Enhancing capacity building to climate adaptation and water conservation among Chinese young people

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Capacity development has been regarded as one of many measures to empower the abilities of nations to adapt to a changing climate. Promoting public...     

Sources of 24-h personal exposure to PM2.5-bound metals: results from a panel study in Wuhan,China

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - Atmospheric PM2.5-bound metals have been widely addressed, but research on the exposure levels and sources of personal PM2.5-bound metals among urban...     

Elites, climate change and agency in a developing society: the Chilean case

Faced with global climate change, local elites are confronted with the main dilemma of a developing country: development requires economic growth, but this effort also requires consideration of environmental factors and sustainable patterns of production and consumption. Based on empirical evidence from qualitative research on businesses and political elites in Chile—a paradigmatic South American middle-income country—this paper explores the extent to which local elites are aware of the severity of challenges posed by global climate change and identify main climate change concerns in their discourse. The degree to which domestic elites are aware of the paradigm shift they must assume toward clean industrial production is a key issue of environmental governance that involves private non-governmental actors. This paper gives clues to a better understanding of what is happening with strategic actors in developing nations and their understanding of their decision-making capacity concerning environmental policy and investments for facing global climate change. The main conclusion of the research is that awareness of climate change in local elites’ discourse is relative. It is not accompanied by a full acceptance of their agency and is not leading to a paradigm shift toward a clean model of development because of domestic elites’ position within globalization processes.     

欧盟新技术法规(EU168/2013)中功能安全及增强功能安全的分析

欧盟2013年1月15日发布关于摩托车的新技术法规(EU 168/2013).EU 168/2013主要涉及两轮或三轮车辆和四轮车批准和市场监督.提高车辆的安全性,将车辆装备或技术引入技术法规,功能安全及增强功能安全是EU 168/2013重点之一.本文对EU 168/2013中功能安全概念、功能安全要求、型式批准为目标功能安全要求、增强功能安全要求进行分析并提出应对方法.     

石油石化突发事件重点应急物资分类与关键属性参数研究

为提高应急物资在各类型突发事件应急救援活动的使用有效性和调度准确性,结合石油石化企业突发事件应急物资现状,以井喷失控、火灾爆炸、水域溢油等7类多发突发事件的116起典型案例为基础,对突发事件发生时,具有跨区域调度需求的重点应急物资进行了分类研究.创建5大类、21中类、66种产品的重点应急物资分类目录,并将重点应急物资类别与多发突发事件类型进行了匹配分析.以企业应急救援工作实际情况为依据,研究建立了包括分类属性、基础属性、存储属性、特性参数、适用条件等5方面信息的重点应急物资数据存储关键属性参数构架,以期为应急物资的科学管理、准确调度、高效实用提供技术支撑.     

Improving watershed decisions using run-off and yield models at different simulation scales

Water managers face the daunting task of balancing limited water resources with over-subscribed water users among competing demands. They face the additional challenge of taking water planning decisions in an uncertain environment with limited and sometimes inaccurate observed and simulated hydrological data. Within South African watersheds, spatial parameterization data for hydrological models are now available at two different basin management resolutions (termed quaternary and quinary). Currently, water management decisions in the Crocodile River watershed are often made at a more coarse resolution, which may exclude crucial insights into the data. This research has the following aims (1) to explore whether model performance is improved by parameterization using a more detailed quinary-scale watershed data and (2) to explore whether quinary-scale models reduce uncertainty in allocation or restriction decisions to provide better informed water resources management and decision outcomes. This study used the Agricultural Catchments Research Unit (ACRU) agro-hydrological watershed model, to evaluate the effects of spatial discretization at the quaternary and quinary scales on watershed hydrological response and runoff within the Crocodile River basin. Model performance was evaluated using statistical comparisons of results using traditional goodness-of-fit measures such as the coefficient of efficiency (C _eff), root mean square of the error and the coefficient of determination (R ²) to compare simulated monthly flows and observed flows in six subcatchments. Traditional interpretation of these goodness-of-fit measures may be inadequate as they can be subjectively interpreted and easily influenced by the number of data points, outliers and model bias. This research utilizes a recently released model evaluation program (FITEVAL) which presents probability distributions of R ²and C _eff derived by bootstrapping, graphical representation of observed and simulated stream flows, incorporates statistical significance to detect the sufficiency of the R ²and C _eff and determines the presence of outliers and bias. While analyses indicate that the ACRU model performs marginally better when parameterized and calibrated at the quinary scale, the measurements at both scales show significant variability in predictions for both high and low flows that are endemic to southern African hydrology. The improved evaluation methods also allow for the analysis of data collection errors at monitoring sites and help determine the effect of data quality on adaptive water planning management decisions. Given that many water resource challenges are complex adaptive systems, these expanded performance analysis tools help provide deeper insights into matching watershed decision metrics and model-derived predictions.     

水样中亚铁及总铁含量连续测定方法探讨

文章研究了在同一样品溶液中连续测定亚铁和总铁的分析方法,对同一标准样品溶液和实际样品进行了单独测定亚铁和总铁含量的实验,同时在完成亚铁含量测定后加入试剂,进行了总铁含量的连续测定,并对实验数据进行相对误差分析。结果表明:单独和连续测定的总铁含量数据无显著性差异,方法切实可行。     

What people think about the environment and its relationship to their health: perceptions of health at different scales of environment in Hamilton,Ontario

This study examines lay perceptions of the environment and its perceived relation to health at three scales: the environment at large, the neighbourhood, and the home. Interviews were conducted with residents from two contrasting neighbourhoods in the industrial city of Hamilton, Canada. The results reveal variations in perceptions of the environment–health link between residents in the two study neighbourhoods as well as across the different scales. Air pollution and proximity to industry were frequently implicated in lay understandings of the general and neighbourhood environments. In contrast, the home environment was seen as relatively insulated and safe. Furthermore, personal control mechanisms (e.g. cleanliness) were believed to mitigate adverse health impacts in the home and yard while the general environment was seen to be outside of such control. The significance of the findings is discussed in terms of future research and policy relevance.     

Toxicity and behavioral response of zebrafish exposed to combined microplastic and bisphenol analogues

Environmental Chemistry Letters - Microplastics and bisphenol analogues are emerging environmental pollutants widely occurring in freshwaters. Harmful effects of microplastics and bisphenols have...     

Integrated toxicity assessment of DEHP and DBP toward aquatic ecosystem based on multiple trophic model assays

Environmental Science and Pollution Research - To comprehensively understand the toxic risks of phthalates to aquatic ecosystems, we examined the acute toxicity of di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate...