可持续发展目标下环境影响评价(EIA)的新发展

描述了可持续发展的内涵及其特征，分析了传统ＥＩＡ不适应可持续发展目标的弊端，论述了为适应可持续发展目标而带来的传统ＥＩＡ的新发展，战略环境影响评价，累积影响评价以及强化ＥＩＡ中的公众参与。     

论环境保护的公众参与

地球是人类共同的财富，保护绿色家园是每个人的责任。公众参与环境保护在西方国家是一种常见形式，并且已经形成一系列的政策法律制度。但是我国传统的政治经济文化并没有为其提供良好的条件。文章从公众参与的概念入手，以经济学，环境问题本身的特殊性及法学理论来分析公众参与环境保护中的必要性。剖析了我国环境保护中公众参与的现状和成因，并提出若干相应对策。     

公路项目环评中公众参与存在的问题与对策

从公众参与的理论基础出发，就当前公路建设项目环评中公众参与工作存在的问题进行了论述，提出了改进对策．从而使环境影响评价的对策更具全面性、合理性和可操作性。     

城市污水与垃圾处理市场化研究

应用公共经济学的理论和国内外的实证数据对我国城市污水与垃圾处理市场化前景进行了分析研究．并对制约城市污水与垃圾处理市场化的因子进行了研究，指出我国城市污水与垃圾处理具有相当的芾场化前景：而投资渠道单一、运营管理效率低下、收费政策不够完善是城市污水与垃圾处理市场化程度低的突出问题。最后．针对性地提出了加快我国城市污水与垃圾产业化和市场化的BOT融资模式、排污收费和公众参与等对策。     

Assessing municipal-level governance responses to climate change in KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa

The 2011 Durban Adaptation Charter for Local Governments calls on local governments, worldwide, to institutionalise climate response, with the aim of minimising the impacts of climate change on local livelihoods and vulnerable communities. This paper, through the use of case studies, in-depth interviews and document review, assesses how three non-metropolitan municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal, a district municipality, and two local municipalities under its jurisdiction, are responding to this call. The results suggest that while the municipalities have adopted measures to institutionalise climate responses, the responses are relatively new and implementation is slow, complex and fraught with limitations and competing demands. Furthermore, there appears to be a lack of co-ordination of responses between the two levels of government, which has the potential to lead to duplication. Given the multi-scalar nature of climate change, emphasis on co-ordination and the inclusion of all municipal departments in the development and implementation of responses is necessary.     

准确把握循环经济要义积极推进经济发展方式转变

经济发展方式的转变是我国化解资源环境约束、提高经济发展质量和效益、实现可持续发展的必由之路,而循环经济正是转变经济发展方式的有效途径。但实践中,有些地方政府和企业在用循环经济变革传统发展方式方面还存在种种误区,以致于严重偏离了循环经济的真正目标。通过对循环经济的目的、思路、实践、思想等内容的阐释,帮助人们准确把握循环经济要义,为积极推进经济发展方式转变提供参考。     

浅析湿地教育与公众参与

湿地作为地球三大生态系统之一,因其独特的生态结构和功能受到越来越广泛的关注。加强公众的湿地教育,提高人们的湿地保护意识,让更多的人参与到湿地保护工作中来,已成为人们关注的热点。文章从中国湿地教育与公众参与的需要出发,分析了目前中国湿地教育及公众参与的现状及存在的问题,并从物质文化、制度文化、精神文化形式角度探讨了湿地教育与公众参与的实施。     

水葫芦用于水质污染治理的生态环境效应及其对策研究

水葫芦净化水质的应用虽然已取得一定的成效,但是,由此却也伴生出一系列的问题。任何外来物种均是“双刃剑”,其带来的生态环境效应有利有弊。正确客观评估水葫芦这样的外来种的生态环境效应,对水葫芦生态工程净化工艺进行科学设计并逐步完善其净化系统,加强和优化生态工程的管理,从而使水葫芦达到对污染水体的最佳净化效果和对环境的最低危害程度,造福人类。     

论环境行政的公众参与

目前,环境问题所涉及的领域越来越广泛,而与此相对的是环境行政所管辖的事务几乎涉及经济生活的方方面面。由于,环境本身“外部性”的特点,以及政府在面对经济利益时的“利益冲动”,如何防止“政府失灵”的发生,日益成为人们关注的热点。针对这种情况,在此试通过引入公众参与制度,倡导环境行政管理中公众参与的重要性和必要性,并针对目前中国法规在公众参与环境行政执法的制度缺失,提出自己的观点和建议。     

Managing Public Forests: Understanding the Role of Collaborative Planning

/ As federal land management agencies such as the USDA Forest Service increasingly choose to implement collaborative methods of public participation, research is needed to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the technique, to identify barriers to effective implementation of collaborative processes, and to provide recommendations for increasing its effectiveness. This paper reports on the findings of two studies focused on the experiences of Forest Service employees and their external partners as they work to implement collaborative planning processes in national forest management. The studies show both similarities and differences between agency employees and their partners in terms of how they evaluate their collaborative experiences. The studies reveal that both Forest Service employees and external partners are supportive of collaborative planning and expect it to continue in the future, both see the trust and relationships built during the process as being its greatest benefit, and both see the Forest Service's organizational culture as the biggest barrier to effective collaborative efforts. The groups differed in terms of evaluating each other's motivation for participating in the process and in whether the process was a good use of time and resources, with external partners seeing it as too drawn out and expensive. The paper concludes with a discussion of the policy implications and changes necessary to increase the effectiveness of collaborative efforts within the Forest Service and other federal land management agencies.KEY WORDS: Public land management; Collaborative planning; National forests; Public participation