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 citiesopens in new tab/window 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.
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainabilityopens in new tab/window
A quantitative method to assess the ecological indicator system's effectiveness: a case study of the Ecological Province Construction Indicators of Chinaopens in new tab/window 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 Geoinformationopens in new tab/window
Su, Y., Chen, X., Liao, J., Zhang, H., Wang, C., Ye, Y., Wang, Y.
An integrated approach for assessing the urban ecosystem health of megacities in Chinaopens in new tab/window 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.
Urban Atmospheric Environment and Pollution
Spatial distribution of dust–bound trace elements in Pakistan and their implications for human exposureopens in new tab/window 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 citiesopens in new tab/window 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' Meetingopens in new tab/window 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 Sciencesopens in new tab/window
Identification of chemical compositions and sources of atmospheric aerosols in Xi'an, inland China during two types of haze eventsopens in new tab/window Li, J., Wang, G., Ren, Y., Wang, J., Wu, C., Han, Y., Zhang, L., Cheng, C., Meng, J.
Ren, G., Chen, Z., Feng, J., Ji, W., Zhang, J., Zheng, K., Yu, Z., Zeng, X. Chemosphereopens in new tab/window
Contribution of regional transport to the black carbon aerosol during winter haze period in Beijingopens in new tab/window 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.
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 emissionsopens in new tab/window 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, Chinaopens in new tab/window Xu, J.-S., Xu, H.-H., Xiao, H., Tong, L., Snape, C.E., Wang, C.-J., He, J. Atmospheric Researchopens in new tab/window
Attributing risk burden of PM2.5-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to major emission sources: Case study in Guangzhou, south Chinaopens in new tab/window 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, Chinaopens in new tab/window 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 Chinaopens in new tab/window 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 Chinaopens in new tab/window 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 parkopens in new tab/window 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 featuresopens in new tab/window 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 2009opens in new tab/window Cui, S., Shi, Y., Malik, A., Lenzen, M., Gao, B., Huang, W.
Mass, energy, and emergy analysis of the metabolism of Macaoopens in new tab/window Lei, K., Liu, L., Hu, D., Lou, I.
Quantifying and managing food-sourced nutrient metabolism in Chinese citiesopens in new tab/window Lin, T., Wang, J., Bai, X., Zhang, G., Li, X., Ge, R., Ye, H.
The life cycle rebound effect of air-conditioner consumption in Chinaopens in new tab/window Liu, J., Sun, X., Lu, B., Zhang, Y., Sun, R.
Does food demand and rapid urbanization growth accelerate regional nitrogen inputs?opens in new tab/window 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
Quantifying the influences of various ecological factors on land surface temperature of urban forestsopens in new tab/window 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 systemopens in new tab/window Dong, R., Li, S., Zhang, Y., Zhang, N., Wang, T., Tan, X., Fu, X.
Harbin: A rust belt city revival from its strategic positionopens in new tab/window Xie, L., Yang, Z., Cai, J., Cheng, Z., Wen, T., Song, T.
Nanjing-an ancient city rising in transitional Chinaopens in new tab/window
Yuan, F., Gao, J., Wu, J. Citiesopens in new tab/window
Subways near the subway: Rail transit and neighborhood catering businesses in Beijingopens in new tab/window Zheng, S., Hu, X., Wang, J., Wang, R.
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