土地集约利用空间分异研究中指标标准化方法研究

土地集约利用空间分异研究中指标标准化通常采用极差标准化等方法,这类方法默认各区域集约临界值相同,从而使得评价中区位好的区域土地集约水平高于区位差的区域。基于级差地租Ⅰ和级差地租Ⅱ理论提出新的指标标准化方法,指出传统指标标准化方法的问题,并以重庆市耕地集约利用空间分异为例进行实证比较。研究充分考虑了不同区域因禀赋差异造成的单项指标理想值(临界值)的差异,弥补了传统指标标准化方法的不足,有助于完善土地集约利用空间分异的研究。研究表明:土地利用集约度是一个相对概念,其参照物为区域土地集约临界点,理论基础是级差地租Ⅱ;区位不同导致区域间土地利用强度存在差异,它是级差地租Ⅰ的一类现象,这类差异可称为"禀赋差异";每个区位点适度指标标准化值Y与该区位指标现状值x₁₁和集约临界点x₁有关,与其他区位指标现状值无关;传统标准化方法将指标现状值或现状平均值设为集约临界值,没有考虑不同区位集约临界点差异,因而空间分异结果更符合土地收益空间分异规律;重庆市耕地集约利用度空间分异研究表明该方法在空间分异、集约度绝对值和区县集约度比较等方面优于传统方法,更符合不同区县耕地利用实际。     

江苏省13城市土地利用集约度时空变异及驱动因素

城市土地的高效集约化利用是城市可持续发展的客观要求。从城市土地集约利用的内涵入手，依据城市土地集约利用评价的原则，从土地利用投入水平、土地利用程度、土地利用效率、土地利用生态环境质量等方面构建了一个具有三级层次结构的城市土地集约利用度评价的指标体系，并在此基础上采用多因素综合评价，秩相关系数和聚类分析的方法以江苏省13个地级市为例进行了实证分析，结果表明：（1）1997～2006年，江苏省13城市土地利用集约度都得到了提高，但是提高的幅度和方式不同；（2）不同城市，苏南、苏中和苏北之间城市土地利用集约度呈现出明显的城市和地域差异，其中，省会南京最高，苏北的宿迁最低。最后，对造成这种时空差异的现象从区域经济环境、经济发展水平、城市性质职能与规模等方面进行了驱动力分析。     

江苏省13城市土地利用集约度时空变异及驱动因素

城市土地的高效集约化利用是城市可持续发展的客观要求。从城市土地集约利用的内涵入手，依据城市土地集约利用评价的原则，从土地利用投入水平、土地利用程度、土地利用效率、土地利用生态环境质量等方面构建了一个具有三级层次结构的城市土地集约利用度评价的指标体系，并在此基础上采用多因素综合评价，秩相关系数和聚类分析的方法以江苏省13个地级市为例进行了实证分析，结果表明：（1）1997～2006年，江苏省13城市土地利用集约度都得到了提高，但是提高的幅度和方式不同；（2）不同城市，苏南、苏中和苏北之间城市土地利用集约度呈现出明显的城市和地域差异，其中，省会南京最高，苏北的宿迁最低。最后，对造成这种时空差异的现象从区域经济环境、经济发展水平、城市性质职能与规模等方面进行了驱动力分析。     

长三角地区城市土地开发强度特征及影响因素分析

合理控制土地开发强度是提高土地利用效率和改善环境质量的重要手段。以建设用地面积占该区域土地总面积的比例为土地开发强度的表征指标，运用GIS软件和经济计量模型，探讨了1996~2008年长三角地区城市土地开发强度的特征及其影响因素。结果表明：长三角城市土地开发强度总体上呈增长趋势，城市间土地开发强度差异明显，并且具有空间集聚特征，形成了以上海、杭州为中心的高强度地区，这与目前长三角经济增长极相吻合。同时，经济增长、城镇化、产业结构与城市土地开发强度之间显著正相关，行政区划调整与城市土地开发强度在短期内表现为负相关关系，土地管理政策的影响尚不显著。今后，只有转变经济发展方式，严格执行土地管理政策和城市规划，合理推动城镇化和城市产业布局，才能使城市土地开发强度保持在合理水平。将为长三角地区城市土地可持续利用提供参考，对控制城市建设用地规模和发展方向，也有一定的理论和现实指导意义     

