Adaptive social impact management for conservation and environmental management

Concerns about the social consequences of conservation have spurred increased attention the monitoring and evaluation of the social impacts of conservation projects. This has resulted in a growing body of research that demonstrates how conservation can produce both positive and negative social, economic, cultural, health, and governance consequences for local communities. Yet, the results of social monitoring efforts are seldom applied to adaptively manage conservation projects. Greater attention is needed to incorporating the results of social impact assessments in long‐term conservation management to minimize negative social consequences and maximize social benefits. We bring together insights from social impact assessment, adaptive management, social learning, knowledge coproduction, cross‐scale governance, and environmental planning to propose a definition and framework for adaptive social impact management (ASIM). We define ASIM as the cyclical process of monitoring and adaptively managing social impacts over the life‐span of an initiative through the 4 stages of profiling, learning, planning, and implementing. We outline 14 steps associated with the 4 stages of the ASIM cycle and provide guidance and potential methods for social‐indicator development, predictive assessments of social impacts, monitoring and evaluation, communication of results, and identification and prioritization of management responses. Successful ASIM will be aided by engaging with best practices – including local engagement and collaboration in the process, transparent communication of results to stakeholders, collective deliberation on and choice of interventions, documentation of shared learning at the site level, and the scaling up of insights to inform higher‐level conservation policies‐to increase accountability, trust, and perceived legitimacy among stakeholders. The ASIM process is broadly applicable to conservation, environmental management, and development initiatives at various scales and in different contexts.     

Dutch new nature: (re)landscaping the Millingerwaard

This paper analyses how discourses of “new nature” have been implemented in the Dutch context – as a front runner of broader “rewilding” processes throughout Europe – frequently tied to imperatives of water safety. Drawing on the specific case of the Millingerwaard, we first examine how such discourses have materially, as well as socially, transformed the landscape in question. The paper then explores how these transformations have erstwhile affected those living in the area – in ways that are perceived, positively or negatively – according to varied groups of residents and users. In doing so, we critically reflect not only on “new nature” as it has been conceived within planning processes, and empirically practiced, in the Netherlands, but also how it is described and experienced by those whose lives are intimately tied to the landscape.     

Multi-criteria forest road network planning in fire-prone environment: a case study in Serbia

This paper presents a multi-criteria selection of the best forest road network with the aim of achieving effective preventive and timely repressive protection against forest fires. The research was carried out in national park (NP) “Tara” at a site which is under constant threat of fire. Four variants of the forest road network were designed and analyzed against seven criteria, and the best variant was selected using entropy weight coefficients (EWC) method. The importance of these seven criteria was studied by the management of the NP “Tara.” The greatest importance was given to the criteria relating to the cost of construction and maintenance of permanent and temporary roads (47% of the total value of all criteria). The EWC method did not select the variant based on the lowest costs of construction and maintenance as the best option, but the variant whose location was the most suitable for effective defense against forest fires.     

Five challenges to reconcile agricultural land use and forest ecosystem services in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia possesses the highest rates of tropical deforestation globally and exceptional levels of species richness and endemism. Many countries in the region are also recognized for their food insecurity and poverty, making the reconciliation of agricultural production and forest conservation a particular priority. This reconciliation requires recognition of the trade‐offs between competing land‐use values and the subsequent incorporation of this information into policy making. To date, such reconciliation has been relatively unsuccessful across much of Southeast Asia. We propose an ecosystem services (ES) value‐internalization framework that identifies the key challenges to such reconciliation. These challenges include lack of accessible ES valuation techniques; limited knowledge of the links between forests, food security, and human well‐being; weak demand and political will for the integration of ES in economic activities and environmental regulation; a disconnect between decision makers and ES valuation; and lack of transparent discussion platforms where stakeholders can work toward consensus on negotiated land‐use management decisions. Key research priorities to overcome these challenges are developing easy‐to‐use ES valuation techniques; quantifying links between forests and well‐being that go beyond economic values; understanding factors that prevent the incorporation of ES into markets, regulations, and environmental certification schemes; understanding how to integrate ES valuation into policy making processes, and determining how to reduce corruption and power plays in land‐use planning processes.     

