Observable actions in response to decreases in environmental quality are identified for passive users, those who will never use a damaged resource directly. The welfare implication of changes in the probability and value of time devoted to viewing news of the Valdez oil spill is estimated using a household production approach and assuming weak substitutability between news consumption and envir...

Plant identification is the building brick of plant research and development, and is very important for environmental protection and exploration. Usually, the leaves can be easily obtained from a plant and have sufficient visible characteristics for differentiating between their respective plant species. Plant identification is a huge problem that has escaped into neglect for years. Without vis...

The Science and ‘art’ of wastewater engineering stretches only slightly beyond one hundred years. Within this period, the applied technology has certainly made significant strides in promoting disease control and environmental protection. Fixed-film treatment unquestionably plays an important role in this history, particularly since it represented the original biological mechanism. Beginning wi...

This summary is intended to accompany the Up-and-Down Procedure (UDP) test guideline and the AOT425StatPgm program and assist the user in interpreting its output. The conclusions in this summary are derived from applying the test procedure to many repetitions of test simulations. More extensive treatment of the simulations can be found in the report “Simulation Results for the AOT425StatPgm Pro...

In order to safeguard the future of Chinese automobile industry, and maintain and strengthen its acceptance in Chinese community, it should be made a commitment to sustainability. The approaches to sustainability in Chinese automobile industry should comprise three aspects: nature conservation, production-related environmental protection and “5R” implementation which is considered as sustainabl...

FDI not only affects the host country's economic growth, but also affects the environment. Under the background of reality that in pursuit of green development, we need to take the comprehensive consideration of FDI performance from economic growth and environmental pollution. Considering the economic and environmental factors, we estimated 280 cities' green development efficiency in China from...

Environmental protection has a key role in the context of crisis management. It is not just about development of the industry of environmental protection and implementation of new ways of management in innovative solutions in solving problems. Important area of improvement is also revision of environmental legislation aiming at simplification and reduction of costs of procedures for the busines...

Estimating standard-exceeding probabilities of toxic metals in soil is crucial for environmental evaluation. Because soil pH and land use types have strong effects on the bioavailability of trace metals in soil, they were taken into account by some environmental protection agencies in making composite soil environmental quality standards (SEQSs) that contain multiple metal thresholds under diff...