Trees on the move: using decision theory to compensate for climate change at the regional scale in forest social-ecological systems

Regional Environmental Change - The adaptation of social-ecological systems such as managed forests depends largely on decisions taken by forest managers who must choose among a wide range of...     

基于STIRPAT和GM(1,1)模型的湖南省农地投入碳排放增长机理及趋势预测

探索农地投入的碳排放特征、增长机理及趋势预测,并提出减排对策对农业发展向低碳绿色转型具有重要意义。研究采用回归分析法、STIRPAT和GM(1,1)模型解析湖南省农地投入碳排放增长机理并做出趋势预测。结果表明:2000~2014年湖南省农地投入碳排放量呈上升趋势,年均增长率为3.25%,各类碳源中化肥累计的碳排放量最大,其次是农药;此外翻耕、农药、农膜、柴油、灌溉、化肥累计碳排放年均增长量分别为0.68%、3.22%、7.47%、6.42%、2.57%、3.25%。农业人口、人均农业GDP、机械化水平、农业生产效率、农业产业结构显著影响农地碳排放,各因素每发生1%的变动会相应带来农地碳排放量约0.20%、0.95%、0.12%、0.98%和0.93%的变化。通过GM(1,1)模型对2016~2020年湖南省农地投入碳排放量进行预测,碳排放量呈持续上升趋势,2020年预计达到430.43万t。最后根据研究结果提出促进农地投入碳减排的政策建议。     

基于GIS与栅格数据的安徽省人居环境自然适宜性测评

科学度量人居环境自然背景的适宜性,有助于合理引导人口分布与流动,促进区域人口、资源环境协调发展。运用GIS技术,以250 m×250 m栅格为基本单元,选取气候、地形、水文、地被、自然灾害等因子,构建人居环境自然适宜性评价模型,定量测评安徽省人居环境自然适宜程度,剖析各类型区的适宜性和限制性。研究表明：安徽省人居环境指数介于33.64～74.58之间,人居环境自然适宜性总体较好,绝大部分地区适宜人类居住,适宜性在空间上大体呈现南高北低的态势,与现有人口分布格局相反。一般适宜区面积最广,占安徽省总面积的46.08%;比较适宜区次之,占31.29%;高度适宜区占22.54%;临界适宜区面积最小,仅占0.08%。安徽省近61.16%的人口分布在一般适宜区,高度适宜区与比较适宜区人口所占比例不足40%,临界适宜区人口极为稀少。地形起伏度和水文指数是造成全省人居环境自然适宜性分异的主要因子,测评结果较为客观地反映了安徽省人居环境的自然本底。全省人口生存与发展的空间较大,人口流动与集聚的适宜范围较广。 关键词： 人居环境;自然适宜性;栅格;GIS;安徽省     

我国东部轻度富营养化湖泊（元荡湖）介形类组成及其生态意义

元荡湖是我国东部平原的一个浅水湖泊,原系淀山湖的一个湖湾,后因芦滩封淤而成,其形成历史短,是探讨动物类群组成与湖泊生态系统演化间关系的理想场所。近年由于人类活动频繁,该湖已处于轻度富营养化状态。研究首次对该湖泊中的介形类进行了研究,共发现9种,它们分别是Cypretta turgida、Cypria kraepelini、Cypridopsis vidua、Cypris subglobosa、Dolerocypria taalensis、Fabaeformiscandona myllaina、F. subacuta、Fabaeformiscandona sp.和Ilyocypris salebrosa。这些介形类均非地方性物种,且都对生态环境有较强的耐受性。结合元荡湖母体湖泊-淀山湖水动力大、无介形类生存的实际情况,研究认为元荡湖中的介形类应由周边迁移而来,且其组成已受到人类活动的干扰。优势度（Y）分析结果也显示,C. kraepelini、F. myllaina、F. subacuta和Fabaeformiscandona sp.共4种出现频率相对较高的介形类中,以富营养化指示物种C. kraepelini的优势度最高。而典型对应分析结果（Canonical correspondence analyses,CCA）发现,自然环境因素水深仍是影响介形类分布的主要环境因子,其次是总氮、叶绿素a、水体透明度和溶解氧。通过分析介形类动物的生活习性和摄食方式发现,元荡湖的介形类分属于底栖动物栖息类型中的游泳型（如C. kraepelini和C. vidua）、攀爬型（如C. subglobosa和C. turgida）和蔓生型(其他5种),其中蔓生型介形类占比最高,达56%,这也解释了为什么在元荡湖这样一个浅水湖泊中水深却成为影响介形类分布的主要环境因素。总结发现,元荡湖中的介形类组成和丰度分布受到湖泊形成时间的长短、自然环境因素和人类干扰等方面的共同影响,这为今后深入开展介形类组成与湖泊演化间的关系提供了理论证据。此外,研究首次报导了F. myllaina在中国的分布。 关键词： 元荡湖;介形类;水深;人为干扰;优势度Y;栖息类型     

