CAS article collection: Urban Environmental Studies
Rapid urbanization in the past decades has resulted in enormous challenges on resources, ecosystem, and the environment.
Introduction:
Rapid urbanization in the past decades has resulted in enormous challenges on resources, ecosystem, and the environment. Urban ecosystem is a human dominated complex system that is continually exchanging mass, energy, and information between its dwellers and the environment (air, water, and soil). This virtual special issue reviewed those urban environmental studies contributed by CAS (Chinese Academy of Sciences) researchers to Elsevier journals in 2016. All selected papers were published in 24 Elsevier journals, covering topics on urban materials metabolism (e.g. metals, PM, or food), urban human health, and various environmental matrices (e.g. air, soil, water, and biome). The Institute of Urban Environment (IUE) was the leading academic body, contributing about 50% publications and more than 30% of scholarly interactions within the international collaborative network.
With thanks to the Article Selection Editors:
Dr. Yong-Guan Zhu is currently a professor and the Director General of the Institute of Urban Environment (IUE), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). His studies focus on urban environment and environmental soil science.
Dr. Shen Yu is currently a professor at the IUE, CAS. His study focuses on watershed ecology and the environment.
Dr. Wei-Qiang Chen is a research professor leading a group on Urban Ecology and Industrial Ecology at the IUE, CAS.
Dr. Yu-Peng Liu is currently an assistant research professor at the IUE, CAS. His studies focus on urban ecology and urban big data.
Article collections
Urban Ecological Environment System
Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities 打開新的分頁／視窗 Bai, X., Surveyer, A., Elmqvist, T., Gatzweiler, F.W., Güneralp, B., Parnell, S., Prieur-Richard, A.-H., Shrivastava, P., Siri, J.G., Stafford-Smith, M., Toussaint, J.-P., Webb, R.
A quantitative method to assess the ecological indicator system's effectiveness: a case study of the Ecological Province Construction Indicators of China 打開新的分頁／視窗 Lin, T., Ge, R., Huang, J., Zhao, Q., Lin, J., Huang, N., Zhang, G., Li, X., Ye, H., Yin, K.
Lin, T., Sun, C., Li, X., Zhao, Q., Zhang, G., Ge, R., Ye, H., Huang, N., Yin, K.
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 打開新的分頁／視窗
Su, Y., Chen, X., Liao, J., Zhang, H., Wang, C., Ye, Y., Wang, Y.
The spatio-temporal patterns of urban–rural development transformation in China since 1990 打開新的分頁／視窗 Wang, Y., Liu, Y., Li, Y., Li, T.
An integrated approach for assessing the urban ecosystem health of megacities in China 打開新的分頁／視窗 Zeng, C., Deng, X., Xu, S., Wang, Y., Cui, J.
Urban Land Use and Cover Change
Liao, J., Tang, L., Shao, G., Su, X., Chen, D., Xu, T.
Land management institution as a key confinement of urbanization in Baotou, China: Application of proposed endogenous urbanization model 打開新的分頁／視窗 Wu, Y., Dong, S., Zhai, J., Huang, D., Huang, Z.
Urban Atmospheric Environment and Pollution
Spatial distribution of dust–bound trace elements in Pakistan and their implications for human exposure 打開新的分頁／視窗 Eqani, S.A.M.A.S., Kanwal, A., Bhowmik, A.K., Sohail, M., Ullah, R., Ali, S.M., Alamdar, A., Ali, N., Fasola, M., Shen, H.
Human lead (Pb) exposure via dust from different land use settings of Pakistan: A case study from two urban mountainous cities 打開新的分頁／視窗 Eqani, S.A.M.A.S., Khalid, R., Bostan, N., Saqib, Z., Mohmand, J., Rehan, M., Ali, N., Katsoyiannis, I.A., Shen, H.
Gao, Y., Guo, X., Ji, H., Li, C., Ding, H., Briki, M., Tang, L., Zhang, Y.
Variation of airborne quartz in air of Beijing during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting 打開新的分頁／視窗 Li, G., Li, Y., Zhang, H., Li, H., Gao, G., Zhou, Q., Gao, Y., Li, W., Sun, H., Wang, X., Zhang, Q. Journal of Environmental Sciences 打開新的分頁／視窗
Identification of chemical compositions and sources of atmospheric aerosols in Xi'an, inland China during two types of haze events 打開新的分頁／視窗 Li, J., Wang, G., Ren, Y., Wang, J., Wu, C., Han, Y., Zhang, L., Cheng, C., Meng, J.
Organophosphate esters in total suspended particulates of an urban city in East China 打開新的分頁／視窗
Ren, G., Chen, Z., Feng, J., Ji, W., Zhang, J., Zheng, K., Yu, Z., Zeng, X. Chemosphere 打開新的分頁／視窗
Contribution of regional transport to the black carbon aerosol during winter haze period in Beijing 打開新的分頁／視窗 Wang, Q., Huang, R.-J., Cao, J., Tie, X., Shen, Z., Zhao, S., Han, Y., Li, G., Li, Z., Ni, H., Zhou, Y., Wang, M., Chen, Y., Su, X.
Low-level environmental arsenic exposure correlates with unexplained male infertility risk 打開新的分頁／視窗
Wang, X., Zhang, J., Xu, W., Huang, Q., Liu, L., Tian, M., Xia, Y., Zhang, W., Shen, H.
Inter-annual variability of wintertime PM2.5 chemical composition in Xi'an, China: Evidences of changing source emissions 打開新的分頁／視窗 Xu, H., Cao, J., Chow, J.C., Huang, R.J., Shen, Z., Chen, L.W.A., Ho, K.F., Watson, J.G.
