太子河流域大型底栖动物水质评价及指数分析

分析了太子河流域大型底栖动物群落结构,采用大型底栖动物Chandler生物指数、Shannon-Wienner多样性指数、BMWP-ASPT记分系统、BI指数,对2015年度平水期太子河流域进行了水质生物评价,对以上4个指数的结果进行了Pearson相关性分析,讨论了各生物指数的适用性。将BI指数的评价结果与理化结果进行了比较分析。结果表明:BI指数更适于太子河流域开展水质生物评价。     

环境空气质量改善导向的财政资金分配模型与实施机制

"十三五"时期改进环境空气质量是首要任务,如何充分发挥财政资金对地方环境质量改善的引导和激励功能。文章提出了基于环境空气质量导向的财政激励资金分配模型和实施机制,并以2014~2015年的城市PM监测数据2.5进行了案例分析,结果表明该分配模型和实施机制具有科学性和可操作性,可以为建立环境空气质量导向的财政机制提供管理技术支撑。     

资源与环境综合承载力分析——以银川滨河新区总体规划为例

从自然、经济、社会环境承载力3个方面构建资源与环境承载力评价指标体系,利用层次分析法和相对比较法,确定指标体系的权重;利用模糊综合评价法和关联分析法,计算评价体系中各指标的承载力指数,最后,得出环境承载力指数,此外,对自然、经济和社会环境承载力之间的协调度进行分析。结果表明:伴随着区域发展模式的优化调整,银川滨河新区资源与环境承载力指数呈上升趋势,区域环境承载能力逐步增强,各承载力系统之间属于良好协调状态,自然、经济、社会环境系统呈良性循环的可持续发展态势。     

中国生物多样性变化趋势分析

在生物多样性受到严重威胁前提下,为评估中国生物多样性保护的成效,引入了世界自然保护联盟(IUCN)开发设计的红色名录指数(Red List Index,RLI),结合我国实际情况修订后,计算脊椎动物和维管植物的红色名录指数。结果显示,以均值法(Equal-steps method)计算的脊椎动物RLI有所上升,脊椎动物整体多样性丧失速率下降;而以灭绝风险法(Extinction risk method)计算的脊椎动物RLI有所下降,表明有部分高濒危等级的脊椎动物物种进一步丧失;两种方法计算的维管植物RLI均有所下降,说明维管植物多样性丧失速率加快;而基于均值法计算的维管植物RLI下降速率更快,说明数量较多的物种丧失速率加快,亟需加强保护。这是RLI在国家水平上进行应用,也是在国家水平上对RLI指数进行验证,计算结果将为我国生物多样性保护提供参考。     

Identification of hot spot and safe zones of ambient air quality in North Maharashtra region,India

The continuous infrastructural and economic development exerted pressure on the environmental conditions of the North Maharashtra region. The air quality of North Maharashtra region was analysed for the identification of hot spots and safe zones of ambient air quality. The result shows air pollution at some part of North Maharashtra region. The levels of particulate matter were above the prescribed limits especially at Bhusawal, Dhule and Jalgaon Urban centres. The traces of polyaromatic hydrocarbons were also observed in the urban centres of study area. The binary ratios of the persistent prevailing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)'s show great correlation with the vehicular exhaust in the study region. The higher levels of pollutants in the study region were recorded in the post-monsoon season. The present study is first of its kind in the North Maharashtra region and an attempt has been made to analyse the anthropogenic sources and concentration of air pollutants in the area. The air pollutants reduce the defence system of human body and lead into severe health consequences like damage of lung tissues with escalation in the existing respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.     

Evaluation of alternative approaches for screening contaminated sediments and soils for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans

Traditional high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) analysis for polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) can be time consuming and expensive. Consequently, alternative methods are of great interest to regulatory agencies and others characterizing contaminated sites. One factor that hinders acceptance of alternative methods is a lack of performance information that assesses the alternative method's impacts on analytical results. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund Innovative Technology Evaluation Monitoring and Measurement Technologies Program (EPA SITE MMT) encourages the development and implementation of innovative and alternative monitoring methods by providing performance information on site characterization technologies. This paper presents a comparison of the results obtained from laboratory-based alternative approaches for screening sediment and soil samples for dioxin toxicity equivalents (TEQ(D/F)) to results obtained using traditional HRMS. The laboratory-based approaches included modifying the traditional HRMS analysis to make it more cost-effective (alternate 1613B), analyzing extracts that had been prepared for HRMS using low resolution mass spectrometry, and determining total organic carbon (TOC) content as an indicator of PCDD/F content. These comparisons demonstrated that TEQ(D/F) values generated using toxicity equivalency factors proposed by the World Health Organization in 1998 applied to alternate 1613B and LRMS analyses have a strong linear correlation to the TEQ(D/F) values derived in the same fashion from traditional HRMS analysis. These results would have placed >90% of the samples within the same concentration intervals using ranges of <0.05, 0.05-0.50, 0.50-5, and >5ng TEQ/g. Natural log transformed data for TOC had significantly weaker correlation to TEQ(D/F), indicating that TOC is not a reliable indicator of TEQ(D/F) concentrations.     

