Fiscal decentralization is considered to be an important factor affecting government environmental governance, but the relationship between fiscal autonomy and environmental pollution has not been systematically explained. This study explores the institutional logic of urban environmental ...

Rural areal systems face serve resource and environmental problems, such as shortages, environmental deterioration, ecological environmental pollution, and function degradation during the transformation development process. Rural pollution control is a crucial component of national rural...

In response to climate change and energy conservation and emission reduction targets, the green development of transportation has become one of the most concerned topics in the world. Many studies have verified the impact of intra-city rail on environmental pollution, but little attention has been ...

Air pollution by vehicle exhaust has been a worldwide serious problem for long, and green vegetation in urban areas is one of the unneglectable factors to alleviate the pollution. In order to investigate the effects of the interaction of tall trees and low hedgerows on the air pollutants...

This paper substantiates the relevance of a study to assess environmental pollution with specific pollutants. It has been established that wastewater treatment plants, which play a key role in the protection of natural water bodies, are "hot spots" for the spread of a new type of environmental ...

Analyzing the influencing factors of environmental pollution is of utmost significance for formulating pollution control strategies. However, the extant research did not take into consideration the spatial effects, which may result in an insufficient understanding of the results. To explore the...

Many cities of the world suffer from air pollution because of poor planning and design and heavy traffic in rapidly expanding urban environments. These conditions are exacerbated due to the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. While there have been studies linking the built environment and air pollution ...

Palladium nanoparticles (PdNPs) play an integral role in motor vehicles as the primary vehicle exhaust catalyst (VEC) for tackling environmental pollution. Automobiles equipped with Pd-based catalytic converters were introduced in the mid-1970s and ever since the demand for Pd has steadily...

Obesity figures in the world continue to increase, representing a multifactorial and multidimensional problem. Efforts to contribute to reduction in obesity have led to the study of this condition from different approaches, including the obesogenic environment (OE), which is harmful to health due...

With the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization in China, environmental issues have become an urgent problem, especially issues related to air, water, and solid-waste pollution. These pollutants pose threats to the health of the population and to that of communities and have a...