制定湖泊营养物基准的技术方法研究进展

湖泊营养物基准是指用可信的科学数据表示水中营养物的允许浓度和生态指标的阈值,是制定富营养化标准、评价湖泊状态依据。文章分析了国外制定湖泊营养物基准的方法:参照状态法、输入-响应模型法和机理推断法,并概述了目前湖泊富营养化预测模型。通过分析对比,提出了适合我国湖泊营养物基准制定的技术方法及思路。     

国家生态工业示范园区与ISO14000国家示范区的评价标准比较研究

国家生态工业示范园区和ISO14000国家示范区,是国家环保部推行的两种示范园区,这两种示范园区的有效推行,在提升经济发展和生态环境保护的协调性方面具有重要意义。从示范园区申报和评价标准两个角度,首次对两种示范园区的异同进行讨论,在此基础上提出,在生态工业示范园区的建设过程中,融入ISO14000的管理机制、环境因素等,可以更好地促进生态工业园区的建设发展。     

Optimizing voluntary compliance in marine protected areas: a comparison of recreational fisher and enforcement officer perspectives using multi-criteria analysis

A comprehensive list of planning criteria for optimizing compliance in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) was compiled and used to compare the views of recreational fishers and compliance officers for facilitating voluntary compliance in the Port Stephens - Great Lakes Marine Park (PSGLMP). Expert working groups were tasked separately with: 1) criteria identification and weighting; 2) scoring of no-take zones; 3) prioritizing and determining uncertainty; and 4) analysis of results and sensitivity testing. Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) revealed that both groups had similar perspectives and recommendations, despite weighting the individual planning criteria differently. Significantly, "manageability" scores for no-take zones from MCA appeared to correlate well with past numbers of enforcement actions recorded for each zone. This provides empirical evidence that adopting manageability criteria during the planning of MPAs could lead to a marked increase in voluntary compliance. As a result, greater consideration to compliance planning during MPA design and zoning is recommended in order to optimize voluntary compliance. Whilst the majority of no-take zones in the PSGLMP case study were evaluated as being relatively effective in terms of optimizing voluntary compliance, there remains considerable potential to improve design, management and use of the poorer performing zones. Finally, the study highlighted the value of recreational fisher engagement in MPA planning processes to maximize voluntary compliance and manageability.     

我国铜的淡水生物水质基准研究

铜是生命体必需的一种微量元素,当铜的浓度超过一定范围时,又会对机体产生一定的毒害作用.为了有效控制铜给水生生物带来的不利影响,亟需开展铜的水质基准研究工作.以我国淡水生态系统为保护对象,收集和筛选了淡水水体中的生物物种和相应的毒性数据.用评价因子法、毒性百分数排序法和物种敏感度分布法分别推导了我国铜的淡水生物水质基准....     

多因子影响下铜的水质基准及生态风险

为探究特定水环境中多因子影响下的铜水质基准及生态风险,采用物种权重敏感度分布法、水效应比法和生物配体模型推导保护太湖水生生物铜的水质基准.根据推导结果,推荐采用最大浓度基准值(CMC)1.43 μg/L和持续浓度基准值(CCC)1.33 μg/L.结合水效应比法和生物配体模型,采用联合概率法评估太湖铜的生态风险.结果表明,两种方法下丰水期5%水生生物受到铜慢性毒性影响的概率分别为23.43%和39.43%,而未考虑多因子影响的风险概率为85.01%,高估了太湖铜生态风险.可见,水环境多因子对水质基准和生态风险的影响不容忽视,我国目前使用的铜标准可能无法保护特定区域的水生生物.考虑多因子影响可提高基准值推导和风险评估的科学性,避免"过保护"和"欠保护"现象.     

3种典型污染物对水生生物的急性毒性效应及其水质基准比较

我国本土水生生物急性毒性数据较少,通过研究Cr(Ⅵ)、2,4,6-三氯酚和硝基苯对蛋白核小球藻(Chlorella pyrenoidosa)、斜生栅藻(Scenedesmus obliqnus)和摇蚊幼虫(Chironomidae larvae)的急性毒性效应,为制定和完善我国水质基准提供本土数据支持.结果表明,Cr(Ⅵ)、2,4,6-三氯酚和硝基苯对蛋白核小球藻的96 h半抑制效应浓度(96 h-EC50)依次为1.34、4.55和86.58 mg·L-1;对斜生栅藻的96 h-EC50依次为19.52、3.71和74.15 mg·L-1;当Cr(Ⅵ)达到1 500 mg·L-1时,摇蚊幼虫48 h死亡率仅为15%,2,4,6-三氯酚和硝基苯对摇蚊幼虫的48 h半致死效应浓度(48 h-LC50)分别为9.29 mg·L-1和98.34 mg·L-1.3种典型污染物的毒性评估结果显示,Cr(Ⅵ)对小球藻为高等毒性、对斜生栅藻为中等毒性,2,4,6-三氯酚对两种微藻均为高等毒性,硝基苯对两种微藻均为中等毒性;3种污染物对摇蚊幼虫的毒性顺序为:2,4,6-三氯酚>硝基苯>Cr(Ⅵ).     

