Winners and Losers in a World with Global Warming: Noncooperation, Altruism, and Social Welfare

In this paper, global warming is an asymmetric transboundary externality which benefits some countries or regions and harms others. We use a simple two-country model to analyze the effects of global warming on resource allocations, the global-warming stock, and national and global welfare.     

The relevance of James Lovelock’s research and philosophy to environmental science and academia

James E. Lovelock, famed for his Gaia hypothesis, which views the Earth as a living integrated and interconnected self-regulating system whose equilibrium comes about from complex energy-based interactions and feedback loops, ultimately sustaining life, passed away at the end of July, 2022 at the age of 103. Not only are the adaptive mechanisms of Gaia central to the conversation of environmental homeostasis, they lie at the heart of climate change and global warming. Lovelock is also remembered as the co-inventor of the electron capture detector that eventually allowed for the sensitive detection of chlorofluorocarbons and pesticides. Finally, Lovelock’s free-spirited nature and research independence allow academia to rethink current research’s modus operandi.     

吡啶和苯酚为碳源短程反硝化动力学研究

以吡啶和苯酚共基质作为电子供体,通过摇床实验分别研究了吡啶与苯酚共基质条件下的降解特性以及以NO₂^--N为电子受体的短程反硝化动力学方程.结果表明,苯酚对吡啶有抑制作用,且不论单基质还是与苯酚共基质,吡啶的降解均呈零级反应.其次,采用双底物Monod微分方程对COD、NO₂^--N的浓度变化进行拟合,拟合曲线与实验测定值相关性良好,得到动力学参数:NO₂^--N最大比降解速率为0.0066mg NO₂^--N/(mgMLVSS·h),有机物半饱和常数为76.35 mg/L, NO₂^--N半饱和常数为0.66 mg/L.     

东海海域表层沉积物中硫酸盐还原菌分布特征研究

利用2011年4、7、8和10月对东海海域4个航次的调查资料,以表层沉积物中硫酸盐还原菌（SRB）为研究对象,针对于SRB所共有的异化型亚硫酸盐还原酶（DSR）中的β亚基基因（dsrB）,通过荧光定量PCR技术对SRB丰度的时空分布特征进行了描述.结果表明,SRB丰度变化范围为1.87×105~4.69×10⁸cells/g,平均值为1.15×10⁸cells/g,且4月SRB丰度最低,7月SRB丰度最高;SRB数量在总细菌中的比例介于0.0039%~1.6176%之间,说明SRB在东海表层沉积物的细菌总量中比例很小;SRB丰度的水平分布特征整体表现为南部海域高于北部海域,长江口及浙闽沿岸泥质区高于非泥质区.此外,SRB丰度与环境因子的相关性分析表明,温度和溶解氧是影响SRB丰度的重要因素.     

Vertical growth in a coastal city: an analysis of Boa Viagem (Recife,Brazil)

Coastal zones around the world have experienced urban growth in the last 50 years. This landscape change brings new aspects for those zones and the environment. Real estate speculation is a decisive factor that changes landscape, with urban growth that occurs both in the extent and volume of construction. Boa Viagem (BV) beach at Recife, Northeast Brazil was just a sand bar covered by an Atlantic Forest until middle of the 1800s. Today, it has turned into a busy area of the city where residences, services and commerce co-exist in a densely packed arrangement. This work demonstrates and analyses vertical growth in BV and urban changes from 1961 to 2011. It was developed using digital image processing and visual analysis of satellite imagery and aerial photos. A GIS was created using SPRING and ArcScene, to calculate variations in area and volume creating a Volumetric Index (VI). The Minimal Mapping Area was used in sixteen census tract as samples of the area. Occupation and vertical growth were especially accentuated from 1981 to 1996 with the peak at 2011. Increases in vertical growth from shore to inland are evident in all parts of the district. This finding was confirmed by three-dimensional GIS representations of the study area and the VI during the period of this work, showing the potential of 3D GIS models for studying dense urbanization areas in coastal zones.     

闸控河段水质多相转化模型

针对闸控河段水质转化机理复杂的特点,提出在“水体-悬浮物-底泥-生物体”界面内开展水质多相转化研究的总体思路,推导了描述各种相态水质之间传质过程的数学表达式,构建了具有一定物理机制的闸控河段水质多相转化模型.结合槐店闸调度影响实验数据,对水质多相转化模型进行了参数识别和验证,进而模拟了不同相态水质成分的时空变化过程.结果发现:来水流量和闸门调度方式使闸上和闸下断面各相水质浓度发生变化,同时影响到藻类的生长和富集状态;闸门调度会改变闸上、闸下河段的水质主导反应机制;由于闸门调度增加了对水体的扰动,水体与外界的物质交换效果增强;在实验前期蓝藻数量的变化主要受水流的迁移作用影响,在后期闸上断面主要受闸门阻隔的影响,闸下断面主要受流速、流量和营养物质浓度改变等作用综合影响.     