基于RAGA AHP的工业用地集约利用评价——以江苏省开发区为例

作为建设用地的重要组成部分，工业用地的节约集约利用直接影响到建设用地特别是城市土地利用和管理的效果。基于开发区的工业用地集约利用评价能分析开发区土地集约利用现状，揭示不同区域及不同类型开发区土地集约利用的差异，为促进开发区土地资源高效利用提供参考。以江苏省为例,通过构建包含开发程度、用地结构、用地强度、用地效益和资源消耗5个子目标、14个指标的开发区土地集约利用评价指标体系，采用RAGA AHP方法实现了江苏省134个开发区土地集约利用评价。研究结果表明：实码加速遗传算法与层次分析法的集成，能获得高精度的权数并能保证全局收敛性；江苏省开发区土地集约利用水〖JP2〗平存在较大的区域差异性，苏北5市开发区土地集约利用的总体水平远低于苏南和苏中地区，但苏南和苏中地区开发区土地集约利用的总体水平差距较小；高新技术开发区比其他类型开发区的土地集约利用水平高；国家级开发区的土地集约利用水平按开发区类型出现较大分异     

南昌市中心城区城市建设用地集约利用特征及空间相关性分析

城市化进程不可避免的要占用大量土地资源,当前城市土地集约利用已经成为地理学、土地科学等相关学科研究的热点问题。为了从中观尺度科学分析城市土地集约利用空间分布规律和趋势,以南昌市中心城区为研究对象,在城市建设用地集约利用评价的基础上,运用全域Moran's I和局域Moran's I系数分析建设用地集约度的空间自相关格局(依赖性),揭示建设用地利用集约度的空间局部聚集和局部异常特征。结果表明:建设用地利用集约度全域空间相关性和局域空间相关性指标均显著,从城市边缘到中心区(或副中心)呈现递增的空间形态,其中居住功能区集约度空间相关性最高,教育功能区则最低;各功能区都存在正局域相关,空间分布呈现典型的空间聚集现象。对于高值聚类区应以结构挖潜为主,通过旧城改造和用地置换优化用地布局,低值和高低值聚类区应以管理潜力挖潜为主,通过规划管理和政策引导提高集约度,达到经济社会生态效益相统一的目标,可为南昌市城市建设用地集约利用提供必要的支撑和依据。     

江苏省开发区土地利用集约度的评价研究

作为地区经济发展的重要载体，开发区在带动区域产业发展和城市化水平提高方面具有重要意义。然而，由于存在功能定位不清、产业结构趋同等问题，开发区的规模效应和集聚效应并未得到充分体现，土地浪费与低效利用现象仍然存在。采用统计模型分析法和特尔菲法，对江苏省开发区土地集约利用进行定量化评价，并试图探讨集约度的合理水平和促进土地集约利用的途径与措施。研究结果表明，江苏省开发区土地集约利用整体水平较高，但存在地区间和地区内部的差异；经济发展水平、产业政策和用地结构是影响开发区土地集约利用的几大因素。因此，应结合地区经济发展现状与趋势，根据各开发区土地利用的相对集约综合指数值和绝对集约综合指数值的大小以及资源的消耗情况，加快产业政策及用地结构的调整，并制定相应的土地集约利用经济激励机制和措施。     

