Articles

Plant-based proteins and their multifaceted industrial applications

Elsevier,

LWT, Volume 154, 15 January 2022

Proteins serve as an imperative macronutrient in human nutrition and well-being. Their nutritional quality substantially varies with their digestibility, amino acid profile, bioavailability, processing and purity. From a nutritional viewpoint, the ideal integration of proteins from diverse plant sources can supply an adequate amount of essential amino acids to fulfil human health needs. The use of plant-derived proteins has recently gained momentum due to their multifaceted edible and nonedible applications and their biodegradable nature.

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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 13: Climate action

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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Plant-based Food Development, Global

Fruit and vegetable by-products' flours as ingredients: A review on production process, health benefits and technological functionalities

Elsevier,

LWT, Volume 154, 15 January 2022

Fruits and vegetables are responsible for about 22% of food losses and wastes along the supply chain (not including the retail level). However, fruit and vegetable by-products (FVB) may be transformed into fibre-rich flours and bioactive compounds, mainly bound to the fibre, thus bringing value to the food industry due to health benefits and technological functionality. Therefore, these by-products have great potential to be applied in several food industries.

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SDG:

Goal 2: Zero hunger; Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 13: Climate action

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Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture; Sustainable Fruit And Vegetables, Global

How to compare sustainability impacts of alternative fuel Vehicles?

Elsevier,

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 102, January 2022

This paper cautions that the adoption of electric vehicles with the aim of reducing greenhouse gas emissions must balance that beneficial effect against increased water consumption. It recommends battery electric vehicles charged by solar energy as the best solution.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

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Energy; Sustainable transport; Water and sanitation; Electric Vehicles (EVs), Global

Improved water supply and water handling technologies: Revealed complements but perceived substitutes for safe water quality

Elsevier,

Development Engineering, Volume 7, January 2022

By analyzing the impact of both public water supply and water handling containers, this paper makes an important contribution to the literature regarding the effectiveness of water supply programs based on the following related outcomes: objective and subjective water quality at the source and Point-of-use (POU), POU water treatment, water transport and storage behavior, and uptake of new, improved water points.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Water and sanitation, Global

Cooling the London Underground: Evaluating the use of groundwater and subterranean river water

Elsevier,

Sustainable Cities and Society, Volume 76, January 2022

Both subterranean rivers and groundwater sources can offer considerable contributions towards potential summer cooling of London Underground stations, while also having significant environmental and economic advantages relative to alternative refrigeration techniques.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Water and sanitation, Global

Optimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales

Elsevier,

The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 6, January 2022

This Personal View supports SDGs 3 and 6 by suggesting a scale-specific approach in which agricultural water use is embedded in a larger systems approach to allow the design of effective incentives to change and optimise agricultural water use.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

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Health and wellbeing; Water and sanitation; Food security and nutrition and sustainable agriculture, Global

Distribution and pollution risk assessment of heavy metals in the surface sediment of the intertidal zones of the Yellow River Estuary, China

Elsevier,

Marine Pollution Bulletin, Volume 174, January 2022

This paper studied the heavy metal concentrations in the study area had a temporal decreasing trend compared to previous studies, which may be due to the reduction in human activities.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Data & Analytics; Health and wellbeing, Global

Two viruses, one prescription: slow down

Elsevier, Transportation Research Procedia, Volume 60, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated communities throughout the world. However, the negative impacts of another pandemic, affecting cities worldwide, arguably rival those of COVID. This destructive global health problem, which we have largely ignored, has been described as the “hurry virus” – the culture of speed that dominates modern lives and cities, causing us to constantly strive to ‘go faster’. This hurry virus has comprehensively infected our city transport systems from the early 20th century.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 13: Climate action

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Sustainable transport; Health and wellbeing, Global

Urban Air Pollution and Subclinical Atherosclerosis in Adolescents and Young Adults

Elsevier, Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume , 2022
Purpose: The contribution of air pollution to subclinical atherosclerosis in a young population remains limited. This study aimed to assess whether long-term exposure to urban air pollutants increases carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) in adolescents and young adults. Methods: This study included 789 subjects between the ages of 12 and 30 years who lived in the Taipei metropolis from a cohort of young Taiwanese individuals.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation

Tags:

Health and wellbeing, Asia

Long-term trends in urban NO<inf>2</inf> concentrations and associated paediatric asthma incidence: estimates from global datasets

Elsevier, The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 6, January 2022
Background: Combustion-related nitrogen dioxide (NO2) air pollution is associated with paediatric asthma incidence. We aimed to estimate global surface NO2 concentrations consistent with the Global Burden of Disease study for 1990–2019 at a 1 km resolution, and the concentrations and attributable paediatric asthma incidence trends in 13 189 cities from 2000 to 2019.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Tags:

Health and population, Global

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