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Black swans swimming in product streams: method for including unplanned events in life cycle assessment
IntroductionUnplanned events such as accidents and more massive black-swan events are contingent to modern technology. However, varying approaches...
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Recent dynamics in sediment connectivity in the Ethiopian Highlands
Sediment connectivity indexes serve as a diagnostic tool for investigating the overall hydro-geomorphological functioning. The primary factors...
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Quantitative indicators for environmental and social sustainability performance assessment of the supply chain
In the era of globalization, supply chains are becoming less transparent, facing pressing sustainability challenges such as the inappropriate use of...
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Gender diversity and climate disclosure: a tcfd perspective
The paradigm of corporate environmental disclosures aimed at investors developed in 2017 with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures...
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Atlantic and Mediterranean-Sourced Precipitation over the Maghreb: Trends and Spatiotemporal Variability
The Mediterranean basin is recognized as a potential focal point of global warming, marked by a rising incidence of both droughts and floods....
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Durability and Functionality of Conventional Polymeric Packaging Materials in Reusable Packaging Systems
Reusable packaging is increasingly recognised as a sustainable solution to address issues related to increasing packaging waste generation and...
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Regional Assessment of Groundwater Contamination Risk from Crude Oil Spillages in the Niger Delta: A Novel Application of the Source-Pathway-Receptor Model
Onshore oil spills are known for their disastrous environmental impacts and potential to cause lasting damage to underlying groundwater. The Niger...
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Ag and Pb isotope systematics in galena ores from southern Sardinia and southern France flag potential silver sources in antiquity
While lead isotopes serve to determine potential ore provenance, silver isotopes help evaluate if a specific ore flagged by Pb isotopes has actually...
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Animal exploitation by the last hunter-gatherers in the Mediterranean Iberia. New data from the Mesolithic groups from Cocina cave (Valencia, Eastern Iberia)
Mesolithic groups in Mediterranean Iberia lived during a period of bioclimatic and cultural changes. Thus, their economic behaviour and the...
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Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes reveal the human paleodiet evolution during the 8th-12th century in the Venetian Lagoon (Italy)
The paleodiet evolution in a human community of Venetian Lagoon between the eighth and twelfth centuries has been reconstructed by the stable...
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CLUSTERDC: A New Density-Based Clustering Algorithm and its Application in a Geological Material Characterization Workflow
The ore and waste materials extracted from a mineral deposit during the mining process can have significant variations in their physical and chemical...
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Indian Agriculture Under Climate Change: The Competing Effect of Temperature and Rainfall Anomalies
The latest generation of global climate models robustly projects that monsoon rainfall anomalies in India will significantly increase in the 21st...
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The impact of urbanization and industrial structure upgrading on energy intensities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Rapid urbanization and advances in industrial economic activities provide stimulus for increased energy consumption intensities, economic growth, and...
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An Artificial Neural Network Approach for Predicting TOC and Comprehensive Pyrolysis Parameters from Well Logs and Applications to Source Rock Evaluation
Understanding source rocks' organic content and thermal maturity is crucial in assessing their hydrocarbon potential. To address this, our study...
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Combined theoretical and experimental approaches for bacterial aggregation studies towards the improvement of bioremediation processes
Bacterial aggregation process is usually considered as a step prior to adhesion to a surface for the biofilm establishment. However, the formation of...
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Evaluation of phenanthrene degradation in seawater by an isolated bacterial consortium from the Gulf of Mexico
Phenanthrene is one of the components of the crude oil and the Gulf of Mexico's coastline region pose a high risk of oil spills. Since bacteria can...
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Analysis of human and wildlife coexistence in national parks; the case study of okomu and cross river national parks, Nigeria
Human-wildlife conflicts occur in areas where frequent interactions exist between man and wildlife, leading to conflicts. This study undertook a...
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Multiscale dimensions of the foreign working citizens participation to the Italian labour market: intra-regional heterogeneities across the North–South divide
This article delves into the distinctive intra- and interregional geographical heterogeneity of Italy, emphasizing demographic and socio-economic...
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Performance enhancement and comparison of inner-shielded solar parabolic trough collector with various nanoparticles in Syltherm-800 using computational fluid dynamics techniques
The present study is based on determining significant ways to predict and compare the performances of various nanoparticle-fluid systems within the...
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Wild animal trafficking in Brazil: challenges for fauna protection
This scientific article addresses the issue of wild animal trafficking, which ranks as the third largest form of illicit trade worldwide and demands...