Bioenergy from crops is expected to make a considerable contribution to climate change
mitigation. However, bioenergy is not necessarily carbon neutral because emissions of CO …

Adverse environmental effects related to unsustainable development are compelling people
to welcome recent advances in technology that rely on principles of sustainability. The …

Negative emissions technologies (NETs) in general and bioenergy with CO2 capture and
storage (BECCS) in particular are commonly regarded as vital yet controversial to meeting …

Poplars are fast-growing, high-yielding forest tree species, whose cultivation as second-
generation biofuel crops is of increasing interest and can efficiently meet emission reduction …

The world is facing a water quality crisis resulting from continuous population growth,
urbanization, land use change, industrialization, unsustainable water use practices and …

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 …

Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is a drought-hardy crop, suited to arid and semi-arid
regions, where the use of marginal water for agriculture is on the rise. The use of saline …

This study has been performed in order to evaluate the land use changes and related
environmental impacts which occurred in recent decades in the Lamone river basin …

Implementation of urban greenery is a widely adopted mitigation strategy to reducing the
Urban Heat Island effect. Many studies have shown that urban greenery is effective in …

Given today's political targets, energy production from agricultural areas is likely to increase
and therefore needs to be more sustainable. The aim of this study was thus to carry out a …