北京市区大气真菌粒度分布及降雨的影响

用ＡＮＤＥＲＳＥＮ生物粒子采样器在北京市西单观测了大气真菌粒子的粒度分布及降雨的影响，结果表明，北京市区大气真菌粒度呈对数正态分布，降雨可明显降低＞６．０μｍ的大气真菌粒子的粒数百分比。     

基于被动采样监测泸州市大气污染物SO_2、NO_2浓度时空分布特性研究

基于被动扩散采样技术,将泸州市全市区域按16km×16km间隔划分为38个网格,并开展了2011年3月~2012年2月期间大气污染物SO2、NO2监测工作。监测结果表明:泸州市SO2、NO2浓度季节变化规律均为:冬季秋季春季夏季;SO2的空间分布表明浓度较高的区域主要分布在南部和人口密度较大的城区及西北区域,NO2的空间分布表现出全市呈南部低、北部高的趋势。泸州市污染物空间分布特征与污染源分布格局以及主导风向有关,同时,泸州受区域外污染物的扩散迁移影响也较明显。     

昌吉市城区臭氧日变化特征及与前体物的相关性分析

对2016-04月至2017-03月昌吉市城区2个自动空气监测子站的臭氧及其前体物进行了分析,探讨昌吉市城区臭氧浓度的日变化特征以及与前体物的关系。研究发现,昌吉市城区臭氧在7~9月份维持相对较高浓度,臭氧浓度呈单峰型分布,一般在17:00、18:00达到峰值;CO、NO、NO_2和NO_x等前体物多呈双峰型分布,与O_3均呈显著负相关性,相关性在冬季较低。通过大气氧化剂OX和NO_x的拟合方程发现,昌吉市城区OX在夏季受局地污染和区域污染的影响均比秋季大。     

2017～2018年荆州城区空气质量分布及重污染天气特征分析

利用2017年1月至2018年12月荆州城区3个国家环境空气质量监测点的污染物监测数据和荆州国家气象站地面气象要素观测数据,采用统计学方法,对荆州城区空气质量分布及重污染过程天气特征进行了初步分析,结果表明:空气污染综合指数冬季最高,春秋季次之,夏季最低;PM2.5、PM10、 CO和NO2的浓度在上午和傍晚至上半夜其...     

济南市环境空气中臭氧浓度变化特征的城郊差异

为研究不同环境功能区臭氧(O_3)化学特征差异,于2016年分别在济南市工业区和城郊大气清洁区域开展了观测。结果表明,大气清洁点臭氧年均浓度远高于城区同期浓度。臭氧在大气清洁点呈现单峰型日变化规律,而在城区则为双峰型。一周之中,工作日时城区臭氧浓度比周末时更高,而大气清洁点的臭氧浓度变化不大。城郊区臭氧存在明显的季节变化规律,且两个监测点的浓度变化极为同步,均为夏季浓度最高,春秋季次之,冬季浓度最低。     

成都市大气中O3污染水平及来源分析

根据2009年夏季成都市区大气中O3的监测结果,对大气中O3的浓度、分布进行了分析,并与2001年夏季成都市区的监测结果比较,分析臭氧污染水平的变化。结合同期NO2、VOCs监测结果,研究O3与两种前体物之间的相互关系。结果表明,近年来成都市区O3浓度呈上升趋势;O3浓度与NO2浓度变化趋势相反,表现为消耗NO2型光化学污染。     

乐山市区大气硫氧化物污染状况及相关因子分析

本文研究了乐山市区较大面积范围内的大气硫氧化物相对污染水平。通过分析绘出了较详细的污染图谱;在得出SO_x时间分布规律基础上,了解了与它相关的因子;用模糊聚类方法,对乐山城区大气SO_2监测点提出了优化方案;并针对乐山市的大气状况,提出了对策。     

四川省大气污染空间分异特征研究

利用GIS空间统计工具分析四川省3项大气污染物SO2、NO2和PM10浓度的空间分异特征。污染物在东北-西南方向上分布最为分散,污染重心与几何中心偏离较多,不均衡性较大。全局来看,NO2和SO2浓度的空间自相关性较强,属于聚集模式;PM10浓度的空间自相关性较弱,属于随机分布模式。局部相关性分析表明,大部分地市的大气污染物之间相关性较弱,SO2和NO2具有相似的自相关分布,PM10局地自相关性与其他两项污染物的差异较大。通过分析2001~2010年间污染重心的变化轨迹,可知10年间污染重心向西南方向偏移,向低纬度、低经度方向移动,其中SO2偏移量最大。2001年和2010年浓度变化率分析,发现全省各地市PM10削减力度明显,SO2局部地区有较大的削减,NO2仅有23.81%的地市有所削减,整体削减程度较小。     

