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Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
Worldwide, water security is adversely affected by factors such as population growth, rural–urban migration, climate, hydrological conditions, over-abstraction of groundwater, and increased per-capita water use. Water security modeling is one of the key strategies to better manage water safety and develop appropriate policies to improve security. I...
Monitoring pesticide concentration is very important for public authorities given the major concerns for environmental safety and the likelihood for increased public health risks. An important aspect of this process consists in locating abnormal signals, from a large amount of collected data. This kind of data is usually complex since it suffers fr...
Published in Frontiers in Chemistry
Pristine lanthanum nickelate (LaNiO3), silver phosphate (Ag3PO4) and perovskite lanthanum nickelate silver phosphate composites (LaNiO3/Ag3PO4) were prepared using the facile hydrothermal method. Three composites were synthesized by varying the percentage of LaNiO3 in Ag3PO4. The physical properties of as-prepared samples were studied by powder X-r...
The actual health risk and associated diseases induced by the presence of pesticides and other organic pollutants in most environmental media worldwide are largely underestimatedbecause current analytical methods measure only the extractable fraction of the pollutant, whereas there is now ample evidence that a large part of pollutants are trapped a...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
This paper investigates the causal relationship between water pollution, industrial agglomeration, and economic growth in 11 Chinese provinces in China. Using a bootstrap autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) analysis, we examine the estimated models’ stability and investigate the Granger causality relationships between system variables. The result...
Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science
This paper uses field survey data from rural areas of Liaoning Province, China to investigate the relationship between sanitation and the health of rural residents. The results show that the use of traditional latrine pits is significantly negatively correlated with the health of rural residents. Robustness tests using Propensity Score Matching (PS...
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science
Agricultural drainage and associated water management systems are designed to eliminate to an acceptable level the factors associated with excess water that limit crop growth. In order to eliminate excess water in cultivated areas, it is important to reduce the leaching of nitrogen compounds flowing together with drainage water, as well as to ensur...
