输变电工程电磁环境公众参与及环保对策探讨

以广州市部分变电站环境影响评价及其审批过程中的公众参与为例,归纳公众对输变电工程在电磁环境方面的感受和利益相关方的观点,并从科普宣传、确保达标、建立风险沟通机制、加强科研、改善公众交流策略等方面提出了环保对策。     

高压输变电工程电磁场对环境的影响及．防治

通过对高压输变电工程电磁场的研究，讨论了高压输变电工程产生的电磁场对环境及人体健康的影响，提出了降低高压输变电工程电磁场影响的相关对策和建议。     

苏州地区典型输变电工程电磁环境影响分析

结合电磁场的生态效应、输变电电磁辐射的环境影响分析度评价等，分析了苏州地区典型输变电工程电磁辐射的污染状况。说明220kV输变电工程电磁辐射没有超过居民区工频电场以度磁感应强度标准。     

电场、磁场和电磁场的环境问题

针对近年来越来越突出的输变电工程电磁环境纠纷等问题,从电磁场理论的角度,对电场、磁场和电磁场的传播及特性进行分析,以求正确地分析与解释电磁场辐射问题,减少误解和随之产生的不必要纠纷.     

输变电环境影响评价及竣工环保验收相关要点分析

通过输变电环境影响评价及竣工环保验收工作的实践,从输变电环境影响评价及竣工环保验收的基本概念和相关法律、法规出发,分析了输变电环境影响评价及竣工环保验收工作的要点,包括敏感目标调查、生态环境影响评价与监测、声环境评价重点、公众参与等,在此基础上论述了两者之间的相互关系,最后针对输变电环境影响评价及竣工环保验收工作更加科学化提出了建议。     

电网输变电系统电磁环境影响初探

分析了电网输变电系统的电磁环境特性,根据国际国内的相关标准和实测结果,探讨了电网高压输变电设施对周围环境产生的工频电磁场、无线电干扰、电磁辐射.     

输变电建设项目环境影响评价的认识与实践

结合输变电环境影响评价工作实践,从输变电环评的法律、法规出发,阐述了输变电环评工作的重点内容,在此基础上论述了输变电建设项目环评中应执行的法律、法规、产业政策与清洁生产、规划相符性、环境功能区划、公众参与等“6＋2”原则,并结合实践进行了分析,提出了输变电建设项目环境影响评价中应注意的环境保护目标、公众参与等主要问题。     

高压输变电工程的电磁影响及防治对策

主要对500kV高压输变电工程产生的电磁环境影响进行了分析和测试,提出了减缓高压输变电工程环境影响的措施和建议,以实现输变电工程经济效益和环境效益的统一.     

输变电工程电磁影响及其环境影响评价问题的探讨

结合各电压等级输变电工程环境影响评价的实际工作经验,以及国内工频电场和磁场污染投诉案例,介绍了国内外有关高压输变电工程产生的电磁环境与人类健康关系的研究进展.我国环境影响评价的相关标准已最大限度地考虑了电磁环境的影响,对民众健康不会产生副作用.同时,结合实际工作经验提出了加强和改进输变电环评工作的建议.     

输变电工程的环境保护

论述了我国输变电工程环境保护评价体系,分析了输变电工程施工期和运行期的环境影响,提出了输变电工程各阶段环境保护措施,对今后进一步做好输变电工程环境保护工作提出建议。     

关于环境影响评价中公众参与的探讨

对影响公众参与有效性的因素作了初步探讨,提出了提高环境影响评价中公众参与有效性的方法：即加强环保宣传,强化公众参与意识,完善环境影响评价职业准则,选择合理的公众,选择科学的公众参与时间,设计科学的公众参与步骤以及加强法律保障。     

Reduction of plastic carrier bag use: An analysis of alternatives in Israel

Plastic carrier bags have been drawing the attention of the public and politicians. Different policy measures to reduce the environmental burden of these bags have been implemented and more are planned. The research analyzed the actual environmental aspects of consumption and use of plastic carrier bags and assessed the effectiveness of the proposed regulation in Israel. Since plastic bags are provided free of charge, people have a tendency to use these bags excessively, therefore a rigorous educational program should address this trend. However, the environmental load imposed by the bags is more a politically correct issue than an actual environmental hazard, and therefore the means for reducing their use should not include a high levy or total elimination of these bags.     

Determinants of efficiency in the provision of municipal street-cleaning and refuse collection services

Effective waste management systems can make critical contributions to public health, environmental sustainability and economic development. The challenge affects every person and institution in society, and measures cannot be undertaken without data collection and a quantitative analysis approach. In this paper, the two-stage double bootstrap procedure of Simar and Wilson (2007) is used to estimate the efficiency determinants of Spanish local entities in the provision of public street-cleaning and refuse collection services. The purpose is to identify factors that influence efficiency. The final sample comprised 1072 municipalities. In the first stage, robust efficiency estimates are obtained with Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). We apply the second stage, based on a truncated-regression, to estimate the effect of a group of environmental factors on DEA estimates. The results show the existence of a significant relation between efficiency and all the variables analysed (per capita income, urban population density, the comparative index of the importance of tourism and that of the whole economic activity). We have also considered the influence of a dummy categorical variable - the political sign of the governing party - on the efficient provision of the services under study. The results from the methodology proposed show that municipalities governed by progressive parties are more efficient.     