硫酸盐化速率在永川城区的时空分布规律及防治对策

本文通过对永川城区大气硫酸盐化速率的测定,在分析监测数据的基础上,对硫酸盐化速率的时空分布规律进行了全面探索,为城区大气污染防治提供了科学的依据。     

成都市城区春节期间燃放烟花爆竹对空气质量的影响

利用空气质量自动监测系统分析了2013年春节期间成都市城区的SO2、NO2、CO、O3、PM10及PM2.5的浓度值,发现烟花爆竹的燃放对SO2、NO2、PM10及PM2.5的浓度有较大影响。     

Projected Changes in Discharge in an Agricultural Watershed in Iowa

Our improved capability to adapt to the future changes in discharge is linked to our capability to predict the magnitude or at least the direction of these changes. For the agricultural United States Midwest, too much or too little water has severe socioeconomic impacts. Here, we focus on the Raccoon River at Van Meter, Iowa, and use a statistical approach to examine projected changes in discharge. We build on statistical models using rainfall and harvested corn and soybean acreage to explain the observed discharge variability. We then use projections of these two predictors to examine the projected discharge response. Results are based on seven global climate models part of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 and two representative concentration pathways (RCPs 4.5 and 8.5). There is not a strong signal of change in the discharge projections under the RCP 4.5. However, the results for the RCP 8.5 point to a stronger changing signal related to larger projected increases in rainfall, resulting in increased trends, in particular, in the upper part of the discharge distribution (i.e., 60th percentile and above). Examination of two hypothetical agricultural scenarios indicates that these increasing trends could be alleviated by decreasing the extent of the agricultural production. We also discuss how the methodology presented in this study represents a viable approach to move forward with the concept of return period for engineering design and management in a nonstationary world.     

Environmental assessment in countries in transition: evolution in a changing context

Over the last fifteen years, Environmental Assessment systems of transitional societies of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia have undergone dramatic change from appraisals integrated into centrally planned economies to formal procedures aimed to ensure interdisciplinary analysis of environmental impacts and linked to publicly accountable decision-making. In most Central European nations, EA systems have been radically reformed to approximate the procedures used in developed countries, particularly in the European Union. In contrast, EA in most of the former Soviet republics has been reformed more gradually and is still based on the so-called State Environmental Review procedure inherited from the USSR and substantially different from 'Western' EA. About one-third of the transitional countries (in the Balkans, the Caucasus and Central Asia) have, so far, failed to establish functioning EA systems. Throughout the region, there has been a gap between EA legislation and practice, especially concerning interdisciplinary analysis of environmental impacts, public participation, and utilisation of EA findings in decision-making. A key driving force in the reform of EA systems has been the change in their societal context, the so-called 'process of transition'. Three main policy agendas--environmental protection, reforms of decision-making, and conforming to international requirements--along with the institutional context of EA regulations and practice have influenced both the change of EA systems over time and the regional variations in the patterns of their evolution. This study suggests that an effective reform of an EA system should be context-sensitive, or be 'in gear' with the political and economic transition. Future EA research should consider their changing societal contexts and focused on practical effects of applying EA procedures.     

Community-company relations in gold mining in Ghana

As a result of Structural Adjustment Programme from the 1980s, many developing countries have experienced an increase in resource extraction activities by international and transnational corporations. The work reported here examines the perceived impacts of gold mining at the community level in the Wassa West District of Ghana, Africa and discusses those perceived impacts in the context of globalization processes and growing multinational corporate interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Interview data compared community members' perceptions with those of company representatives in three communities. The results indicate that communities held companies responsible for a series of economic, social, and environmental changes. While recognizing some of the benefits brought by the mines, communities felt that the companies did not live up to their responsibility to support local development. Companies responded by denying, dismissing concerns, or shifting blame. Findings from this work show that lack of engagement and action by government agencies at all levels resulted in companies acting in a surrogate governmental capacity. In such situations, managing expectations is key to community-company relations.     

电催化氧化处理难降解废水技术研究进展

电催化氧化处理难降解废水技术已得到了广泛关注.本文从电极材料与应用,电极结构及反应器形状,以及与其它处理方法联用等综述了最新研究进展,并在此基础上总结出了电催化氧化技术今后的发展方向.     

