黑水河干旱河谷沿程土壤物理参数梯度变化特征研究

横断山区干旱河谷是具有典型的旱季和雨季的特殊气候特征的区域,本区域土壤退化和荒漠化极大制约了区域农业的发展。本文研究了金沙江干热河谷区支流黑水河从源头到河口未扰动土壤的物理参数变化特征。结果表明,沿河土壤物理呈现不同变化趋势,砾石在中游部分河段和河口段高,而〉5mm团聚体的变化则相反;5～1mm的团聚体变化不大;〈1mm团聚体河口和源头段高于其余地段;土壤容重沿程增大,非饱和导水率源头地段土壤最高。本研究初步揭示了干旱河谷土壤不均匀,不同水热条件及其组合可能对退化程度有至关重要的影响。这表明横断山区不同的干旱河谷地段土壤和植被退化途径、退化特征和退化过程不同,开发和治理途径与方式也应当不同。     

小清河底泥污染物释放对西水东调水质的影响研究

采用静态和动态试验方法研究了小清河底泥污染物释放对其水质的影响。研究结果表明：将小清河底泥置于清洁的自来水中，底泥与自来水之间存在着浓度不平衡，底泥污染物发生了静态、动态释放，造成清洁水体污染，使Ⅱ类水质变为劣Ⅴ类水质，不利于西水东调。底泥污染物的释放程度与底泥污染物含量、河水流速、污染物的种类有关。为此，我们提出了防止小清河底泥污染物释放污染水体水质的措施，以解决好底泥污染问题。     

川西古镇大气环境容量计算模型

通过对川西古镇大气环境污染特点的分析。根据箱体内污染物“物质守恒”原理，以箱式模型为基础，推导出箱体内污染物之浓度随时问和空间的变化规律。建立了适合于川西古镇大气环境容量的数值计算模型。在此基础上，根据污染物自身特点，引入k1、k2两个浓度修正系数，分别建立了适合于该区域的SO2和TSP环境容量计算的修正模型。当研究区域具有下垫面变化显著或大气污染源源强变化显著等特点时，应使用改进后的单箱模式。     

国家“两山”基地经济与生态环境协调发展评价——以浙江省宁海县为例

科学评价经济与生态环境的协调发展水平是实现区域可持续发展的有效途径,目前对生态优先但评价尺度较小的国家“两山”基地的研究较为缺乏。以浙江省宁海县为例,选取与经济和环境状况密切相关的8个一级指标、32个二级指标,建立经济与生态环境协调发展评价指标体系,通过耦合协调度模型,评价2006—2017年宁海县经济与生态环境协调发展水平,并分析其演变规律。结果表明:2006—2017年宁海县经济发展和生态环境保护子系统的综合发展指数总体呈波动上升趋势,生态环境保护水平高于经济发展水平。宁海县的协调发展水平可分为3个阶段:2006—2009年,协调发展度较低,处于濒临失调衰退类;2010—2011年,协调发展度稳中有升,为勉强协调发展类;2012—2017年,协调发展度稳步提升,呈现从初级向中级再向良好和优质协调类发展。     

Audience segmentation to improve targeting of conservation interventions for hunters

Audience segmentation could help improve the effectiveness of conservation interventions. Marketers use audience segmentation to define the target audience of a campaign. The technique involves subdividing a general population into groups that share similar profiles, such as sociodemographic or behavioral characteristics. Interventions are then designed to target the group or groups of interest. We explored the potential of audience segmentation for use in defining conservation target groups with a case study of hunters in Liberia. Using 2 data sets describing households (n = 476) and hunters (n = 205), we applied a clustering method in which infinite binomial mixture models group hunters and households according to livelihood and behavior variables and a simple method to define target groups based on hunting impact (hunting households and high-impact hunters). Clusters of hunters and households differed in their experiences with confiscation of catch at roadblocks and participation in livelihood-support programs, indicating that these interventions operate unevenly across subsets of the population. By contrast, the simple method masked these insights because profiles of hunting households and high-impact hunters were similar to those of the general population. Clustering results could be used to guide the development of livelihood and regulatory interventions. For example, a commonly promoted agricultural activity, cocoa farming, was practiced by only 2% (out of 87) of the largest hunter cluster of nonlocal gun hunters but was prevalent among local trappers, suggesting that assistance aimed at cocoa farmers is less appropriate for the former group. Our results support the use of audience segmentation across multiple variables to improve targeted intervention designs in conservation.     

