Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement

NB Basu, KJ Van Meter, DK Byrnes… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Increasing incidences of eutrophication and groundwater quality impairment from
agricultural nitrogen pollution are threatening humans and ecosystem health. Minimal …

Groundwater quality and public health

X Xie, J Shi, K Pi, Y Deng, B Yan, L Tong… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Groundwater deterioration due to enrichment with contaminants of either geogenic or
anthropogenic origin has adversely affected safe water supply for drinking and irrigation …

Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances

R Van Klink, DE Bowler, KB Gongalsky, AB Swengel… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Recent case studies showing substantial declines of insect abundances have raised alarm,
but how widespread such patterns are remains unclear. We compiled data from 166 long …

Watering down environmental regulation in China

G He, S Wang, B Zhang - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This article estimates the effect of environmental regulation on firm productivity using a
spatial regression discontinuity design implicit in China's water quality monitoring system …

Does the" 10-Point Water Plan" reduce the intensity of industrial water pollution? Quasi-experimental evidence from China

Z Zhou, J Liu, N Zhou, T Zhang, H Zeng - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Action Plan for Water Pollution Prevention and Control (ie, the" 10-Point Water
Plan") is a regulation formulated by China to prevent and control water pollution and ensure …

Role of economics in analyzing the environment and sustainable development

S Polasky, CL Kling, SA Levin… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
The environmental sciences have documented large and worrisome changes in earth
systems, from climate change and loss of biodiversity, to changes in hydrological and …

China's war on pollution: Evidence from the first 5 years

M Greenstone, G He, S Li… - Review of Environmental …, 2021 - journals.uchicago.edu
The decade from 2010 to 2019 marked a significant turning point in China's approach to
environmental regulation and pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and …

A bibliometric analysis of industrial wastewater treatments from 1998 to 2019

G Mao, H Hu, X Liu, J Crittenden, N Huang - Environmental Pollution, 2021 - Elsevier
For the foreseeable future, industrial water demand will grow much faster than agriculture.
The demand together with the urgency of wastewater treatment, will pose big challenges for …

Density declines, richness increases, and composition shifts in stream macroinvertebrates

SL Rumschlag, MB Mahon, DK Jones, W Battaglin… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Documenting trends of stream macroinvertebrate biodiversity is challenging because
biomonitoring often has limited spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scopes. We analyzed …

Defensive investments and the demand for air quality: Evidence from the NOx budget program

O Deschenes, M Greenstone, JS Shapiro - American Economic Review, 2017 - aeaweb.org
The demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments, but little
research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. A rich quasi-experiment suggests …