基于DCSM模型的成都市河流水环境承载力综合评价

根据水污染流动"源头-转化-汇入"过程,综合衡量工业、农业、生活源污染排放对成都市主要河流的环境影响,提出"驱动力D （人口、社会经济发展）-承载源C （工业、农业、生活源污染排放）-承载状态S （污染程度）-管理M （治理污染投资）"4个子系统的DCSM模型,构建包含3层结构26个指标的成都市河流水环境承载力综合评价指标体系.采用投影寻踪模型得到各指标的影响程度,进一步建立区域水环境承载力各评价指标权重,根据最佳投影方向确定成都市主要河流2014—2018年的水环境承载力综合评价特征值,并得到相应评价等级.研究结果表明：影响程度最大的3项指标依次为：工业源COD排放强度、国考断面地表水TP平均浓度、环保投资占GDP的比重;通过对各个指标的权重分析,表明承载状态子系统和承载源子系统对综合评价结果所起作用最为显著,其次是管理子系统,驱动力子系统作用最小;通过评价等级分析,结果表明：2014—2018年成都市河流水环境承载力综合评价指数逐渐增加,评价等级从Ⅲ级（一般,2014—2016年）转变为Ⅱ级（较强,2017—2018年）,说明5年来成都市河流水环境承载力逐步增加.研究表明了基于DCSM模型的成都市河流水环境承载力综合评价结果具有实用性和可行性,可以为城市河流水环境承载力综合评价提供新的研究思路,为水环境规划与管理的科学决策提供依据.     

Motivations for the use and consumption of wildlife products

The dominant approach to combating the illegal wildlife trade has traditionally been to restrict the supply of wildlife products. Yet conservationists increasingly recognize the importance of implementing demand-side interventions that target the end consumers in the trade chain. Their aim is to curb the consumption of wildlife or shift consumption to more sustainable alternatives. However, there are still considerable knowledge gaps in understanding of the diversity of consumer motivations in the context of illegal wildlife trade, which includes hundreds of thousands of species, different uses, and diverse contexts. Based on consultation with multiple experts from a diversity of backgrounds, nationalities, and focal taxa, we developed a typology of common motivations held by wildlife consumers that can be used to inform conservation interventions. We identified 5 main motivational categories for wildlife use: experiential, social, functional, financial, and spiritual, each containing subcategories. This framework is intended to facilitate the segmentation of consumers based on psychographics and allow the tailoring of interventions—whether behavior change campaigns, enforcement efforts, or incentive programs—to the specific context in which they will be used. Underlining the importance of consumer research and collaborating with local actors is an important step toward promoting a more systematic approach to the design of demand reduction interventions.     

基于投影寻踪和阶梯型曲线的水质恢复能力评价模型

利用投影寻踪、遗传算法、阶梯型曲线和水体水质恢复能力评价标准,为水体水质恢复能力综合评价提出了一种新的方法--遗传投影寻踪方法(GPPM).GPPM可把水体水质恢复能力多维评价样本指标综合成一维投影指标值.根据该投影指标值的大小就可以对该样本集进行统一评价,从而解决了各单项水体水质恢复能力评价指标评价结果的不相容问题,提高了水体水质恢复能力综合评价问题各层次的分辩力.文中给出了GPPM实施的详细步骤,并在各等级中分别产生建模样本50个、100个、500个、1 000个、1 500个和2 000个,对评价模型参数的稳定性进行了检验,结果表明所建模型是稳定的.根据黄河干流三类主要污染物BOD、氨氮和挥发酚的浓度对黄河干流的水质恢复能力进行了评价,发现整体上黄河干流的水质恢复能力较弱.GPPM不仅可以对水体水质恢复能力进行综合评价,还可以确定评价指标的权重.GPPM可广泛应用于各种水质综合评价问题中.     

