Performance and recent improvement in microbial fuel cells for simultaneous carbon and nitrogen removal: A review

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have become a promising technology for wastewater treatment accompanying electricity generation. Carbon and nitrogen removal can be achieved by utilizing the electron transfer between the anode and cathode in an MFC. However, large-scale power production and high removal efficiency must be achieved at a low cost to make MFCs practical and economically competitive in the future. This article reviews the principles, feasibility and bottlenecks of MFCs for simultaneous carbon and nitrogen removal, the recent advances and prospective strategies for performance improvement, as well as the involved microbes and electron transfer mechanisms.     

论节能配额交易制度

我国传统的节能法律制度忽略了市场调控机制的作用,不利于资源节约型社会的建设,为此,文章试图建立一种依靠市场调节手段的新制度。主要探讨了节能配额交易制度概念、特点、现实基础、理论基础、确立原则及其制度设计。     

巴黎协定生效下的中国省际碳排放权分配研究

随着《巴黎协定》正式生效,碳排放权作为关系人类福祉的一种新型发展权,如何分配已成为世界各国共同关注的焦点问题.中国是全球最大的碳排放国,面临着巨大的减排压力.为分解落实我国政府提出的2030年碳减排"自主行动目标",提出公平性、效率性、可行性、可持续性4项分配原则,从社会、经济、环境三重维度系统选取分配指标,构建"共同但有区别"的省际碳排放权分配模型,据此对31个省区2016—2030年的碳排放配额进行核算.研究表明,碳排放配额最多为广东、山东和江苏,最少为西藏、新疆和青海.对比配额结果与当前碳排放规模发现,山西等9省区未来的碳排放空间呈现赤字,海南等16省区的碳排放空间呈现盈余,浙江等6省区则收支大致相抵.鉴于各省区面临不同的减排任务和压力,差别化的控排政策是保证我国"2030目标"顺利实现的关键.     

浅析土地开发整理项目预算定额标准

土地开发整理项目预算定额标准,是编制土地开发整理项目预算的依据,是正确核定项目资金预算的关键。必须完善黑龙江省土地开发整理项目定额预算标准,合理取费,提高预算人员素质,建立健全土地开发整理预算管理体系,才能更好地控制工程项目投资,取得最佳效益。     

大学生旅游者环境素养调查及环境教育研究

环境素养是关于环境知识和技能、情感和价值观以及行为的综合,对大学生旅游者环境素养的调查是实施环境教育的重要基础。以南京林业大学为研究对象,以配额抽样法探讨大学生旅游者学科专业、性别因素对环境素养水平的影响,研究发现当代大学生旅游者具有较好的环境意识和态度,具备锻炼成长为严格的生态旅游者的潜质,对旅游环境和生态知识的渴求和认知程度对整体环境素养水平有较大影响,然而也存在着知行脱节、环境行为滞后于环境意识的现象。应结合高校各学科教学与环境道德教育工作,合理设置相关课程,开展旅游环保实践活动,创建绿色校园,营造提升大学生旅游者环境素养的整体氛围。     

我国大学生旅游者环境意识与行为特征研究

作为潜在的生态旅游者群体,大学生对环境问题的认识、态度及其行为倾向对于旅游地生态环境的可持续发展至关重要。文章以南京林业大学为研究对象,通过问卷调查,以配额抽样法探讨大学生旅游者学科专业、性别因素对环境意识的影响,了解环境心理与行为特征,并与国内生态旅游景区旅游者进行对比,研究发现当代大学生旅游者表现出较好的环境态度和倾向,行为意愿上显示出"绿色"的特征,同时专业课程学习以及实践经历能够增强环境认知和情感,对旅游环境与生态知识的渴求和认知程度对整体环境意识水平有较大影响,然而大学生旅游者的环境意识多来源于理论,存在着知行脱节,环境行为滞后于环境情感、意志。应将旅游环境教育与各学科教学结合起来,开展培养环境责任和环保能力的旅游实践活动,加强大学校园环境及文化建设,积极培育大学生旅游环境意识及管理旅游环境行为。     

Consolidation in an Individual Transferable Quota Regime: Lessons from New Zealand, 1986–1999

