Using Risk-Based Analysis and Geographic Information Systems to Assess Flooding Problems in an Urban Watershed in Rhode Island

This article provides an overview of the use of risk-based analysis (RBA) in flood damage assessment, and it illustrates the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in identifying flood-prone areas, which can aid in flood-mitigation planning assistance. We use RBA to calculate expected annual flood damages in an urban watershed in the state of Rhode Island, USA. The method accounts for the uncertainty in the three primary relationships used in computing flood damage: (1) the probability that a given flood will produce a given amount of floodwater, (2) the probability that a given amount of floodwater will reach a certain stage or height, and (3) the probability that a certain stage of floodwater will produce a given amount of damage. A greater than 50% increase in expected annual flood damage is estimated for the future if previous development patterns continue and flood-mitigation measures are not taken. GIS is then used to create a map that shows where and how often floods might occur in the future, which can help (1) identify priority areas for flood-mitigation planning assistance and (2) disseminate information to public officials and other decision-makers.     

适合我国环境数据的元数据管理系统的设计与开发

通过元数据整合和管理现有环境数据是环境信息共享的重要内容。在对元数据的组织结构及我国环境数据内容、特点分析的基础上，对元数据管理系统的模块、流程、编码规则、核心数据库设计等进行了详细论述，并进行了实际开发。系统的应用有利于我国环境信息共享工作的进一步深入。     

环境监测管理信息平台的开发与应用研究

针对环境监测管理信息平台的开发与应用,介绍了环境监测管理信息平台和开发,探讨了环境监测信息平台的主要功能,主要包括环境监测的人员管理、仪器设备管理、标准物质管理和质控管理,介绍了环境监测信息平台系统的特点,主要是环境监测的信息收集和利用、智能化预警机制、方便的信息查询,提出了环境监测平台实施中的探讨,如环境监测的前期设计和沟通、数据初始化和数据动态更新.     

GIS和环境管理信息系统建设

结合地理信息系统的环境管理信息系统结构和功能形式，以贵阳市的大气环境管理信息系统建设为例，具体阐述了GIS基本功能应用，分析认为，深入结合地理信息系统与环境模型，才能促进环境管理信息系统向“决策支持”型和“专家”型方向发展，同时，环境信息的收集方式、共享程度和二次开发深度也将受到深刻的影响。     

基于灰水足迹和熵值法的苏锡常地区水敏感性行业识别

水敏感性行业的识别对于行业整治和水环境保护具有重要指导意义.为了识别太湖流域的水敏感性重点行业,为进一步开展行业整治提供参考,基于全国排污许可证管理信息平台提供的企业排污数据,运用灰水足迹及其熵值法改进的核算方法,对太湖流域苏州、无锡、常州（苏锡常）三市主要制造业的污染物排放数据进行分析,结果表明：①在不同方法产生的排序结果中,纺织业的水敏感性始终占据第一位;②除纺织业外,还应重点关注以下几个水敏感性行业：化学原料和化学制品制造业、金属制品业以及造纸和纸制品业;③常州的黑色金属冶炼和压延加工业是其特色行业.对比于其他文献对于太湖流域重点行业的定义,本研究的排序结果比较相近,证明了方法的有效性.     

山东省人口重心迁移研究

采用人口重心模型,在GIS技术支持下着重对1989-2005年山东省人口重心迁移特征进行了研究,并在此基础上分析人口重心迁移的主要影响因素。结果显示,山东省人口重心接近几何中心,人口重心自东北向西南方向迁移的趋势明显,其移动轨迹呈现出一定的曲折和波动。山东省人口重心迁移受自然、社会经济和政策等多种因素的影响。     

Environmental information sharing: a means to support the legitimization of oyster farmers’ stewardship over water quality management in NSW,Australia

Oyster farmers depend on good water quality. Activities upstream from estuaries result in externalities that impact water quality. Over the last 10 years, oyster farmers have been developing estuary‐wide environmental management systems ( EMSs ) to tackle internal (i.e. industry‐related) and external (i.e. catchment) issues in N ew S outh W ales, A ustralia. Drawing on interview‐based research and document analyses, this paper shows that the process of creating an EMS for the oyster industry, as well as the creation of the EMS itself, resulted in legitimizing the industry's stewardship over the natural resource it depends on (water). For the oyster industry, this result was due to a change in the scale on which EMSs have been developed: instead of viewing issues at the individual business level, the systems expanded their viewpoint to the entire catchment, and included every oyster business in the estuary, as well as all other activities in the upper catchment. By providing a means of communicating internal efforts and with the support of local government bodies, EMSs provided a mechanism with which influence over upstream actors and activities could be exerted. We demonstrate this by using the ‘social‐ecological systems’ and ‘ ENCORE ’ frameworks, emphasizing the transitions that allowed for this change of scale to take place.     

The Great Lakes Hydrography Dataset: Consistent,Binational Watersheds for the Laurentian Great Lakes Basin

Ecosystem‐based management of the Laurentian Great Lakes, which spans both the United States and Canada, is hampered by the lack of consistent binational watersheds for the entire Basin. Using comparable data sources and consistent methods, we developed spatially equivalent watershed boundaries for the binational extent of the Basin to create the Great Lakes Hydrography Dataset (GLHD). The GLHD consists of 5,589 watersheds for the entire Basin, covering a total area of approximately 547,967 km², or about twice the 247,003 km² surface water area of the Great Lakes. The GLHD improves upon existing watershed efforts by delineating watersheds for the entire Basin using consistent methods; enhancing the precision of watershed delineation using recently developed flow direction grids that have been hydrologically enforced and vetted by provincial and federal water resource agencies; and increasing the accuracy of watershed boundaries by enforcing embayments, delineating watersheds on islands, and delineating watersheds for all tributaries draining to connecting channels. In addition, the GLHD is packaged in a publically available geodatabase that includes synthetic stream networks, reach catchments, watershed boundaries, a broad set of attribute data for each tributary, and metadata documenting methodology. The GLHD provides a common set of watersheds and associated hydrography data for the Basin that will enhance binational efforts to protect and restore the Great Lakes.     

国际互联网在环境科研中的应用

针对环境科研工作者 ,介绍了在互联网上能够获得哪些与环境科研有关的资源及如何获得所需要的资料 ,使互联网能够更好地服务于我们的科研工作。     

多源环境监测信息交换模型的设计与实现

针对环境监测系统现有的污染源管理、饮用水管理、噪声管理、自动监测管理等信息系统存在异构化、多源化等现象,造成数据重复录入、数据不一致、资源浪费等问题,展示了一种数据交换模型的设计思路和实现方法,介绍模型的数据抽取、数据封装、数据传递、数据解析、数据映射、校验和转换、数据接收等多个环节。该数据交换模型已成功实现与多个外部业务系统数据对接,现每天采集的数据超过5 000条,系统运行稳定、性能良好。