Fostering Sustainability in Headwaters Country: Using Bioregional and Social Capital Strategies in Support of Sustainability

Abstract

Many of Canada's ex-urban and rural areas face a daunting array of sustainability challenges. In developing effective sustainability strategies, these areas must rely heavily upon local resources and capacities and existing social capital. Part of the solution for these areas may lie in multi-stakeholder collaborative approaches built on sustainability principles and strategies. These include the engagement and mobilization of civil society networks; the cultivation of strategic partnerships among key stakeholders in civil society, the private sector and government; and long-term local programmes of research, education and advocacy that are supportive of sustainability. This article describes and analyses a Canadian case study—Dufferin County, part of the Headwaters Country region in southern Ontario—in which a multi-stakeholder, civil society based approach to fostering sustainability is currently unfolding. The ideological and theoretical underpinnings of the initiative are explored, key process-oriented and substantive challenges to the approach are analysed and action research strategies are discussed.     

横断山区干旱河谷大气水资源变化特征与演变趋势研究

利用横断山区干旱河谷内24个气象站逐月降水、气温等观测资料,依托高桥浩一郎陆面蒸发公式,计算了干旱河谷区陆面蒸发、可利用降水等水资源分量,并分析了各分量的未来演变趋势。结果表明:干旱河谷区年均降水量723.7mm,而年均蒸发量高达479.5mm,降水量中有超过84.89%因蒸发而损耗;大气水资源分量P、E及PE季节变化非常明显,夏季各分量最大,多年平均值达404.9mm、239.9mm和164.8mm,各占全年的55.94%、50.04%和67.51%,而冬季各分量最小,占全年的比例也相应最小,仅为2.96%、4.06%和0.79%;大气水资源各分量年代际差异很大,20世纪60年代可利用水资源丰富,70年代相对偏少,80和90年代逐渐增加,进入21世纪后又呈现为偏少特征;未来干旱河谷区的降水量维持减少的概率较转向增加的概率要小,蒸发量将依然维持增加的趋势,而可利用水资源量会继续维持减少的倾向。     

温度和水分对大兴安岭多年冻土区森林土壤有机碳矿化的影响

温度和水分是影响土壤有机碳矿化的重要因素,而北方高纬度地区对气候变化响应敏感.本文选取大兴安岭多年冻土区落叶松和樟子松两种森林土壤(0～15 cm)为研究对象,通过测定不同温度(5、10和15℃)及水分(设置土壤含水率分别为30%、45%和60%)处理下的土壤有机碳矿化速率,以明确多年冻土区土壤有机碳矿化对不同梯度环境变化及其交互作用的响应.结果表明:研究区土壤累积碳矿化量为0.39～2.29 mg·g~(-1),落叶松林土壤高于樟子松林土壤,且矿化率随着培养时间延长呈先降低后稳定的趋势;土壤有机碳矿化程度随温度升高而显著增加(p0.001),但其对水分的响应因林型而异,落叶松土壤有机碳矿化程度随水分增加而降低,樟子松土壤有机碳矿化程度随水分增加而增加;温度和水分的交互作用对土壤有机碳矿化程度的影响未达到显著水平;土壤有机碳矿化的温度敏感性以土壤含水量为30%的落叶松土壤培养时最低(2.11),以土壤含水量为60%的落叶松土壤培养时最高(2.50),水分和林型对其影响不显著.     

Association of body mass with price of bushmeat in Nigeria and Cameroon

Spatially extensive patterns of bushmeat extraction (and the processes underlying these patterns) have not been explored. We used data from a large sample (n= 87) of bushmeat trading points in urban and rural localities in Nigeria and Cameroon to explore extraction patterns at a regional level. In 7,594 sample days, we observed 61,267 transactions involving whole carcasses. Rural and urban trading points differed in species for sale and in meat condition (fresh or smoked). Carcass price was principally associated with body mass, with little evidence that taxonomic group (primate, rodent, ungulate, or mammalian carnivore) affected price. Moreover, meat condition was not consistently associated with price. However, some individual species were more expensive throughout the region than would be expected for their size. Prices were weakly positively correlated with human settlement size and were highest in urban areas. Supply did not increase proportionally as human settlement size increased, such that per capita supply was significantly lower in urban centers than in rural areas. Policy options, including banning hunting of more vulnerable species (those that have low reproductive rates), may help to conserve some species consumed as bushmeat because carcass prices indicate that faster breeding, and therefore the more sustainable species, may be substituted and readily accepted by consumers.     

Safeguarding livelihoods or exacerbating poverty? Artisanal mining and formalization in West Africa

In recent years, policy mechanisms to support a formalized artisanal and small‐scale mining (ASM) sector in sub‐Saharan Africa have gained increasing currency. Proponents of formalization argue that most social and environmental problems associated with the sector stem from the fact that ASM is predominantly unregulated and operates outside the legal sphere. This paper critically examines recent efforts to formalize artisanal and small‐scale mining in West Africa, drawing upon recent fieldwork carried out in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Mali. In exploring the sector's livelihood dimensions, the analysis suggests that bringing unregulated, informal mining activities into the legal domain remains a considerable challenge. The paper concludes by confirming the urgent need to refocus formalization strategies on the main livelihood challenges and constraints of small‐scale miners themselves, if poverty is to be alleviated and more benefits are to accrue to depressed communities in mineral‐rich regions.