长江上游生态功能区划研究

生态功能区划对于保障区域生态安全、推动经济社会与生态环境保护的协调发展具有十分重要的意义。长江上游是中国关键生态区域和整个长江流域生态安全的重要屏障,开展长江上游生态功能区划显得至关重要。以长江上游为研究区域,运用GIS空间分析技术,在揭示研究区生态环境敏感性与生态系统服务功能重要性空间分异规律的基础上,以子流域为基本区划单元,采用两步聚类法进行长江上游生态功能区划。研究结果表明:(1)长江上游生态环境整体上处于中度、高度敏感的状态,其中土壤侵蚀敏感性最为突出;(2)长江上游生态系统服务功能总体上呈现较重要、极重要的态势,其中水源涵养和生物多样性保护的贡献较大;(3)长江上游地区可划分为青藏高原生态区、云贵高原生态区和四川盆地生态区3个生态区,进而可细分为7个生态亚区和15个生态功能区。     

兰州市的生态功能区划

在生态环境调查的基础上,依据生态功能区划的基本原则,结合兰州市生态系统的空间特征分析、生态敏感性评价以及生态服务功能评价,建立了二元圈层结构的规划理念,制定了兰州市生态功能区划。把兰州市划分为4个1级功能区和3个2级功能区,并明确阐述了各功能区的主要特点、主要问题和主导功能,力图为兰州市建立良好的生态功能结构提供科学依据。     

张掖市生态功能分区

生态功能分区是依据生态环境敏感性和生态服务功能重要性等特征的空间分异规律而进行的地理空间分区。针对张掖市存在的主要生态环境问题,利用调查资料和相关研究成果,在GIS支持下,对张掖市生态敏感性和生态服务功能重要性进行了评价,明确了生态敏感性和服务功能重要性空间分布格局,在此基础上,将张掖市划分为5个生态功能区,并提出了各功能区生态保护与建设的重点与措施,为区域土地利用规划、生态环境保护与建设规划提供科学依据。     

水功能区划在流域排污权初始分配中的应用——以沙颖河流域为例

排污权交易是治理环境污染问题的有效手段,排污权初始分配则是排污权交易制度实施的基础,在流域水功能区划基础上研究排污权初始分配问题,将有助于流域排污权交易制度的有效实施.结合我国现行行政特征和流域水功能区划成果,以行政单元作为排污权初始分配主体开展排污权初始分配研究.选取沙颍河流域为例,根据淮河水利委员会制定的沙颍河流域水功能区划及COD、氨氮限排总量要求,以COD、氨氮作为排污权初始分配的客体,通过等比例削减方法对沙颍河流域内的行政单元进行了排污权初始分配,得到了流域内各行政单元的COD、氨氮初始排放权,并将分配结果与区域社会经济发展水平等进行了比较研究,研究认为将水功能区划应用于排污权初始分配研究是一种有效的尝试.在此基础上探讨了关于排污权初始分配的政策可行性、初始分配的方法及地方政府定位等几方面问题,目的在于为将来的排污权分配研究工作提供一些思考和建议.     

流域水生态功能区划及其关键问题

作为流域生态系统管理和水资源保护的重要手段,如何科学合理地开展流域水生态功能区划,已成为世界各国可持续发展所面临的关键挑战之一.本文立足我国流域综合管理的特点和发展趋势,针对我国现行水功能区划的问题,结合国外流域水生态区划的经验,提出了基于流域生态学、地域分异规律、生态系统健康与生态完整性、流域生态系统管理等理论基础的,以恢复流域持续性、完整性生态系统健康为目标,反映流域水陆耦合体在不同时空尺度景观异质性的流域水生态功能区划及其原则,重点分析了流域水生态系统的空间格局、生态过程以及动态演替等3个区划的关键问题,并提出了区划的方法,以期为我国流域水生态功能区划和流域生态系统管理提供战略层次的科学依据.     

经济地理学角度的区域生态补偿机制研究

传统生态补偿以保护与改善生态环境、优化资源利用为目的,已不能体现其在生态保护、环境建设和区域发展方面的全部价值。新的区域发展形势对生态补偿机制提出了新的要求,生态补偿被认为是实现区域可持续发展和区域之间协调发展的重要手段。区域可持续发展和区域间协调发展是我国经济地理学的主要研究对象之一。如何从经济地理学的视角看待区域生态补偿,成为通过区域生态补偿机制的实施实现生态良好、经济发展和社会进步三位目标和谐发展的重要命题。从经济地理学的经典理论出发,在探讨区位论、产业结构演替理论、人地关系地域系统理论的基础上,分析了传统生态补偿的缺失和不足,并在现阶段我国以构建区域可持续和有序发展格局为目标的规划工作——主体功能区规划的基础上,就区域生态补偿的理论基础、目标导向和实施机制进行了探讨,将经济地理学的空间区位论、地域功能理论、区域发展空间均衡理论等充实到区域生态补偿的理论基础中,明确了以实现区域协调发展和基本公共服务均等化为目标导向,探索了政府主导、市场参与的区域生态补偿的实施模式,最后分析了实施难点、提出了相应的解决建议。     