我国城市生态评价研究进展

城市建设带来了越来越多的生态环境问题，生态城市建设是解决这些问题的良好途径。生态城市的建设要有一定的评价体系作为支撑，本文综述了国内基于AHP方法建立的应用较为广泛的城市生态评价体系和方法，并对国内城市生态评价的现状做了分析。     

Private participation in isolated grids in Mozambique

This article presents a case study from Mozambique of the electrification of two selected towns under a World Bank financed project. Low-cost electricity services were extended to the two isolated areas after an enabling framework had been created for private sector participation. The World Bank project also demonstrates that the private sector can be attracted to participate in rural electrification schemes even in a poor country. The example shown in this article is one of the few of its kind in SubSaharan Africa.     

Sustainability Appraisal in neighbourhood planning in England

The preparation of strategic environmental assessment (SEA) inclusive sustainability appraisals (SAs) for neighbourhood plans (NPs) in England may be required when significant environmental effects are expected to arise from an NP. In this paper, we report on the result of a Ph.D. project, conducted between 2012 and 2015, in which all 15 NP SEA inclusive SAs that had been completed at the time were evaluated. In this context, the quality of SA practice was found to differ substantially. SAs were prepared either ‘in-house’ (i.e. by neighbourhood planning steering groups) or by consultants. The quality of SAs was found to be associated with their overall perceived degree of influence on the underlying NPs. Whilst the focus of this paper is on practice in England, findings are expected to be of interest to a wider international audience, in particular to those experimenting with voluntary neighbourhood/local level plan SA/SEA.     

Status and trends in EFlows in southern Africa

Environmental Flows (EFlows) are defined as the quantity, timing and quality of the flow of water, sediment and biota necessary to sustain freshwater and estuarine ecosystems, and the human livelihoods and well-being that depend on these ecosystems. As such they are a vital component of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM). A recent survey found that, in general, Africa lags behind schedule with respect to the global SDG Target 6.5 to implement IWRM at all levels, including through transboundary cooperation as appropriate. This web-based review explores progress made in EFlows Assessments and implementing their outcomes in southern Africa. It outlines the apparent impetus to the uptake of EFlows provided by legislation, common funding mechanisms for EFlows assessment and evolving trends in EFlows assessment. It also highlights instances of implementation of EFlows in both in-country and transboundary settings.     

Investment in human capital in Africa

Summary The author analyses the problems currently faced by the African continent, recognises six factors which he believes are important in influencing the analysis, and argues that the only secure, renewable asset any country or continent has, is its people. He maintains that people development, rather than the classical economic forms of encouraging development, offers Africa a viable way forward. He then identifies a number of specific issues within such a strategy of investment in human capital.Brian Walker is the President of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), and this address was given at the inaugural meeting of the International Year of Shelter for the Homeless, in London, on 18th April, 1985. A second, earlier, associated address was published inThe Environmentalist 5(3) 167–170.     

Pesticides in rain in four agricultural watersheds in the United States

Rainfall samples were collected during the 2003 and 2004 growing seasons at four agricultural locales across the USA in Maryland, Indiana, Nebraska, and California. The samples were analyzed for 21 insecticides, 18 herbicides, three fungicides, and 40 pesticide degradates. Data from all sites combined show that 7 of the 10 most frequently detected pesticides were herbicides, with atrazine (70%) and metolachlor (83%) detected at every site. Dacthal, acetochlor, simazine, alachlor, and pendimethalin were detected in more than 50% of the samples. Chlorpyrifos, carbaryl, and diazinon were the only insecticides among the 10 most frequently detected compounds. Of the remaining pesticide parent compounds, 18 were detected in fewer than 30% of the samples, and 13 were not detected. The most frequently detected degradates were deethylatrazine; the oxygen analogs (OAs) of the organophosphorus insecticides chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and malathion; and 1-napthol (degradate of carbaryl). Deethylatrazine was detected in nearly 70% of the samples collected in Maryland, Indiana, and Nebraska but was detected only once in California. The OAs of chlorpyrifos and diazinon were detected primarily in California. Degradates of the acetanilide herbicides were rarely detected in rain, indicating that they are not formed in the atmosphere or readily volatilized from soils. Herbicides accounted for 91 to 98% of the total pesticide mass deposited by rain except in California, where insecticides accounted for 61% in 2004. The mass of pesticides deposited by rainfall was estimated to be less than 2% of the total applied in these agricultural areas.