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(opens 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 Sustainability(opens 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 China(opens 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 Geoinformation(opens 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 China(opens 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 exposure(opens 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 cities(opens 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' Meeting(opens 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 Sciences(opens in new tab/window)
Identification of chemical compositions and sources of atmospheric aerosols in Xi'an, inland China during two types of haze events(opens 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. Chemosphere(opens in new tab/window)
Contribution of regional transport to the black carbon aerosol during winter haze period in Beijing(opens 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 emissions(opens 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, China(opens in new tab/window) Xu, J.-S., Xu, H.-H., Xiao, H., Tong, L., Snape, C.E., Wang, C.-J., He, J. Atmospheric Research(opens in new tab/window)
Attributing risk burden of PM2.5-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to major emission sources: Case study in Guangzhou, south China(opens 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, China(opens 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 China(opens 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 China(opens 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 park(opens 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 features(opens 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 2009(opens in new tab/window) Cui, S., Shi, Y., Malik, A., Lenzen, M., Gao, B., Huang, W.
Quantifying and managing food-sourced nutrient metabolism in Chinese cities(opens 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 China(opens in new tab/window) Liu, J., Sun, X., Lu, B., Zhang, Y., Sun, R.
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 forests(opens 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 system(opens 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 position(opens in new tab/window) Xie, L., Yang, Z., Cai, J., Cheng, Z., Wen, T., Song, T.
Subways near the subway: Rail transit and neighborhood catering businesses in Beijing(opens in new tab/window) Zheng, S., Hu, X., Wang, J., Wang, R.
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