Avoiding Re‐Inventing the Wheel in a People‐Centered Approach to REDD+

One important debate regarding Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) in developing countries concerns the manner in which its implementation might affect local and indigenous communities. New ways to implement this mechanism without harming the interests of local communities are emerging. To inform this debate, we conducted a qualitative research synthesis to identify best practices (BPs) from people‐centered approaches to conservation and rural development, developed indicators of BPs, and invited development practitioners and researchers in the field to assess how the identified BPs are being adopted by community‐level REDD+ projects in Latin America. BPs included: local participation in all phases of the project; project supported by a decentralized forest governance framework; project objectives matching community livelihood priorities; project addressing community development needs and expectations; project enhancing stakeholder collaboration and consensus building; project applying an adaptive management approach; and project developing national and local capacities. Most of the BPs were part of the evaluated projects. However, limitations of some of the projects related to decentralized forest governance, matching project objectives with community livelihood priorities, and addressing community development needs. Adaptive management and free and prior informed consent have been largely overlooked. These limitations could be addressed by integrating conservation outcomes and alternative livelihoods into longer‐term community development goals, testing nested forest governance approaches in which national policies support local institutions for forest management, gaining a better understanding of the factors that will make REDD+ more acceptable to local communities, and applying an adaptive management approach that allows for social learning and capacity building of relevant stakeholders. Our study provides a framework of BPs and indicators that could be used by stakeholders to improve REDD+ project design, monitoring, and evaluation, which may help reconcile national initiatives and local interests without reinventing the wheel. Evitar la Reinvención de la Rueda en un Acercamiento a REDD+ Centrado en Personas     

石化行业炼油恶臭污染源治理技术评估

运用环保技术评估体系,提出石油炼制过程中典型恶臭污染源治理技术评价指标体系,并对已应用的治理技术进行全面评估,从而筛选出炼油污水处理场废气、酸性水罐罐顶气、冷焦水罐/油品中间罐/污油罐罐顶气、氧化脱硫醇尾气和油品装卸挥发气的最佳可行技术.     

导识标识设置对教学楼通道疏散能力影响研究

本文以某学院6号楼为例,研究标识设置对教学楼通道疏散能力影响,测定了不同标识设置情况楼道人流时程,结果表明：自然状态人流速峰值66．8人／min,持时2．823min,拥堵明显;立体标识使人流速峰值提升3％,使峰值持时缩短51．65％,墙面平铺张贴标识使人流速峰值提升1％,使持时缩短44．07％,立体标识优于墙面平铺张贴标识;早期疏导标识使人流速峰值提升6％,使持时缩短60．93％,使峰值出现时刻比自然状态提前约31％,疏散效果明显。同时本文分析了现有标识设置的问题和弊端。     

Simultaneous placentacentesis and amniocentesis for prenatal karyotyping: Report on 250 cases

The efficacy and risks of simultaneous transabdominal chorionic villus biopsy (placentacentesis) and amniocentesis in the second and third trimesters were evaluated in 250 singleton pregnancies. The major indications were advanced maternal age (36·0 per cent), abnormal ultrasound findings (23·2 per cent), and low maternal AFP value (17·6 per cent). Nine abnormal karyotypes were found in placental tissue (3·6 per cent). The karyotypes of placental and amniotic cells were different in three cases, including two cases of false-positive mosaicism (08 per cent) and one case of a false-negative result (0·4 per cent) obtained by placental karyotyping. The problem of discrepant karyotypes in embryonic and extra-embryonic tissue does not seem to be restricted to the first trimester. The post-procedure fetal loss rate was estimated as approximately 1·8 per cent. We conclude that the procedure presented here combines the advantages of rapid karyotyping (placentacentesis) and high diagnostic reliability (amniocentesis). It does not seem to be necessary to restrict its use to late presentations and suspicious ultrasound findings.     

安全填埋场粘土衬层渗透性的试验研究

工业危险废物填埋场为防渗透,要求两层粘土的渗透系数k<1×10-7cm/s。为满足设计要求,沈阳工业危险废物填理场通过实验确定与其相关的施工参数。如铺土厚度,碾压遍数,碾压机具,粘土的最优含水量,干密度。同时按设计要求测试碾压过的场地渗透系数。     

Fenton-混凝法处理造纸废水的试验研究

将Fenton氧化与混凝联用处理造纸废水,确定了氧化的最佳条件:pH范围、H2O2的最佳用量以及与催化剂FeSO4的最佳投加比。探讨了氧化对混凝的促进作用,并将联用工艺与单独絮凝工艺的絮凝剂的用量、处理效果加以比较,得到了较好的结论。     

聚合氯化铁对制药废水混凝处理效果的影响

对聚合氯化铁混凝处理制药废水的最佳试验条件进行了研究.证实表明:在溶液pH值为6,PFC投加量为700 mg/L,温度为20℃,搅拌强度为100 r/min,搅拌时间为4min时,效果最佳,COD的去除率为86%.     

正确选择适用测定高锰酸盐指数的水样

由于高锰酸钾的氧化能力较弱,不能够将污染较重的水样中的有机质充分氧化,使测定结果不准确。而多次稀释会给测定结果的计算带来了误差。根据多年的实践,推荐适用此方法测定的最佳水样浓度范围。     

Practical experience using transabdominal chorionic villus biopsies taken after 16 weeks' gestation for rapid prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal abnormalities

Placental biopsy was performed on 81 patients at greater than 16 weeks' gestation. The major indication for such biopsies was an increased risk of chromosomal abnormality because of either abnormal ultrasound findings or late presentations for advanced maternal age. Six abnormal karyotypes resulting in elective termination were found. The use of rapid karyotyping by this procedure as an alternative to amniocentesis or fetal blood sampling is discussed.     

BAT and BEP as instruments for reducing emissions of unintentionally produced POPs and development of guidelines under the stockholm convention

The 6th Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC 6), under the Stockholm Convention on POPs, gave an expert group the mandate to develop guidelines for the application and implementation of best available techniques (BAT) and best environmental practices (BEP) for the prevention and reduction of unintentionally produced and emitted POPs, including polychlorinated dibenzodioxins/-furans (PCDD/Fs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and hexachlorobenzene (HCB). Measures to reduce or eliminate the release of these POPs to the environment can be found in Article 5 of the Convention. BAT and BEP are already being applied as emission reduction instruments in a number of industrialised countries and are elements of other major international treaties, e.g. the UN ECE Protocol on POPs and the Marine Convention's OSPAR and HELCOM, and of the EU Directive for Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC Directive). Existing concepts are presented and compared with the requirements of the Stockholm Convention. Consequences, perspectives and questions for the future intersessional work of the above-mentioned Expert Group are discussed.