长株潭城市生活垃圾资源化综合利用政策研究

城市生活垃圾处理是一个世界性的问题。目前,长株潭城市生活垃圾每天约有4500～4900t,主要通过填埋来处理,这种方法有利有弊,而且弊大于利,主要是垃圾资源未得到利用,污染比较严重,存在安全隐患。长沙安基环保高科技开发有限公司全体科研人员经过8年的艰苦探索,提出了一种新的资源化处理垃圾的方法。此法能使垃圾全量资源化,实现“零排放”的目标。阐述了资源化法的产生过程和内涵,提出了长株潭城市生活垃圾资源化规模构想,重点探讨了长株潭城市生活垃圾资源化政策。     

Wildfire policy and use of science in the context of a socio-ecological system on the Aegean Archipelago

This paper summarizes the results of a primarily qualitative (with certain quantitative elements) socio-ecological study on three Greek islands of the Aegean Archipelago to characterize fire science and policy at regional and local levels, and perceptions of fire risk. Among the most important factors influencing dynamics of fire regimes on the islands are changing land use patterns and practices, and changes in climate and fuel conditions. While use of scientific information is not widespread, there are individuals in all three islands who regularly consult scientific sources. Although fire policy is largely controlled at the national and European Union levels, local activity also occurs, most notably through the volunteer fire fighting organizations, interactions with local officials, and public education efforts. However, though seen as important, significant lack of financial support and resources exist to support prevention and pre-suppression programs. Prevention of fires on the islands, including the use of prescribed burning, is relatively inadequate, and while an intense interest in preventing the loss of communities and ecosystems is frequently encountered, public participation in fire prevention remains limited. The findings suggest that relying on local knowledge, in combination with fire managers’ decision-making abilities, could improve fire management options and reduce wildfire suppression costs and ecological disasters.     

STATE WATER CONSERVATION STRATEGIES AND ACTIVITIES1

States have the potential to play a major role in moving water conservation from conferences and reports that identify its advantages to actual practice. The research identifies four generic “strategies” that categorize the states' approaches toward conservation and reports on the states' current conservation activities. The four strategies are: reliance on agricultural advisors, leverage incentives, performance standards, and mandatory actions. Four levels of state conservation activity exist. California and Florida maintain the most extensive programs; Arizona, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Oklahoma also have numerous programs but significantly lower staff commitments; eight additional states maintain more modest conservation effotts. Elsewhere, state directed conservation actions remain minimal and limited to those provided as agricultural advice. The study found support for water conservation the norm among water supply planners.     

区域农田当量供需能力分析及其政策启示——以浙江舟山市为例

“以粮为纲”的食物安全观,使中国在实施耕地占补平衡政策过程中,片面追求耕地占补的数量平衡对食物安全的保障作用,而忽视了耕地以外的用地类型对区域食物安全的作用,不仅导致补充耕地的质量与占用耕地的质量不可同日而语,而且由于盲目对草地、林地、滩涂湿地等进行开发而付出了沉重的生态环境代价。论文从食物安全的内涵出发,引入农田当量与食物当量概念,选取浙江省舟山市为研究区,对研究区农田当量的供需能力进行实证分析,并为耕地占补平衡政策的改进提出相应的政策启示。研究结果表明：1）采用农田当量与食物当量的计算方法,可以较好地统一粮食产量和养殖水产品产量的食物当量,进而统一耕地与养殖水面的农田当量供给。2）受耕地面积减少和耕地抛荒比例较高等因素影响,近年研究区来自耕地的农田当量下降了37.3%;与此同时,尽管研究区养殖水面面积也在不断缩减,但受标准养殖塘建设、养殖技术进步以及品种改进等因素的影响,来自养殖水面的总农田当量上升了18.3%。来自耕地和养殖水面的总农田当量的比例,由2009年的46:54变为2015年的31:69。3）在温饱、小康和富裕3个不同生活水准下,研究区本地耕地和养殖水面提供的农田当量,都难以满足常住人口的需求,但是,通过改善农田基础设施、提高耕地复种指数,建设高标准养殖塘、提高养殖水面单产等措施,可以提高耕地和养殖水面的农田当量至19 771.22 hm²,进而降低约35%的农田当量缺口。在此基础上,论文得到转变食物安全观念,重视耕地以外的用地类型的食物供给能力;推进高标准农田和高标准养殖塘建设,提高耕地和养殖塘的农田当量供给能力;加大耕地保护力度,探索耕地占补平衡的多样化实现形式等政策启示。     

