城市用地扩展对长沙市水系变化的影响

为了探讨水系变化与城市用地扩展之间的联系,为未来水生态修复及城市与生态环境协调发展提供依据及经验借鉴,基于长沙市1950s、1970s、1990s、2010s和2016年五期地形图及同期城市建设用地数据,对长沙市中心城区近60年来的五期水系及城市用地扩张情况进行统计,选取河网密度、水面率、干流河流曲度、河网发育系数指标定量描述水系变化特征。同时,运用城市用地扩张特征分析方法分析同期城市扩张的强弱与快慢,并叠加各流域范围内同期水系变化指标与城市拓展强度指标,分析长沙各阶段水系变迁与城市用地扩张强度之间的关系。研究表明：（1）城市建设用地扩展对城市水系数量及形态变化有直接影响;（2）各时期城市拓展强度均与水系特征指标值衰减速度呈正相关关系;（3）在城市扩展过程中破坏水系特征将加大水系生态、自然灾害风险,而有效的水生态保护政策和保护措施不仅可以使片区水系缩减趋势放缓,还可以加快周边用地扩展速度。     

北方地区市政污水氨氮强化处理技术研究

污水中氨氮的处理较为困难,在寒冷地区冬季生物脱氮效果几乎为零.本文从反应机理和影响因素研究入手,探讨低温季节强化处理措施、生物脱氮运行参数,最后确定了处理工艺流程,及其经济分析结果.     

生物脱氮处理城市污水初探

本文介绍了城市污水生物脱氮的基本原理，研究现状和进展。     

定量遥感技术在城市热岛效应研究及其治理中的应用

以长春市为例,基于LandSat7 ETM 影像数据定量反演晴空状态下城市地表温度、地表反照率和NDVI(归一化植被指数),通过分析地表温度空间分布状况及其与地表反照率、NDVI的关系,研究城市热岛效应并提出治理对策.研究表明:长春市城区热岛效应显著,热岛中心主要分布在铁北工业园区、二道区北部和绿园区西南部;城区的地表反照率和NDVI始终小于郊区;城区地表温度随着地表反照率和NDVI的增加而降低.因此,在提高工业热源和能源的利用率,减少热量散失和排放的同时,提高城区植被覆盖率和地表反照率可以有效缓解城市热岛效应给城市生态环境带来的不良影响.     

抚顺市大气降尘污染状况及变化趋势分析

对抚顺市20年来城市环境空气中自然降尘的污染状况及变化趋势进行了全面分析。分析认为抚顺市环境中自然降尘的污染比较重,其中工业区的污染十分严重，交通区的污染也呈上升趋势，近几年由于沙尘天气的频繁出现，导致春季污染加重。并针对降尘的污染状况及变化趋势，提出相应的治理办法及防治途径。     

对我区城市环境综合整治定量考核工作的回顾与思考

本文对1996-2000年全区城市环境综合整治定量考核工作进行了全面的分析，介绍了目前“城考”工作的状况，总结了经验，对今后的“城考”工作提出了建议。     

碱渣与生活垃圾混合填埋的实验研究

以碱渣(白泥)和生活垃圾按不同比例混合填埋,模拟真实垃圾填埋场的垃圾降解条件,进行垃圾降解实验以探索白泥存在对垃圾填埋场垃圾降解过程的影响。通过21周的室内模拟实验,垃圾填埋时填加白泥可以提高渗滤液出水的pH值和电导率DS值,降低出水的COD值。得出垃圾填埋时加入适量白泥是经济有效的固体废弃物处理处置方法的结论。     

城市地下交通联系隧道烟气控制探讨

为了给城市地下交通联系隧道(UTLT)防排烟系统设计和人员应急救援提供参考依据,以重庆某UTLT二期工程一段主隧道为例,开展全尺寸火灾试验,探讨了横向排烟方案的烟控效果,并验证了Alpert顶棚最高温升衰减模型。结果表明,UTLT主隧道段采用横向排烟方案,当防烟分区长度为120 m时,采用的排烟量设计方法是合理的。当隧道为上坡时,最有利的烟气控制模式为同时开启着火分区及下游相邻分区的排烟系统和与排烟分区紧邻的上、下游两个分区的补风系统。隧道顶部烟气最高温升衰减规律为:下游距火源无量纲距离r/H0.57及上游部分,呈指数衰减;下游距火源无量纲距离r/H0.57部分,呈幂函数衰减,且衰减程度与排烟方案有关。     

Risk and safety perception on urban and rural roads: Effects of environmental features,driver age and risk sensitivity

Objective: The ability to detect changing visual information is a vital component of safe driving. In addition to detecting changing visual information, drivers must also interpret its relevance to safety. Environmental changes considered to have high safety relevance will likely demand greater attention and more timely responses than those considered to have lower safety relevance. The aim of this study was to explore factors that are likely to influence perceptions of risk and safety regarding changing visual information in the driving environment. Factors explored were the environment in which the change occurs (i.e., urban vs. rural), the type of object that changes, and the driver's age, experience, and risk sensitivity.

Methods: Sixty-three licensed drivers aged 18–70 years completed a hazard rating task, which required them to rate the perceived hazardousness of changing specific elements within urban and rural driving environments. Three attributes of potential hazards were systematically manipulated: the environment (urban, rural); the type of object changed (road sign, car, motorcycle, pedestrian, traffic light, animal, tree); and its inherent safety risk (low risk, high risk). Inherent safety risk was manipulated by either varying the object's placement, on/near or away from the road, or altering an infrastructure element that would require a change to driver behavior. Participants also completed two driving-related risk perception tasks, rating their relative crash risk and perceived risk of aberrant driving behaviors.

Results: Driver age was not significantly associated with hazard ratings, but individual differences in perceived risk of aberrant driving behaviors predicted hazard ratings, suggesting that general driving-related risk sensitivity plays a strong role in safety perception. In both urban and rural scenes, there were significant associations between hazard ratings and inherent safety risk, with low-risk changes perceived as consistently less hazardous than high-risk impact changes; however, the effect was larger for urban environments. There were also effects of object type, with certain objects rated as consistently more safety relevant. In urban scenes, changes involving pedestrians were rated significantly more hazardous than all other objects, and in rural scenes, changes involving animals were rated as significantly more hazardous. Notably, hazard ratings were found to be higher in urban compared with rural driving environments, even when changes were matched between environments.

Conclusion: This study demonstrates that drivers perceive rural roads as less risky than urban roads, even when similar scenarios occur in both environments. Age did not affect hazard ratings. Instead, the findings suggest that the assessment of risk posed by hazards is influenced more by individual differences in risk sensitivity. This highlights the need for driver education to account for appraisal of hazards’ risk and relevance, in addition to hazard detection, when considering factors that promote road safety.     

Positive perceptions of green and open space as predictors of neighbourhood quality of life: implications for urban planning across the city region

The provision of green and open space in the face of wider development pressure is a key urban challenge. Despite this, few studies have critically investigated the quality of life implications of such provision. This paper focuses on perceptions of built environment factors and their influence on neighbourhood quality of life. Data are drawn from a household survey questionnaire completed by 483 residents living in three neighbourhoods in Dublin, Ireland – an inner city neighbourhood, a suburb and a peri-urban settlement. Positive perceptions of green and open space were identified as important predictors of high levels of neighbourhood satisfaction, surpassed only by dwelling characteristics. This suggests that development strategies which fail to provide for properly planned green and open spaces may be detrimental to neighbourhood quality of life. Furthermore, the results suggest a need for design solutions which consider neighbourhood typology in achieving improved neighbourhood quality of life.