Multiple environmental burdens and neighborhood-related health of city residents

Urban living environments are known to influence human well-being and health; however, little is known about the multidimensionality of different environmental burdens. The aim of this study is to examine the relations between multiple burdens and self-rated health of city residents in Berlin. A spatial analysis was conducted to determine neighborhood street blocks with high versus low levels of three environmental burdens (traffic noise, air pollution, lack of public green space) as study sites for a cross-sectional household questionnaire. Burden level served as a dichotomous predictor to compare residents' self-reports of neighborhood satisfaction, life satisfaction, health behavior, and psychological and physical health symptoms. Residents from high-burden blocks appraised the environmental conditions more stressful, reported poorer health behavior and were less satisfied with their neighborhood than residents from low-burden blocks. However, they did not differ in regard to more general health symptoms. Three other burdens (behavior-related noise, litter and dirt in public space, lack of urban vegetation), which could not be varied objectively, were assessed by their perceived intensity. Regression analyses of the relations between the perceived levels of all six burdens and outcomes in the total sample revealed the following: Neighborhood satisfaction could be predicted from multiple stressors and resources that co-occur independently, while more general health symptoms were related only to perceived air pollution. The results have implications for both urban planning and public health.     

园区循环化改造的建设成效及实施过程探索

发展循环经济对缓解环境压力、促进产业结构调整、发展生态文明、践行五大发展理念具有重大的意义。园区是我国经济发展的重要支撑,也是我国发展循环经济的重点领域。介绍了园区循环化的改造方向、改造目标及园区循环化试点工作及实践成效,并总结概括了园区循环化改造的下一步重点工作,供后续工作参考。     

Testing of the Storm Water Management Model Low Impact Development Modules

Stormwater infrastructure designers and operators rely heavily on the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) to simulate stormwater and wastewater infrastructure performance. Since its inception in the late 1970s, improvements and extensions have been tested and evaluated rigorously to verify the accuracy of the model. As a continuation of this progress, the main objective of this study was to quantify how accurately SWMM simulates the hydrologic activity of low impact development (LID) storm control measures. Model performance was evaluated by quantitatively comparing empirical data to model results using a multievent, multiobjective calibration method. The calibration methodology utilized the PEST software, a Parameter ESTimation tool, to determine unmeasured hydrologic parameters for SWMM’s LID modules. The calibrated LID modules’ Nash–Sutcliffe efficiencies averaged 0.81; average percent bias (PBIAS) ?9%; average ratio of root mean square error to standard deviation of measured values 0.485; average index of agreement 0.94; and the average volume error, simulated vs. observed, was +9%. SWMM accurately predicted the timing of peak flows, but usually underestimated their magnitudes by 10%. The average volume reduction, measured outflow volume divided by inflow volume, was 48%. We had more difficulty in calibrating one study, an infiltration trench, which identified a significant limitation of the current version of the SWMM LID module; it cannot simulate lateral exfiltration of water out of the storage layers of a LID storm control measure. This limitation is especially severe for a deep LIDs, such as infiltration trenches. Nevertheless, SWMM satisfactorily simulated the hydrologic performance of eight of the nine LID practices.     

中国城市建成区绿化覆盖率变化特征及影响因素分析

城市建成区绿地建设有利于改善城市环境,提高人居适宜度,优化城市生态系统服务功能。基于2002—2018年建成区绿化覆盖率及影响因子数据分析了中国城市建成区绿化覆盖率变化特征及其主要影响因素,结果表明,(1)中国建成区绿化覆盖率在2018年达到了41.11%,相比2002年增加了11.36%,2018年绿化覆盖率达到了35.0%以上的城市占全国城市的93.55%。(2)中国建成区绿化覆盖率存在明显的区域差异。按照华北、东北、华东、中南、西南和西北六个地区划分中国城市区域,华东地区的城市建成区绿化覆盖率最高,中南地区次之,其余四个地区为华北地区>东北地区>西北地区>西南地区;各地区建成区绿化覆盖率随时间发生显著变化(P<0.05),华北地区绿化覆盖率发生显著变化的城市占比最高达94.60%,中南地区最低为65.88%。(3)建成区绿化覆盖率与城市化指标(地区生产总值GDP、地区人均生产总值PGDP、绿化投入LP、建成区面积BUA、城区面积百分比UAP、建成区面积百分比BUAP、总人口TP、城市人口密度UPD、城区人口UP、建成区人口BUP、城区人口百分比UPP、建成区人口百分比BUPP)和气候因子(年平均温度YT、年平均湿度YH和年降雨量YW)均呈极显著正相关关系(P<0.01),其中PGDP、LI、BUAP、UAP、UPD、BUPP和YT、YW、YH是影响建成区绿化覆盖率的最主要因子。本研究结果可为中国未来城市绿地建设均衡发展提供重要的理论参考依据。     

