Finding Water for Growth: New Sources,New Tools,New Challenges1

Abstract: Rapidly growing regions such as the western United States face difficult challenges in mobilizing new water supplies to meet new demands. Environmental concerns have curtailed the scope for large new surface storage projects, and widespread basin overdraft has limited ground water’s potential as a source of expansion. Drawing on the California experience, this article explores modern water planning approaches, which focus on a portfolio of options including nontraditional sources (recycling, desalination, underground storage) and more efficient use of existing supplies (conservation and water marketing). It reviews the advantages and drawbacks of the elements of the portfolio, provides examples of innovative planning approaches, and assesses the role for supportive government policies.     

认清新形势 探索新道路 奋力开创新时期全省环境保护工作新局面——在全省环境保护工作会议上的讲话

这次全省环境保护工作会议是在"十二五"开局之年召开的一次十分重要的会议,主要任务是,全面总结2010年及"十一五"环保工作,明确"十二五"工作思路,安排部署今年工作任务。省委、省政府对这次会议十分重视,省委书记强卫、     

Culture,ethics, and the environment — Towards the New Synthesis

Summary This largely philosophical article argues that we need to examine the roots of our cultural worldview if we are to understand the causes of our global crises and current obstacles to desirable change. Calls for a new ethic are likely to be ineffectual in the absence of a challenge to the damaging dichotomy between fact and value that characterises our culture. However, the dominant worldview is under increasingly strong challege from organic systems thinking which has far-reaching implications, and which suggests that Western culture's dominant assumptions are not in accord with reality. If our culture, and individuals in it, are able to become more balanced, decisive desirable change could take place in society. This balance will involve the proper reintegration of ethical dimensions into thinking, based upon the recognition of the importance of the integrity of human communities and natural systems. This constitutes an emergent worldview and coherent philsophical framework to which many groups are already giving expression. It is imperative that this cultural change is understood and supported as it represents genuine hope for the future.After a teaching career in England and Canada, Stephen Sterling joined, as Assistant Director, the United Kingdom Council for Environmental Education (CEE). He was involved in writing the Education Report forThe Conservation and Development Programme for the UK, and has acted in an advisory capacity on a number of national and international documents on environmental education and environmental ethics. He has edited the CEE's journalReview of Environmental Education Developments for six years. The views expressed in this article are his own.     

Environment,Quality of Life,and Urban Growth in the New Economy

Sooner or later, most environmental professionals will be affected by the national smart growth movement, which addresses suburban sprawl and urban revitalization. Environmental sustainability is at the heart of more sustainable economic growth—which means growth that does not sacrifice quality of life for economic prosperity. This article summarizes the findings of a recent report on the linkage between growth and quality of life in the new economy, with a special emphasis on the role of governors. © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.     

新时代中国生态环境保护的成绩、经验与新要求

目前,生态环境保护正在发生历史性、转折性、全局性变化。2018年5月18—19日在京召开的全国生态环境保护大会,是十九大后在全国形成强大生态文明共识基础上全党和全国的生态环境保护大会。其成功召开,将开启新时代生态环境保护工作的新阶段。本文梳理总结了新时代中国生态环境保护的总体实效和经验,深入剖析了新时代中国深化生态环境保护工作的总体要求,对在新时代的新阶段开展生态环境保护工作的原则、内容、方法等做出了理论阐释和系统说明。