Factors Influencing Local Communities’ Satisfaction Levels with Different Forest Management Approaches of Kakamega Forest, Kenya

Satisfaction of communities living close to forests with forest management authorities is essential for ensuring continued support for conservation efforts. However, more often than not, community satisfaction is not systematically elicited, analyzed, and incorporated in conservation decisions. This study attempts to elicit levels of community satisfaction with three management approaches of Kakamega forest in Kenya and analyze factors influencing them. Three distinct management approaches are applied by three different authorities: an incentive-based approach of the Forest Department (FD), a protectionist approach of the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS), and a quasi-private incentive-based approach of Quakers Church Mission (QCM). Data was obtained from a random sample of about 360 households living within a 10-km radius around the forest margin. The protectionist approach was ranked highest overall for its performance in forest management. Results indicate that households are influenced by different factors in their ranking of management approaches. Educated households and those located far from market centers are likely to be dissatisfied with all the three management approaches. The location of the households from the forest margin influences negatively the satisfaction with the protectionist approach, whereas land size, a proxy for durable assets, has a similar effect on the private incentive based approach of the QCM. In conclusion, this article indicates a number of policy implications that can enable the different authorities and their management approaches to gain approval of the local communities.     

水体沉积物重金属生物有效性及评价方法

在研究以重金属为主要污染物的水体中,通常把沉积物视为探索环境重金属污染的工具。由于沉积物中重金属化学行为和生态效应的复杂性,对沉积物中重金属生物有效性的研究是当前学术界的热点研究课题。本文就沉积物中重金属的生物有效性及沉积物质量评价方法作了简要评述。包括沉积物对水生生物的作用机理,孔隙水重金属浓度的估算,沉积物质量评价方法,沉积物质量基准。     

试论如何实现土地的伦理利用

土地利用伦理机制是可持续土地利用的经济、法律和行政管理措施的重要辅助之一。介绍了土地伦理利用的基本概念，探讨了基本原则，并从土地利用伦理与经济、法律、行政政策、教育手段等角度提出了土地伦理利用的实现途径。     

对某建筑工地一起漏电事故的分析

分析了某建筑工地一起漏电事故漏电的原因 ,提出了整改措施并总结了教训。     

Alternative approaches to flood mitigation: a case study of Bangladesh

Floods were by far the most damaging type of natural disasters during the 1990s, in terms of both human impacts and socio-economic losses. Vulnerability to flooding disasters around the world is almost always differentiated by the socio-economic conditions of different income groups in the disaster area. In general, the poorer the income group (or the country) the more vulnerable it is likely to be to the adverse impacts of floods. The article argues that Bangladesh is the world's most flood-prone developing country in terms of the relative socio-economic impacts of floods. While conventional flood control strategies tend to be based on structural engineering approaches—such as the construction of large-scale embankments, diversion canals and dams—this article argues that more emphasis should be given to alternative, non-structural measures. The main lesson from recent flooding disasters in Bangladesh is that, in the absence of expensive structural measures, many non-structural ones can go a long way towards reducing vulnerability to and mitigating the impacts of floods.     

淮北地区小麦高产的生态限制因素与对策

本文在对影响淮北地区小麦高产的生态限制因素进行系统分析的基础上，提出了科学治水、施肥，合理灌溉，培肥地力，优化小麦群体动态结构等高产配套措施．     

基于生态适宜度和三角模型的煤矿临时建设用地复垦决策研究

开展煤矿临时建设用地生态化复垦利用是响应生态文明建设战略、践行“生态型土地整治+”理念、优化布局国土三生空间的重要途径。论文以重庆市綦江区14个煤矿的临时性建设用地为研究对象,构建由自然因素、区位因素、人口因素等8个因素,坡度、距道路距离、土壤污染程度等20多个评价因子组成的适宜性评价指标体系,采用综合权重法（AHP层次分析法+熵权法）赋权,将生态位适宜度模型和三角模型引入煤矿临时建设用地生态化复垦利用决策分析中。结果表明： 1）各评价单元不同复垦利用方向的生态适宜度指数平均值均大于0.5,研究区整体条件较好,基本适宜于不同复垦方向利用,但部分地块生态位适宜度系数较低,需要采取工程或生物措施对生境条件加以改善和整治。2）单方向复垦利用分析中,农业用地复垦方向适宜度呈“倒金字塔形”分布,以Ⅰ级（最适宜）面积最大,占比44.94%;建设用地复垦方向和生态用地复垦方向适宜度呈“橄榄形”分布,以Ⅱ级（适宜）面积最大,分别占到76.54%和58.02%。综合复垦利用方向分析中,各复垦利用方向的评价单元个数和面积,均呈现出农业用地>生态用地>建设用地的状态,三者分别占总面积的46.29%、30.17%、23.54%。3）影响农业用地复垦利用方向的主要因素为土壤质地、公众复垦意愿和耕地比重,影响建设用地复垦利用方向的主要因素为地质灾害易发程度、公众意愿和非农产业发展潜力,影响生态用地复垦利用方向的主要因素则为林地比率、人均林地面积和土壤有机质含量。该研究可为煤矿临时建设用地复垦方向确定提供方法参考和决策依据。     

Training of expatriate refugee health workers: Principles and practices

Abstract—This paper describes in detail the separate components of an ideal expatriate refugee health worker training course. Emphasis is given to organizational aspects of such courses.     

How the multilateral development banks can improve their technology transfer operations for water/sanitation projects in developing countries

Based on some 60 years of consulting practice in the field of environmental/sanitary engineering, about half in the USA and other affluent industrialized countries (ICs) and half with non-affluent developing countries (DCs), the Consultant summarizes the lessons leaned on why the technology transfer (TT) operation of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and other International Assistance Agencies (IAAs) have failed to achieve effective transfer of appropriate technology to DC practicioners in the environmental/sanitary engineering field, and presents the Consultant’s recommendations on feasible measures by which MDBs can significantly improve their TT operations. Eleven specific measures are recommended, all believed to be feasible for use by MDBs, as follows: (i) post-construction monitoring of project performance, (ii) develop appropriate design criteria for key infrastructure sectors, (iii) be realistic on O&M expectations, (iv) increase infrastructure project budgets to support TT, (v) prepare appropriate technology textbooks, (vi) sponsor graduate university programs in appropriate TT, (vii) sponsor appropriate TT professional journal, (viii) furnish copies of selected 1C references to DC-ers, (ix) sponsor work-type training assignments in ICs, (x) plan TT projects as series of steps, (xi) utilize ratired IC-ers for peripatetic training in DCs.     

Self-organization theories and environmental management: The case of South Moresby,Canada

This article presents a new approach to the analysis and management of large-scale societal problems with complex ecological, economic, and social dimensions. The approach is based on the theory of self-organizing systems—complex, open, far-from-equilibrium systems with nonlinear dynamics. A brief overview and comparison of different self-organization theories (synergetics, self-organization theory, hypercycles, and autopoiesis) is presented in order to isolate the key characteristics of such systems.The approach is used to develop an analysis of the landuse controversy in the South Moresby area of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. Critical variables are identified for each subsystem and classified by spatial and temporal scale, and discussed in terms of information content and internal/external origin. Eradication of sea otters, introduction of black-tailed deer, impacts of large-scale clearcut logging, sustainability of the coastal forest industry, and changing relations between native peoples and governments are discussed in detail to illustrate the system dynamics of the South Moresby sociobiophysical system. Finally, implications of the self-organizing sociobiophysical system view for regional analysis and management are identified.