中国绿色信贷成本收益核算研究

为充分识别、量化和评估绿色信贷的成本与收益，本文从银行和社会两个角度，梳理绿色信贷的直接（间接）成本和直接（间接）收益的类型和内涵，提出全面核算绿色信贷成本与收益的一般框架，以我国21家主要商业银行2013—2017年绿色信贷实施情况为例探讨了该框架的可行性。依据该核算框架对银行的直接成本和收益、社会的直接收益进行了定量核算，对银行的间接成本和收益、社会的直接和间接成本、社会间接收益进行了定性分析。结果表明：多数商业银行施行绿色信贷能带来利润；近半数银行的绿色信贷项目收益率在全行信贷项目平均收益率之上；核算期内绿色信贷节能减排的环境效益累计达1.03万亿元，平均每万元绿色信贷投放带来253元环境效益。本文为实现绿色信贷影响的综合分析、绿色信贷环境外部性内生化提供了科学的分析方法，对政府和商业银行实施绿色信贷政策具有重要意义。     

供给侧结构性改革与资源型产业转型发展

由于资源性产品价格形成机制改革长期滞后,加之国有经济占比高,资源型产业普遍市场化程度相对较低,导致供给与需求错配严重,难以适应工业4.0下生产方式和商业模式变革的需要。目前,受经济周期和矿业周期叠加的共同影响,20世纪头十年全球矿业发展黄金期告一段落,国际市场大宗商品价格低位波动,总体需求持续低迷。随着中国经济进入新常态,国内资源性产品供求关系发生了一系列新的变化,迫切需要加快资源型产业转型升级,从而更好地满足加速工业化和城镇化的要求。本文在供给侧结构性改革的背景下,分析资源型产业转型发展的动因及其面临的障碍,指出经济下行导致资源领域供给与需求的矛盾进一步凸显,在国家继续严格实行强制性节能减排的情况下,主要能源和矿产品消费规模有可能提前达峰,这有助于实现中国向国际社会承诺到2030年碳排放总量达标的承诺。同时,由于在资源型产业"去产能"过程中,僵尸企业处置、人员安置等方面仍面临诸多方面的障碍和制约因素,资源领域淘汰落后产能不可能一蹴而就,甚至会出现多轮反弹,进一步增加了行业推进供给侧结构性改革的阻力和风险。在以上结论基础上,本文设计资源型产业转型发展的路径,提出加快绿色化、智能化转型,推动资源型产业与非资源型产业融合发展的转型路径。本着"有进有退、以退促进"的原则,发挥市场机制在配置资源中的决定性作用,促进有效市场与有为政府更加兼容,建立完善进入衰退阶段的资源型产业有序退出的机制,切实降低供给侧结构性改革的社会成本。     

北京市大学生绿色消费行为特征研究

当前资源短缺、环境污染等问题较为严重,从生态、环保的角度出发,人们应该选择绿色、可持续的消费行为。绿色消费作为一种全新的消费方式,正在以一种崭新的道德观、人生观和价值观融入人们的生活。与普通民众相比,大学生具有更高的知识水平和接受新生事物的能力,因此对大学生绿色消费行为特征的研究尤为必要。通过对国内外大学生绿色消费行为特征问题相关研究成果的梳理,探究影响大学生绿色消费行为特征的主要因素,并据此设计问卷对北京市大学生的绿色消费行为特征进行实证调研,通过对调查结果的分析,发现当前大学生在进行绿色消费时存在以下典型特征问题:对绿色产品或者绿色消费概念欠了解、超前消费和过度消费现象突出、具有从众消费和攀比消费心理、社交消费支出逐渐增大等问题。针对存在的特征问题建议大学生从加强自我管理、养成理财习惯、抵制非绿色消费行为、引导绿色消费时尚等方面进行改进。     