The future place of recycling in household waste policy: the case of France

To be rightly implemented, an environmental policy ought to set an institutional framework (goals, rules and instruments) which incents decentralised actors to adopt the appropriate range of technologies. In the household waste management policy, the development of valorisation techniques (and particularly recycling) must be supported by convenient instruments and incentives. The paper analyses the problems encountered with the French household waste policy to ensure the takeoff of recycling techniques. At the moment, a rather under-proportioned institutional setting leads to favour the adoption of incineration with energy recovery at the expenses of recycling. This tends to create a structural bias in favour of incineration.     

Contemporary Western Rural USA Economic Composition: Potential Implications for Environmental Policy and Research

/ The rural West of the United States is considered strongly antienvironment. The traditional economic reliance of the area on natural resources has long explained this antienvironment stance. The region consistently elects federal officials who as a group consistently vote against environmental bills and seek to undo existing federal environmental regulation. These politicians defend their antienvironment actions based on their perception of the economic composition and interests of the region. Recent studies, however, have suggested that rural residents are increasingly concerned about environmental issues. These studies, however, lack a consistent theoretical basis. This article uses an alternative economic typing system to examine the economic composition of rural Idaho and suggests that the results found using the alternative typing system might provide a theoretical basis to explain why some studies are finding increased rural environmental support. The results show that rural Idaho is much more economically diverse using this alternative typing methodology compared to the outcomes of traditional USDA economic methodologies. The policy and research implications of these findings are examined.KEY WORDS: Rural; Environmental policy; Economic composition     

ESTIMATING THE PUBLIC'S VALUES FOR INSTREAM FLOW: ECONOMIC TECHNIQUES AND DOLLAR VALUES1

ABSTRACT: Sound water resource management requires comparison of benefits and costs. Many of the perceived benefits of water relate to providing instream flow for recreation and endangered fish. These uses have value but no prices to guide resource allocation. Techniques to estimate the dollar values of environmental benefits are presented and illustrated with several case studies. The results of the case studies show that emphasis on minimum instream flow allocates far less than the economically optimum amount of water to instream uses. Studies in Idaho demonstrated that optimum flows that balance benefits and costs can be ten times greater than minimum flows. The economic benefits of preserving public trust resources outweighed the replacement cost of water and power by a factor of fifty in California. While it is important to incorporate public preferences in water resource management, these economic survey techniques provide water managers with information not just on preference but how much the public is willing to pay for as well. This facilitates comparison of the public costs and benefits of instream flows.     

Normalising the Crisis in Africa

Developmental relief has become the central doctrine of 'good practice' in humanitarian responses to complex political emergencies. This is despite the fact that a proliferation of such emergencies reflects a failure of development for people in those countries in crisis. Drawing on case study material from Sudan, Somalia, Rwanda and Uganda, this paper challenges assumptions made about the efficacy of developmental relief models in complex emergencies. The trend towards developmental relief practices coincides with an increasing acceptance of higher levels of humanitarian distress in Africa. Myths of aid dependency and the pursuit of sustainable programming in the midst of war are linked to a global reduction in aid. The mantra of 'local solutions to local problems' locates the causes of crises firmly within those societies in crisis. It provides a premise for international disengagement, and the denial of international responsibility for the genesis and prolongation of humanitarian crises in Africa. Assigning solutions to the poor, the marginalised and victimised through enhanced 'participation' and local financing of services sustains a myth that development is occurring, when in fact levels of distress are rising.     

农户经济行为的分析与土地可持续利用

本文以农户这一微观主体的土地利用模型为起点,通过分析我国现阶段工农业关系及采取的政策对农户利用土地进行农业生产的影响,提出了转换农业政策、促进土地可持续利用的对策。     

中国含铅汽油税收政策的设计

征收含铅汽油税是实行汽油无铅化的一项重要政策。本文提出了含铅汽油税收政策的基本框架,设计了含铅汽油税的三个方案,并预测了征收含铅汽油税对消费者和汽油市场价格的影响。最后,建议在我国尽快实施含铅汽油税。