网格化环境管理特征分析及实施建议

本文对网格化环境管理这一创新的环境管理模式在兰州、河北、河南等地的探索进行了总结,分析了网格化环境管理的特征及对当前环境管理的启示,提出了为切实落实国务院文件要求,在全国全面实施网格化环境管理的构想。     

煤层气生产现场环境风险辨识与评估

文章对煤层气企业突发环境风险进行了分析,对其涉及的环境风险性物质、环境风险产生的环节、环境风险产生的机理和危害、环境风险的防范措施进行了系统的研究,对环境事件进行了计算与预测。从基础制度完善、现场防控到位、应急准备充分等三方面入手,提出了建立健全环境风险防控管理制度、明确责任机构及人员、落实环境影响评价要求、针对性开展环保培训、现场设置"三废"防控设施以及科学制定应急预案与配备专业应急救援队伍等实用的风险防范措施,以有效减小煤层气企业的环境风险问题。     

高原气候环境对装备影响及适应性措施

高原地区因地势高而使其自然气候极为特殊复杂,骤变的气候环境易使装备出现“水土不服”的现象,因此高原环境对装备环境适应性提出了更高要求。本文根据高原气候特点以及装备结构组成,从机械系统、动力系统、光学系统、液压系统、电子系统、调温系统、供水系统和装备材料等方面,对高原气候对装备的影响情况进行了分析,有针对性地提出了装备高原环境适应性解决措施,此基础上对加强装备环境适应性提出了建议。     

关于环境解说的几个问题

环境解说是推进社会环境教育的重要方法,已经引起越来越多的人的关注。在解说中,解说者要把游客、参观者作为同伴,为他们穿针引线,要把解说当作了解自然的开罐器,更要把解说当作价值澄清的催化剂。环境解说在潜移默化之中,对游客、参观者进行了环境教育。目前,我国的环境保护部、国土资源部、建设部的有关部门都开展了环境与遗产解说的标准制订、培训和研究。以北京师范大学王民教授为首的研究团队对环境与遗产解说进行了全面的研究,分别开展了博物馆环境解说规划(北京自然博物馆、山东天宇自然博物馆)的研究。河南云台山世界地质公园环境解说评价的研究、环境解说解说员专业化与解说词规范化研究、北京市世界文化遗产的环境解说研究(颐和园、十三陵、天坛)等。在这些研究的基础上,进一步对环境与遗产解说进行了理论的建构。本栏目将分期进行介绍。     

建设项目环境监理的地位和作用初议

本文对环境监理的现状、存在的问题等进行了论述分析,提出了环境监理应具有作为建设项目环境管理重要制度之一的法律地位的论点,并对建立环境监理制度提出了建议。     

对于我国环境教育立法的思考

结合国内外已有的环境教育与实践,对我国环境教育的概念、历史和现状、基本原理、特点和不足进行了探讨和分析,对我国环境教育法律制度的构建进行了分析和论证,以推动我国环境教育法尽早出台,为环境教育事业的稳定和长远发展创造条件。     

环境信息服务业发展趋势探讨

环境管理涉及多部门、多地区和多领域,手工管理模式已不能满足环境管理工作对信息资源及处理方法的需要,并由此产生了环境信息服务产业。近年来,环境信息服务产业不断发展,从单一的环保部门信息化机构建设、基础软硬件建设、管理信息系统建设,逐渐发展到以政府、企业、科研机构、公众等为服务对象的多元环境服务模式。文章对我国环境信息服务的发展进行了回顾,重点就环境信息服务平台、技术体系、服务模式进行了归纳总结,提出了环境信息服务建设中的一些认识和问题。     

上海市中等职业学校环境教育调查结果分析

为了解上海市中等职业学校环境教育的现状,对上海市11所中等职业学校共1495名学生进行了环境意识、环境知识、环境态度、环境技能和环境参与等五个方面的问卷调查,通过对问卷调查结果的分析,指出了目前中等职业学校环境教育存在的不足之处,并提出了相应的对策建议。     

环境统计质量保证浅议

阐述了环境统计在环境保护工作中的地位和作用。对环境统计质量的保证提出了一套完整的质量保证工作体系。按照这一工作方法进行环境统计,能够确保环境统计科学化、规范化、法制化,环境统计资料客观实际,真实性、可信度、时效性都能得以保证。     

西部农村中小学环境教育之我见

正我国开展环境教育已有三十多年了,针对中小学生环境教育的讨论主要集中在城市地区,并取得了一定的成效,积累了很多经验,但针对农村特别是西部农村的中小学环境教育的研究还比较薄弱,学生的环境意识较低,教师对环境教育概念还比较模糊,环境教育专业能力较弱。因此,如何解决西部农村小学环境教育问题,提高西部农村中小学的环境教育水平已迫在眉睫。目前西部农村中小学环境教育存在的主要问题表现为:一是观念落后环境意识不强。当地教育主管领导、学校领导到教师、学生对环境教育的认识都不够,认     

