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As urbanization continues, construction-related dust has emerged as a significant contributor to urban air pollution. A comprehensive evaluation of the environmental impact of construction dust necessitates an understanding of the pollution discharge from an urban perspective. Consequently, this paper proposes a construction dust emission inventory construction method from the urban perspective, which combines remote sensing image interpretation and the emission factor method. On this basis, a particulate matter emission inventory of construction dust sources in Guangzhou in 2020 is established, and the emission characteristics of the study area are analyzed using a 2kmx2km grid distribution. The findings of this research provide a crucial data foundation for high-resolution pollutant diffusion simulations and environmental impact assessments. They also offer a macro perspective for observing construction pollution, which can be utilized by the government to monitor and control pollution from an urban perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Marine battlefield environment is the important condition that restricts the effectiveness of maritime weapons and the conduct of military operations. Accurate assessment of environmental impact is the "soft power" for improving maritime combat capability and battlefield construction. Firstly, this paper briefly introduces the marine battlefield environment and its impact assessment. Then, the assessment methods and modeling techniques of battlefield environment are summarized into four categories: dynamic simulation-based assessment method, decision science-based assessment method, data science-based assessment method and uncertain artificial intelligence-based assessment methods, and the above methods are described in detail. Finally, the different methods are compared and the application prospect is analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Relying on the engineering problems caused by a landslide resurrection under the action of reservoir water, this paper aims at understanding the deformation and resurrection mechanism and critical conditions of the landslide, to provide a basis for environmental impact assessment and comprehensive disposal. By collecting the historical work data on the landslide area, the landslide identification is landslide. By using both a qualitative and quantitative analysis, this paper evaluates the landslide stability before and after water storage. By using multiple-phase ground surveys and safety monitoring, this paper evaluates the mechanism of the influence of hydropower water storage on the landslide surrounding environment based on the site situation. The main conclusions are as follows: * The cognitive process of Luojiaping landslide are initially considered as a deformation, identified as a landslide at medium-term with its scope being determined. Finally, its scope and thickness are rechecked and corrected. * Early Jinsha River water level is low, the leading edge of landslide being drainage, its overall stability is stable. Water reached 354 m in 2012, front edge of the slope was immersed, landslide resurrection caused existing construction and structures produced cracks, whose stability was less stable. Water reached 370 m in 2013, increasing deformation of the landslide resulted in expanding the cracks in the existing buildings and structures, its stability being critical. Continue storage to 380m, the Landslide deformation rate continues to intensify, its stability was critical. So the water storage level of 370 m can be considered as the critical water level for Luojiaping Landslide. * Environmental impact assessment is Shuisui secondary road and migration works before water storage can normally be used. Secondary roads, bridges and dwellings do not affect their formal functions, deformation increases to 370 m, cracks of existing buildings and structures are expanded, their functions are damaged. Some dwellings collapses to water storage level of 380 m. Environmental impact indirectly proves several stages of landslide resurrection, closely relating to the water storage of hydropower stations. * In-situ reinforcement disposal can only reinforce the landslide part above the secondary road, which has no effect on the underwater part. The above conclusions can provide an analogy basis for the adjacent projects in the reservoir area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Obesity is the fifth leading risk factor of death globally. Obesity causes diseases related to metabolic syndrome individually and creates medical and financial burdens nationally. Many factors contribute to obesity including factors classified as hereditary or genetic, environmental, lifestyle, and endocrine or medical in nature. The aim of this paper is to explore the effects of environmental and lifestyle factors on the increasing obesity rates in Taiwan in recent years using three components. (1) Family component: to discuss the relationship between family socioeconomic status, quality of family life, parental body stature, changes in dietary habits and increased sedentary activity and obesity. (2) School component: to explore the relationship between decreased exercise and sleep deprivation due to academic pressure and obesity. (3) Societal component: to explore the relationship between Western-style fast food, sugar-sweetened beverages, the impact of mass media, fat tax and obesity. In this paper, we review existing literature and available statistics and propose potentially feasible solutions to the issue of obesity in hopes that through governmental policy implementation, this significant health problem in the people of Taiwan can be ameliorated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Under the background of constructing a multiparty environment governance system, it is of great importance to systematically study the impact of public environmental attention on the environmental governance of enterprises and local governments. It could provide theoretical support and policy suggestions for guiding public participation in environmental governance. This paper constructed a game model among the central government, local governments, enterprises and the public to analyze the impact of public environmental attention on the game equilibrium of enterprises and local governments and empirically studied the impact of public environmental attention on enterprises' environmental investment and environmental regulation intensity using