Aerosol composition and sources during high and low pollution periods in Ningbo, China 打開新的分頁／視窗 Xu, J.-S., Xu, H.-H., Xiao, H., Tong, L., Snape, C.E., Wang, C.-J., He, J. Atmospheric Research 打開新的分頁／視窗
Attributing risk burden of PM2.5-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to major emission sources: Case study in Guangzhou, south China 打開新的分頁／視窗 Yu, Q., Gao, B., Li, G., Zhang, Y., He, Q., Deng, W., Huang, Z., Ding, X., Hu, Q., Huang, Z., Wang, Y., Bi, X., Wang, X.
Response of aerosol composition to different emission scenarios in Beijing, China 打開新的分頁／視窗 Zhang, Y., Sun, Y., Du, W., Wang, Q., Chen, C., Han, T., Lin, J., Zhao, J., Xu, W., Gao, J., Li, J., Fu, P., Wang, Z., Han, Y.
Urban Soil Environment
China's soil and groundwater management challenges: Lessons from the UK's experience and opportunities for China 打開新的分頁／視窗 Coulon, F., Jones, K., Li, H., Hu, Q., Gao, J., Li, F., Chen, M., Zhu, Y.-G., Liu, R., Liu, M., Canning, K., Harries, N., Bardos, P., Nathanail, P., Sweeney, R., Middleton, D., Charnley, M., Randall, J., Richell, M., Howard, T., Martin, I., Spooner, S., Weeks, J., Cave, M., Yu, F., Zhang, F., Jiang, Y., Longhurst, P., Prpich, G., Bewley, R., Abra, J., Pollard, S.
Urban Water Environment
Coulon, F., Jones, K., Li, H., Hu, Q., Gao, J., Li, F., Chen, M., Zhu, Y.-G., Liu, R., Li, W., Gao, L., Shi, Y., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Cai, Y.
The effects of mariculture on heavy metal distribution in sediments and cultured fish around the Pearl River Delta region, south China 打開新的分頁／視窗 Liang, P., Wu, S.-C., Zhang, J., Cao, Y., Yu, S., Wong, M.-H.
Temporal dynamics of urbanization-driven environmental changes explored by metal contamination in surface sediments in a restoring urban wetland park 打開新的分頁／視窗 Ma, J., Liu, Y., Yu, G., Li, H., Yu, S., Jiang, Y., Li, G., Lin, J.
Urban Material and Energy Metabolism
Anthropogenic arsenic cycles: A research framework and features 打開新的分頁／視窗 Chen, W.-Q., Shi, Y.-L., Wu, S.-L., Zhu, Y.-G.
A hybrid method for quantifying China's nitrogen footprint during urbanisation from 1990 to 2009 打開新的分頁／視窗 Cui, S., Shi, Y., Malik, A., Lenzen, M., Gao, B., Huang, W.
Water conservation significance of municipal solid waste management: a case of Xiamen in China 打開新的分頁／視窗 Huang, C.-L., Yu, C.-P., Lin, T., Ye, Z.
Mass, energy, and emergy analysis of the metabolism of Macao 打開新的分頁／視窗 Lei, K., Liu, L., Hu, D., Lou, I.
Quantifying and managing food-sourced nutrient metabolism in Chinese cities 打開新的分頁／視窗 Lin, T., Wang, J., Bai, X., Zhang, G., Li, X., Ge, R., Ye, H.
The life cycle rebound effect of air-conditioner consumption in China 打開新的分頁／視窗 Liu, J., Sun, X., Lu, B., Zhang, Y., Sun, R.
Characterization of anthropogenic impacts in a large urban center by examining the spatial distribution of halogenated flame retardants 打開新的分頁／視窗 Wei, Y.-L., Bao, L.-J., Wu, C.-C., Zeng, E.Y.
Does food demand and rapid urbanization growth accelerate regional nitrogen inputs? 打開新的分頁／視窗 Zhang, W., Li, X., Swaney, D.P., Du, X.
Urban Green Infrastructure
Wang, H.-F., Qureshi, S., Qureshi, B.A., Qiu, J.-X., Friedman, C.R., Breuste, J., Wang, X.-K.
Wu, X., Hu, D., Ma, S., Zhang, X., Guo, Z., Gaston, K.J.
Yang, N., Wang, X., Cotrozzi, L., Chen, Y., Zheng, F.
Urban Heat Island Effect
Application of a new integrated landscape index to predict potential urban heat islands 打開新的分頁／視窗 Chen, A., Zhao, X., Yao, L., Chen, L.
Quantifying the influences of various ecological factors on land surface temperature of urban forests 打開新的分頁／視窗 Ren, Y., Deng, L.-Y., Zuo, S.-D., Song, X.-D., Liao, Y.-L., Xu, C.-D., Chen, Q., Hua, L.-Z., Li, Z.-W.
Urban Environmental Management and other aspects
Analysis of urban environmental problems based on big data from the urban municipal supervision and management information system 打開新的分頁／視窗 Dong, R., Li, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, N., Wang, T., Tan, X., Fu, X.
Harbin: A rust belt city revival from its strategic position 打開新的分頁／視窗 Xie, L., Yang, Z., Cai, J., Cheng, Z., Wen, T., Song, T.
Multi-criteria location model of earthquake evacuation shelters to aid in urban planning 打開新的分頁／視窗
Xu, J., Yin, X., Chen, D., An, J., Nie, G.
Nanjing-an ancient city rising in transitional China 打開新的分頁／視窗
Yuan, F., Gao, J., Wu, J. Cities 打開新的分頁／視窗
Subways near the subway: Rail transit and neighborhood catering businesses in Beijing 打開新的分頁／視窗 Zheng, S., Hu, X., Wang, J., Wang, R.
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