Disciplines / Research questions
Environmental science
9 research topics · 22 questions
Nonlinear counterproductive effects of VOC and NOx reductions in ozone control3 questions
Propagation of emission-inventory uncertainty into response-surface-model predictions of ozone response to NOx and VOC emission controls in China
Speciated anthropogenic VOC emissions and the surface-ozone response to NOx emission controls in Beijing and northern China
Integrated NOx–VOC–CO emission-control design to reverse China's surface-ozone increase
Cross-regional failures of low-cost air sensor calibration models3 questions
Validity limits and maintenance of global multi-unit calibration laws for low-cost particulate matter sensor networks across locations, environments, and operational time
Region-transferable calibration of low-cost optical PM2.5 sensors for epidemiological exposure assessment
Calibration of low-cost air-quality sensor systems robust to relocation: can designed, balanced laboratory data replace field collocation?
Pollution transfer explanations in the environmental Kuznets curve3 questions
Robustness of the consumption-based global CO2 Environmental Kuznets Curve and the design of hybrid producer–consumer carbon accounting
Identifying the mechanisms behind spatial spillovers in the trade-adjusted environmental Kuznets curve for CO2 emissions
Does offshoring production to low-wage countries offshore their pollution? Net environmental impact, governance mode, and firm environmental standards
How lifecycle emission reductions from waste incineration depend on the electricity generation mix2 questions
Which electricity does energy-from-waste displace? The open displacement-assumption problem in life-cycle carbon appraisal of UK waste incineration versus landfill
Robustness of the life-cycle environmental ranking of municipal solid waste incineration power generation versus landfill and coal power in China: biogenic-carbon accounting, inventory localization, and technology/composition generalization
Decoupling between corporate environmental information disclosure and actual emission reductions3 questions
Do corporate climate policy mixes cause absolute emission reductions? Causal identification, stringency measurement, scope 3 coverage, generalization, and reporting reliability
Do LLM-measured corporate climate narratives track realized emissions performance over time? Longitudinal extension of the disclosure-maturity framework of Hassani, Bahini and Mushtaq (2025)
Do China's state-owned polluters respond to environmental information disclosure, and which institutional mechanisms break political protection?
Additionality and leakage issues of ecological compensation policies3 questions
Conditions under which asset-building hybrid PES–ICDP arrangements in legally restricted areas can deliver lasting poverty reduction, maintain conditionality, and permit termination of payments with full enforcement of environmental law
Costly, imperfect, and spatially heterogeneous monitoring and enforcement in spatial avoided-deforestation policy design
Total deforestation leakage from protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon: quantifying local spillover plus distant displacement under a robust counterfactual baseline
Estimation discrepancies of the actual substitution ratio of recycled plastics for virgin materials3 questions
Demand-side limits to plastics circularity: the property-explicit absorption capacity of product markets for secondary plastics
Empirical constraints on the virgin-substitution potential of mechanically recycled PET, PE, and PP in Europe: quality-loss substitutability (cascading pathways and maximum recycled content) and market absorption of large recycled supply
A settled estimation method for technical substitutability coefficients of secondary materials in waste-management life cycle assessment: multi-property functionality and multi-loop recycling mixtures