江苏省水资源短缺风险的相似云评价方法研究

为有效的监测和评估水资源短缺风险的程度,实现水资源可持续开采和利用,提出水资源短缺风险的相似云综合评价模型。针对水资源短缺风险的影响因素同时具有模糊和随机性问题,建立基于熵权和相似云方法的综合评估模型。借鉴现有理论的基础上,综合考虑风险率、脆弱性、可恢复性等5个评价指标,采用熵权法确定各个指标的权重,利用正态云模型定量描述单指标条件下待评价城市水资源的短缺风险等级。给出一种新的计算正态云模型相似度方法——基于组合模糊贴近度的正态云相似度度量方法,通过比较待评价城市与风险等级之间的熵权正态云相似度值的大小,构建基于熵权相似云的水资源短缺风险评价模型。江苏省三大流域的实例表明,该方法简单可行,结果相对客观合理,能够克服现有方法的一些缺点。     

南通市沿海开发水资源保障能力评价研究

以工程保障、社会经济保障、环境保障和效率保障作为南通市沿海开发水资源保障能力评价的准则层，以缺水率、有效灌溉面积率、单位GDP用水等12个指标作为指标层构建了南通市沿海开发水资源保障能力综合评价指标体系。采用层次分析法和专家评分法确定指标权重，通过加权平均确定综合评价值。评价结果为：南通市现状综合保障能力中等，未来在充分节水、保护环境、提高用水效率的前提下，水资源保障能力将有所提高。从分类保障情况看，全市工程保障能力最好而环境保障能力最差；从各行政区的保障能力看，如皋市综合保障能力最好，而海安和如东两县综合保障能力最差。最后对如何提高各地区水资源综合保障能力作了讨论     

基于变权重和信息熵的区域水资源安全投影寻踪评价模型

区域水资源安全评价是气候变化下区域水安全管理的一项重要调控措施。为合理确定各评价指标的权重，提出了把权重结构分解为评价指标的单样本权重和样本集权重的新观点，建立了用基于加速遗传算法的模糊层次分析法和最小相对信息熵原理确定单样本权重、用基于加速遗传算法的投影寻踪模型和最大信息熵原理确定样本集权重的新模型--基于变权重和信息熵的投影寻踪评价模型（CWE PP）。将CWE PP模型应用于全国水资源安全背景下的巢湖流域水资源安全评价，结果表明：巢湖流域水资源安全状况整体上介于重度缺水与中度缺水之间，偏向重度缺水，略低于安徽省水资源安全状况。用CWE PP进行区域水资源安全评价，物理概念明确，计算结果合理，方法通用，在资源与环境综合评价中具有一定的推广应用价值。     

甘肃河西内陆河流域社会化水资源稀缺评价

水资源稀缺是我国经济社会发展所面临的严重制约因素。水资源稀缺评价是水资源管理中最基础性的工作。借助Karshenas模型对资源利用同经济发展之间的关系进行了诠释；在界定水资源管理阶段的基础上。引入社会适应性能力概念。着重论述了其内在结构及其度量指标。从而将水资源稀缺问题拓展到了社会经济领域。强调社会资源在水资源稀缺评价中的作用。同时。建立社会化水资源稀缺指数。并以甘肃省河西内陆河流域五市为例进行了实证研究．结果表明：嘉峪关市由于相对较高的社会适应性能力。其社会化水资源稀缺程度指数的相对排序得到改善；而武威市则因相对较低的社会适应性能力。社会化水资源稀缺指数的排序有所降低；金昌市和张掖市尽管社会化水资源稀缺指数的相对排序没有变化。但由于考虑了社会适应性能力。水资源稀缺程度得到有效的缓解。社会化水资源稀缺指数更能如实反映水资源状况。社会适应性能力是一种重要的资源。对缓解水资源紧缺程度具有重要的作用。     