Green jobs for the disadvantaged: an analysis of government policies in British Columbia

This study explores the potential for societies to create more green jobs for the disadvantaged. The research questions are related to how policy instruments can support green jobs and how green jobs can support the disadvantaged. These questions are asked in the context of the province of British Columbia in Canada, with implications for the global economy. Findings indicate that green jobs policies have direct and indirect effects on the growth of sustainable industries at a municipal level. Furthermore, in BC policy, green jobs are unmistakably connected to the government perception of green growth. Finally, the preferred pathway for policy implementation appears to involve local municipalities that apply for funding for projects that can potentially connect local actors and include the disadvantaged. Several policies accomplish the inclusion of the disadvantaged. The first section of this paper provides the BC provincial context on green jobs. The second section describes and analyzes a sample of thirteen BC policy instruments, as well as concurrent labor market policy activities for their inclusion of the disadvantaged. The third section posits a provisional policy framework for training and hiring more inclusively for green jobs. The fourth section offers six recommendations to bolster green jobs for all at a national and international level.     

Prospects for stakeholder coordination by protected‐area managers in Europe

Growing resource demands by humans, invasive species, natural hazards, and a changing climate have created broad‐scale impacts and the need for broader‐extent conservation activities that span ownerships and even political borders. Implementing regional‐scale conservation brings great challenges, and learning how to overcome these challenges is essential for maintaining biodiversity (i.e., richness and evenness of biological communities) and ecosystem functions and services across scales and borders in the face of system change. We administered an online survey to examine factors potentially driving perspectives of protected‐area (PA) managers regarding coordination with neighboring PAs and other stakeholders (i.e., stakeholder coordination) for conserving biodiversity and ecosystem services during the next decade within diverse regions across Europe. Although >70% (n = 58) of responding PA managers indicated that climate change and invasive species are relevant for their PAs, they gave <50% probability that these threats could be mitigated through stakeholder coordination. They thought there was a >60% probability (n = 85) that stakeholder coordination would take place with the aim to improve conservation outcomes. Consistent with the foundation on which many European PAs were established, managers viewed maintaining or enhancing biodiversity as the most important (>70%; n = 61) expected benefit. Other benefits included maintaining or enhancing human resources and environmental education (range of Bayesian credibility intervals [CIs] 57–93%). They thought the main barriers to stakeholder coordination were the lack of human and economic resources (CI 59–67% chance of hindering; n = 64) followed by communication and interstakeholder differences in political structures and laws (CI 51–64% probability of hindering). European policies and strategies that address these hindering factors could be particularly effective means of enabling implementation of green infrastructure networks in which PAs are the nodes.     

绿色技术创新、产业集聚与生态效率——以长江经济带城市群为例

运用包含非期望产出的非径向、非角度的DEA模型对2005~2015年长江经济带城市群的生态效率进行测算，通过Tobit模型实证分析了绿色技术创新对生态效率的影响、产业集聚与绿色技术创新的关联效应对生态效率的影响。结果显示：长江经济带生态效率水平具有明显的梯级差异；绿色技术创新对生态效率的显著正向作用发生在整体层面和下游地区；在产业集聚引导下，整体及下游地区的绿色技术创新对生态效率的正向作用有所增强，上游地区的绿色技术创新未因产业集聚而改变对生态效率的影响。在此基础上，提出解释这一现象的可能途径是处于产业集聚初级阶段的政府主导型集聚使企业倾向于低成本战略，而处于产业集聚高级阶段的市场诱致型集聚会激发企业的创新意愿采用差异化战略。依据结论提出缩小长江经济带生态效率不平衡状况的政策建议。