城市群土地集约利用与新型城镇化耦合协调分析——以我国三大城市群为例

城市群土地集约利用与城镇化耦合协调发展是土地管理学研究的核心问题,实现土地集约利用与城镇化水平的高度协调,对促进城市群的可持续发展意义重大。运用全局主成分分析法、变异系数法的综合确权法以提高指标权重精度,基于耦合度、协调度、相对发展度模型测算、分析与比较京津冀、长三角及珠三角城市群协调发展水平,借助空间自相关模型分析沿海三大城市群协调发展水平的空间集聚特征与规律。研究表明:京津冀城市群协调发展水平最高,其次为珠三角与长三角,城市群协调发展水平的优化程度表现为"京津冀珠三角长三角",城市群协调发展度的空间相关性强弱表现为"京津冀长三角珠三角",京津冀城市群各城市协调发展水平整体逐步趋向于中高度协调,长三角、珠三角趋于中低度协调;研究前期新型城镇化发展滞后是影响京津冀与长三角城市群协调发展水平的主要原因,研究中后期京津冀新型城镇化超前发展,长三角则逐步趋于土地集约与新型城镇化同步发展,珠三角城市群新型城镇化发展进程进步显著,但仍滞后于土地集约利用。     

山东省城市土地集约利用评价及其时空差异研究

21世纪的中国进入经济社会发展的转型期,城市化的迅速推进支撑了区域的快速发展,但城市用地的急剧扩张带来耕地锐减、社会矛盾加剧等严峻问题,土地集约利用成为解决问题的关键。在构建城市用地集约度评价指标体系的基础上,通过多因素综合评价模型对山东省城市用地现状进行综合分析,并阐释了其时空变化特征。研究结果表明:山东各城市土地投入程度不断增强、土地产出效益不断增加、土地生态环境质量也有一定程度的提高,但土地利用强度波动较大,城市用地总体上趋于集约化、高级化;各城市土地利用集约化呈现不同的变化轨迹,大致可分为持续上升型、偶变型、波动上升型、先升后变型四种类型;城市间土地集约利用水平整体上呈现由东向西递减的空间分布特征,区域差距有所下降。据此建议中西部地区从加快经济发展、增加土地投入强度、实行城市增长边界限制等方面入手,提高土地利用集约水平。     

长三角城市群创新发展空间差异及收敛性研究——基于Dagum基尼系数分解

利用CNRDS数据库公布的2000～2019年城市级发明专利授权数据，考察了长三角地区创新发展的空间差异及其收敛性。Dagum基尼系数及其分解结果显示：(1)2000～2019年期间长三角地区创新发展的总体差异呈逐渐下降趋势，安徽省内创新发展差异最大，江苏省内创新发展差异最小；(2)省际间差异是长三角地区创新发展差异的最主要来源，约占据了长三角地区创新发展总体差异的70%;(3)收敛机制分析显示，长三角地区创新发展具备典型的β收敛和俱乐部收敛特征；总体样本具备显著的σ收敛特征，但是分省样本σ收敛特征不明显。研究结论对于缩小长三角地区创新发展的空间差异，推动长三角地区创新集聚发展的扩散及辐射作用具有重要意义。     

WSSD 2002, Latin America and Brazil: Biodiversity and Indigenous People

Latin America comprehends notable variations in terms of natural environment, availability of natural resources, living standards, and demographic patterns. Latin America is a mosaic of cultures, post- and pre-Columbian. The rich variety of life forms discovered and described by chroniclers and traveling naturalists in the Neotropics contributed to the proposal, in mid-XVIIIth century, of a new system of classification and a scientific code of nomenclature for all organisms. Biodiversity was, for many centuries, a source of resources to be exploited in natura. In scientific circles, its inventory became the domain of taxonomists. But modern technology showed how important the miriad of life forms really are as sources of chemical molecules to be engineered as drugs and reassembled as novel manufactured products. We are on the brink of a new agricultural and medical revolution, thanks to the techniques of genetic engineering, which will lead eventually to the elimination of hunger and malnutrition.In this essay, the Brazilian environmental and social heterogeneity will serve as an example to illustrate some key points, which have influenced sustainability policies. The Amazon deforestation and indigenous knowledge (IK), subjects often associated with areas of high biodiversity, are usually the focus of environmental debates. The importance of IK in integrating development, reducing poverty and sustainability are considered together with the intellectual property rights of native populations.In the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) Implementation Plan, a few paragraphs were dedicated to Latin America, because of the pre-existing Action Platform on the Road to Johannesburg 2002, approved in Rio de Janeiro in October 2001. This paper calls attention to the need to draw up specific environmental policies for a region which shows an extremely high cultural and biological diversity, associated with a high availability of forests and water, among other resources.     

