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本文主要研究GIS在美国源水评估中的应用,介绍了地理信息系统在国内外源水评估中的重要性,详细的论述了美国源水评估地理信息系统(Water Source Appraise GIS-WSA-GIS)的开发过程,主要包括设计数据库、建造数据库、分析数据以及显示结果四个方面,从而为我国建立水源评估的GIS提供参考。 相似文献
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美国有机农业迅猛发展 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
过去10多年中,有机农业成为美国农业增长最快的领域之一。美国转向有机农业生产方式的农民越来越多,主要目的是:降低农业投入成本,保护不可再生资源,捕捉高值产品市场,以及在大宗农产品价格下降的情况下提高农场收入。有机农业生产体系依靠栽培方法和生物方法来控制害虫,在作物生产中禁止使用各种人工合成化学品,在家畜生产中禁止使用抗生素或激素。有机农业体系带来的潜在好处包括:改良土壤肥力,提高生产率,减少能源消费,降低杀虫剂使用量等。美国有机产品的零售额1990年仅为10亿美元,1996年为33亿美元,2000年为78亿美元,2001年达到90亿~9… 相似文献
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2004年8月26日,美国环保署(EPA)正式向国会提交了一份关于解决污水溢流问题的研究报告,报告内容侧重于合流管网溢流(CSOs)和生活污水管网溢流(SSOs)的影响和控制。该报告对目前两种系统的特征、对人体健康和环境的影响以及为减少溢流污染所消耗的资源和技术情况进行了总结。报告指出进一步控制污水溢流对保护公众健康和防止水体污染是十分重要的。EPA认为增加资金投入、综合实施地方和区域的水体保护项目、改善水质监测和报告制度、强化各级政府、产业和公众的合作关系是取得更大成就所必须采取的措施。自从1972年实施清洁水法以来,EP… 相似文献
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Courtney G. Flint Elizabeth Wynn Travis Paveglio Amanda Boyd Cathy Bullock 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2019,55(5):1306-1322
Water is a salient issue in the Intermountain West of the United States (U.S.), with concerns ranging from water scarcity and drought to intermittent flooding and water quality risks. This paper investigates coverage of water issues across seven newspapers in the core of the U.S. Intermountain West region. Newspapers have the potential to set agendas and influence perceived salience of issues among consumers. The Intermountain West region shares common concerns about water supply and demand, climate change, and water quality. We investigate whether or not local daily newspaper coverage of water issues provides a more local or regional sensitivity. Findings from this exploratory study reveal differences in water coverage across local daily newspapers. The overall volume of water‐related articles differed across newspapers as did proportion of articles on specific water topics and connecting issues. Coverage of local issues was more dominant than might be expected given mass media trends, but water geography in articles extended across the U.S. and the world in every newspaper studied. Variations in newspaper coverage of water issues suggests more local nuance persists despite the experience of common water issues across the region. 相似文献
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Conservation policy in agricultural systems in the United States relies primarily on voluntary action by farmers. Federal conservation programs, including the Environmental Quality Incentives Program, offer incentives, both financial and technical, to farmers in exchange for adoption of conservation practices. Understanding motivations for (as well as barriers to) participation in voluntary programs is important for the design of future policy and effective outreach. While a significant literature has explored motivations and barriers to conservation practice adoption and participation in single programs, few studies in the U.S. context have explored general participation by farmers in one place and time. A mixed-methods research approach was utilized to explore farmer participation in all U.S. Farm Bill programs in Indiana. Current and past program engagement was high, with nearly half of survey respondents reporting participation in at least one program. Most participants had experience with the Conservation Reserve Program, with much lower participation rates in other programs. Most interview participants who had experience in programs were motivated by the environmental benefits of practices, with incentives primarily serving to reduce the financial and technical barriers to practice adoption. The current policy arrangement, which offers multiple policy approaches to conservation, offers farmers with different needs and motivations a menu of options. However, evidence suggests that the complexity of the system may be a barrier that prevents participation by farmers with scarce time or resources. Outreach efforts should focus on increasing awareness of program options, while future policy must balance flexibility of programs with complexity. 相似文献
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Giuseppe Mascaro Abdinur Hussein Aubrey Dugger David J. Gochis 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2023,59(1):49-70
The National Water Model (NWM) will provide the next generation of operational streamflow forecasts across the United States (U.S.) using the WRF-Hydro hydrologic model. In this study, we propose a strategy to calibrate 10 parameters of WRF-Hydro that control runoff generation during floods and snowmelt seasons, and due to baseflow. We focus on the Oak Creek Basin (820 km2), an unregulated mountainous sub-watershed of the Salt and Verde River Basins in Arizona, which are the largest source of water supply for the Phoenix Metropolitan area. We calibrate the model against discharge observations at the outlet in 2008–2011, and validate it at two stream gauging stations in 2012–2016. After bias correcting the precipitation forcings, we sequentially modify the model parameters controlling distinct runoff generation processes in the basin. We find that capturing the deep drainage to the aquifer is crucial to improve the simulation of all processes and that this flux is mainly controlled by the SLOPE parameter. Performance metrics indicate that snowmelt, baseflow, and floods due to winter storms are simulated fairly well, while flood peaks caused by summer thunderstorms are severely underestimated. We suggest the use of spatially variable soil depth to enhance the simulation of these processes. This work supports the ongoing calibration effort of the NWM by testing WRF-Hydro in a watershed with a large variety of runoff mechanisms that are representative of several basins in the southwestern U.S. 相似文献
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Pehl CE 《Journal of environmental quality》2006,35(1):1; author reply 1-1; author reply 2
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本文论述了党校开展城市生态环境教育的重要意义,城市生态环境的特点,与城市发展的关系,提出了加强城市生态环境管理的对策。 相似文献
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Gabriele Villarini James A. Smith Mary Lynn Baeck Witold F. Krajewski 《Journal of the American Water Resources Association》2011,47(3):447-463