Sustainable Land Use Requires Attention to Ecological Signals

This case study details the difficulties of landscape management, highlighting the challenges inherent in managing natural resources when multiple agencies are involved, when the land users have no incentive for conservation, and when government agencies have too few resources for effective management. Pumping of groundwater from the aquifer of La Costa de Hermosillo in the state of Sonora, Mexico, began in 1945 and developed so quickly that by the late 1950s salinity intrusion from the Gulf of California was occurring in the wells. In the 1970s, the irrigatable land in La Costa peaked at 132,516 ha and the extracted volume of water from the aquifer peaked at around 1.14 billion cubic meters annually. By the 1980s, 105 wells of the total of 498 were contaminated with seawater and, therefore, identified for closure. At present La Costa de Hermosillo still represents 15% of the total harvested land, 16% of the total annual production, and 23% of the gross agricultural production of the state of Sonora. However, there are approximately 80,000 ha of abandoned fields due to salt water intension, lack of water and/or lack of credit available to individual farmers. This unstable situation resulted from the interplay of water management policies and practices, and farm-land policies and practices. While government agencies have been able to enforce better water use for agricultural production, there remains a significant area that requires restoration from its degraded state. For this piece of the ecosystem management puzzle, government agencies have thus far been unable to affect a solution.     

LAKE EUTROPHICATION–A NATURAL PROCESS1

Lake eutrophication is an economic, recreational, and aesthetic problem that affects every lake of the world. Eutrophication is the natural process of lake aging, and progresses irrespective of man's activities. Pollution, however, can hasten the natural rate of aging and shorten the life expectancy of a body of water. The eutrophication of a lake consists of the gradual progression from one life stage to another based on the degree of nourishment or productivity. The extinction of a lake is attributed to enrichment by nutritive materials, biological productivity, decay, and sedimentation. Presently used methods for retarding eutrophication are the abatement of cultural enrichment, treatment of eutrophic symptoms, and control of fundamental causes.     

Trajectories of rewilding: A taxonomy of wildland management

Rewilding, though a young term, already has numerous meanings. We use Q-methodology to investigate understandings and practices of rewilding amongst managers of wildland on 17 estates in the Scottish uplands. The estates, covering 207,200 ha, include all the main land ownership types in Scotland. All respondents value wildness and biodiversity highly, but the Q-study reveals significant divergence in the interpretations and practices of rewilding, especially concerning (i) the value of naturalness, (ii) the use of management interventions, (iii) the value of cultural heritage and traditional land uses, and (iv) the place of people within wildland. A tripartite taxonomy of wildland management approaches is developed, identifying three ‘centres of gravity’ along the continuum of viewpoints, emphasising, respectively, nature's autonomy, active restoration, and the maintenance of wildness within cultural landscapes. The taxonomy provides an analytic framework for evaluating the diverse and often conflicting aspirations for the management of wild places.     

Iron Ore Industry Emissions as a Potential Ecological Risk Factor for Tropical Coastal Vegetation

In the coastal zone of the Espírito Santo state, Brazil, fragments of restinga, which form a natural ecosystem, share their space with an increasing number of iron ore industries. The iron ore dust and SO(2) originating from the industry processing activities can interfere with the vegetation of the adjacent ecosystems at various levels. This study was undertaken in order to evaluate the effects of industry emissions on representative members of the restinga flora, by measuring physiological and phenological parameters. Foliar samples of Ipomoea pes caprae, Canavalia rosea, Sophora tomentosa, and Schinus terebinthifolius were collected at three increasing distances from an ore industry (1.0, 5.0, and 15.0 km), and were assessed for their dust deposition, chlorophyll, and Fe content. Phenological monitoring was focused on the formation of shoots, flowers, and fruits and was also performed throughout the course of a year. The results showed that the edaphic characteristics and the mineral constitutions of the plants were affected by industry emissions. In addition, the chlorophyll content of the four species increased with proximity to the industry. Phenological data revealed that the reproductive effort, as measured by fruit production, was affected by emissions and S. tomentosa was the most affected species. The use of an integrative approach that combines biochemical and ecological data indicates that the restinga flora is under stress due to industry emissions, which on a long-term basis may put the ecosystem at risk.     

