宁夏太阳山湿地水生生态系统健康评价

通过在太阳山湿地设置11个采样点,监测水质及生物等17个指标,采用层次分析法、熵值法确定指标权重,运用灰色关联法、模糊综合评价法对研究区水生生态系统的健康状况进行评价。结果表明：在层次分析法赋权下,经灰色关联法评价得南湖为亚健康,其余湖为不健康;经模糊综合评价法得4个湖为病态。在熵值法赋权下,经灰色关联法评价得南湖为很健康,其余湖为不健康;经模糊综合评价得西湖为不健康,南湖为很健康,其余湖为病态。结合两种评价方法的计算过程及研究区实际情况,模糊综合评价结果较灰色关联法更符合实际。     

Understanding the return on health, safety and environmental investments

INTRODUCTION: Traditionally, health safety and environmental (HS & E) investments have been viewed as expensive but necessary. HS & E professionals had a difficult task of providing data showing that these investments can also contribute to business success. An ORC task force developed a way for traditional financial analysis methods to be applied to HS & E investments and decisions. METHOD: The result of the task force effort is the software called the ORC Return on Health, Safety and Environmental Investments (ROHSEI), a supporting tool to provide a comprehensive look at health, safety or environmental investment projects and their potential financial impacts. RESULTS: Since its development, more than 200 companies, government agencies, and educational institutions have been trained in the ROHSEI process and software. CONCLUSIONS: HS & E professionals who are able to evaluate and communicate the business value of health, safety and environmental efforts will improve understanding of the impacts HS & E projects and contribute to better decision making by their organizations.     

Use Impairments and Ecosystem Impacts of the New York Bight

The New York Bight is perhaps one of the most used and abused coastal areas in the world as a consequence of urbanization and the disposal of the waste of some 20 million people who reside by its shores and surrounding bays and estuaries. A variety of sources, including those associated with sewage wastes, industrial wastes, contaminated dredged material, urban runoff, and atmospheric fallout contaminate these coastal waters. Many of the stresses of excess population and industrialization as measured by pollutant loadings and ecosystem impacts can be crudely quantified in terms of use impairments-use impairments that have measurable social and economic relevance. Five broad categories of impairment attributed to pollution in the Bight that are causing significant losses of ecological, economic, or social values are: beach closures, unsafe seafoods, hazards to commercial and recreational navigation, loss of commercial and recreational fisheries, and declines in birds, mammals and turtles. These impairments are generally caused by floatable wastes, nutrients, toxicants, pathogens and habitat loss. Measures of such impairments are not standard, nor in many cases totally quantifiable. We have examined specific subsets of these impairments in terms of their spatial and temporal changes and as a first approximation determined the economic and social significance of these changes. the cost of these impaired uses of the Bight are measured in terms of billions of dollars annually for New York and New Jersey.     

珠海市农业土壤和农产品PAEs污染健康风险评估

在珠海市3种不同类型农业区域内采集69个表层土壤和26个农产品样品,使用GC FID方法检测6种优先控制的邻苯二甲酸酯(PAEs)化合物,分析区域内PAEs的污染特征和对人体的健康风险。结果表明,农业土壤样品中Σ6PAEs值范围为未检出～1.21 mg/kg,平均值为0.40 mg/kg,空间分布上表现出中西部高、东部低的特征,土壤中PAEs以DnBP和DEP为主。农产品中∑6PAEs值范围为0.08 mg/kg～3.80 mg/kg,平均值为1.54 mg/kg,水稻、水果和蔬菜对PAEs的富集系数分别为6.23、2.50和2.80～7.06。成人和儿童PAEs的致癌风险分别为2.86×10-5和5.02×10-5,均高于人体致癌风险10-6水平。饮食摄入PAEs是致癌和非致癌风险的最大暴露途径,DEHP对人体两种风险的贡献最大。