Just sustainability transitions: politics, power, and prefiguration in transformative change toward justice and sustainability

F Avelino, K Wijsman… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Facing the world's ecological, economic, and social challenges requires us to connect the
concepts of justice, sustainability, and transitions. Bridging and discussing heterogeneous …

The health and environmental impact of plastic waste disposal in South African Townships: A review

AA Adeniran, W Shakantu - … of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022 - mdpi.com
Twenty-first century human behaviour continues to escalate activities that result in
environmental damage. This calls for environmentally friendly solutions, such as waste …

Increased personal protective equipment litter as a result of COVID-19 measures

KP Roberts, SC Phang, JB Williams… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Use of personal protective equipment (PPE) increased during the COVID-19 pandemic to
reduce virus transmission. Here, we quantitatively analyse emergence of PPE and COVID …

Numerical modeling of water pollution by products of chemical reactions from the activities of industrial facilities at variable and constant temperatures of the …

A Issakhov, A Alimbek, A Abylkassymova - Journal of Contaminant …, 2023 - Elsevier
The work focuses on the behavior of heated effluents discharged at elevated temperatures
into the Ilek River, which is located in the city of Aktobe, Kazakhstan, as a result of industrial …

The value of urban flood modeling

BR Rosenzweig, P Herreros Cantis, Y Kim… - Earth's …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Floods are important disturbances to urban socio‐eco‐technical systems and their
meteorological drivers are projected to increase through the century due to global climate …

Macrolitter and mesolitter in the Thames Estuary: A temporal litter assessment and brand audit of submerged and riverbed debris

AR McGoran, PF Clark, BD Smith, D Morritt - Environmental Pollution, 2023 - Elsevier
Macroplastic is a growing concern for marine environments with estuaries providing a major
pathway for pollution from land-based sources to the sea. In the Thames Estuary, plastic was …

[HTML][HTML] Plastic pollution and human pathogens: Towards a conceptual shift in risk management at bathing water and beach environments

DM Oliver, R Metcalf, DL Jones, S Matallana-Surget… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Emerging evidence indicates that micro-and macro-plastics present in water can support a
diverse microbial community, including potential human pathogens (eg, bacteria, viruses) …

Combined sewer overflows: relating event duration monitoring data to wastewater systems' capacity in England

T Giakoumis, N Voulvoulis - Environmental Science: Water Research …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Water pollution caused by the frequent use of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) has been
attracting increased media and political coverage in England as in other places in the world …

Understanding the properties of fat, oil, and grease and their removal using grease interceptors

N Sultana, F Roddick, L Gao, M Guo, BK Pramanik - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment of wastewater with high levels of fat, oil, and grease (FOG), produced by
the growing number (annually 2%) of food service establishments (FSEs), is a major …

[HTML][HTML] Gender in sustainability transition studies: Concepts, blind spots and future orientations

M Wolfram, M Kienesberger - Environmental Innovation and Societal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Gender is a vital factor of societal organisation and transformation, and figures prominently
in global sustainability agendas. Its social construction and interaction with technological …