Baidu Haze Search Index from 2011 to 2019. We found that public environmental attention positively influenced environmental governance through two channels: firstly, public participation promoted local governments to improve environmental regulation intensity and environmental infrastructure construction and encouraged enterprises to invest in environmental governance by alleviating information asymmetry among game players; secondly, public participation increased the demand for green products and investments for environmental protection enterprises, which would bring about the improvement of environmental quality. The results showed that public environmental attention played an important role in environmental governance as an informal environmental regulation. The central government should pay attention to public environmental dissatisfaction, promote green labelling system to meet public demand for green products, and optimize the channels of public environmental participation. Besides, the government should implement differentiated guiding policies and incentive mechanisms based on the heterogeneous response of environmental governance to public environmental attention in regions with differentiated income levels, thus forming a more effective environment governance system with benign interaction between all the players. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Environmental impact assessment is the main channel for citizens to participate in science and technology risk assessment within the system, so EIA meetings often become the main battlefield for all parties to express their opinions and debate the fate of an development project. Inspired by recent anthropological theorization on time and temporality, this paper argues that the EIA is not just a negotiation of the allocation of space and environmental resources. The EIA meeting is also a convergence of competing temporalities. This article uses the EIA meetings for an offshore wind development project as the field site and the topic of analysis, in which the future of Taiwan energy deployment is at stake. I divide the temporal dimensions of the opinions expressed in the EIA meetings into the "distant future", the "near future", and the "immediate expectation moment." The government and the developer have promised a grand vision of the distant future of the energy structure and marine environment through the planning of large-scale infrastructure. However, the expert committee members of the EIA meeting can only perform in the near future that can be grasped by current scientific and technological capabilities. The public participation in the EIA process is, on the one hand, summoned or provoked by the long-term vision promised by largescale infrastructures; on the other hand, the meeting is a field of opinion for discursive confrontation, in which the actors experience a series of immediate and irreversible anticipatory moments. Every moment of excited evocation (on or off stage) points to a new beginning of the next unknown moment, and this is the main factor that attracts people to participate in the meetings. During the EIA process, from local briefings and public hearings to ad hoc committee meetings in the conference room of the EPA, the proportion of discussions about the distant future has gradually been replaced by near-future technical predictions, and thus the enthusiasm for public participation has also declined. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main goal of green manufacturing is to reduce resource consumption, to reduce the impact on the environment. The development of green manufacturing technology plays a very important role for the development of human society. In mechanical processing, especially in the industrial developed countries, people pay more and more attention to health effects caused by the cutting process of the operator as well as the influence of the processing environment. Firstly, the development trend of green manufacturing is introduced and the status quo of green manufacturing in the mechanical processing system is analyzed in the paper. Secondly, the influence the cutting process environment of noise whose produce and harm and control countermeasures are studied, and then the milling noise distribution situation of different groove blade is analyzed. Thirdly the cutting dust generation mechanism influencing factors, prevention are described and the milling dust distribution of different groove blade is studied, Further, the chip splash and the measures of the recycling of chips are researched. Finally the development direction of environment for the cutting process is prospected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper carried out a comprehensive analysis on the Remote Sensing image in1990 and 2010 in Wushui Basin, and obtained two contemporary maps of present landuse, vegetational form, vegetational cover by the use of "3S"(RS,GIS,GPS)technology. And based on this, the paper further analyses the ecological environmentchanges caused by the basin hydropower cascade development, and provides the scientific basis for formulating effective ecological protection measures and reasonable planning for later hydropower engineering. The result shows that the land utilization types of the basin changed, main vegetation types did not changesignificantly, distribution pattern of the coverage rate of vegetation changed little in the overall, the increase of the water area expanded wetland habitats, increased the comprehensive functions of the water [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Life cycle impact assessment is one of the most important processes in life cycle assessment. After synthetically analyzing the life cycle impact assessment in the world and considering the environmental characters of life cycle processes in domestic cotton fabric, an implemental method for life cycle impact assessment of cotton fabric has been put forward in this paper. The method includes several procedures, i.e. selection of environment impact categories, construction of the assessment model and explanation for the characterization results. As a result, this paper may provide a reference basis for the eco-design and development of cotton fabric products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Typically environmental resource valuation studies concentrate on estimating total economic value, which includes not only the values of specific uses, but also the intangible non-use values not normally captured in private market transactions. Revealed