The effect of the activation of carboxyl group and hydrogen migration on reaction pathway during the pyrolysis of triglycerides

ABSTRACT

This study investigated the activation of carboxyl group and hydrogen migration on the pyrolysis products of triglycerides. It was found that the activation of carboxylic group determined the efficiency of the decarboxylation reactions. The activation of carboxyl group influenced the pyrolysis products. The glycerol mono-stearate and glycerol mono-oleate were used as the model compounds to analyze the cracking of the ester bond. It was found that the first intermediate formed was RCOO·, but not RCO·. Large amount of ketone was found in the pyrolysis of stearate, while not in that of oleate. In comparison, alcohol was found in pyrolysis products of oleate, while not in stearate. The results indicated that during the pyrolysis process, the carbon-carbon double bond influenced both the cracking of the C-C bond and the transformation of the oxygen-containing functionalities. The activation of carboxyl group and hydrogen migration played essential roles in the determination of the formation of the pyrolysis products. In addition, the mechanism for the evolution of the acid, ester, ketone, aldehyde, alcohol, and other heavy compounds during the pyrolysis was also proposed.     

WATER AUCTIONS AS AN ALLOCATION MECHANISM IN VICTORIA,AUSTRALIA1

ABSTRACT: During recent years many countries have moved to rationalize the management of state owned or state controlled resources. In Victoria, Australia, water, in particular, has received a great deal of attention. Subsidies to construct, operate, and rehabilitate irrigation facilities have been reduced, and there have been numerous consolidations of small water supply authorities to achieve economies of scale. In addition, Victoria has taken the unusual step of using auctions to allocate new irrigation water entitlements. The six water auctions that took place during 1988 and early 1989 were perceived as an efficient and equitable mechanism to allocate limited water supplies to their highest value use. While the agricultural areas where the different auctions occurred were similar, there was substantial variation in the prices paid, which reflects varying demands for additional irrigation water. This paper will discuss the following topics: the auction process used and the results of the auctions, the efficiency of the auction procedures, and the factors influencing the demand for additional irrigation water in the different auctions. In addition, the implications of using auctions to allocate water supplies for future water management in Victoria will be discussed.     

Conflict and Engagement: An Empirical Study of a Farmer-Extension Partnership in a Sustainable Agriculture Program

Stakeholder engagement is a crucial conceptof extension education. Engagement expressesdemocratic values of the land-grant mission byproviding opportunities for stakeholders to influenceprogram planning, including setting the agenda andnegotiating resource allocations. In practice, theconcept of engagement guides the formation ofpartnerships among extension, communities, industry,and government. In the area of sustainableagriculture, however, stakeholders may conflict,presenting challenges to the engagement process.Results from a study of a Canadian sustainableagriculture program, produced using culturalanthropology and participatory action research, detailchallenges of the engagement process that led toreconstruction of a farmer-extension partnership.Notable in the early phase of the reconstructionprocess were critical reflection, stakeholder forums,exclusion through caucusing, and coalition building.An argument for a neo-pragmatist view provides atheoretical basis for understanding counterintuitivedimensions of engagement revealed by the study.     

Effect of the Spatial Variability of Land Use,Soil Type,and Precipitation on Streamflows in Small Watersheds1

Abstract: The spatial variability of the data used in models includes the spatial discretization of the system into subsystems, the data resolution, and the spatial distribution of hydrologic features and parameters. In this study, we investigate the effect of the spatial distribution of land use, soil type, and precipitation on the simulated flows at the outlet of “small watersheds” (i.e., watersheds with times of concentration shorter than the model computational time step). The Soil and Water Assessment Tool model was used to estimate runoff and hydrographs. Different representations of the spatial data resulted in comparable model performances and even the use of uniform land use and soil type maps, instead of spatially distributed, was not noticeable. It was found that, although spatially distributed data help understand the characteristics of the watershed and provide valuable information to distributed hydrologic models, when the watershed is small, realistic representations of the spatial data do not necessarily improve the model performance. The results obtained from this study provide insights on the relevance of taking into account the spatial distribution of land use, soil type, and precipitation when modeling small watersheds.     

Evolution of co-management: Role of knowledge generation,bridging organizations and social learning

Over a period of some 20 years, different aspects of co-management (the sharing of power and responsibility between the government and local resource users) have come to the forefront. The paper focuses on a selection of these: knowledge generation, bridging organizations, social learning, and the emergence of adaptive co-management. Co-management can be considered a knowledge partnership. Different levels of organization, from local to international, have comparative advantages in the generation and mobilization of knowledge acquired at different scales. Bridging organizations provide a forum for the interaction of these different kinds of knowledge, and the coordination of other tasks that enable co-operation: accessing resources, bringing together different actors, building trust, resolving conflict, and networking. Social learning is one of these tasks, essential both for the co-operation of partners and an outcome of the co-operation of partners. It occurs most efficiently through joint problem solving and reflection within learning networks. Through successive rounds of learning and problem solving, learning networks can incorporate new knowledge to deal with problems at increasingly larger scales, with the result that maturing co-management arrangements become adaptive co-management in time.