Ethnosciences––A step towards the integration of scientific and indigenous forms of knowledge in the management of natural resources for the future

Integration of indigenous knowledge and ethnoscientific approaches into contemporary frameworks for conservation and sustainable management of natural resources will become increasingly important in policies on an international and national level, both in countries that are industrialised and those that have a developing status. We set the scene on how this can be done by exploring the key conditions and dimensions of a dialogue between ȁ8ontologiesȁ9 and the roles, which ethnosciences could play in this process. First, the roles of ethnosciences in the context of sustainable development were analysed, placing emphasis on the implications arising when western sciences aspire to relate to indigenous forms of␣knowledge. Secondly, the contributions of ethnosciences to such an ȁ8inter- ontological dialogueȁ9 were explored, based on an ethnoecological study of the encounter of sciences and indigenous knowledge in the Andes of Bolivia, and reviewed experiences from mangrove systems in Kenya, India and Sri Lanka, and from case-studies in other ecosystems world-wide, incl. Australia, Burkina Faso, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Nepal, Niger, Philippines, Senegal, South-Africa and Tanzania.     

Paradoxical ozone associations could be due to methyl nitrite from combustion of methyl ethers or esters in engine fuels

We review studies of the effects of low ambient ozone concentrations on morbidity that found a negative coefficient for ozone concentration. We call this a Paradoxical Ozone Association (POA). All studies were in regions with methyl ether in gasoline. All but one study carefully controlled for the effects of other criterion pollutants, so the phenomenon cannot be attributed to them. One was in southern California in mid-summer when ozone levels are highest. Because ozone is created by sunlight, the most plausible explanation for a POA would be an ambient pollutant that is rapidly destroyed by sunlight, such as methyl nitrite (MN). A previously published model of engine exhaust chemistry suggested methyl ether in the fuel will create MN in the exhaust. MN is known to be highly toxic, and closely related alkyl nitrites are known to induce respiratory sensitivity in humans. Support for the interpretation comes from many studies, including three linking asthma symptoms to methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) and the observation that a POA has not been seen in regions without ether in gasoline. We also note that studies in southern California show a historical trend from more significant to less significant ozone-health associations. The timing of those changes is consistent with the known timing of the introduction of gasoline oxygenated with MTBE in that region.     

Distributions of personal VOC exposures: a population-based analysis

Information regarding the distribution of volatile organic compound (VOC) concentrations and exposures is scarce, and there have been few, if any, studies using population-based samples from which representative estimates can be derived. This study characterizes distributions of personal exposures to ten different VOCs in the U.S. measured in the 1999-2000 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Personal VOC exposures were collected for 669 individuals over 2-3 days, and measurements were weighted to derive national-level statistics. Four common exposure sources were identified using factor analyses: gasoline vapor and vehicle exhaust, methyl tert-butyl ether (MBTE) as a gasoline additive, tap water disinfection products, and household cleaning products. Benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene, xylenes chloroform, and tetrachloroethene were fit to log-normal distributions with reasonably good agreement to observations. 1,4-Dichlorobenzene and trichloroethene were fit to Pareto distributions, and MTBE to Weibull distribution, but agreement was poor. However, distributions that attempt to match all of the VOC exposure data can lead to incorrect conclusions regarding the level and frequency of the higher exposures. Maximum Gumbel distributions gave generally good fits to extrema, however, they could not fully represent the highest exposures of the NHANES measurements. The analysis suggests that complete models for the distribution of VOC exposures require an approach that combines standard and extreme value distributions, and that carefully identifies outliers. This is the first study to provide national-level and representative statistics regarding the VOC exposures, and its results have important implications for risk assessment and probabilistic analyses.     

