乡镇环保所：给县区环保一个减压提效的平台

近年来,山东、浙江、江苏等沿海经济发达地区。纷纷加强乡镇环保工作机构建设,将环保工作的触角延伸,重心下沉,做到横向到边、纵向到底,让乡镇环保所成为环保局的“派出所”、“前沿哨”。将环境监管前移至最基层,使环保工作有了最基层的执法机构,将其人员编制、经费、职能等均纳入县环保部门统一管理,探索出一条建立乡镇环境管理长效机制的必由之路,进而从根本上实现了维护环境安全、保障群众环境权益的预期。     

盛世六十年 安徽环保的发展与变迁：百姓眼中的环保——吴功胜：厨房越来越洁净了

六十年风雨兼程,六十年坎坷艰辛,六十年腾飞发展,六十年光辉足迹。 抚昔追今．在几代人不懈努力下,中国环境保护经历了从小到大、由弱到强的发展历程。时值共和国六十华诞来临之际,本刊特邀几位安微环境保护的参与者和见证者．共同回忆和叙述了60年来环保事业的发展与变迁,畅谈环境保护事业的辉煌成就。     

西双版纳童话：世界最大妇科手术挽救亚洲象

能想到,动物界也有强暴行为存在？一头亚洲象就遭遇了这样的经历,并身受重伤。一群爱心人士发挥专业技能,为这头成年野象实施了有医学记录以来世界上最大的妇科手术,成功挽救了大象的生命。     

大爱菜子湖:协会发动社区共建候鸟天堂

2012年12月26日,记者来到位于安庆市宜秀区罗岭镇姥山村的菜子湖,在安庆市菜子湖湿地生态旅游协会理事长王三益带领下,扛上带支架的高倍远视镜,深入菜子湖候鸟栖息核心区域观鸟。鸟类天堂叹为观止伴着冬日暖阳向湖心进发,在泛着淡淡鱼腥和芳草幽香的阵阵清风吹拂下,踏在广袤肥沃富含水分的湿地     

洞庭湖区生态环境的问题与治理对策

在广泛、深入调查的基础上,分析了洞庭湖区生态环境的主要问题,并提出了治理对策。     

Shifting Priorities at the Department of Energy's Bomb Factories: Protecting Human and Ecological Health

More than 50 years of research, development, manufacture, and testing of nuclear weapons at Department of Energy (DOE) sites has left a legacy of on-site contamination that often spreads to surrounding areas. Despite substantial cleanup budgets in the last decade, the DOE's top-to-bottom review team concluded that relatively little actual cleanup has been accomplished, although milestones have been met and work packages completed. Rather than solely use regulatory constraints to direct cleanup, many people have suggested that human and ecological health should guide long-term stewardship goals of DOE-managed sites. The main questions are how ecological and human health considerations should be applied in deciding the extent of cleanup that contaminated sites should receive and how near-term and longer run considerations of costs and benefits should be balanced as cleanup decisions are made. One effort to protect ecological integrity is the designation of the largest sites as National Environmental Research Parks (NERPs). Recently, the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) suggested isolating and conserving DOE sites as a policy priority because of their rich ecological diversity. A more effective long-term stewardship approach for former nuclear weapons complex sites may emerge if the guiding principles are to (1) reduce risks to human and ecological health, (2) protect cultural traditions, and (3) lower short- and long-term cleanup and remediation costs. A “net benefits” perspective that takes both near- and longer-term costs and consequences into account can help illuminate the trade-offs between expensive cleanup in the near term and the need to assure long-term protection of human health, cultural values, and high levels of biodiversity and ecological integrity that currently exist at many DOE sites.     

