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From subsistence farming towards a multifunctional agriculture: sustainability in the Chinese rural reality 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Prändl-Zika V 《Journal of environmental management》2008,87(2):236-248
The rural economic situation in China-with a living standard mostly at subsistence level-lags far behind the prosperous development in the cities and coastal areas. To balance this disequilibrium, comprehensive concepts and endeavors are necessary keeping in view all-not just economic-interests and needs that contribute to lively rural identities. In this context the role of agriculture, where still 50% of the Chinese population are working, will be newly defined, and sustainability concepts can help to find a readjusted position within the Chinese economy focusing on environmental health and food safety as main targets of political and other supporting measures. Within the SUCCESS project, a Concept of Sustainable Agriculture was developed and it drafts one conceivable relation between the exposure to natural resources and economy and tries to find new answers to the broad range of rural challenges in China. It is a qualitative model and, therefore, not always fully applicable, but in the concrete situation of villages, it shows possible directions of sustainability-oriented development by considering the typical local potentials. In the Chinese context that means identifying the different functions of agriculture-the well-known and the hidden-to make them explicit for the Chinese public and therewith to give them new significance. The article is based on a 3-years study within the EU-China Project SUCCESS with field research in four Chinese rural communities. It analyzes the agricultural sustainability potential of these selected villages against the background of massive structural changes within the next 20 years in rural China. Starting from the current agricultural reality, based on a qualitative analysis of the actual situation, local potentials and needs towards sustainable production and marketing are identified, and possible functions of the Chinese agriculture are formulated for the future. 相似文献
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PROBLEM: In the United States, teenage drivers have a higher crash risk and lower observed seat belt use than other age groups. METHOD: Seat belt use was examined for teenage (16-19 years) drivers who were fatally injured in traffic crashes occurring in the United States during the years 1995-2000. Vehicle, driver, and crash factors potentially related to belt use were examined. State differences in belt use rates among fatally injured teenage drivers were related to states' observed belt use rates for all ages and other state-level variables. RESULTS: During 1995-2000, mean belt use was 36% among fatally injured teenage drivers and 23% among fatally injured teenage passengers. One of the strongest predictors of higher belt use for both drivers and passengers was whether the crash occurred in a state with a primary seat belt law. Belt use rates for 1995-2000 for fatally injured teenage drivers ranged from 20% or less in six states to more than 60% in two states. States with the highest use rates were those with strong primary belt use laws and those with high rates of observed belt use for all ages. Lower belt use among fatally injured teenage drivers was associated with increasing age; male drivers; drivers of SUVs, vans, or pickup trucks rather than cars; older vehicles; crashes occurring late at night; crashes occurring on rural roadways; single vehicle crashes; and drivers with BACs of 0.10 or higher. Teenage driver belt use declined as the number of teenage passengers increased, but increased in the presence of at least one passenger 30 years or older. IMPACT ON TRAFFIC SAFETY: It is suggested that to increase teenage belt use, states should enact strong primary belt use laws and mount highly publicized efforts to enforce these laws. Graduated driver licensing systems should incorporate strong provisions that require seat belt use by teenage drivers and passengers. 相似文献
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Veronika Bókony László Zsolt Garamszegi Katharina Hirschenhauser András Liker 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2008,62(8):1229-1238
Despite the functional significance of melanin-based plumage coloration in social and sexual signaling, the mechanisms controlling
its information content are poorly understood. The T-regulation hypothesis proposes that melanin ornaments signal competitive
abilities via the effects of testosterone (T) mediating both melanization and sexual/aggressive behaviors. Using the phylogenetic
comparative approach, we tested whether frontal black melanization is associated with elevated T around the time of breeding
plumage development across all bird species with available T-data. We found a context-dependent relationship between melanization
and T, varying with the type of ornamentation (patchy or full-black) and with the presumed taxonomic distribution of the hormonal
control of plumage dichromatism. Within two taxa in which male plumage development is assumed androgen-dependent (Charadriiformes,
Corvida), evolutionary increases in male melanization, and melanin dichromatism correlated with increases in T in most analyses
but not within the basal lineage (ratites, Galloanseriformes) with androgen-independent male plumage. Among Passeroidea with
presumably genetically or luteinizing-hormone-based male plumage, melanization and its dichromatism correlated with T only
in species with <100% frontal melanization. These results were robust as we controlled for several confounding variables such
as mating and parental behaviors. This study is the first to test and support the T-regulation hypothesis interspecifically,
suggesting that among-species differences in melanization may have evolved in response to differences in circulating T in
certain avian taxa. Our results imply that the extent of black ornamentation may serve as an honest indicator of male competitiveness
in those species that evolved an appropriate hormonal basis (T dependence) for color production.
Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. 相似文献
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Veronika Dornburg Gregg Marland 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2008,13(3):211-217
Kirschbaum (Mitig Adapt Strat Glob Change 11:1151–1164, 2006) explores the climatic impact over time of temporarily sequestering carbon from the atmosphere. He concludes that temporary
storage of carbon in the terrestrial biosphere “achieves effectively no climate-change mitigation”. His strongly worded statement
begs for a response. This paper argues that Kirschbaum’s conclusion is an artifact of the specific perspective of his analysis
and his choice of a definition for climate-change impact. Even temporary sinks put us on a lower path for climate change,
a path that will not otherwise be accessible. For carbon sinks in the terrestrial biosphere, we argue that sooner is better
and longer is better, but even known temporary sinks have value.
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Gregg Marland (Corresponding author)Email: |
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Veronika Gyuricza 《Journal of environmental radioactivity》2010,101(8):591-596
The role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) in plant radiocesium uptake and accumulation remains ambiguous. This is probably due to the presence of other soil microorganisms, the variability of soil characteristics and plant nutritional status or the availability of its chemical analogue, potassium (K). Here, we used an in vitro culture system to study the impact of increased concentration of K on radiocesium accumulation in non K-starved mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal Medicago truncatula plants. In the presence of AMF radiocesium uptake decreased regardless of the concentration of K, and its translocation from root to shoot was also significantly lower. Potassium also reduced the accumulation of radiocesium in plants but to a lesser extent than mycorrhization, and without any effect on translocation. These results suggest that AMF in combination with K can play a key role in reducing radiocesium uptake and its subsequent translocation to plant shoots, thereby representing good potential for improved phytomanagement of contaminated areas. 相似文献
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Sustainable regional development as a politically requested concept challenges regions within the European Union since the Amsterdam Treaty 1997. A growing body of literature identifies cooperation between stakeholder groups as one of the limiting factors for implementing sustainable regional strategies. This leads to the question, how cooperation within a region could be organised. How can institutions support the implementation process of sustainable development on the regional level? Regional institutions are both supporters of cooperation between regional stakeholders and key players in regional development processes. Their connections strengthen the importance of networks in the sustainable regional development process. 相似文献
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Simone Gingrich Karl-Heinz Erb Fridolin Krausmann Veronika Gaube Helmut Haberl 《Regional Environmental Change》2007,7(1):37-47
This article presents a comprehensive data set on Austria’s terrestrial carbon stocks from the beginnings of industrialization
in the year 1830 to the present. It is based on extensive historical and recent land use and forestry data derived from primary
sources (cadastral surveys) for the early nineteenth century, official statistics available for later parts of the nineteenth
century as well as the twentieth century, and forest inventory data covering the second half of the twentieth century. Total
carbon stocks—i.e. aboveground and belowground standing crop and soil organic carbon—are calculated for the entire period
and compared to those of potential vegetation. Results suggest that carbon stocks were roughly constant from 1830 to 1880
and have grown considerably from 1880 to 2000, implying that Austria’s vegetation has acted as a carbon sink since the late
nineteenth century. Carbon stocks increased by 20% from approximately 1.0 GtC in 1830 and 1880 to approximately 1.2 GtC in
the year 2000, a value still much lower than the amount of carbon terrestrial ecosystems are expected to contain in the absence
of land use: According to calculations presented in this article, potential vegetation would contain some 2.0 GtC or 162%
of the present terrestrial carbon stock, suggesting that the recent carbon sink results from a recovery of biota from intensive
use in the past. These findings are in line with the forest transition hypothesis which claims that forest areas are growing
in industrialized countries. Growth in forest area and rising carbon stocks per unit area of forests both contribute to the
carbon sink. We discuss the hypothesis that the carbon sink is mainly caused by the shift from area-dependent energy sources
(biomass) in agrarian societies to the largely area-independent energy system of industrial societies based above all on fossil
fuels. 相似文献
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