preference methods are applicable only when data on market transactions or activities are available. Total economic value can be estimated using stated preference non-market valuation techniques. The contingent valuation method (CVM) , as a type of stated preference method, is a widely used non-market valuation method especially applicable in the areas of environmental cost-benefit analysis and environmental impact assessment. Its application in environmental economics includes estimation of non-use values, non-market use values or both of these measures of environmental resource values. Because of its capacity to capture both use and non-use values and provide valuation data when revealed preference information is lacking, CVM has become the most important non-market valuation technique and has been the most popular and widely used valuation technique over the past several decades. However, as a public goods valuation method based on a hypothetical market, this method has been severely criticized by a group of academicians for failing to reliably, validly, and accurately produce compensation variation results for non-market values. In common with other stated preference techniques, CVM estimates are prone to various types of bias. Bias can be introduced in several ways: 1) the information effect of introducing bias considers how information is given to respondents in surveys and whether alternative choices are provided; 2 ) the embedding or scope effect considers whether a resource or good is presented as a separate unit or as a part of an aggregate of goods; 3 ) sequencing effect or question order bias considers if a willingness to pay ( WTP) value assigned for a particular good differs depending on the order in which the good occurs in a sequence of options; 4 ) hypothetical or strategic bias deals with when an unreal/hypothetical scenario setting is presented to respondents that may cause them to overstate or understate their true preferences; 5 ) payment vehicle bias considers situations when the payment method influences the assigned value, and so on. Also, problems caused by poor design and/or administration of many environmental valuation studies are widely recognized. Common problems include poorly defined or implausible goods and a low response rate. Currently, the CVM has become an integral part of environmental assessment and it is capable of eliciting the true economic values of environmental resources if properly conducted, such as its use in placing a value on tourism resources. The CVM shows promise and may be used to derive useful information. But this does not mean this method should be used indiscriminately. CVM studies should be conducted properly and extremely carefully. The major objective of this paper is to make a relatively detailed analysis of relevant literature from China and across the globe regarding any disparity between WTP and WTA, and the effects of various biases on the validity and the reliability of the results. Based on the belief that CVM shows promise as a method to valuate tourism resources, the authors consider the possible development and orientation of future studies including the possibility of using CVM in developing countries where valuation researchers typically survey the stakeholders. The need for interdisciplinary work is obvious in the hope of providing baseline data for land managers to assist them in making informed decisions based on relevant domestic studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At China-Japan-Korea summit meeting in 2010, the government leaders from the three countries agree to promote the establishment of China-Japan-Korea Free Trade Agreement (CJKFTA) to accelerate the regional trade liberalization. China's agricultural commodities hold comparative advantages in the trade among the three countries, but the environmental impact may rise from the successive enlargement of export and domestic production scale. Thus there is a need of assessing the environmental impact of such a trade policy to help the negotiators understand and pay more attention to the environment issues during CJKFTA negotiations, and help lobby the governments to carry out appropriate policy instruments for adaption or mitigation. The Chain Reaction Assessment Method (CRAM) serves to be the analysis framework, under which a Computable Partial Equilibrium (CPE) model is employed as the major analysis tool. This methodology is suitable for quantitative evaluations of economic and environmental impacts of trade policies, with the capacity of in-depth analysis on more disaggregated industrial sectors and in a more explicit view. This paper carries out simulations in three policy scenarios with discriminated levels of regional trade liberalization. Comparison of the simulation results of the FTA with the baseline scenario indicates that CJKFTA will improve the development of China's agriculture by increasing the trade volume and domestic production. Meanwhile, negative environmental impacts can be expected, including the increase of water resource consumptions and pollutant emissions, such as COD, TN, TP, agricultural chemicals, agricultural films, and green house gases. Therefore, necessary policy countermeasures should be taken to mitigate such impacts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper attempts to clarify the reasons why certain Taiwanese Buddhist groups do animal release, whereas others do not. Based on the actors' viewpoints, this research tries to identify the religious ideas and to categorize the ways that the evaluation of animal risk and ecological risk in the events of animal release relate to the attitudes and behaviors of Taiwanese Buddhist groups. The results show that religious thoughts not only convey the ethics of animal release, but serve as antidotes to dissolve the paradox of animal release. The practices of animal release among Taiwanese Buddhist groups are also quite diversified. The reasons and ways of both doing and not doing animal release have various patterns that imply different religious assessments. Some releasers modified the ways of animal releasing with better control of animal risk and/or ecological risk. Some releasers maintain that ecological risk is manageable; some releasers treat ecological risk as an irrelevant or external issue to Buddhism. Although animal release could be a strategy to mobilize followers, religious ideas and interpretations are critical to the rationalization and justification of animal release. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]