全国重要生态功能区生态安全评价

《全国生态功能区划》提出的50个国家重要生态功能区域,对于国家和区域生态安全保障具有重要指导意义。从生态胁迫和生态结构与功能2个方面选取指标构建生态安全评价体系,以2000、2005和2010年生态系统遥感数据为基础,分区对全国重要生态功能区生态安全进行评价,识别生态安全状况呈恶化趋势的区域,为全国重要生态功能区的生态安全保障工作提供理论基础和科学依据。结果显示,水源涵养区和生物多样性保护区的生态安全指数相对较高,土壤保持重要区的生态安全状况较差;重要生态功能区总体生态安全状况呈下降趋势,比较显著的变化包括洞庭湖洪水调蓄重要区和藏东南山地热带雨林生物多样性保护重要区的生态环境状况改善明显,黑河中下游防风固沙重要区的生态安全指数值最小且呈下降趋势。     

生态规划在冕宁县城市总体规划中的作用研究

以冕宁县的生态规划为例,通过对冕宁县生态城市规划建设背景的研究,确定其生态城市建设的定位,通过分析冕宁县城市的现状,得出了冕宁县进行生态城市规划的总体思路.生态城市建设的重点是对城市的生态功能进行划分,生态功能划分的原则包括生态城市功能区划的原则、可持续发展原则、区域相关原则、部分与整体协调原则、相似性原则、环境容量和环境承载力原则以及区域特色原则等等.通过对冕宁县城市生态区域的划分,将生态规划彻底融入冕宁县的总体规划之中,进一步改善冕宁县生态环境、人居环境和发展环境,不断提高城乡人民生活质量,将冕宁建设成为生态县.     

民勤县生态经济功能区划

在分析石羊河流域下游民勤县生态经济系统结构与功能的基础上,建立生态经济功能区划指标体系,利用系统聚类方法对民勤县生态经济系统进行功能区划,将民勤县分为东北部沙盐地灌溉农业区、中心城镇综合发展区、西北部荒漠地生态保护区、东南部生态农业区和中部沿河农林牧业发展区5个功能区,并分析了民勤县各区域生态经济系统的结构与功能特点、改善途径及区域发展方向.     

地理信息系统支持下的城市生态环境功能区划

本文以马鞍山市为例，利用地理信息系统软件－－ＩＤＲＩＳＩ进行ＧＩＳ支持下的城市生态环境功能区划，以生态环境适宜度分析方法进行了工业用地、居住用地、综合用地的适宜度分析，并以此为基础划分了城市生态环境功能区，最后，讨论了ＧＩＳ支持下的城市生态环境功能区划的优势与不足以及发展趋势。     

城市生态可持续发展指标的进展

建设生态城市是一种国际趋势,也在中国受到关注。为了监测评估城市的生态可持续发展,要有一套科学的指标体系。文章讨论了生态城市的特点;评述了国外的3类指标体系和国内采用世界银行“真实储蓄率”指标在城市一应用研究,提出了建立这类指标的一些原则与方法。     

Zoning,a fundamental cornerstone of effective Marine Spatial Planning: lessons learnt from the Great Barrier Reef,Australia

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park was established to provide for conservation and ecologically sustainable multiple use of 344,400 km² of a large marine ecosystem. Management is based on multiple use, with zoning as a fundamental component of marine spatial planning. The legislative framework, including a specific Act and Regulations, address the objectives of ecosystem-based, integrated management of human uses and impacts consistent with best contemporary understanding of biological diversity. Zoning is one of a suite of management tools that include other spatial and temporal management tools and non-spatial measures including public education, community engagement, codes of environmental best practice, industry partnerships and economic instruments. The first section of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park came into operation in 1981 and the most recent zoning came into operation in mid 2004. The paper discusses some common misunderstandings about zoning and identifies lessons that appear relevant for others addressing management and use of marine ecosystems and natural resources.     

Exposing ecological and economic costs of the research‐implementation gap and compromises in decision making

The frequently discussed gap between conservation science and practice is manifest in the gap between spatial conservation prioritization plans and their implementation. We analyzed the research‐implementation gap of one zoning case by comparing results of a spatial prioritization analysis aimed at avoiding ecological impact of peat mining in a regional zoning process with the final zoning plan. We examined the relatively complex planning process to determine the gaps among research, zoning, and decision making. We quantified the ecological costs of the differing trade‐offs between ecological and socioeconomic factors included in the different zoning suggestions by comparing the landscape‐level loss of ecological features (species occurrences, habitat area, etc.) between the different solutions for spatial allocation of peat mining. We also discussed with the scientists and planners the reasons for differing zoning suggestions. The implemented plan differed from the scientists suggestion in that its focus was individual ecological features rather than all the ecological features for which there were data; planners and decision makers considered effects of peat mining on areas not included in the prioritization analysis; zoning was not truly seen as a resource‐allocation process and not emphasized in general minimizing ecological losses while satisfying economic needs (peat‐mining potential); and decision makers based their prioritization of sites on site‐level information showing high ecological value and on single legislative factors instead of finding a cost‐effective landscape‐level solution. We believe that if the zoning and decision‐making processes are very complex, then the usefulness of science‐based prioritization tools is likely to be reduced. Nevertheless, we found that high‐end tools were useful in clearly exposing trade‐offs between conservation and resource utilization.     