Villarini, Gabriele, James A. Smith, Mary Lynn Baeck, and Witold F. Krajewski, 2011. Examining Flood Frequency Distributions in the Midwest U.S. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 47(3):447‐463. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752‐1688.2011.00540.x Abstract: Annual maximum peak discharge time series from 196 stream gage stations with a record of at least 75 years from the Midwest United States is examined to study flood peak distributions from a regional point of view. The focus of this study is to evaluate: (1) “mixtures” of flood peak distributions, (2) upper tail and scaling properties of the flood peak distributions, and (3) presence of temporal nonstationarities in the flood peak records. Warm season convective systems are responsible for some of the largest floods in the area, in particular in Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa. Spring events associated with snowmelt and rain‐on‐snow are common in the northern part of the study domain. Nonparametric tests are used to investigate the presence of abrupt and slowly varying changes. Change‐points rather than monotonic trends are responsible for most violations of the stationarity assumption. The abrupt changes in flood peaks can be associated with anthropogenic changes, such as changes in land use/land cover, agricultural practice, and construction of dams. The trend analyses do not suggest an increase in the flood peak distribution due to anthropogenic climate change. Examination of the upper tail and scaling properties of the flood peak distributions are examined by means of the location, scale, and shape parameters of the Generalized Extreme Value distribution. 相似文献
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Ribolzi O Cuny J Sengsoulichanh P Mousquès C Soulileuth B Pierret A Huon S Sengtaheuanghoung O 《Environmental management》2011,47(2):291-302
Improving access to clean water has the potential to make a major contribution toward poverty reduction in rural communities
of Lao P.D.R. This study focuses on stream water quality along a Mekong basin tributary, the Houay Xon that flows within a
mountainous, mosaic land-use catchment of northern Lao P.D.R. To compare direct water quality measurements to the perception
of water quality within the riparian population, our survey included interviews of villagers. Water quality was found to vary
greatly depending on the location along the stream. Overall, it reflected the balance between the stream self-cleaning potential
and human pressure on the riparian zone: (i) high bacteria and suspended load levels occurred where livestock are left to
free-range within the riparian zone; (ii) very low oxygen content and high bacteriological contamination prevailed downstream
from villages; (iii) high concentrations of bacteria were consistently observed along urbanized banks; (iv) low oxygen content
were associated with the discharge of organic-rich wastewater from a small industrial plant; (v) very high suspended load
and bacteria levels occurred during flood events due to soil erosion from steep cultivated hill slopes. Besides these human
induced pollutions we also noted spontaneous enrichments in metals in wetland areas fed by dysoxic groundwater. These biophysical
measurements were in agreement with the opinions expressed by the majority of the interviewees who reported poor and decreasing
water quality in the Houay Xon catchment. Based on our survey, we propose recommendations to improve or maintain stream water
quality in the uplands of northern Lao P.D.R. 相似文献
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This paper examines causes and consequences of wetland losses in coastal Louisiana. Land loss is a cumulative impact, the result of many impacts both natural and artificial. Natural losses are caused by subsidence, decay of abandoned river deltas, waves, and storms. Artificial losses result from flood-control practices, impoundments, and dredging and subsequent erosion of artificial channels. Wetland loss also results from spoil disposal upon wetlands and land reclamation projects.Total land loss in Louisiana's coastal zone is at least 4,300 ha/year. Some wetlands are converted to spoil banks and other eco-systems so that wetland losses are probably two to three times higher. Annual wetland losses in the Barataria Bay basin are 2.6% of the wetland area. Human activities are the principal determinants of land loss. The present total wetland area directly lost because of canals may be close to 10% if spoil area is included. The interrelationship between hydrology, land, vegetation, substrate, subsidence, and sediment supply are complicated; however, hydrologic units with high canal density are generally associated with higher rates of land loss and the rate may be accelerating.Some cumulative impacts of land loss are increased saltwater intrusion, loss of capacity to buffer the impact of storms, and large additions of nutrients. One measure of the impact is that roughly $8–17 × 106 (U.S.A.) of fisheries products and services are lost annually in Louisiana.Viewed at the level of the hydrologic unit, land loss transcends differences in local vegetation, substrate, geology, and hydrology. Land management should therefore focus at that level of organization. Proper guideline recommendations require an appreciation of the long-term interrelations of the wetland estuarine system. 相似文献
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Health-care waste management in India is receiving greater attention due to recent regulations (the Biomedical Wastes (Management & Handling) Rules, 1998). The prevailing situation is analysed covering various issues like quantities and proportion of different constituents of wastes, handling, treatment and disposal methods in various health-care units (HCUs). The waste generation rate ranges between 0.5 and 2.0 kg bed-1 day-1. It is estimated that annually about 0.33 million tonnes of waste are generated in India. The solid waste from the hospitals consists of bandages, linen and other infectious waste (30-35%), plastics (7-10%), disposable syringes (0.3-0.5%), glass (3-5%) and other general wastes including food (40-45%). In general, the wastes are collected in a mixed form, transported and disposed of along with municipal solid wastes. At many places, authorities are failing to install appropriate systems for a variety of reasons, such as non-availability of appropriate technologies, inadequate financial resources and absence of professional training on waste management. Hazards associated with health-care waste management and shortcomings in the existing system are identified. The rules for management and handling of biomedical wastes are summarised, giving the categories of different wastes, suggested storage containers including colour-coding and treatment options. Existing and proposed systems of health-care waste management are described. A waste-management plan for health-care establishments is also proposed, which includes institutional arrangements, appropriate technologies, operational plans, financial management and the drawing up of appropriate staff training programmes. 相似文献