Contemporary forest loss in Myanmar: Effect of democratic transition and subsequent timber bans on landscape structure and composition

This study addresses the effect of political transition and subsequent timber bans on forest loss in Myanmar, in the context of identified drivers. Cook’s Distance (CD) was applied to remotely sensed time-series forest loss dataset to measure the effect of the events. Forest loss derived fragmentation metrics were linked to drivers at a landscape scale. Results show that at the national level, the political transition in 2011 had maximum effect (CD 0.935) on forest loss while the timber bans decreased forest loss by 612.04 km² and 213.15 km² in 2015 and 2017 (CD 0.146 and 0.035), respectively. The effect of the events varied for different States/Regions. The dominant drivers of change shifted from plantations in 2011 to infrastructure development in 2015. This study demonstrates the effects of policy on forest loss at various scales and can inform decision-makers for forest conservation, planning and development of mitigation measures.     

我国环境技术验证评价制度建设探析

在概述国外环境技术验证制度快速发展的背景下,论述了我国建设环境技术验证评价制度的目的、意义和条件,提出了建设环境技术验证评价制度应采取的对策措施。     

聚乙烯管热熔焊机技术现状分析

基于国内常见品牌聚乙烯管热熔焊机的性能检测结果,详尽地从焊机主要机械部件性能、温度与压力等焊接参数的控制,以及全自动热熔焊机的监控性能与焊口信息记录情况等方面分析了热熔焊机的技术现状。分析表明,热熔焊机普遍存在若干不容忽视的质量问题,其中许多为焊机质量不能满足国家标准要求。最后提出了提高焊机技术水平的措施。     

基于项目驱动的《计算机文化基础》七步教学法研究

针对斛算机文化基础》课程教学中的授课形式单调,授课内容不实用,不能激发学生的想象力,没有照顾到学生的个体学习差异以及不注重学习效果的调查反馈等问题,结合项目驱动教学理论,提出斛算机文化基础》课程的七步教学法,包括上好第一堂课,制定项目任务,学生尝试完成任务,教师重点讲解,学生二次尝试,一对一考核和效果反馈。实践证明,学生学习积极性提高了,不同进度学生的学习效果得到了保证,培养了学生一定的实践能力,效果良好。     

扩展性案例在《Web应用开发技术》课程教学中的应用

《Web应用开发技术》是一门实践性和综合性较强的课程,扩展性案例的选取对课程教学具有重要作用。以＂登录注册系统＂为例,通过不断扩展该案例的功能,把各章知识点逐步融入到扩展性案例当中,使学生对各章主要知识点的应用有一个清晰的整体认识,激发学生求知、求技、求异、求新的兴趣,实现理论与实践的统一。     

The Video Rhizome: Taking Technology Seriously in The Meatrix

This essay discusses how The Meatrix, an animated criticism of factory farming, functions to entice and engage its viewers in productive dissemination. Widely distributed online, The Meatrix is often categorized with other popular new media phenomena as a viral video. This essay first argues that the use of the viral metaphor is flawed with mechanistic thinking. Second, the author introduces Deleuze and Guattari's rhizome as an alternative model. Third, The Meatrix rhizome is discussed as an intricate relationship of intertextuality, technological dissemination, and user experience. Finally, the author encourages academics and activists alike to reconsider mechanistic thinking of new media in favor of the text as an open, distributed system.     

Diversity of Television Exposure and its Association with the Cultivation of Concern for Environmental Risks

Cultivation theory claims that individuals who watch a greater amount of television are more likely to accept the representation of reality as presented on television. This study introduces the variable of exposure diversity and attempts to investigate if the diversity of television channels viewed plays a significant role beyond the amount of television viewed in the cultivation of concern about environmental risks. Data from the 2002 annual Life Style Study conducted by Synovate for DDB-Chicago was paired with a corresponding content analysis of environmental television coverage. Ordinary-Least-Squares regression suggests that exposure diversity is associated with concern of environmental risks above and beyond both the effects of the amount of television watched and individual differences, suggesting the variable of exposure diversity holds promise for further explicating cultivation theory.     

The Misdiagnosis: Rethinking “Nature-deficit Disorder”

This study examines and critiques “nature-deficit disorder” (NDD), Richard Louv's popular theory of how and why children are alienated from nature. Specifically, I explore NDD within the context of one forest conservation education program that aligns with and operationalizes Louv's message. Underlying Louv's and forest educators' discourses are culturally specific assumptions about human-nature relationships. Both evoke a fall-recovery narrative—that children are separated from nature and must return—and promote science and naming to reconnect. I argue that, in the absence of deeper cultural examination and alternative practices, NDD is a misdiagnosis—a problematic contemporary environmental discourse that can obscure and mistreat the problem. I call on adults to rethink human-nature disconnectedness by returning to the psyche, digging deeper to the problem's cultural roots, and using nontraditional communication practices such as emotional expression and non-naming.     

Climate change adaptation and regional forest planning in southern Yukon,Canada

Recent interest in sustainable forest management planning in the Yukon has coincided with growing public awareness of climate change, providing an opportunity to explore how forestry plans are incorporating climate change. In this paper, the Strategic Forest Management Plans for the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations Traditional Territory (CATT) and the Teslin Tlingit Traditional Territory (TTTT) are examined for evidence of adaptation to climate change. For each plan, management policies and practices that are also recognized as ways to adapt to climate change are identified to provide information on the incremental costs and benefits of additional adaptation efforts. A typology for classifying sustainable forest management plans according to how they address climate change is proposed and applied to the CATT and TTTT plans. This typology, which may be useful to any future retrospective assessments on how successful these or other sustainable forest management plans have been in addressing and managing the risks posed by climate change, consists of a matrix that categorizes plans into one of four types; (1) proactive-direct, (2) proactive-indirect, (3) reactive-direct, and (4) reactive-indirect. Neither of the plans available for the southern Yukon explicitly identifies climate change vulnerabilities and actions that will be taken to reduce those vulnerabilities and manage risks. However, both plans have incorporated some examples of ‘best management practices’ for sustainable forest management that are also consistent with appropriate climate adaptation responses. Even in a jurisdiction facing rapid ecological changes driven by climate change, where there is a relatively high level of awareness of climate change and its implications, forestry planning processes have yet to grapple directly with the risks that climate change may pose to the ability of forest managers to achieve the stated goals and objectives of sustainable forest management plans.

Greenhouse gas mitigation in developing countries through technology transfer?: a survey of empirical evidence

While greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are projected to rise primarily in the developing countries, the potential for developing new GHG mitigation technologies exists primarily in the industrialized countries. It is thus important, not only for predictions about future emission paths but also for climate change mitigation policies, to understand how the international diffusion of such technologies takes place and how it affects the energy infrastructure and GHG emissions in developing countries. This paper provides an overview of the channels through which these technologies diffuse and focuses on the empirical evidence pertaining to the effects these technologies have on GHG emissions in developing countries.