Obscuring Ecosystem Function with Application of the Ecosystem Services Concept

Abstract: Conservationists commonly have framed ecological concerns in economic terms to garner political support for conservation and to increase public interest in preserving global biodiversity. Beginning in the early 1980s, conservation biologists adapted neoliberal economics to reframe ecosystem functions and related biodiversity as ecosystem services to humanity. Despite the economic success of programs such as the Catskill/Delaware watershed management plan in the United States and the creation of global carbon exchanges, today's marketplace often fails to adequately protect biodiversity. We used a Marxist critique to explain one reason for this failure and to suggest a possible, if partial, response. Reframing ecosystem functions as economic services does not address the political problem of commodification. Just as it obscures the labor of human workers, commodification obscures the importance of the biota (ecosystem workers) and related abiotic factors that contribute to ecosystem functions. This erasure of work done by ecosystems impedes public understanding of biodiversity. Odum and Odum's radical suggestion to use the language of ecosystems (i.e., emergy or energy memory) to describe economies, rather than using the language of economics (i.e., services) to describe ecosystems, reverses this erasure of the ecosystem worker. Considering the current dominance of economic forces, however, implementing such solutions would require social changes similar in magnitude to those that occurred during the 1960s. Niklas Luhmann argues that such substantive, yet rapid, social change requires synergy among multiple societal function systems (i.e., economy, education, law, politics, religion, science), rather than reliance on a single social sphere, such as the economy. Explicitly presenting ecosystem services as discreet and incomplete aspects of ecosystem functions not only allows potential economic and environmental benefits associated with ecosystem services, but also enables the social and political changes required to ensure valuation of ecosystem functions and related biodiversity in ways beyond their measurement on an economic scale.     

吴江市土地利用变化及其生态效应

利用1993、2000和2004年吴江市的遥感影像,在GIS和RS支持下,通过构建土地利用转移矩阵对土地利用变化进行分析,并对其产生的生态效应进行研究。结果表明,吴江市的耕地基底向建设用地基底转化,生态系统结构的多样性和均匀度降低,景观整体形状趋于规则;生态系统功能退化,耕地的减少以及建设用地面积的增加是导致总价值减少的主导力量,而水域生态服务价值的增加是阻止其显著减少的原因;水源涵养和废物处理功能贡献度最大,超过总价值的50%;汾湖镇所占生态服务价值比重最高,分别为24.2%、25.21%2、5.13%,桃源镇所占比重最低。     

基于AnnAGNPS模型的三峡库区秭归县生态服务价值

利用三峡库区秭归县统计和调查资料,并基于AnnAGNPS模型获取秭归县1985、1990、2000、2007年径流、土壤侵蚀和养分流失等数据,客观计量秭归县年际生态服务物质量,进而估算各年际生态服务价值量.结果表明,1985~2007年,秭归县生态服务物质量均发生了变化.2000年径流、泥沙、总氮、总磷和有机碳的年输出量最高,分别为473mm、68.6t/km2、133kg/km2、33kg/km2和684kg/km2,而2007年上述指标最低,分别为419mm、40.6t/km2、112kg/km2、20kg/km2和445 kg/km2,分别下降了12.8%、68.9%、18.7%、65.4%和53.5%;1985~2007年秭归县生态服务价值也发生了变化,2000年最低,为45.1亿元,2007年最高,为54.2亿元,增加了20.1%.利用调查统计和模型输出的方法进行生态服务价值量的计量较为客观准确,避免了一些计算上的不确定性,但该方法所需数据量庞大,可能会限定其他地区的应用.     

东江流域生态系统服务价值变化研究

从生态系统的类型、质量和功能的时空变化出发,利用遥感和地理信息系统技术,结合市场价值法、影子工程法、机会成本法等方法,并在全面考虑各类型生态系统服务功能和基础数据可获得性的基础上,对东江流域的生态系统服务价值进行科学评估,揭示生态系统服务价值的时空变化特征。结果表明:2000-2008年东江流域生态系统服务总价值呈减少趋势,且除水域外,其余生态系统的单位面积生态服务价值均为2008年比2000年有所减少,说明流域生态系统的质量呈下降趋势。林地的单位面积生态服务价值2004-2008年的年均减少率大于2000-2004年,反映了流域森林资源的质量加速下降的状况;从空间上看,虽然上中游单位面积的生态系统服务价值大于下游,但上游单位面积生态系统服务价值减少得比较剧烈。     

基于时变可靠度分析的桥梁使用寿命预测

为分析一座桥梁结构寿命,在现有混凝土桥梁抗力和荷载的时变性研究的基础上,建立桥梁时变可靠度计算模型。将结构抗力等效转换为车辆荷载作用下结构所产生的竖向位移限值,预测远景交通量,反映荷载的时变性;运用非线性有限单元增量分析方法,以递增特定荷载的方式,采用响应面法计算时变可靠度指标及累计失效概率。结果表明:桥梁结构初始阶段具有足够大的可靠性,但其会随时间推移迅速衰减,利用韦伯分布函数和最小二乘法计算桥梁累计失效概率,进而推算桥梁使用寿命。根据桥梁寿命可靠度计算结果,制定出桥梁最佳维修养护策略。     

