上海人口变化与资源环境效应分析

作为特大型城市,上海2008年常住人口总量已达1 888万,城市化水平也以87%高居全国首位.通过分析上海1978-2008年30年来人口变化特征及其资源环境效应表明,伴随着人口规模不断扩大和城市化水平快速提升,2008年上海居民生活电耗和水耗分别是1978年的17倍和5倍,占资源消费总量的比例也逐年快速攀升;生活废水排放量已取代工业废水成为最大贡献源,占废水排放总量的比例高达80%;生活废气排放总量相对稳定.针对上海实现可持续发展所面临的人口难题,从依据人口发展规律调整城市发展战略,通过产业结构调整带动经济增长方式转变,切实加大环保投入力度促进治污防污,进一步提高公众环保意识和企业环保责任等几个方面提出了破解这一难题的对策与建议.     

三峡库区农村移民安置模式对移民家庭收入的影响分析

利用2007年三峡库区就地后靠农村移民的抽样调查数据,根据农村移民收入来源理论,采用单因素方差分析方法,对移民户和非移民户,以及不同安置方式移民户的收入结构进行比较分析,以说明移民搬迁和不同安置方式对移民收入的不同影响。结果表明：移民搬迁对移民收入存在结构性的影响,即移民搬迁主要影响移民户的家庭经营收入,同时,移民的后期扶持政策抵消了移民搬迁对移民收入的影响;不同的安置方式对移民户收入也存在显著的影响,纯农业安置和兼业安置对移民收入的不利影响较小,而非农业安置对移民户收入的影响较大;非移民安置户享受到的惠农政策和移民后期扶持政策的好处也相对要少;从收入来源的角度来讲,纯农业安置和兼业安置的收入风险相对较低,而非农业安置的收入风险相对较高,所以,纯农业安置和兼业安置对多数农村移民而言是较为适合的安置模式,移民后期扶持补助政策对于稳定移民收入有积极作用     

潘口水电站移民安置区土地流转补偿标准研究

兴修大中型水利水电工程不可避免地要征收大量农田,造成大量移民非自愿性搬迁.我国实行开发性移民的方针,强调农村移民主要采取农业安置的策略.然而,移民的迁入势必会对安置区居民的土地权益带来负面的影响.因此,根据"卡尔多-希克斯"社会福利改进标准,要实现安置区土地向移民转移过程的社会福利改进,需要对利益受损的安置区集体和居民给予相应的补偿以弥补其福利损失.本文以湖北省竹山县潘口水电站为例,在对竹山县溢水镇、宝丰镇两个乡(镇)5个移民安置点的73户安置区居民进行问卷调查的基础上,运用条件价值法(CVM)对安置区土地流转的补偿标准进行了实证研究,研究结果表明:潘口水电站移民安置区土地流转补偿执行标准均未达到农地实际价值的一半,水田的补偿程度为49.54%.旱地的补偿程度为为44.54%,安置区集体和居民没有获得充分的补偿,因此,需要提高安置区土地流转补偿标准,使安置区居民也能和移民一样地分享到水利水电工程带来的增值收益.     

水利水电工程移民补偿的治理机制研究

有效和妥善地解决工程移民的搬迁和安置问题,不仅是水利事业顺利发展的关键,也是预防和减缓社会矛盾的关键.在改革开放时期,移民补偿问题的解决方式是前所未有的.为了解释这种移民补偿方式,本研究以湖南省洪江和碗米坡两个水电站的移民搬迁和安置过程为案例,从治理机制的角度进行分析.研究发现完成移民补偿的治理机制是一种包含了命令、交易、合作的混合机制.水电公司是水能开发的最大受益者,也是移民补偿的责任人,但它并不直接去完成移民补偿,而是将移民补偿的任务用合同的方式外包给市级政府.市级政府分解了从水电公司获得的任务和资金,并用行政命令要求下级政府完成补偿任务.县级政府分配了任务给乡镇政府,乡镇政府再分配任务给行政村.行政村的村委会接受任务后,将补偿资金转交给移民,并用村集体中的合作机制向移民提供耕地、宅基地等资源.这种混合式的治理机制使得移民补偿任务能够按期顺利完成,具有非常强的有效性.     

Reserve Design to Maximize Species Persistence

We develop a reserve design strategy to maximize the probability of species persistence predicted by a stochastic, individual-based, metapopulation model. Because the population model does not fit exact optimization procedures, our strategy involves deriving promising solutions from theory, obtaining promising solutions from a simulation optimization heuristic, and determining the best of the promising solutions using a multiple-comparison statistical test. We use the strategy to address a problem of allocating limited resources to new and existing reserves. The best reserve design depends on emigration, dispersal mortality, and probabilities of movement between reserves. When movement probabilities are symmetric, the best design is to expand a subset of reserves to equal size to exhaust the habitat budget. When movement probabilities are not symmetric, the best design does not expand reserves to equal size and is strongly affected by movement probabilities and emigration rates. We use commercial simulation software to obtain our results.     

Population and development: impacts on environmental performance

Population growth and development patterns have a significant impact on the environmental performance. The issue of concern is whether population growth or the consumption/production patterns are responsible for environmental deterioration. This paper is an attempt to capture the impact of technological development, affluence, and population on environmental performance index, while previous studies had captured the impact of these three factors on environment only through CO₂ emissions. The analysis reveals that technological development and population size have a negative impact on environmental performance, whereas measures to improve affluence have a positive impact. Technological development has increased the production of energy efficient products but at the same time consumption of these products has increased manifold leading to environmental deterioration. Demographic attributes need specific attention to improve environmental performance. This paper concludes on some policy reflections on slowing the population growth as well as persuades individuals and economies to relook to their consumption and production patterns and channelize their efforts to protect the environment.     

三峡工程的环境与移民问题

三峡水利枢纽是在长江上修建的世界第一大水电站,它规模宏大,举世属目,具有巨大的防洪,发电,航运等综合效益,是开发治理长江的骨干工程。三峡工程建设将对生态与环境产生广泛而深远的影响,为国内外所关注。它的有利影响主要在长江中下游,能有效地抗御洪水和提供巨量的清洁洁能源;不利影响主要是在库区,将形成库区淹没和大量移民。     

The Middle Eastern small towns

In recent years there has been a large increase in the number of small towns with populations between 5,000 and 10,000 in the Middle East. They represent an immense variety of urban types fulfilling a great range of functions. This paper looks at the characteristics of these settlements and argues that they have been largely neglected in the study of Middle East urbanisation and calls for comprehensive national urban planning orientated towards the needs of small towns.     

三峡库区城镇移民迁建的问题与对策

根据三峡库区城镇迁宾方针、目标和原则,结合当胶城镇的迁建状况,总结出迁建过程中存在的７个主要问题：（１）迁建城镇人口和用地规模普遍偏大;（２）城市用地布局过于分散;（３）盲目跨江发展,大量库区岸线被占用;（４）移民就业安置不够落实;（５）“二次移民”返贫现象出现;（６）对城市搬迁与城市功能再造认识不足;（７）城镇迁建区生态,环境破坏严重。     

Northern New England's threatened soft-shell clam populations

Commercial exhaustion of soft-shell clam,Mya arenaria, had become the fate of many potentially productive clamming areas along the coasts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and southern Maine. Investigations of a particularly severe case of soft-shell clam stock depletion in Hampton-Seabrook estuary, New Hampshire, indicated that by 1976 human diggers had removed approximately 87% of the adult clam resource that had existed in 1971. Meanwhile, circumstantial evidence strongly implicated the green crab,Carcinus maenas, as responsible for successive stock recruitment failures, these crabs having consumed most of the young seed clams before they could grow to harvestable size. In 1976, this apparent population imbalance may have been at least partly redressed by a prodigious spatfall, resulting in a massive and widespread reseeding of many flats along the northern New England coast. Spat, or seed clam, densities of up to 1,700 individuals per square foot, over areas of several acres, have been observed. Those clamming areas where aggressive predator control programs had been instituted exhibited the most favorable response in terms of seed clam survival and growth. Evidence also indicated that crowding in thickly seeded portions of the clam flats inhibited shell growth.