https://savvysciencepublishers.com/index.php/jeset <h2>AIMS AND SCOPE:</h2> <p>Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering Technology is a scholarly refereed research journal publishing articles relevant to environmental science and engineering technology. The journal aims to explore the processes responsible for the environmental changes that affect physical, chemical and biological systems on earth, the measures required to reduce these changes and the use of technology for achieving these goals.</p> <p>Through dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the field the journal serves as an international forum for researchers, academicians, field workers, technology developers and environmental policy makers to get updated by the advancements in the field and foster interdisciplinary communication for better understanding of environmental issues.</p> <p>Journal is open to submissions of original research articles, systematic reviews, and scholarly evidence-based perspectives from audience all over the world.</p> Savvy Science Publishers en-US Journal of Environmental Science and Engineering Technology 2311-8741 https://savvysciencepublishers.com/index.php/jeset/article/view/1004 <p>Long-term raining over accumulated solid waste disposal dumps would result in heavy metal contamination in both soil and groundwater, specially when no separation of industrial waste is made in Nablus Area of Palestine. A column leaching experiments were conducted to study the leaching behavior of Pb, Cd, and Cu from domestic solid waste over three types of local soils, clay, sandy, and a mix of both in one, three and five 100 cm depth, soil packed in eleven plastic columns under different rainfall loading of one, five, and ten years of average annual rainfall. Experimental results showed that (1) The concentration of heavy metals in leachate passing through soil were highest out of sandy soil followed by sandy clay soil and the least was out of clay soil, (2) As the applied layer of solid waste over the soil in the columns increases, the concentration of heavy metals and organic matter increase, (3) As the amount of rainwater applied over solid waste increases, the concentration of heavy metals decreases in the leachate from all columns, (4) The concentration of heavy metals absorbed by clay soil was much higher than than those in the sandy and mixed clay-sandy soil indicating that clay soil is good for metal remediation or removal but not suitable for using the soil for agricultural production purposes, and (5) The TOC removal efficiencies were greater in clay and clay-sandy soil and significantly improve with time.</p> Marwan Haddad Qusai Al-Nuri Copyright (c) 2024 2024-04-17 2024-04-17 12 1 10 10.12974/2311-8741.2024.12.01 https://savvysciencepublishers.com/index.php/jeset/article/view/1052 <p class="04-abstract" style="margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">This note examines the disparity between willingness-to-pay (WTP) and willingness-to-accept (WTA) in the nonmarket valuation of environmental public goods. We observe that the commonly cited substitution effect and endowment effect, while often used to explain this disparity, address distinct conceptual questions. Building on this, we propose an integrated model that incorporates both effects within a reference-dependent framework. Our findings demonstrate that compensation demanded for lost substitutability is unbounded under a neoclassical framework but constrained within a loss-aversion context. These results offer a foundation for empirical testing to advance understanding of this persistent issue.</span></p> Arnaud Z. Dragicevic Copyright (c) 2024 2024-11-27 2024-11-27 12 11 16 10.12974/2311-8741.2024.12.02