In view of the great contribution of coal-fired units to CO2 emissions, the coupled coal and power system with consideration of CO2 mitigation is a typical sub-system of the highly emitting Chinese energy system for low-carbon studies. In this study, an inexact mix-integer two-stage programming (IMITSP) model for the management of low-carbon energy systems was developed based on the integration...

Abstract Invasive plant species can alter natural communities and degrade ecosystem function, yet the factors influencing invasion are poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to characterize environmental drivers community structure invasive prevalence within invaded portions wetland mitigation sites. We sampled vegetation variables (prevalence index, light availability, soil physioche...

The land-use sector can contribute to climate change mitigation not only by reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also by increasing carbon uptake from the atmosphere and thereby creating negative CO2 emissions. In this paper, we investigate two land-based climate change mitigation strategies for carbon removal: (1) afforestation and (2) bioenergy in combination with carbon capture and s...

Roadways pose serious threats to animal populations. The installation of roadway mitigation measures is becoming increasingly common, yet studies that rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of these conservation tools remain rare. A highway expansion project in Ontario, Canada included exclusion fencing and ecopassages as mitigation measures designed to offset detrimental effects to one of the m...

We investigate how ideas from the International Environmental Agreement (IEA) literature can be applied to the problem of space debris mitigation. Space debris pollution is similar to other international environmental problems in that there is a potential for a ‘‘tragedy of the commons’’ effect: individual nations bear all the cost of their mitigation measures but share only a fraction of the b...

Abstract While interference mitigation techniques can significantly improve the performance of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver in presence jamming, they also introduce distortions, biases and delays on GNSS measurements final solution. We analyze impact five solution provided by timing that operates known location under static conditions. In this configuration, only estimat...

AIMS To quantify the reduction potential of asthma in Finland achievable by adjusting exposures to selected environmental factors. METHODS A life table model for the Finnish population for 1986-2040 was developed and Years Lived with Disability caused by asthma and attributable to the following selected exposures were estimated: tobacco smoke (smoking and second hand tobacco smoke), ambient f...

This paper develops multiple-pollutant marginal abatement cost curve analysis to identify an optimal set of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation measures considering the trade-offs and synergies with other environmental pollutants. The analysis is applied to UK agriculture, a sector expected to make a contribution to the national GHG mitigation effort. Previous analyses using marginal abatement cost...

1. Emerging diseases pose significant ecological and economic threats in fresh waters. Both risk assessment and mathematical modelling have potential to improve our understanding of the uncertainties associated with emerging disease events and make informed predictions about their likely impact. 2. We review the different methodologies that may be used to estimate the likely geographic spread a...