Extended water-energy nexus contribution to environmentally-related sustainable development goals

XC Wang, P Jiang, L Yang, Y Van Fan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Challenges of high energy efficiency, water saving, low-carbon emissions, waste
management and food saving have been considerable pressures on both regional and …

Beyond cleansing: ecosystem services related to phytoremediation

W Guidi Nissim, S Castiglione, F Guarino, MC Pastore… - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Phytotechnologies used for cleaning up urban and suburban polluted soils (ie, brownfields)
have shown some weakness in the excessive extent of the timeframe required for them to be …

The circular built environment toolbox: A systematic literature review of policy instruments

FB Ancapi, K Van den Berghe, E van Bueren - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The built environment plays a central role in the transition towards the circular economy as
they concentrate major consumer and polluter human activities. However, the way BEs are …

[HTML][HTML] A risk management framework for Gentle Remediation Options (GRO)

P Drenning, S Chowdhury, Y Volchko, L Rosén… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Gentle Remediation Options (GRO) are remediation measures involving plants,
fungi, bacteria, and soil amendments that can be applied to manage risks at contaminated …

Landscape-based transformation of young industrial landscapes

J Heesche, EM Braae, G Jørgensen - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to deindustrialisation, young industrial landscapes (YILs), stemming roughly from the
1930s to the 1970s and located in the suburbs of Copenhagen, are partly abandoned, partly …

Abandoned places and urban marginalized sites in Lugoj Municipality, three decades after Romania's State-Socialist collapse

IS Jucu, S Voiculescu - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The postsocialist process of urban restructuring came with important spatial, social, and
economic consequences. This triggered important transformations that remain palpable in …

Transforming brownfields into urban greenspaces: A working process for stakeholder analysis

S Chowdhury, JH Kain, M Adelfio, Y Volchko… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Urban greenspaces (UGS) provide a range of ecosystem services and are instrumental in
ensuring the liveability of cities. Whilst incorporating UGS in increasingly denser cities is a …

Research Trends, Knowledge Base, and Hotspot Evolution of Urban Renewal: A Bibliometric Approach

PH Lyu, MZ Zhang, TR Wang, XF Zhang… - Journal of Urban …, 2023 - ascelibrary.org
Urban renewal is one of the most important topics in urban studies. However, this topic still
does not receive a systematic review by bibliometrics to reveal the current situation …

An Economic Analysis of Brownfield and Greenfield Industrial Parks Investment Projects: A Case Study of Eastern Slovakia

H Pavolová, T Bakalár, A Tokarčík, Ľ Kozáková… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
The implementation of industrial park investment projects in relation to the use of
brownfields and greenfields is a constantly debated issue. Brownfields are unused areas …

INSIDE-T: a groundwater contamination transport model for sustainability assessment in remediation practice

M Naseri-Rad, R Berndtsson, US McKnight, M Persson… - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Current sustainability assessment (SA) tools to help deal with contaminated groundwater
sites are inherently subjective and hardly applied. One reason may be lack of proper tools …