Incentivizing biodiversity conservation in artisanal fishing communities through territorial user rights and business model innovation

Territorial user rights for fisheries are being promoted to enhance the sustainability of small‐scale fisheries. Using Chile as a case study, we designed a market‐based program aimed at improving fishers’ livelihoods while incentivizing the establishment and enforcement of no‐take areas within areas managed with territorial user right regimes. Building on explicit enabling conditions (i.e., high levels of governance, participation, and empowerment), we used a place‐based, human‐centered approach to design a program that will have the necessary support and buy‐in from local fishers to result in landscape‐scale biodiversity benefits. Transactional infrastructure must be complex enough to capture the biodiversity benefits being created, but simple enough so that the program can be scaled up and is attractive to potential financiers. Biodiversity benefits created must be commoditized, and desired behavioral changes must be verified within a transactional context. Demand must be generated for fisher‐created biodiversity benefits in order to attract financing and to scale the market model. Important design decisions around these 3 components—supply, transactional infrastructure, and demand—must be made based on local social‐ecological conditions. Our market model, which is being piloted in Chile, is a flexible foundation on which to base scalable opportunities to operationalize a scheme that incentivizes local, verifiable biodiversity benefits via conservation behaviors by fishers that could likely result in significant marine conservation gains and novel cross‐sector alliances. Incentivar la Conservación de la Biodiversidad con Comunidades de Pesca Artesanal por medio de Derechos de Uso Territorial y la Innovación de Modelos de Negocio     

城市规模、集聚与空气质量

在STIRPAT模型的基础上,通过加入能源消费需求、工业化水平和产业集聚度变量,建立了拓展的STIRPAT模型,并使用动态面板GMM方法,分析了我国30个省会城市和直辖市2003-2012年间的面板数据,指出不同的城市规模与集聚程度会对空气质量有不同的影响。首先。从总体上来说,城市人口规模、富裕程度和技术水平是影响城市空气质量的主要因素,其中人口规模和技术水平对空气质量的影响均为正效应,而富裕程度对空气质量的影响呈现出倒N型EKC曲线形状;较高的能源消费需求和工业化水平会恶化空气质量,而较高的技术水平和产业集聚度会改善空气质量,这表明相关部门可以从不断提高科技水平和产业集聚度入手,通过各种方法减少能源消费需求、降低工业化水平。来达到改善空气质量的目的。其次,在总体回归的基础上,本文重点按照人口规模、经济规模和经济集聚度、人口集中度分析了城市规模与集聚对空气质量的影响情况。结果表明:欠发达城市和大中城市的回归结果与总体回归结果一致,而经济发达城市和特大城市的回归结果与总体回归结果有一定差异,本文认为导致这些差异的主要原因是科学事业费支出方向、社会消费品结构以及工业清洁能源利用及其利用效率等因素;低产业集聚度和低人口集中度城市的情形与总体较为相近,而高产业集聚度和高人口集中度城市的EKC曲线形状与工业化水平系数与总体结果相反,这两种差异分别与城市的发展阶段和城市的人口素质有关。因此,城市的相关部门在追求规模经济的同时应该注重科技投入结构的改善,注重提高能源使用效率和清洁能源的使用率,并且在不断提高产业集聚度与人口集中度的同时追求绿色GDP的实现,注重人口的文化教育以提高人口素质,从而提升公众的环保意识,以抵消随人口集中度提高带来的环境压力。     

我国社会发展科技事业的中心议题——人口、资源与环境的协调发展

人口、资源、环境是经济和社会发展的基础,人口、资源与环境协调发展是经济和社会持续、稳定、协调发展的关键。我国是一个发展中的社会主义大国,协调人口、资源与环境关系需要动员全社会力量,宣传和研究工作要跟上,认识和方法要提高。     

Sand-dust Storm, Population and Environment in Northwest China

Sand-dust storms are the result of the integrated influences of climate, geography, society and human factors. A theoretical framework is built to explain the coherence of population growth, agriculture change and environmental degradation. On the basis of the analysis of the causes of the sand-dust storm in terms of human factors, a discussion will be given to show that these factors are internally consistent with the theoretical framework. After that, it will look at China's Agenda 21 and try to find relevant measures to reduce such large sand-dust storms happening in Northwest China and eventually make this area develop sustainably.     

Species-Specific Features of Inter- and Intrapopulation Variation in the Level of Chromosome Instability in Rodents

Studies on the common vole Microtus arvalis revealed a distinct cytogenetic response to the influence of ionizing radiation, a wide range of variation in the group average indices of chromosome instability beyond the zone of technogenic impact, and the influence of natural factors (viral infections and fluctuations of population size) on the frequency of chromosome aberrations. In the northern mole vole Ellobius talpinus, neither the mutagenic effect of ionizing radiation nor interpopulation differences in the level of chromosome aberrations in the absence of anthropogenic impact were detected. Variation of genome instability of the rodents is significantly contributed to by species demography and population cycles.     

生态哲学维度:人口生态生产与可持续发展

适度人口理论为可持续发展战略的实现提供了良好条件。如果进一步考察可持续发展概念的内涵，不难发现人口特质在可持续发展中居于核心地位，特别是其空间分布特征更具有现实意义。认定全方位适度人口的目标追求是人类社会可持续发展的一条基本实现途径。而全方位适度人口目标的实现则依赖于人口的合理生产，如何做到合理生产我们给出生态哲学维度，提出人口生态生产，即人口在生产与再生产过程中在生物学与社会学层面上始终贯彻人口数量、人口质量、人口结构、人口分布生态化的原则。     

人口增长必须同资源利用和环境保护相协调

我国人口众多,造成资源紧缺,环境保护压力大。因此,人口、资源、环境和发展必须互相协调、互相适应。本文为协调适应指出了三方面的解决途径。     

陇中黄土高原半干旱区人口问题研究

陇中黄土高原半干旱区是一个自然条件较为特殊的区域,由于各种因素的约束,几十年来尽管各级政府进行了大量的投资,但其面貌并未有实质性的改变,社会发展水平不高,经济基础薄弱。究其原因,较为低下的人口素质,迅速增长的人口数量,以及由这二者形成的矛盾对社会经济产生的负面影响,是障碍这一地区发展的首要因素。     

Arachnids (Arachnidae) in a Spring Wheat Agrocenosis in Southern Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Effect of Treatment with Decis,a Pyrethroid Insecticide,on Their Populations

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经济发展中人口城市化与经济增长相关分析比较研究

本文利用OECD国家和世界其他主要国家的人口城市化与经济增长的数据，对人口城市化与经济增长进行了相关分析，以揭示人口城市化与经济增长的关系模式。判断得到我国人口城市化仍处于低增长水平的线性阶段，城市化水平，大大滞后于经济发展水平；大大落后于发达国家同等经济水平时的城市化水平，经济发展与人口城市化的相互促进作用还没有得到充分发挥。为此，文章提出了要加快我国城市化发展，超前于经济的增长是一个理性选择。