典型工业无组织源VOCs排放特征

选取制药厂、酿酒厂和橡胶厂分析了不同工艺过程VOCs排放特征.结果表明,制药厂安乃近合成和氨基比林合成的VOCs排放以苯、甲苯和苯乙烯等苯系物为主,乙酰氨基酚合成的VOCs排放主要以C4～C6的烷烃为主,酿酒厂和橡胶厂VOCs排放均以甲苯、乙苯和间,对二甲苯为主.采用最大增量反应活性法对臭氧生成潜势进行分析,制药厂安乃近合成和氨基比林合成VOCs单位臭氧生成潜势以苯、甲苯等苯系物为主;乙酰氨基酚合成以顺-2-丁烯、甲苯和异戊烷为主;酿酒厂、橡胶厂以甲苯、乙苯、间,对二甲苯为主.同时采用阈稀释倍数对VOCs进行恶臭分析,制药厂和酒厂无组织排放VOCs恶臭污染程度较轻,橡胶厂的伸缩装置车间和硫化车间的无组织VOCs排放存在一定程度的恶臭污染.     

Alterations in some renal parameters of rats induced by aqueous soil extracts

Soil ingestion can be an important route of exposure to contaminants present in the environment. This study examined the effects of exposure to contaminants in aqueous soil extracts from an industrial urban settlement in renal biochemical parameters of treated rats. Male Wistar rats were gavaged with an aqueous soil extract, from the municipality of Rio Grande, Southern Brazil. After exposure, plasma and urine concentrations and plasma protein were assessed compared to rats treated with aqueous soil from relatively unpolluted site (control soil). There was increase in plasma creatinine and total protein in urine, and a decreased glomerular filtration rate in treated rats compared to control. It is possible that Cd, Cr, As, Cu, Pb, Zn, and Ni analyzed in the soil samples and unidentified components may have provoked the observed changes in renal biochemistry of the exposed rat. This may suggest that exposure to contaminated soils can cause damage to the viscera in mammals and it is of public health importance.     

Preliminary toxicity evaluation of water from rice fields using cost‐effective microbiotests

A study was performed in a Protected Area (Natural Reserve of Sado Estuary) in 1996, to evaluate the acute toxicity for aquatic life of surface water from rice fields treated with pesticides, particularly with molinate and quinclorac. As a preliminary assessment, the following rapid toxicity tests were used: “Rotoxkit F”;, “Thamnotoxkit F”; and the recently introduced “Daphtoxkit F magna”; and “Algaltoxkit F”;. Water samples were collected from: a water source for irrigating the rice fields, two rice plots, a drainage channel and from Sado river in which the water is discharged. The results showed that samples from the rice plot treated with molinate were more toxic than those obtained from rice plot treated with quinclorac. Water samples from the river were the most toxic, causing 100% of immobility in all organisms and a substantial inhibition in the algal growth. Water collected from the drainage channel in late July, was also found to be quite toxic. The results obtained until now indicate that some characteristics of these microbiotests, like their rapidity, simplicity and relatively low cost, make them a practical tool to evaluate acute effects of pesticides in freshwater ecosystems. They may also contribute to suggest some changes in pesticides use to promote agricultural practices with lower impact to aquatic life.     

Variable within-brood maternal provisioning in newly extruded embryos of Homarus gammarus

Offspring quality of decapod crustaceans has been widely studied, with special emphasis on the sources of variability determining embryonic and larval quality. Nevertheless, maternal provisioning has commonly been overlooked as a potential source of offspring within-brood variability. In the present study, the existence of variable maternal provisioning was assessed through the analysis of the fatty acid (FA) profile of newly extruded embryos from different regions of the brooding chamber of Homarus gammarus. Significant differences in the FA profile of embryos sampled from different pleopods and sides of the brooding chamber were recorded. Significant deviations of the overall mean of each surveyed female were also observed for essential FA, particularly 20:4n-6, 20:5n-3 and 22:6n-3. Lipid energy available to fuel embryogenesis also varied among embryos sampled from different regions of the brooding chamber. Results suggest variable female investment at oocyte production, which may be amplified during the incubation period of developing embryos by differential lipid catabolism. For the first time, maternal provisioning is evidenced as an additional source for within-brood variability in the FA profile of embryos.