青海湖生态环境恶化现状及原因分析

文章通过立足青海湖流域生态现状实地考察及相关资料的研究,阐述了湖区生态环境恶化的趋势,通过综合分析得出湖区生态环境恶化的原因是由气候、人为活动等因素共同作用的结果。其中气候暖干化是引起湖水下降、湿地萎缩的主要因素;人为活动则是引起草场退化、土地沙化以及生物多样性遭破坏的主要因素。     

徽文化对发展"两山一湖"旅游区的影响

通过个案比较分析了“两山一湖”旅游区的旅游经济效益,探讨了“两山一湖”旅游区徽文化现存旅游资源区域效应,由此得出了“两山一湖”旅游区文化资源丰富但未充分开发,目前处于旅游资源优势与经济效益劣势共存的结论。最后阐述了充分开发徽文化旅游资源对“两山一湖”旅游区旅游业发展的积极作用。     

基于污染物来源的洞庭湖水环境生态补偿主客体研究

生态补偿主客体研究是制定及实施生态补偿政策的核心要素之一。本研究从系统分析的角度出发,基于2014年洞庭湖主要入湖河流水质、水量情况,核算了主要入湖河流总氮、总磷通量,并结合2014年洞庭湖生态经济区污染物排放情况,详细分析了洞庭湖总氮、总磷的来源,以此为依据界定了洞庭湖水环境生态补偿的主体与客体。结果显示,洞庭湖水体中总氮、总磷的贡献以洞庭湖生态经济区之外地区,通过四水、三口排入洞庭湖为主。基于此,本研究建议洞庭湖水环境生态补偿的主体省级层面应为湖南省和湖北省,而省外层面则为国家作为补偿主体对洞庭湖生态经济区进行补偿。     

“三线一单”对重构环境准入体系的意义及关键环节

“放管服”背景下以环评为核心的环境准入体系面临工作周期长、制度效率低、结论可验证性差、社会认可度不高等诸多挑战。本文针对“三线一单”具有的早期介入和共享区域基础信息的工作特征,认为将“三线一单”纳入环境准入体系后可以更好地发挥系统性预防作用,提升政府的决策能力和环评工作效率,实现环境准入体系的高质量和高效率。在重构环境准入体系方面,提出了“三线一单”与规划环评和项目环评制度衔接的关键环节:明确三项制度不同的职责定位和责任主体、厘清三项制度的衔接环节,以及完善三项制度间的信息交互。     

Home energy efficiency grants and advice: findings from the English Midlands

Research was conducted in Nottinghamshire, England to investigate public attitudes regarding home energy efficiency issues. Quantitative data were collected in the form of a postal survey, achieving over three hundred responses. Additionally, predominantly qualitative data were collected in semi-structured interviews in 15 homes. The issues investigated included the grant-funded energy efficiency measures installed by the public, the organisations providing grants, the means by which the recipients were referred to the organisations, and the public's preferences regarding energy efficiency advice. Findings were made about the local authority's success in encouraging the take-up of energy efficiency grants, about the public's preferences for the means by which advice should be provided, about trust relating to energy efficiency grants provided by gas and electricity suppliers, and about people's knowledge of the most effective energy efficiency measures. Additional findings were drawn about specific energy efficiency issues, including old heating systems and compact fluorescent light bulbs.     

Sustaining appearances: sustainable development and the fisheries of Lake Victoria

The fisheries of Lake Victoria have undergone a major transformation over the last three decades. The character of the lake has been subject to the influence of many powerful factors including: substantial increases in fishing effort; growing integration into the global fish market; acceleration of anthropogenic activities in the catchment area; demographic change; the influence of adverse shifts in the climate; and introduction of exotic plant and animal species. The task of managing the lake's resources, therefore, has never been more daunting. This article argues that, in most cases, the authorities charged with achieving the goal of sustainable development for the fishery, have failed to address the symptoms—let alone the origins—of the current unsustainable tendencies embedded in the social, economic and political fabric of Lake Victoria's riparian States. It is these factors that directly impinge upon the success of management initiatives for the lake. The article argues that if sustainable development is to be achieved, then stakeholders must act in concert, eliminate unsustainable practices and reprogramme development plans to focus on realistic goals. A possible way forward will be to develop a participatory management system.