Numerical studies on the thermal regimes of the horizontal tube falling film evaporation under varying feeder height

ABSTRACT

This paper discusses about the effect of feeder height and heat flux on the heat transfer characteristics of horizontal tube falling film evaporation in the thermal regimes. In order to investigate this, a two- dimensional CFD model was developed to perform simulation and results were compared and validated with published data available in the literature. Heat transfer co-efficients in the thermal regimes were determined from the CFD simulation and the results were recorded, analyzed and validated with the mathematical models available in the literature. The novelty of the current study is to predict the commencement of the fully developed thermal region over the tube from the simulation model under varying feeder height and heat flux. An effort was also made to measure the liquid film thickness around the tube from the CFD model in the thermal regimes. It is observed that angle of thermally developing region contracts and fully developed thermal region extends with the increase of the feeder height and heat flux. It is observed from the study that increase of heat flux by 10 kW/m² resulted in increase of heat transfer co-efficient value by 10–12% average in thermally developing region and 12–15% average in fully developed region. Thinnest liquid film thickness observed between 85 and 127°angle. Shifting of thinnest region of liquid film upward from the mid tube with the increase of the feeder height and heat flux is noted.     

综放采空区特性与氧浓度分布关系研究

在现场束管监测实验的基础上,分析总结了综放采空区特性.根据计算流体力学原理,采用FLUENT数值模拟计算软件,针对综放采空区的不同特性,分别对采空区氧化带和窒息带的关键划分指标"氧浓度"进行数值模拟.将模拟结果与实测结果进行比较,讨论了在考虑综放采空区不同特性情况下的数值模拟结果对采空区自燃"三带",即"散热带"、"氧...     

“一法三卡”在新喀Koniambo项目上的应用研究

新喀Koniambo项目安全管理团队在工作中不断钻研创新,以预先危险性分析法为指导,开发了JSA卡、DSTI卡、STO和Obs卡等安全检查工具用于现场安全监控,形成了项目独特的"一法三卡"管理模式,创造了连续两年无事故、无重伤的安全生产记录。以"一法三卡"的实施效果为研究对象,分析了卡片数量与可记录事件数量的对比关系,得出"一法三卡"实施管控效果越好,现场可记录事件发生率越低的结论。这一结论凸显了"一法三卡"在施工现场安全生产管控工作中的重要地位,为施工项目推行"一法三卡"提供了有力的实证论据。     

综掘工作面风幕控尘除尘系统数值模拟及试验研究

针对综掘工作面掘进过程中粉尘污染问题,设计了一种新型高效的风幕控尘除尘系统,利用风幕风速衰减试验分析了风幕风速与距出口距离衰减的关系,当风幕末端风速达到2 m/s以上就能够有效控制呼吸性粉尘逃逸,另外,利用数值模拟的方法,对风幕控尘除尘系统工作原理进行了模拟,当风幕初速度为15 m/s、除尘风筒负压为-250 Pa时,风流到达巷道壁时的风速均达到了3m/s以上,风幕控尘除尘系统起到了很好的控尘和除尘作用.并对压入式通风+湿式除尘机除尘的方式进行了数值模拟,压入式通风的风流大部分被除尘风筒吸入,掘进头和压入式风筒与除尘风筒重叠段形成了无风区,大部分粉尘颗粒和瓦斯不能够及时排出,给生产带来了极大的安全隐患.     

浅谈万宝矿产有限公司海外项目相关方安全管理

随着国家“一带一路”倡议的推进,越来越多中国企业“走出去”,拓展海外市场。相关方作为海外项目安全管理的重点,存在数量多、安全管理能力参差不齐、安全管理难度大等特点。万宝矿产有限公司从相关方准入审核、过程管控、考核淘汰等全生命周期对海外项目各相关方进行规范化管理,提升了相关方安全管理水平,避免了生产安全事故,保障了项目顺利进行。