环境基准向环境标准转化的机制探讨

中国正逐步开展较系统的环境基准研究工作,为制订更加合理有效的环境标准提供科学依据.以探索环境基准向环境标准在中国转化的适宜机制为目的,将中国的环境基准和标准研究制定现状与美国、加拿大、澳大利亚等发达国家对比,总结出发达国家环境基准向环境标准转化的四点共性特征以及中国在相应方面存在的问题,在此基础上提出由包含中央和地方两个层次的机构职责模块,涵盖影响因子体系及其作用机理的转化路径模块,以及针对中国环境基准标准现状问题的政策保障模块三大功能的环境基准向环境标准转化机制框架,并具体阐述了各模块的主要内容及其相互关系.     

HAZOP – Local approach in the Mexican oil & gas industry

HAZOP (Hazard and Operability) studies began about 40 years ago, when the Process Industry and complexity of its operations start to massively grow in different parts of the world. HAZOP has been successfully applied in Process Systems hazard identification by operators, design engineers and consulting firms. Nevertheless, after a few decades since its first applications, HAZOP studies are not truly standard in worldwide industrial practice. It is common to find differences in its execution and results format. The aim of this paper is to show that in the Mexican case at National level in the oil and gas industry, there exist an explicit acceptance risk criteria, thus impacting the risk scenarios prioritizing process. Although HAZOP studies in the Mexican oil & gas industry, based on PEMEX corporate standard has precise acceptance criteria, it is not a significant difference in HAZOP applied elsewhere, but has the advantage of being fully transparent in terms of what a local industry is willing to accept as the level of risk acceptance criteria, also helps to gain an understanding of the degree of HAZOP applications in the Mexican oil & gas sector. Contrary to this in HAZOP ISO standard, risk acceptance criteria is not specified and it only mentions that HAZOP can consider scenarios ranking. The paper concludes indicating major implications of risk ranking in HAZOP, whether before or after safeguards identification.     

Assessment of emerging and innovative techniques considering best available technique performances

For the past 20 years, the European context has been policy-driven by several directives to reduce pollution, one of the most important for industries being the industrial emissions directive (IED). The IED's objective is to minimise pollution from various industrial sources throughout the European Union. One means of attaining the objective is to implement techniques which have at least the same performance as reference techniques called best available techniques (BAT) given at European level. The study of existing methodologies on performance assessment of proven or emerging techniques has made it apparent that there are none taking into account the 12 criteria proposed by the Annex III of the IED to evaluate technique performances. Even if innovative techniques are not considered by the IED, support to (public or private) researchers in their development in terms of assessment methodology must be proposed. This is what we present in this article.The methodology based on a tree-structured information system (objectives, criteria, indicators) and a qualitative assessment of indicators (environmental, technical, economic and social) is an initial approach to an innovative technique assessment method considering BAT on laboratory or industrial scales. In an aim to adapt the criteria and indicators to a specific process, assessment methodologies must be adaptable. Our method allows for choosing indicators to comply perfectly with the process studied. Only the first level of the tree is fixed. The other branches could be adapted to the case studied. Performance assessment is based on a five-level scale coupled with a simple multi-criteria analysis (MCA) method. Three different applications (sludge valorisation, urban wastewater treatment, soil remediation) were carried out to validate the methodology, two of them are presented. Applications of this methodology show its usefulness in the validation of techniques for specific process and local application of the BAT concept and the performance assessment regarding BAT definition. It can then be used to detect innovative and emerging techniques to be proposed for the reviewing of the European BREF documents.     

Identifying Biotic Integrity and Water Chemistry Relations in Nonwadeable Rivers of Wisconsin: Toward the Development of Nutrient Criteria

We sampled 41 sites on 34 nonwadeable rivers that represent the types of rivers in Wisconsin, and the kinds and intensities of nutrient and other anthropogenic stressors upon each river type. Sites covered much of United States Environmental Protection Agency national nutrient ecoregions VII—Mostly Glaciated Dairy Region, and VIII—Nutrient Poor, Largely Glaciated upper Midwest. Fish, macroinvertebrates, and three categories of environmental variables including nutrients, other water chemistry, and watershed features were collected using standard protocols. We summarized fish assemblages by index of biotic integrity (IBI) and its 10 component measures, and macroinvertebrates by 2 organic pollution tolerance and 12 proportional richness measures. All biotic and environmental variables represented a wide range of conditions, with biotic measures ranging from poor to excellent status, despite nutrient concentrations being consistently higher than reference concentrations reported for the regions. Regression tree analyses of nutrients on a suite of biotic measures identified breakpoints in total phosphorus (~0.06 mg/l) and total nitrogen (~0.64 mg/l) concentrations at which biotic assemblages were consistently impaired. Redundancy analyses (RDA) were used to identify the most important variables within each of the three environmental variable categories, which were then used to determine the relative influence of each variable category on the biota. Nutrient measures, suspended chlorophyll a, water clarity, and watershed land cover type (forest or row-crop agriculture) were the most important variables and they explained significant amounts of variation within the macroinvertebrate (R ² = 60.6%) and fish (R ² = 43.6%) assemblages. The environmental variables selected in the macroinvertebrate model were correlated to such an extent that partial RDA analyses could not attribute variation explained to individual environmental categories, assigning 89% of the explained variation to interactions among the categories. In contrast, partial RDA attributed much of the explained variation to the nutrient (25%) and other water chemistry (38%) categories for the fish model. Our analyses suggest that it would be beneficial to develop criteria based upon a suite of biotic and nutrient variables simultaneously to deem waters as not meeting their designated uses.