中国生态环境的新特点及其对策

在分析我国生态环境现状的基础上 ,提出了生态环境发展的 3个新特点 :①由单纯的工业污染过渡到工业和大众消费形成的污染并存阶段 ,而且乡镇企业污染问题越来越突出 ;②水体污染由工业污染发展到工业污染加农业污染的复合污染 ;③生态恶化问题正在由局部扩展到更大范围 ,从流域的一部分扩到全流域 .针对目前生态环境目前出现的新特点 ,在对策上提出了应实现 3个方面的转变 :①在环境污染控制上 ,应从末端治理发展到清洁生产 ;②在生态保护上 ,应从生态赤字到生态建设 ;③在污染治理上 ,从“谁污染、谁治理”转变到“谁污染、谁付费”、“谁治理、谁收益”.     

一种兼顾目标总量和容量总量的水污染物排放限值确定方法

针对中国水污染物总量管理面临由目标总量管理向容量总量管理的转变趋势,提出了一种兼顾两种管理模式的水污染物排放限值计算方法.该方法建立在水体分类计算、汇水区与行政区相关联、自下而上、不同保护要求的水体予以差别化对待、污染物控制类型扩展的原则上,将水体按环境容量利用方式的不同划分为保护性利用、恢复性利用、控制性利用、开发性利用和限制性利用5种类型,分别采用目标总量、混合管理、容量总量、容量总量和混合管理等不同模式,并给出了分别按汇水区和行政区计算污染物排放限值的一般过程. 将上述方法应用于西南区域发展战略环评案例,结果表明云南省31.25%地市需调减COD总量,43.75%地市需调减氨氮总量,而贵州省55.56%地市可适当调增COD总量,44.44%地市可适当调增氨氮排放总量.该方法可将总量限值的确定与当地水环境质量改善紧密结合,强化水环境对现状质量不达标地区未来发展的约束,同时适当减弱水环境条件对达标地区的约束以换取其发展空间.以计算出的排放限值为依据对当前的减排目标进行调整可为云贵实现又好又快发展提供支撑.经案例验证,本文所建立的方法为中国水环境管理从目标总量模式向容量总量模式发展提供了技术手段.     

Landscape fires as social disasters: An overview of ‘the bushfire problem’

The ‘landscape’, ‘bushfire’ or ‘forest-fire’ problem is exemplified by the destruction of homes and human lives by landscape fires raging out of control. The ‘problem’ involves a series of landscapes (e.g. wildland and suburb), a series of systems (e.g. biophysical system and environmental-effects system), and a series of time phases (e.g. planning phase). It is a multi-stakeholder, multi-variable, multi-scale problem. Land uses, like ‘farmland’, imply a set of specific assets and, therefore, particular perceptions of losses. In all land-use designations, at any one point, fire-proneness may be seen as a function of exposure to ignition sources (embers, burning brands or flame radiation and flame contact) and the ease of ignition. The landscape-fire problem has multiple partial ‘solutions’, not just one overall solution, and these involve social governance, land management (public and private), suppression capacity and personal preparedness. The problem needs to be addressed at multiple temporal and spatial scales in an integrated fashion for the outcome to be of maximal benefit. There will always be a residual risk of severe fire occurrence. Minimisation of residual risk requires effective land management, recurrent funding and the perpetual vigilance of all parties.     

A case study of urban heat islands in the Carolinas

Urbanization tends to aggravate the negative effects of climate. The objective of this research is to aid in the understanding of the spatial variation of urban heat islands within selected cities in North and South Carolina. This understanding will help guide efforts to cool cities in order to increase human comfort, conserve energy and resources, and reduce air pollution in both of these states.     

环保产业亟待整顿

阐述了目前环保产业中存在的主要问题和应采取的措施。     

固体废物属性鉴别有关问题的思考

固体废物属性鉴别在进口废物管理方面具有重要作用,是口岸加强进口废物监管的重要技术支持依据。在进口物品固体废物属性鉴别中,各鉴别机构可能会遇到很多难以把握的问题。对固体废物属性鉴别关键问题进行思考,包括首要解决的问题、标准或规范的使用、鉴别的三个“键节点;过程产物的判断、特性分析、二次再生资源加工产物的判断等6个方面。     

Carrying capacity as "Informed Judgment": the values of science and the science of values

Contemporary park and wilderness carrying capacity frameworks rely on formulation of standards of quality, which are defined as minimum acceptable resource and social conditions. Formulation of standards of quality involves elements of both science and values, and both of these elements must be integrated into informed judgments on the part of park and wilderness managers. That is, managers must ultimately make value-based judgments about the maximum acceptable level of visitor-caused impacts to the resource base and the quality of the visitor experience. However, such judgments should be as informed as possible by scientific data on the relationships between visitor use and resulting impacts and the degree to which park and wilderness visitors and other interest groups judge such impacts to be acceptable. Such information represents the “values of science” to managing carrying capacity in parks and wilderness. A growing body of literature has begun to address the corresponding “science of values,” and how this type of information might be integrated in park and wilderness management. Visitor-based research has employed normative theory and techniques to explore the acceptability of a range of resource and social impacts related to visitor use, and findings from these studies are being integrated into a body of knowledge and applied in management decision-making. Conceptual and methodological extensions of the normative approach are currently being explored in a variety of park and wilderness contexts, and new theoretical and empirical approaches are being adapted to address trade-offs inherent in carrying capacity. In these ways, the science of values is progressing to meet the opportunities and challenges of the values of science to park and wilderness management. The concept of carrying capacity, along with the theoretical and methodological approaches described in this paper, can be extended to a large number of natural resource and environmental issues.     

一般持续发展论（下）

本文比较全面地论述了持续发展的由来、概念、目标和战略要素。作者指出,持续发展的提出反映了人类对自身与环境关系的认识进入新阶段;是既满足当代人和局部需要又不危害后代人和全球满足需要能力的发展,包括一般持续发展论、全球持续性、区域持续性和部门持续性。作者认为,社会福利既包括人造产品也包括自然资本,持续发展的目标在于促进社会福利的增长与公平分配,以及生态系统的持续性;而达到持续发展目标的战略要素则包括经济结构的生态现代化、实行以预防为主的环境政策、经济机制的生态现代化、实行有控制的人口转变以及反贫困。在目标和战略要素的论述中,作者提出了发达和发展中国家(地区)应分别实行强持续性和弱持续性。     

中国推行清洁生产探讨

本文从清洁生产的基本概念出发，分析了中国推行清洁生产的原因，探讨了中国推行清洁生产的战略意义和应采取的政策，措施。     

Valuing wildlife: a review of methods

The paper analyses the costs and benefits of conserving wildlife and reports part of a wider research project which aims to estimate the benefits of certain ecological types and habitats, and to compare the outcome of different techniques used to value wildlife. The authors outline a range of philosophical, technical and methodological problems in deriving cardinal measures of costs and benefits.