Consensus Oriented Public Relations As A Solution To The Landfill Conflict

The siting of landfills usually meets with the disapproval of residents living in the immediate proximity of potential landfill sites and frequently arouses public protest. Also in Austria, the public's readiness to safeguard their interests has been increasing, thus such conflicts can no longer be avoided. This fact raises the question among future landfill operators, as to how to react in such cases, and how a thus sensitized public can be dealt with. Seen from the viewpoint of communication, landfill operators must direct more attention to public relations.Within a research project at the University of Vienna, we have developed a public relations model which is intended to support a consensus between the landfill operators and the residents immediately affected by the operators' activities. The results prove that the so called "consensus-oriented public relations" approach is principally right. That is, those people who, due to our survey in the communities, could envisage a landfill site being installed, broadly agreed with the landfill operator on the levels of understanding provided by the model.     

Urban observatories opportunities for environmental monitoring: solid wastes

Towns concentrate around 50% of world-wide population and the trend is oriented to underscore an urban profile of population. In addition, towns have become important for their economic contribution to the Gross Internal Product. The negative side of towns is the environmental and social impacts as a result of productive and domestic activities, besides the lack of available data. In order to overcome these shortcomings, the United Nations has established a project of urban monitoring throughout the Global Network of Urban Observatories; Mexico joined the project in 2005. The Local Urban Observatory of Mexicali has the task to produce information about cities that is useful to design public policies. Some of this information deals with a set of environmental indicators in the United Nations Habitat Agenda, which includes solid wastes. Therefore, this paper deals with two main topics; firstly, from the Habitat Agenda, a comparative urban analysis of waste production and coverage of domestic waste collection services; secondly, from the Local Agenda, the identification and ranking of environmental problems according to public perception coming from people involved in the municipal planning and decision making process. Results will be used to develop local indicators and public environmental policies.     

Analysis of leachate pollution index and formulation of sub-leachate pollution indices.

An index known as leachate pollution index (LPI) for quantifying the leachate contamination potential of municipal landfills had been developed and reported by the authors. It is a quantitative tool by which the leachate pollution data of landfill sites can be reported uniformly. LPI is an increasing scale index and has been formulated based on the Delphi technique. It provides a convenient means of summarizing complex leachate pollution data and facilitates its communication to the general public, field professionals and policy makers. However, it is observed that the LPI, like any other environmental index, fails to effectively communicate the details about the strength of various pollutants/pollutant groups present. In an effort to make the LPI more informative and useful, it is proposed to divide the LPI into three sub-indices. The aggregation of these three sub-LPIs will result in the overall LPI. The formulation and the application of LPI and its three sub-indices are presented in this paper. It has been concluded that the splitting of LPI into three sub-indices provides a better insight on the strength of various pollutants and can be useful to the experts in deciding various management issues regarding leachate treatment. The leachate characteristics of a UK landfill have been used as a case study to demonstrate the calculation of three sub-LPIs and the overall LPI.     

Municipal solid waste management in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka: problems, issues and challenges

This paper describes the problems, issues and challenges faced by Sri Lanka based on the outcome of a recent study conducted in the country's Southern Province. The study consists of a public survey, discussions with local authority staff involved in waste management, discussions with Provincial Council and Government officials, dialogue with local politicians, review of documents and field observations. The study revealed that only 24% of the households have access to waste collection and that in rural areas it was less than 2%. A substantial number of households in areas without waste collection expect local authorities to collect their waste. The study also showed that most sites in the province are under capacity to handle any increased demand. Urgent and immediate improvement of the waste disposal sites is necessary to meet the current demand for improved waste collection. The study also revealed that there is a high willingness of people for home composting.     

Critical Reconsideration of Phase Space Embedding and Local Non-Parametric Prediction of Ozone Time Series

Phase space prediction is a feature selection method which triesto exploit non-linear dynamics of an underlying system. We describe and offer a critical reconsideration of this approach,discuss questions of whether non-linear methods are justified by the data, and apply them to ozone time series from single locations. Our main objectives are to obtain air quality forecasts in order to provide public health warnings and to provide an insight into the dynamics of the underlying system.Interestingly, comparable linear data sets (surrogates)have very similar structure and give similar predictionaccuracy to that of the ozone data. In this instance theredoes not appear to be any advantage to applying the phasespace approach to univariate time series.     

A critique of risk modeling and risk assessment of municipal landfills based on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency techniques

Environmental risks are a growing public concern in America. The threat of contaminated drinking water from municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills is receiving increased attention from citizens and from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA). Examination of USEPA data collected from MSW landfills reveals approximate risks posed by these landfills. USEPA research suggests that 60% of MSW landfills present less than a 1 in 10 billion risk of cancer incidence. Another 6% pose risks less than 1 in a billion, while 17% present risks less than 1 in a million. This study addresses the USEPA risk assessment techniques and models for estimating MSW landfill risks. USEPA data for toxic constituents of landfill leachate are also analysed in order to better understand the difficulties encountered in estimating landfill risks. The study also presents a brief discussion of public perceptions of risk as they relate to communicating the USEPA landfill model results to those who might be affected.     

Generation of and control measures for, e-waste in Hong Kong

While accurately estimating electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) generation is important for building appropriate infrastructure for its collection and recycling, making reliable estimates of this kind is difficult in Hong Kong owing to the fact that neither accurate trade statistics nor sales data of relevant products are available. In view of this, data of e-products consumption at household level was collected by a tailor-made questionnaire survey from the public for obtaining a reasonable e-waste generation estimate.It was estimated that on average no more than 80,443 tonnes (11.5 kg/capita) of waste is generated from non-plasma and non-liquid crystal display televisions, refrigerators, washing machines, air-conditioners and personal computers each year by Hong Kong households. However, not more than 17% of this is disposed as waste despite a producer responsibility scheme (PRS) not being in place because of the existence of a vibrant e-waste trading sector. The form of PRS control that can possibly win most public support is one that would involve the current e-waste traders as a major party in providing the reverse logistics with a visible recycling charge levied at the point of importation. This reverse logistic service should be convenient, reliable and highly accessible to the consumers.