日本劳动安全卫生监管模式对我国的借鉴作用

学习和借鉴国外先进的安全生产管理模式,可以促进我国安全生产监管水平的不断改善。日本的劳动安全卫生监管采用了超前管理和过程管理方式,政府监管部门通过制定和完善有关法律法规,建立政府计划指导,劳动灾害防止团体和产业协会提供技术服务,企业承担劳动安全卫生主体责任,使劳动安全卫生政策、计划得到有效的执行和不断的修正。经多年的实践和积累,日本劳动安全卫生的重点已从灾害预防控制,向劳动工作紧张焦虑预防控制、创造舒适劳动环境转移,整个劳动安全卫生监管模式进入了一个良性循环。该文借鉴日本劳动安全卫生监督管理体制四十多年的经验,提出我国职业卫生监管应该通过培训教育,提高全民的劳动安全卫生意识。要充分研究和利用第三方技术服务组织,规范第三方技术服务,承担我国劳动安全卫生的事务性工作。     

生态产品概念再定义及其内涵辨析

准确界定生态产品概念定义及其内涵是深入开展其理论研究和实践创新的前提和基础.该研究深入剖析了生态产品现有概念定义存在的问题,从我国提出生态产品价值实现理念的战略意图入手,在指明生产者的基础上,将生态产品定义为生态系统生物生产和人类社会生产共同作用提供给人类社会使用和消费的终端产品或服务,包括保障人居环境、维系生态安全、提供物质原料和精神文化服务等人类福祉或惠益,是与农产品和工业产品并列的、满足人类美好生活需求的生活必需品,分为公共性生态产品、准公共生态产品和经营性生态产品三类.阐明了生态产品与生态系统服务、经济产品、非生态自然资源之间的边界关系,明确了生态产品不仅反映了自然生态与人类之间的供给消费关系,还反映了人与人之间的供给消费关系.建议组织自然科学和社会科学领域的科研人员开展中长期联合攻关,解决生态产品价值实现过程中面临的科学技术难题,通过理论突破和技术创新抢占国际生态经济学研究的学术制高点.      

滤袋使用寿命预计的必要性及其判据

论述了预测袋式除尘器用滤料使用寿命的意义,在评价现用预测方法利弊的基础上,提出以“设计寿命”为基础。以除尘器运行工况、抽样检测数据为依据,判断滤料“剩余寿命”的方法,经实践证明该方法是可行和有效的。     

Sizing pressure relief valves in flashing and two-phase service: an alternative procedure

In view of the greater accuracy of the ω HEM correlation and the resulting conservative PR valve sizing (relative to the traditional PR valve sizing methods), the ω HEM-based flow calculations are recommended for all situations where flashing or two-phase flow occurs within the PR valve. However, as with any correlation, the accuracy of the ω HEM correlation results drops as the system to which it is applied diverges from the data used to develop it. Analysis of 15 different systems representative of actual refinery streams indicate that for fluids with a wide boiling range and for very non-ideal systems such as those containing hydrogen, the HEM correlation underpredicts the mass flux significantly (i.e. overpredicts the PR valve size). Since the large deviations are on the conservative side, the procedure will result in excessively large PR valves that may cause problems because of chattering of the PR valves, but would not present potential for vessel failure. The majority of the deviations are a result of the fact that the simplifying assumptions built into the correlation for single component do not truly characterize the actual flashing behaviour of many multicomponent fluids. The alternative approach presented, in which the correlation parameter ω is based on the actual flashing behaviour, eliminates nearly all the deviations and significantly improves the results of the correlation regardless of the system analysed. For trouble systems (those containing more than 0.1 wt% hydrogen and for some multicomponent fluids with a nominal boiling range greater than 80°C (150°F), the alternative approach should be used to define the correlation parameter ω. Use of this alternative approach is valid for any system (and will improve the accuracy of the correlation) but does require an additional flash calculation. However, for other systems the original formulation of ω is adequate and can be used.     

一种用于Ad hoc网络安全的新型混合式CA服务体系

由于Adhoc网络的无线分布和自组织特性 ,使得网络安全显得更为脆弱 ;同时由于Adhoc网络的无中心和计算性能受限特性 ,使得安全体系难以布设。笔者分析了传统CA体系和分布式CA体系各自的优缺点 ,提出了一种用于Adhoc网络的新型混合式CA服务体系。该混合式CA服务体系把证书颁发和证书管理分开 ,一方面具有了传统CA体系的安全性 ,另一方面减轻了Adhoc网络的计算负荷。同时对分布式证书管理中的证书撤销、证书验证、表的维护和更新作了详细的分析 ,并利用可信度系数α对证书的可信性进行描述 ,增加了分布式证书管理的可靠性和灵活性。