HOUSEHOLD WATER USE: TECHNOLOGICAL SHIFTS AND CONSERVATION IMPLICATIONS1

ABSTRACT: A study was undertaken to determine the effect of water intensive appliances or activities on household water consumption. Activities included in the study were use of the washing machine, dishwasher, swimming pool, and lawn watering. In the majority of cases these activities increased per capita consumption and were statistically significant. Households included in the study were not familiar with water saving devices available in the retail market. Even if tehse appliances were purchased, private economic benefits to the household would be low due to the inexpensive water charges levied. However, aggregate community benefits could be large if new well drilling cost or increase in storage facilities could be avoided. In order to avoid these increased costs, regulation or subsidy programs may be the most efficient policy alternatives available to the communities. Subsidies and regulation could potentially decrease water use and offer alternatives to increasing the water supply.     

“限塑令”发布后的变化与反响

对国务院办公厅下发“限塑令”后的变化与反响以及出现的问题等进行了全面分析,并在此基础上,综合阐述了国内各大媒体针对“限塑令”在推行过程中存在的问题提出的若干切中实际的应对策略。主要包括：如何理解和贯彻“限塑令”这个利国利民的“国策”,如何将“限塑”作为一项造福人类的系统工程来实施,如何将“限塑”引入到改善环境、节约资源、培养健康生活习惯的良性循环轨道上来等意见和建议。     

风景区中影视拍摄的环境规制研究

影视剧组在风景区的拍摄活动,往往造成风景区的环境破坏。文章首先对风景区中影视拍摄所造成的破坏类型进行分析,然后从相关责任主体方面探讨造成该问题的原因,最后根据环境规制发展的趋势,提出风景区中影视拍摄的规制对策：政府部门的强制性规制和影视剧组的自愿性规制两者相结合。     

The San Francisco Bay-Delta: A failure of decision-making capacity

The paper reviews the history of Bay-Delta decision-making in California in order to highlight the continuity between what happened with CALFED and what happened in the preceding decades since water project deliveries began in 1949. Throughout this period, there has been intense conflict about whether and how to transfer water from the Bay-Delta to users elsewhere—a conflict marked by a fundamental opposition of interests among stakeholders. We document how the State of California has failed to organize itself effectively to resolve this conflict and make a decision on how to manage the Delta. The strategy consistently adopted by the State was to encourage the main parties – agricultural and urban water diverters, and fisheries and other instream-protection interests – to work out a solution among themselves, rather than imposing one externally. However, economic theory suggests that a bargaining solution is unlikely to exist because of the extreme opposition of interest among the parties. The Bay-Delta history amply confirms this theoretical prediction. Thus, the State's strategy of relying on voluntary agreement to resolve the issue is fundamentally misconceived and is, at some level, an abdication of its responsibility.     

人水和谐理念下城市河涌整治的环境社会学思考

导致城市河涌污染和不健康的因素众多,不仅具有生态学的根源,而且还具有社会学的根源。河涌整治已经成为许多城市环境治理的重点。文章依据环境社会学的理论和人水和谐的理念,分析当前河涌整治的模式及优缺点,重点探讨政府、企业、市民、传媒等利益相关者在城市水环境污染与治理中的角色、作用以及相互之间的互动与整合,为城市河涌综合整治建立长效社会机制提供依据。     

基于CCR模型的工业园区企业环境绩效管理系统

以数据包络分析法(DEA)的CCR绩效评价模型为内核,绩效评价函数与环境调控函数为工具,建立了工业园企业环境绩效管理系统,并利用该系统对南通农药工业园企业环境绩效管理进行了实证研究.利用绩效评价函数对园区20家同类型企业进行评价的结果显示,其中7家企业达到环境相对高效;根据环境调控函数计算结果,各企业环境绩效调控总量与绩效评价排序高度相关.实证研究结果表明,该环境绩效管理系统可为园区企业环境调控提出定量化的调整建议,为园区发展循环经济、建设生态型工业园提供有效的管理工具.     

Corticosterone in thin-billed prion <Emphasis Type="Italic">Pachyptila belcheri</Emphasis> chicks: diel rhythm,timing of fledging and nutritional stress

Glucocorticosteroids (GCs) of the hypothalam–pituitary–adrenal axis play a role in association with both stressful events and daily life processes. However, relatively little is known about the role of GCs in relation to daily and seasonal life processes in animals in the wild. In this paper, we present data on basal levels of plasma corticosterone CORT in chicks of a pelagic seabird, the thin-billed prion, Pachyptila belcheri, during two predictable changes in demands, the daily activity pattern and the preparation for fledging. By comparing chicks fed recently with unfed chicks, we test how GC levels are modified according to nutritional condition. In accordance with their nocturnal feeding rhythm, chicks had a clear daily rhythm with increased CORT secretion at night, but CORT levels during the active phase were also highly elevated in unfed chicks compared with fed chicks. Close to fledging, chicks rapidly increased basal CORT levels, and again unfed chicks had higher levels than fed chicks, although the age effect here was stronger than the effect of recent feeding. The present data thus support the hypothesis that GC levels are adjusted to life stages with predictable changes in demands, but food availability and/or internal energy stores also affect the level to which GCs increase.     

CLP法规对我国实施GHS的启示

介绍了目前国内实施GHS的现状及面临的问题,通过分析《欧盟物质和混合物的分类、标签和包装法规》（CLP法规）的特点及其与GHS的异同,为我国实施GHS提出建议。     

城市园林绿化资源及调查技术研究

城市园林绿化资源是主要服务于城市居民、支持植物和以植物为主体的城市生态系统存在与发展的因素和条件,及其各种天然的和经过人工改造的结果,具有明显的自然属性和社会属性两重性。城市园林绿化资源调查就是全面查清城市园林绿化资源的自然属性和社会属性．状态。研究了调查因子的设计,调查技术规程的架构,调查图斑的概念和区划方法,及绿色遥感信息提取和资源管理地理信息系统开发技术设计,并应用于2010开展的徐州市城市园林绿化资源调查中,取得了较好的成果。     

不同有机碳源对滇池沿湖大棚土壤水溶性氮、磷调控的研究

采用大田试验方法,研究了5龄大棚土壤在不施肥（CK）、常规施肥（C14）、混合秸秆粉（CF）和褐煤粉（MF）4种处理下对土壤水溶性氮、磷调控的影响。结果表明,在不影响作物产量的前提下,CF、MF和CK与CH相比均能降低土壤水溶性氮含量水平,而CF、MF可促进土壤水溶性磷解吸;CF、MF与CK相比,CF促进土壤水溶性磷的释出,MF抑制了土壤水溶性磷的释出。