水污染流域管理的立法思考

针对我国当前环境污染呈现出的区域化、流域化的新趋势，提出了流域（区域）管理的概念，并对水污染流域管理的理论依据，管理原则和管理机构进行了分析，最后提出了水污染流域管理的立法建议。     

日本大气污染防治立法新动向探微

日本的大气污染防治法律制度以达标排放作为基础和核心要求而确立，实行事前申审查和翱翔放申报审查的中报审查制度、总量控制制度与区域控制制度等。     

大气颗粒物对人体健康影响的研究情况

本文对大气粒状污染物的成分、流行病学研究及防治对策进展进行了介绍。     

Examining legal rules to protect children from injuries in recreational and sport activities

Our jurisprudence assigns duties to persons to keep children safe. Under negligence law, a breach of duty causing an accident means the breaching party can be liable for damages inflicted on the injured person. Legislatures are considering new laws that reduce the damages that activity providers will need to pay to injured participants. Under some statutes, injured persons are precluded from maintaining lawsuits. In other cases, injured plaintiffs have a more stringent burden of proving liability. While activity providers may use insurance to pay for accident damages, for some injuries we might hold injured persons responsible. Four suggestions are offered as mechanisms to reduce tort litigation.     

Ecological Compensation in Dutch Highway Planning

The ecological compensation principle was introduced by the Dutch government in 1993. This principle is designed to enhance the input of nature conservation interests in decision-making on large-scale development projects and to counterbalance the ecological impacts of such developments when implemented. This article evaluates the application of the Dutch compensation principle in highway planning. Six current highway projects reveal consistent implementation of this principle, although provincial policies on compensation and a national method for identifying compensation measures are still under development. As the planning process has not yet been completed for all the projects, no general conclusions can be drawn on the impact of the compensation principle on highway decision-making. Nevertheless, several examples show that the principle stimulates project initiators to develop alternative routes or route sections in order to avoid or reduce ecological impacts and the need for coherent compensation measures. If the compensation principle is to be properly implemented in the context of highway planning, particular attention should be paid to the following aspects: (1) sequential assessment of overall project legitimacy and the necessity of intersecting protected areas and compensation measures, (2) the initiator's attempts to avoid and mitigate ecological impacts in developing alternative routes prior to compensation for impacts, and (3) the role of uncertain ecological impacts in identifying compensation measures, especially those concerning habitat isolation.     

The management of household hazardous waste in the United Kingdom

Waste legislation in the United Kingdom (UK) implements European Union (EU) Directives and Regulations. However, the term used to refer to hazardous waste generated in household or municipal situations, household hazardous waste (HHW), does not occur in UK, or EU, legislation. The EU's Hazardous Waste Directive and European Waste Catalogue are the principal legislation influencing HHW, although the waste categories described are difficult to interpret. Other legislation also have impacts on HHW definition and disposal, some of which will alter current HHW disposal practices, leading to a variety of potential consequences. This paper discusses the issues affecting the management of HHW in the UK, including the apparent absence of a HHW-specific regulatory structure. Policy and regulatory measures that influence HHW management before disposal and after disposal are considered, with particular emphasis placed on disposal to landfill.     

电子废弃物现状与回收处理探讨

伴随着电子工业和信息高科技产业的高速发展 ,电子废弃物问题不可避免地摆在了我们的面前。伴随着电子废弃物的越境转移和我国成为世界“电子产品制造基地” ,我国也成为世界上最大的“电子废弃物处理场”。介绍了我国及世界上电子废弃物的现状与处理状况 ,分析了电子废弃物具有的潜在环境污染性与可作为再生资源回收利用的资源性的双重特性 ,探讨了我国电子废弃物回收处理的循环经济之路 ,及其相关的政策、方法和措施等     

法与社会可持续发展

可持续发展是联合国环境与发展大会确立的未来共同发展战略，《中国21世纪议程一中国21世纪人口、环境与发展白皮书》提出了我国的可持续发展战略、对策及行动方案。虽然在环境资源方面我国基本上建立了环境与资源法的法律体系，但尚未将可持续发展作为环境与资源立法的指导思想。因此，修改我国《宪法》《环境保护法》及有关环境与资源的法律法规，并制定统一的《自然资源保护法》《环境污染税法》《环境保护投资法》和《环境与资源教育法》，已成为我国实施可持续发展战略的当务之急。     

电子废弃物回收利用体系建设初探

电子废弃物是目前世界上增长最快的固体废弃物之一,其不合理处置会造成人体健康危害和环境污染,作为一种潜在可回收利用的二次资源,正日益引起人们的高度关注。概述了当前世界上一些发达国家电子废弃物回收利用体系现状,分析了我国目前的相关情况,提出了建设电子废弃物综合回收利用体系对于构建循环经济和和谐社会的必要性与重要性。     

Predictors of restraint use among child occupants

Objectives: The objective of this study was to identify factors that predict restraint use and optimal restraint use among children aged 0 to 13 years.

Methods: The data set is a national sample of police-reported crashes for years 2010–2014 in which type of child restraint is recorded. The data set was supplemented with demographic census data linked by driver ZIP code, as well as a score for the state child restraint law during the year of the crash relative to best practice recommendations for protecting child occupants. Analysis used linear regression techniques.

Results: The main predictor of unrestrained child occupants was the presence of an unrestrained driver. Among restrained children, children had 1.66 (95% confidence interval, 1.27, 2.17) times higher odds of using the recommended type of restraint system if the state law at the time of the crash included requirements based on best practice recommendations.

Conclusions: Children are more likely to ride in the recommended type of child restraint when their state's child restraint law includes wording that follows best practice recommendations for child occupant protection. However, state child restraint law requirements do not influence when caregivers fail to use an occupant restraint for their child passengers.