Fuel consumption and gasoline prices: The role of assortative matching between households and automobiles

Analyses of policies to reduce gasoline consumption have focused on two effects, a compositional effect on the fuel economy of the automotive fleet and a utilization effect on how much people drive. However, the literature has missed a third effect: a matching effect, in which policies change how high-utilization households are matched to fuel-efficient vehicles in equilibrium. We show that higher gas prices should lead to stronger assortative matching. Empirical estimates using US micro-level data are consistent with this hypothesis. We find a $0.50 increase in the gas tax would reduce US gas consumption by 0.8% through the matching effect alone, bringing annual environmental benefits of about $1.7 billion.     

生化需氧量BOD5测定的简化法

通过对稀释法公式的推导得出简化法的公式，并与稀释法进行比较，结果表明，简化后的方法与稀释法无显著性差异，精密度，准确度较好。     

POTENTIAL WATER USE AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION PATTERNS UNDER ALTERNATIVE WATER PRICES1

Out study deals with the demand for water and alternative agricultural production and land use patterns under varying prices for both surface and ground water. We derive irrigation water demands for both the United States and regions of it. Not only is a different amount of water used at each set of water prices but also a different mix of crops, livestock, and production technology develops among the different regions. Under the highest set of prices used, more than fourteen million acres are converted into dryland farming. Total irrigated water use decreases by more than 25 million acre-feet. Irrigated crop yields are reduced and cropping patterns shift away from irrigation. Commodity shadow prices increase as much as 15 percent under high prices for both surface and ground water. A redistribution of farm income occurs between irrigated and dryland regions.     

A COMPARISON OF MULTIVARIATE AND TREND FORECASTING ESTIMATES WITH ACTUAL WATER USE1

ABSTRACT: This paper describes a multivariate water forecasting procedure that is neither complicated, time-consuming nor expensive to operationalize. The forecasting procedure has been used to estimate the water demand for a proposed subdivision in Barrie, Ontario. Reliability is checked by applying the procedure to two existing subdivisions in Barrie for which metered consumption is available. For comparison, a trend forecasting procedure is also applied to the proposed subdivision and the existing subdivisions. Both the multivariate and trend forecasting procedures provide encouragingly accurate results when compared to actual use. While the multivariate procedure allows more precision, both procedures should be useful in forecasting water demand for smaller municipalities.     

A METHOD FOR ESTIMATING PEAK WATER DEMAND OF MULTIFAMILY RESIDENCES1

ABSTRACT: The importance of estimating peak water demands for determining the dimensions of pipe size and meters which provide household water to multifamily residences is examined. Several methods utilized in North America and Europe are examined. The analysis makes clear the necessity of studying the peak water demand through statistics based on local data concerning multifamily residences. For different periods of return, the peak demand of a given apartment building is related to its size (the number of apartments) in order to compare the results obtained with existing formula. By use of Ridge-regression technique, the relationship between peak water demand, and building size (number of apartments) and available pressure is established. It can be concluded that peak demand can be estimated with the square root of number of apartment units in the building and the cube root of water pressure.     

A TEST OF ALTERNATIVES FOR MEETING PUBLIC POTABLE WATER REQUIREMENTS1

ABSTRACT The relative economic costs of meeting projected public potable water demands through increasing the supply, controlling the demand, and increasing the capacity for interagency water transfers are explored. These alternatives and combinations are evaluated with the aid of a linear programming model in northeastern New Jersey, a major metropolitan region of over 4.5 million people, for the years 1975 to 2000. After more than 30 model tests it was found that a combination of increased interagency transfers and added water supplies was the least expensive solution.     

啤酒厂排放废水中COD与BOD5的相关性分析

本文针对ＢＯＤ５测定时间长，对突发性污染事故无法及时提供监测数据的缺点，采用最小二乘法，找出ＣＯＤ与ＢＯＤ５之间的回归方程式，应易测的ＣＯＤ值，较快地估测废水中的ＢＯＤ５值。