Household water in rural asia: a case study of the construction of a piped water system in Bangui,Ilocos Norte,Philippines

In early 1980 an extension agent was assigned to the rural municipality of Bangui, Ilocos Norte, Philippines to work on development projects – in particular the improvement of the supply of safe water for drinking and sanitation. After many months of visiting spring sites and meeting with community leaders, a small part of the municipality was selected to build a gravity fed piped water system. Although the system took many months to plan, identify funding and construct, the 600 community members were ultimately rewarded with house to house connections that enabled them to achieve per capita water consumption levels above the minimum levels recommended by the World Health Organization. Of course, money was critical to ensure the project’s success, but many other factors played an equally critical role. For instance, without the active participation of the community and the unwavering support of the community leadership the project would not have survived the initial planning stage. Also, the extension agent played a critical role by acting as a conduit between funding agencies, the Bureau of Public Works and the community. The primary lesson to be learned from this experience is that the success of rural development projects is largely driven by the synergy between the community, technical support, financial support, and agents of change such as extension agents. If any of these ingredients had been lacking, the project result would likely have been far different.     

Long-term increase in climatic dryness in the East-Mediterranean as evidenced for the island of Samos

The Eastern Mediterranean region is among the regions which were predicted to become drier under IPCC climate scenarios. Here, we document a gradual reduction of rainfall and tree growth and the loss of rural springs during the last decades of the twentieth century. Years with severe drought are associated with very low tree growth (dendrochronology) and dry falling of springs as evidenced by interviews with local stakeholders. The paper discusses the consequences of accelerating drought on natural vegetation and agriculture and points at the interaction with fire dynamics and economy, both likely to enhance the drought effect.     

How Do Groups Solve Local Commons Dilemmas? Lessons from Experimental Economics in the Field

The use of experimental settings to observe human behaviour in a controlled environment of incentives, rules and institutions, has been widely used by the behavioural sciences for sometime now, particularly by psychology and economics. In most cases the subjects are college students recruited for one to two hour decision making exercises in which, depending on their choices, they earn cash averaging US$ 20. In such exercises players face a set of feasible actions, rules and incentives (payoffs) involving different forms of social exchange with other people, and that in most cases involve some kind of externalities with incomplete contracts, such as in the case of common-pool resources situations. Depending on the ecological and institutional settings, the resource users face a set of feasible levels of extraction, a set of rules regarding the control or monitoring of individual use, and sometimes ways of imposing material or non-material costs or rewards to those breaking or following the rules. We brought the experimental lab to the field and invited about two hundred users of natural resources in three Colombian rural villages to participate in such decision making exercises and through these and other research instruments we learned about the ways they solve - or fail to - tragedies of the commons with different social institutions. Further, bringing the lab to the field allowed us to explore some of the limitations of existing models about human behaviour and its consequences for designing policies for conserving ecosystems and improving social welfare.     

Comparative analysis of the effect of predator odor on morphological and physiological parameters of adult male Campbell hamsters (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Phodopus campbelli</Emphasis>) and dwarf hamsters (<Emphasis Type="Italic">Phodopus sungorus</Emphasis>)

The effect of long-term exposure to natural excretions of the European polecat on the morphological parameters and hormonal status of adult male Campbell hamsters (Phodopus campbelli) and dwarf hamsters (Ph. sungorus) was studied. Exposure to volatile components of natural excreta of a potential predator did not have any significant effect on hamsters. The combined influence of volatile and nonvolatile components of the polecat’s excretions caused physiological stress in Ph. campbelli, while in Ph. sungorus, on the contrary, an increase in thymus weight and the plasma testosterone level was recorded.     

The Phenomenon of Pseudoviviparity in Alpine and Arctomontane Grasses (DeschampsiaBeauv., FestucaL., and PoaL.)

It is known that pseudoviviparous plant taxa are most numerous in the Arctic and high mountain regions, where they sometimes account for a noticeable part of the local flora and play an important phytocenotic role. The complex of pseudoviviparous taxa is an interesting model for investigating the processes of hybridogenic speciation, as various mechanisms stabilizing the hybrid genetic systems proved to be effective in them. In particular, this concerns vast and taxonomically complex groups such as the genera Deschampsia, Festuca, and Poa.In this paper, published data on the taxonomy, chromosome numbers, and distribution of pseudoviviparous grasses in the Arctic regions and subarctic mountain systems are reviewed.