The impact of global change on economic values of water for Public Irrigation Schemes at the São Francisco River Basin in Brazil

Economic values of water for the main Public Irrigation Schemes in the sub-middle region of the São Francisco River Basin, in northeastern Brazil, are determined in this study using an integration of a global agro-economic land and water use (MAgPIE) with a local economic model (Positive Mathematical Programming). As in the latter, the water values depend on the crops grown, and as Brazilian agriculture is strongly influenced by the global market, we used a regionalized version of the global model adapted to the region in order to simulate the crop land use, which is in turn determined by changes in global demand, trade barriers, and climate. The allocation of sugarcane and fruit crops projected with climate change by the global model, showed an impact on the average yields and on the water costs in the main schemes resulting in changes in the water values locally. The economic values for all schemes in the baseline year were higher than the water prices established for agricultural use in the basin. In the future, these water values will be higher in all the schemes. The highest water values currently and in the future were identified in municipalities with a significant proportion of area growing irrigated sugarcane. Being aware of current water values of each user in a baseline year and in a projected future under global climate and socioeconomic changes, decision makers should improve water allocation policies at local scale, in order to avoid conflicts and unsustainable development in the future.     

Discerning the factors explaining the change in energy efficiency

Due to the high rates of energy consumption and its impact on environment over the last decades, policy decision-makers are increasingly recognising the need to take actions that allow to address problems associated with the deployment of non-renewable resources and climate changes. One field of action has been the promotion of measures that contribute to improve energy efficiency of countries. The purpose of this study is to identify the main factors explaining changes in energy efficiency applying the multiplicative Log Mean Divisia Index decomposition method for a set of countries (Portugal, UK, Brazil and China) with different socio-economic background and energy mix. The results show that overall energy efficiency trends display different patterns between countries and the same happens within each country from a sectoral perspective. Major drivers of improvements of overall energy efficiency were the intensity effect and the affluence effect, whereas the driver that hampered those improvements was the energy consumption per capita. Some policy implications derived from the results achieved are: policy decision-makers should support measures that promote the adoption of energy-saving technologies resulting from new technological developments; policy measures should be directed to raise awareness of end-users regarding energy efficiency and energy conservation efforts; policy measures promoting economic growth through the development (or expansion) of sectors of activity that consume less energy can also be implemented; finally, policy instruments may also be used to reduce the costs of implementing energy efficiency and energy-saving measures to households and firms.     

Violence in environmental conflicts: the need for a multidimensional approach

Although studies on environmental conflicts have engaged with the subject of violence, a multidimensional approach has been lacking. Using data from 95 environmental conflicts in Central America, we show how different forms of violence appear and overlap. We focus on direct, structural, cultural, slow, and ecological forms of violence. Results suggest that the common understanding of violence in environmental conflicts as a direct event in time and space is only the tip of the iceberg and that violence can reach not only environmental defenders, but also communities, nature, and the sustainability of their relations.     

我国不同区域玉米施肥的生命周期评价

以吉林、陕西、河南、湖南、广西等玉米主产省份为例,以生产1t玉米为评价的功能单元,应用生命周期评价(LCA)方法,比较了不同生态区玉米生产过程中施肥的资源环境影响潜力.结果表明,五省环境影响综合指数大小依次为广西0.315、湖南0.309、河南0.273、陕西0.238、吉林0.183.几种资源环境影响中,潜力大小依次是富营养化、环境酸化、温室效应、土地利用和能源消耗,其中,施用氮肥引起的氨挥发是导致富营养化和酸化的主要原因.农户间玉米施肥的资源环境影响潜力差异很大,环境影响综合指数变异范围在41.2%～81.6%之间,且以湖南省最高,吉林省最低.如果将玉米追肥由撒施都改为穴施,五省的环境影响综合指数将降低8.5%～34.1%.总体而言,在目前生产条件下,吉林省具有资源环境影响较低的优势;富营养化是最主要的环境影响类型,而改进施肥方式、减少氨挥发是降低玉米施肥资源环境影响的关键技术途径.     

Urinary stones as a novel matrix for human biomonitoring of toxic and essential elements

Monitoring of body burden of toxic elements is usually based on analysis of concentration of particular elements in blood, urine and/or hair. Analysis of these matrices, however, predominantly reflects short- or medium-term exposure to trace elements or pollutants. In this work, urinary stones were investigated as a matrix for monitoring long-term exposure to toxic and essential elements. A total of 431 samples of urinary calculi were subjected to mineralogical and elemental analysis by infrared spectroscopy and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The effect of mineralogical composition of the stones and other parameters such as sex, age and geographical location on contents of trace and minor elements is presented. Our results demonstrate the applicability of such approach and confirm that the analysis of urinary calculi can be helpful in providing complementary information on human exposure to trace metals and their excretion. Analysis of whewellite stones (calcium oxalate monohydrate) with content of phosphorus <0.6 % has been proved to be a promising tool for biomonitoring of trace and minor elements.