Ambient monitoring of asbestos in selected Italian living areas

This paper presents the results of an intensive monitoring activity of the particulate, fall-out and soil of selected living areas in Italy with the aim to detect the asbestos concentration in air and subsequent risk of exposure for the population in ambient living environments, and to assess the nature of the other mineral phases composing the particulate matrix. Some areas were sorted out because of the presence of asbestos containing materials on site whereas others were used as blank spots in the attempt to detect the background environmental concentration of asbestos in air. Because the concentration of asbestos in ambient environments is presumably very low, and it is well known that conventional low–medium flow sampling systems with filters of small diameter (25 mm) may collect only a very small fraction of particulate over a short period, for the first time here, an intense monitoring activity was conducted with a high flow sampling system. The high flow system requires the use of large cellulose filters with the advantage that, increasing the amount of collected dust, the probability to collect asbestos fibers increases. Both the protocol of monitoring and analysis are novel and prompted by the need to increase the sensitivity towards the small number of expected fibers. With this goal, the collection of fall-out samples (the particulate falling into a collector filled with distilled water during the monitoring shift) and soil samples was also accomplished. The analytical protocol of the matrix particulate included preliminary X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), optical microscopy and quantitative electron microscopy (SEM and TEM). Correlations with climatic trends and PM10 concentration data were also attempted.The surprising outcome of this work is that, despite the nature of the investigated site, the amount of dispersed asbestos fibers is very low and invariably lower than the theoretical method detection limits of the SEM and TEM techniques for identification and counting of asbestos fibers. The results are compared to the literature data worldwide and an updated model for asbestos fibers dispersion in ambient environments is proposed.     

Effect of surrounding landscape on driving behaviour: A driving simulator study

This paper examines how three Swedish landscape types (open, forested, and varied) affect driver behaviour. The study was carried out in 2007 under controlled conditions in the VTI Driving Simulator III, Linköping, Sweden. Qualitative (questionnaires) and quantitative (simulator measurement) data were used. Eighteen subjects were selected, nine men and nine women aged 25–65 years, all licensed to drive for at least five years. Two hypotheses were established based on previous research: 1) landscape character (open, forested, or varied) affects driving behaviour (average speed, variation in lateral vehicle position, and steering wheel grasping frequency); and 2) landscape character affects driver perception of the driving situation. The first was tested in the driving simulator and the second via questionnaires concerning the simulator drive. The results indicate that the driver is affected by different landscape types. In the open landscape, subjects drove faster, did not drive as close to the centre of the road, and grasped the steering wheel more often while simultaneously experiencing less stress. Landscape also appears to be relevant to traffic safety, which has implications for choosing new routes when planning new roads and for maintaining existing roads.     

开发区工业用水量预测方法研究

本文阐述了开发区环境影响评价过程中开发区工业用水量预测的重要性及存在的问题,采用综合指标法和行业用水系数法分别计算了某开发区的现状用水量和规划期间的用水量,行业用水系数法的预测结果与现状吻合较好。对比分析了两种方法的依据、原理及优缺点,行业用水系数法的依据数据更新快,方法适应性好,且逐渐得到认可,推荐采用行业用水系数法进行开发区工业用水量的预测。     

基于火灾动力学模拟的古建筑火灾探测系统设计研究

古建筑的消防安全工作作为古建筑保护工作内容的重要组成部分,需要深入开展的消防科学的研究工作.目前在我国,缺少关于古建筑防火安全方面的规范,通常使用的处方式规范一般不适用于古建筑.性能化方法能够提供更加灵活和符合实际的解决方案.并且这可能是唯一可行的使古建筑达到可接受风险水平的方法.以布达拉宫东大殿为研究对象,探讨了性能化防火分析方法在古建筑防火保护中的应用.以对古建筑进行早期探测报警为目标进行了消防设施设置.应用FDS软件进行了模拟研究,根据模拟结果进行分析,得到了一些有益的结论并应用于消防设施设置.通过对探测器响应时间分析,探测器的设置合理,能够在第一时间报警,并且实现了消防安全设计的科学化、合理化和成本效益的最优化.