre Compensate for the External Costs of Trucks? A Geographical Approach for Belgium
status: Published online
On the use of household expenditure surveys to monitor mismanaged plastic waste from food packaging in low- and middle-i...
Published in Environmental Research Letters
Background: substantial increases in plastic production have resulted in plastics proliferating of in the environment, with subsequent seabed plastic deposition and ingestion by marine fauna. There is an urgent need to monitor mismanaged plastic waste from household consumption. Household expenditure survey analysis has quantified mismanaged plasti...
Association of greenness with COVID-19 deaths in India: An ecological study at district level
BackgroundThe world has witnessed a colossal death toll due to the novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19). A few environmental epidemiology studies have identified association of environmental factors (air pollution, greenness, temperature, etc.) with COVID-19 incidence and mortality, particularly in developed countries. India, being one of the ...
The effect of a dam on the copper accumulation in estuarine sediment and associated nematodes in a Mekong estuary.
Published in Environmental monitoring and assessment
Dam construction across the main flow of an estuary can greatly contribute to a high accumulation of inorganic contaminants. However, it remains unknown to what extend externally available heavy metals are incorporated into biota living in those contaminated environments. In this study, the heavy metal copper was investigated both in the sediment a...
80 years later: Marine sediments still influenced by an old war ship
Published in Frontiers in Marine Science
Historic shipwrecks form an anthropogenic landmark in marine environment, yet their influence on the local geochemistry and microbiology remains largely unexplored. In this study, sediment and steel hull samples were taken around the V-1302 John Mahn, a World War II shipwreck, at increasing distance from the wreck, in different directions. Polycycl...
