完达山地区药用植物资源调查与开发利用

通过对完达山地区进行长期调查发展,该地区共有药用植物资源80科224种,并以植物分类学进行了统计,提出了合理开发利用药用植物的建议,为研究和合理利用完达山地区药用植物资源提供了基础材料。     

药用植物资源生态研究进展

药用植物资源生态研究目前主要集中在中药材资源现状及道地性、濒危药用植物生态和保护生物学、药用植物人工栽培及连作问题等方面,而对于药用植物与环境之间相互作用的机理和定量研究报道相对较少。药用植物资源生态学主要有两个发展趋势,其一是多学科理论和技术方法广泛用于药用植物资源调查和管理,以解决药用植物资源分布、蕴藏量估算、区划等问题;其二是环境污染、土地利用变化和气候变化背景下,药用植物的人工规范化栽培技术、药材产品质量控制和野生药用资源植物保护与永续利用的理论与方法研究,实现中医药和民族医药的健康发展和生物多样性保护。     

重庆华蓥山山脉菝葜属药用植物资源调查

经调查鉴定,重庆华蓥山山脉有菝葜属药用植物7种,其中菝葜、小叶菝葜、光叶菝葜分布最广.重点介绍了它们的医疗用途、地理分布、资源状况及其开发前景,为更好地开发利用华蓥山山脉菝葜属药用植物资源提供科学依据.     

羌族地区珍稀名贵,濒危和特有药用植物研究

本文在调查羌族地区民间医药的基础上，对羌族地区的珍稀名贵，濒危和特有药用植物资源进行了调查研究，结果得出该地区有中国珍稀濒危保护药用植物３２种，国家重点保护野生药材１１种，四川省名贵中草药３９种，四川省特有药用植物１０种，并重点论述了它们的生境分布，特点及其药用价值，其研究结果为该地区珍稀名贵，濒危和物有药用植物资源的保护，管理和开发利用研究提供了科学依据。     

江西野生药用植物资源

笔者通过多年调查研究,初步统计了江西药用维管植物约有2400种,隶属166科665属,并分析了各属的区系成分。根据药用植物的用途和药用价值,将它们分成5类,即中草药植物、兽用药用植物、土农药植物、观赏药用植物和珍稀濒危药用植物。分别叙述了各类药用植物的主要种类,为江西药用植物资源合理利用与保护提供了有关科学依据。     

江西野生药用植物资源

笔者通过多年调查研究，初步统计了江西药用维管植物约有２４００种，隶属１６６科６６５属，并分析了各属的区系成分。根据药用植物的用途和药用价值，将它们分成５类，即中草药植物，兽用药用植物、土农药植物、观赏药用植物和珍稀濒危药用植物。分别叙述了各类药用植物的主要种类，为江西药用植物资源合理利用与保护提供了有关科学依据。     

重庆三峡库区重楼属药用植物资源调查

经调查鉴定,重庆三峡库区有重楼属药用植物6种9变种,其中以巫溪分布的种类最多,华重楼、七叶一枝花分布最广。重点介绍了它们的地理分布、资源状况及其开发前景,为更好地开发利用三峡库区重楼属药用植物资源提供科学依据。     

重庆华蓥山山脉菝葜属药甩植物资源调查

经调查鉴定,重庆华蓥山山脉有菝葜属药用植物7种,其中菝葜、小叶菝葜、光叶菝葜分布最广。重点介绍了它们的医疗用途、地理分布、资源状况及其开发前景,为更好地开发利用华蓥山山脉菝葜属药用植物资源提供科学依据。     

重庆华蓥山山脉药用植物资源调查研究

通过野外考察、标本采集、资料查阅整理及标本鉴定,对重庆华蓥山山山脉药用植物资源进行了调查.结果表明,重庆华蓥山共有药用植物240科1017属2251种(含变种和亚种),其中地衣植物5科8属11种、苔藓植物23科30属36种、蕨类植物40科82属190种、裸子植物9科17属25种、被子植物163科880属1989种.对其种类组成、分布、药用部位、疗效等进行了统计分析,对民间习用药物做了简要介绍,并对其开发利用提出了建议.     

大娄山山脉药用植物资源调查研究

通过野外考察、标本采集、资料查阅整理及标本鉴定，对大娄山山脉药用植物资源进行了调查。结果表明，大娄山共有药用植物288科1492属5229种（含变种和亚种），其中地衣植物9科12属27种、苔藓植物46科99属206种、蕨类植物47科113属506种、裸子植物9科27属50种、被子植物177科1241属4440种。对其种类组成、分布、药用部位、疗效等进行了统计分析，对珍稀药用植物和民间习用药物进行了简要介绍，并对其开发利用提出了建议。     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

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。     

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.