西部大开发政策效应评价

经过15年的西部大开发,西部各个省份的综合发展水平怎样?西部大开发是否显著缩小西部与东部地区在综合发展水平和经济增长的差异?哪些政策起到了关键作用?是本文将要探讨的问题。研究方法主要是通过模型与数据的实证研究方法对西部大开发的政策效应进行评价。内容包括:一是通过构建包含了社会、经济、科教与文化、对外开放和资源与环境五大类25个分项指标的综合发展水平评价体系,使用从1997到2013年31个省市的指标数据,并计算出综合评价值来考察西部大开发政策对西部地区各个省份整体发展的影响。从评价值排名上来看发现只有重庆、陕西、四川和内蒙古综合发展水平排名提升明显,而新疆、宁夏和青海发展差距还在拉大,其他省份排名变化不大。从分类指标来看,西部地区整体上社会发展和资源环境与生态提升较为明显,说明中央对于公共服务的转移支付和"退耕还林还草"等保护环境与生态的政策起到了一定的成效。二是选取了交通基础设施建设、中央转移支付和税收优惠这三个主要政策作为计量模型的政策变量,分别考察西部大开发整体和分项政策对于综合发展水平和经济增长率的影响。通过系统GMM方法估计整体西部大开发整体政策效应,以2000年前后对比,政策实施对GDP增长率的提升并不显著,综合发展水平也没有收敛。而以2008年为时间节点,综合发展水平和经济增长速度都得到了显著提升。通过DID估计分项政策,结果表明基础设施投入和转移支付能够有效提升综合发展水平和经济增长速度,税收优惠提升相对较弱。本文建议:在交通基础设施投入方面继续对西部地区予以倾斜,特别是建设西部地区通往东中部地区的交通大通道;培育和完善西部地区的市场经济体系,政府较少干预企业投资决策;加强对于西部落后地区、偏远地区的公共产品投入,加强扶贫工作。     

区域水资源承载能力综合评价：主成分分析法的应用

针对模糊综合评判法在综合评价中存在的主观随意性问题,提出采用主成分分析法进行区域水资源承载能力综合评价。首先对各区域的灌溉率、水资源利用率、水资源开发程度、供水模数、需水模数、人均供水量和生态环境用水率这七个主要因素进行了分析;然后,根据主成分分析法的原理,运用少数几个新的综合指标对原来的七个指标所包含的信息进行最佳综合与简化,研究其在各区域水资源开发利用过程中的不同贡献及综合效应;同时,以评价参     

基于模糊综合评判的新疆水资源承载力评价

选取水资源开发率、水资源利用率、人均水资源量、人均供水量、供水模数、需水模数、生活需水定额及生态用水率共8个主要影响区域水资源承载力的因素作为评价因子,应用模糊综合评判模型对新疆水资源承载力现状进行评价。结果表明:新疆水资源承载力综合评分值为0.3179,新疆水资源开发利用已具有相当规模,水资源供给对国民经济发展有一定的保障,进一步开发潜力较小,在跨越式发展中必须适度发展以保障新疆水资源健康。     

基于模糊综合评判的吉林省松原市农业水资源承载能力分析

在分析松原市水资源特征及开发利用等对承载能力影响的主要因素的基础上,确定耕地灌溉率、水资源利用率、农业水资源利用率、灌溉用水指标、农业供水模数、农业需水模数、地表水开发程度、地下水开发程度8个因素作为松原市农业水资源承载能力综合评价的主要指标,采用模糊综合评判对松原市农业水资源承载能力进行评价,结果表明在研究阶段,松原市农业水资源处于饱和状态,并由饱和阶段向过饱和阶段过渡,到2015年,过渡到过饱和阶段,预示着农业水资源已经出现短缺;同时综合评分值从2010年的0.362下降到2015年的0.295,表明松原市农业水资源开发潜力很小,农业用水出现短缺,应采取控制措施。     

