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The cooperative ESG disclosure index: an empirical approach
Growing concern about Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance is pushing businesses, including social economy enterprises such as...
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Introduction of a new index to assess pavement functional condition
For most countries, the construction of the road network is completed to a great extent. As a result, the road operators have focused on the...
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Spatial Distribution and Health Risk Assessment of Groundwater Pollution in Kotlakhpat Industrial Complex, Lahore
The significant Environmental threat globally in era of Anthropocene is groundwater contamination. Present research aims to perform risk assessment...
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Screening effects of heavy metals in urban rivers within plains: implications for ecological risk assessment
PurposeThe objective of this study was to investigate the spatiotemporal distribution patterns of two common heavy metals, Cd and Pb, in urban rivers...
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Potential Ecological Risk Assessment of Critical Raw Materials: Gallium, Gadolinium, and Germanium
In recent years, the demand for critical raw materials such as gallium, gadolinium and germanium (G(s)) has steadily increased in various industries....
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GIS-Based Legitimatic Evaluation of Groundwater’s Health Risk and Irrigation Susceptibility Using Water Quality Index, Pollution Index, and Irrigation Indexes in Semiarid Region
Groundwater quality is one of the important criteria to judge the economic status of the country. Groundwater is an important source of water for...
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Geochemical fractionation of trace metals and ecological risk assessment of surface sediments in Sepetiba Bay, Brazil
The Sepetiba Bay (Southeast Brazil) is a known Cd- and Zn-contaminated site that received spills of a large slag pile leachate from a Zn smelter....
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A new fuzzy approach and bankruptcy theory in risk estimation in Waste Load Allocation
In this paper, we developed a simulator-optimizer model based on risk analysis to determine Waste Load Allocation (WLA). A new Fuzzy index as Fuzzy...
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Flood Risk Assessment in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
Flood processes are one of the most challenging to risk assessment and management. In many situations, peak flows are generated kilometers away from...
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Groundwater pollution and risk assessment using indexed-based models: a case study of Igbo-Etiti area, eastern Nigeria
Water is one of the most abundant resources on earth not evenly distributed. Due to the high shortage of water sources in Igbo-Etiti and intensive...
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Distribution, risk evaluation, and source allocation of cesium and strontium in surface soil in a mining city
Radioactive nuclides cesium (Cs) and strontium (Sr) possess long half-lives, with 135 Cs at approximately 2.3 million years and 87 Sr at about 49...
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Potentially toxic elements in sediments near mines—a comprehensive approach for the assessment of pollution status and associated risk for the surface water environment
This research is focused on the assessment of the pollution status of river and lake sediments near Pb, Zn, and Cu mines and tailings in the...
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Urban flood risk assessment characterizing the relationship among hazard, exposure, and vulnerability
Risk assessment is an effective means to alleviate urban flood disasters and has attracted the attention of many studies. However, most previous...
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Source-oriented ecological risk assessment of heavy metals in sediments of West Taihu Lake, China
The geographical location of West Taihu Lake determines that it is the entrance of the whole Taihu Lake, and the intensive industries around it pose...
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Abundance and health risk of bioaerosols in the coastal areas of Qingdao, China
Bioaerosols can be spread through coughing, sneezing, respiratory droplets and aerosol particles, and public awareness of the health risks of...
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Challenges and perspectives in applying the environmental sensitivity index to pipelines: a review on the prevention and management of oil spills disasters
The oil spill environmental sensitivity index is a key tool for preventing and dealing with environmental disasters caused by oil spills. This study...
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Construction of China’s food security evaluation index system and spatiotemporal evolution
Food security is a vital material foundation for a nation’s development and has been a topic of significant concern on the international stage in...
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Predicting the dynamics of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in coastal regions of Africa: vulnerability index and adverse ecological pathways from remote-sensed variables
This study aimed to predict the dynamics of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) contamination and ecological vulnerability within coastal...
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Indoor Air Quality: Assessment of Particulate Matter and Non-cancerous Inhalation Health Risk in Nigeria
The assessment of global indoor air quality (IAQ) is important because of the threat (health risks) posed by pollutants released into the house as a...
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Characterization and Ecological Risk Assessment of Toxic Metal Contaminants in the Soil Around the Coal Gangue Hill in Huainan, Central China
To better understand the toxic metal pollution caused by coal mining activities, the concentrations of Ni, Zn, Cr, Cd, Cu, As and Pb in the soil...