Methodology for an urban ecological footprint to evaluate sustainable development in China

The ecological footprint (EF) is a method for measuring sustainable development through ecological impact. A methodology is presented for predicting urban ecological footprints. Urban energy use and natural resource consumption were analyzed to calculate an EF based on land type (arable, pasture, forest, fossil energy land, built-up area and water area) and consumption (food, housing, transportation, goods, services and waste). The result was then compared with the local ecological carrying capacity to develop criteria for sustainable ecological footprints. Case studies of four cities in China (Guangzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou and Yangzhou) illustrate the urban EF approach. The time series of EF in a case study of Guangzhou for 1991–2001 was analyzed and the consumption–land-use matrix of urban EF was established. The results show that the cities are ecologically unsustainable, with average ecological conflicts per capita of more than 2 ha. The urban EF method is useful to measure urban sustainable development and provides policy proposals for decision-making. However, the EF method still has limitations and weaknesses.     

Strategic planning for sustainable tourism development in Poland

The aim of this article is to evaluate selected tourism development strategies in Poland, in the context of strategic planning, stakeholders’ participation, and sustainable development principles. A questionnaire evaluation of strategy (44 questions) was established and based on measurement scales developed and validated by other authors in earlier studies. The five authors of the study rated 37 tourism development strategies in 13 provinces, 11 cities, 5 counties, 6 municipalities, and 2 other areas. Analysis revealed that they implement paradigms of sustainable development of tourism to only a small extent. Definitely higher quality is documented for higher levels of administrative division. The highest rated domains of the tourism development strategy in the examined documents are Strategic Planning Indicators and Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation.     

Application of k-means clustering to environmental risk zoning of the chemical industrial area

The homogeneous risk characteristics within a sub-area and the heterogeneous from one sub-area to another are unclear using existing environmental risk zoning methods. This study presents a new zoning method by determining and categorizing the risk characteristics using the k-means clustering data mining technology. The study constructs indices and develops index quantification models for environmental risk zoning by analyzing the mechanism of environmental risk occurrence. We calculate the source risk index, air risk field index, water risk field index, and target vulnerability of the study area with Nanjing Chemical Industrial Park using a 100 m - 100 m mesh grid as the basic zoning unit, and then use k-means clustering to analyze the environmental risk in the area. We obtain the optimal clustering number with the largest average silhouette coefficient by calculating the average silhouette coefficients of clustering at different k-values. The clustering result with the optimal clustering number is then used for the environmental risk zoning, and the zoning result is mapped using the geographic information system. The study area is divided into five sub-areas. The common environmental risk characteristics within the same sub-area, as well as the differences between sub- areas, are presented. The zoning is helpful in risk management and is convenient for decision makers to distribute limited resources to different sub-areas in the design of risk reducing intervention.     

我国自然保护区生态补偿机制的构建方法与实施途径研究

基于国家主体功能区划的自然保护区被界定为禁止开发区域,必然要对其进行科学有效地实施生态补偿。本文阐明对我国自然保护区实施生态补偿的必要性,分析生态补偿机制的构建路径,探讨生态补偿标准的确定方法,对生态补偿的方式类型及自然保护区生态补偿机制的实施途径进行深入研究。生态补偿机制的构建路径涉及补偿主体与对象、补偿标准与尺度、补偿方式与途径以及法律保障等内容。生态补偿标准的确定是生态补偿机制建设中的重点与难点问题,需要依据生态保护者的直接投入与损失以及机会成本、生态破坏的恢复成本、生态受益者的获利、生态系统服务的价值等进行核算。其确定方法包括直接成本法、机会成本法、意愿调查法、市场法、生态系统服务功能价值法等。生态补偿的方式和途径是实施生态补偿机制的核心与关键,主要涉及政府与市场两种基本途径。对自然保护区这样的生态保护的重点功能区域,应该充分发挥政府的主导作用,中央与省级财政应加大纵向转移支付力度。同时,应积极引入市场机制,作为生态补偿机制建设的有益补充。     

低碳城市发展路径思考

为应对全球气候变化,人类开始寻求低碳发展方式。城市作为人类经济、社会活动的集中地,是低碳发展理念的实践主体。阐述了低碳城市的概念,分析了低碳城市发展的技术路径,介绍了国际上低碳城市的实践途径,提出了我国低碳城市的发展路径和对策思考。     

Sustainable development and systems thinking: A case study of a heritage city

The concept of sustainable cities is based on a development paradigm that recognizes that cities make an important contribution to social and economic development. System thinking, including hard and soft systems, can be used to provide a new perspective and tools to resolve questions. The 500-year-old heritage city of Udaipur in India, which has traditionally maintained the spirit of living in a sustainable manner, is now seeking sustainable development. This paper attempts to analyse the issues underlying sustainable development of Udaipur by applying CATWOE in order to comprehend the systemic elements of the city from a soft systems perspective.