黄河流域水资源可再生能力评价的云模型

对流域水资源可再生能力进行科学评判,针对评价中存在随机性及模糊性的特征,建立起基于云理论的流域水资源可再生能力综合评价模型。综合考虑水资源条件、社会经济条件及用水条件等11个指标建立水资源可再生能力评价指标体系,利用二元模糊对比法确定各个指标权重,借助云模型定量描述单指标条件下待评价区域水资源可再生能力的等级,并通过模糊变换,确定综合评判等级。云模型将不确定性概念的模糊性和随机性有机地结合在一起,用隶属函数描述评价等级的模糊性,并利用超熵概念考虑隶属度本身存在的随机性,更符合实际评判的情况。应用该模型对黄河流域9个行政分区的水资源可再生能力进行了综合评价,研究表明黄河流域的水资源可再生能力总体上较弱,其中宁夏和内蒙古最弱,其主要原因在于水资源总量短缺且水资源效率低,急需采取相关措施节流开源、提高产业用水效率,特别是需要进一步实施节水灌溉措施,降低农业灌溉定额,从而提高区域的水资源可再生能力。     

基于熵权的模糊物元模型在水资源可持续利用评价中的应用

针对水资源可持续利用评价中存在的不相容性和模糊性问题,将物元分析理论与模糊集理论相结合,构建复合模糊物元,并应用加权欧式距离作综合评价,对各样本做优劣排序,并划分类别。在计算各评价指标的权重时,引入熵值理论,运用信息熵反映的样本数据的效用值确定权重,避免了权重分配中的人为干扰。结合实例应用,并与其他方法的评价结果作比较,验证了该模型的可靠性。分析表明,物元分析与模糊集理论的有效结合,能将多指标评价中的不相容矛盾转换成相容关系,且有效地避免了由于模糊性导致的信息丢失;熵值法确定的权重较好地反映了样本信息的有序度,充分利用实测数据客观地对评价指标进行赋权。结果表明,基于熵权的模糊物元模型应用于水资源可持续利用评价是合理、客观、可行的。     

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.     

Latitudinal variation in size of freshwater pulmonate mollusks (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Pulmonata) in Western Siberia

The size of shells in some freshwater pulmonate mollusk species abundant in Western Siberia (Lymnaea fragilis, L. terebra, Planorbis planorbis, and Anisus leucostoma) is relatively large in the south and decreases in the north. It is supposed that this phenomenon is explained by the fact that the season with conditions allowing the growth of mollusks is shorter in the north than in the south of Western Siberia.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

A general approach to transform a lake model for one radionuclide (radiocesium) to another (radiostrontium) and critical model tests using data for four Ural lakes contaminated by the fallout from the Kyshtym accident in 1957

This paper presents results of a model test carried out within the framework of the COMETES project (EU). The aim of the work was to change the structure of the MOIRA lake model for radiocesium so that it can be applied more generally for, in principle, all types of radionuclides and heavy metals. This general lake model is used within the MOIRA decision support system (DSS; MOIRA and COMETES are acronyms for EU-projects). The model is based on a set of differential equations and a specific modelling structure. It incorporates all important fluxes to, from and within lakes in a general manner. Yet the model is driven by a minimum of variables accessible from standard maps and monitoring programs. The model can be separated into two parts, a general part with equations applicable for all types of water pollutants and a substance-specific part. This model has previously been validated for 137Cs from many lakes covering a wide domain and yielded excellent predictive power. The alterations discussed in this work are meant to be general and radiostrontium is used as a typical element. Radiostrontium is known to be more mobile than radiocesium and all abiotic parts of the model handling fixation and mobility have been altered. The new model for 90Sr has been critically tested using data from four lakes heavily contaminated with 90Sr from the Kyshtym accident in the Southern Urals, Russia, using empirical data from a period from 1958 to 1995 for 90Sr in fish (here goldfish), water and sediments.     

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.     

Dynamics of Restoration Processes in the Idle Solonetz Ecosystems in the Southern Transural Region

The initial period of idleness in the solonetz ecosystems of the southern Transural Region is characterized by a significant variability of their soil–plant communities, which is determined by natural periodicity and general direction of the process of ecosystem restoration. Selective consumption of salinizing ions by the plants growing on idle land activates the development of desalinization processes.