Market-based approaches to environmental regulation (such as tradable permits or transferable quotas) are frequently offered as innovative solutions to many environmental problems. Globally, one of the most well-established forms of this approach is individual transferable quotas (or ITQs) in fisheries management. Within the natural resource management community, there is considerable debate over the effects ITQs have on the fishing industry and fisher behavior although this approach is not well-established in the United States. The previously imposed moratorium on ITQs in the United States has expired and the 2006 reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act explicitly provides for limited access privileges (LAPs). A variety of fishers, regulators, and conservation organizations are enthusiastically seeking to introduce ITQ management. With debate over whether and how ITQs should be used in American fisheries reinvigorated, it is timely to examine the evidence on the social and economic effects of ITQs in other nations’ fisheries. After briefly summarizing the debate on ITQs, we examine the case of New Zealand, one of the earliest and longest-lived ITQ-based fisheries regimes. We use multiple data sources and methods to analyze the extent to which industry consolidation and aggregation has occurred, including surveys of industry participants, expert interviews, reviews of academic reports and analyses, analysis of trade publications, and direct analysis of quota ownership patterns. This analysis shows a more complex outcome than recent debates in the ITQ literature would predict. These findings suggest that policy makers considering ITQs can learn from the experiences of other countries related to key issues such as quota allocation, aggregation limits, transferability, cost recovery, and resource sustainability when designing ITQ and other LAP systems. It is also important to explicitly identify economic and social objectives and then carefully design ITQ regimes to meet these objectives.     

Immigration and electricity consumption: The case of Northern Cyprus

The present article uses the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing procedure to identify the impact of immigration and economic growth on electricity consumption in the case of North Cyprus using annual data from 1977 to 2007. The results suggest that both economic growth and immigration are in a long-run equilibrium relationship with electricity consumption.     

基于主成分分析法和AHP-GEM模型的区域新增建设用地指标合理配置——-以江苏省为例

为从理论上科学合理地配置各子区域的新增建设用地指标, 以江苏省为例, 初步选取了影响 区域新增建设用地合理配置的13 项指标, 为避免指标间的多重共线性, 应用主成分分析法将这些 指标综合归并为人口资源、经济社会、城镇发展3 个综合因子。在此基础上, 采用AHP-GEM模型对 江苏省的新增建设用地指标进行了理论上的配置, 结果表明: 江苏省新增建设用地指标分配值可以 分为4 个层次: ①苏州、无锡和南京, 理论上所应分配的新增建设用地面积占全省总量的比例均大 于10%, 其中, 苏州最多, 为18.80%, 无锡、南京次之, 分别为16.78%和11.20%; ②南通和常州, 分 别为7.93%和7.81%, 其比例在7.5%至8%之间; ③扬州、镇江、盐城、泰州和徐州, 分别为6.03%、 5.91%、5.51%、5.33%和5.00%, 其比例占全省的5.5%左右; ④淮安、连云港和宿迁, 分别为3.65%、 3.03%和3.01%, 其比例在3%左右。通过比较, 理论上计算的结果与实际分配情况大致吻合。     

森林采伐限额管理制度能否起到保护森林资源的作用

森林采伐限额管理制度已在我国实行30余年,其能否实现森林资源的永续增长是一个悬而未决且具有重要意义的理论命题。为此,本文在对森林采伐限额管理制度进行制度变迁分析的基础上,以其在1991年和2001年的制度改革为自然实验依据,通过精确断点回归模型估计出森林采伐限额管理制度变迁各阶段对森林资源的保护作用。研究结果表明:新中国成立以后我国森林采伐管制经历了"无管制"、"全面管制"、"分类管制"等三个阶段,政府管制强度总体呈现递增趋势。断点回归结果显示森林采伐限额管理制度的全面实施以及2001年的分类管制改革对有林地面积和森林蓄积量的影响均不显著,可见,1991年森林采伐限额管理制度在全国层面实施并没能起到保护森林资源的作用,2001年后国家加大采伐管制力度,即在加强公益林采伐管制的前提下,不断增加公益林区划面积的做法可能会造成森林资源遭受更严重的破坏。究其原因,主要是森林经营者在生存压力或经济激励下可采取"滥砍滥伐"或"俘获"政府等方式突破现有管制,政府一味的加大管制力度反而会进一步刺激森林经营者"超额"采伐行为。本文同时发现,自1991年以来我国有林地面积、活立木蓄积量大幅度的增加主要归功于重点工程造林项目在全国层面的实施。基于此,认为国家应在限额总量不变的前提下,弱化政府对采伐许可等管理制度的管制力度,并大力发展林区替代产业,降低森林经营者的山林依赖度,以期从本源上解决森林采伐限额管理制度失灵问题。