Participatory monitoring to connect local and global priorities for forest restoration

New global initiatives to restore forest landscapes present an unparalleled opportunity to reverse deforestation and forest degradation. Participatory monitoring could play a crucial role in providing accountability, generating local buy in, and catalyzing learning in monitoring systems that need scalability and adaptability to a range of local sites. We synthesized current knowledge from literature searches and interviews to provide lessons for the development of a scalable, multisite participatory monitoring system. Studies show that local people can collect accurate data on forest change, drivers of change, threats to reforestation, and biophysical and socioeconomic impacts that remote sensing cannot. They can do this at one‐third the cost of professionals. Successful participatory monitoring systems collect information on a few simple indicators, respond to local priorities, provide appropriate incentives for participation, and catalyze learning and decision making based on frequent analyses and multilevel interactions with other stakeholders. Participatory monitoring could provide a framework for linking global, national, and local needs, aspirations, and capacities for forest restoration.     

30CrMnSiA钢有机涂层电化学研究

目的研究30Cr Mn Si A钢零部件表面在只涂有1层H06-076底漆状态下的抗腐蚀能力。方法在试验过程中采用加速环境谱,利用电化学阻抗谱(EIS)方法研究30Cr Mn Si A钢试样表面在只涂有1层H06-076底漆状态下的腐蚀情况。结果涂有1层H06-076底漆的30Cr Mn Si A试样只经历了1个周期的加速环境谱就发生了腐蚀。电化学阻抗谱(EIS)方法测得的涂层失效与宏观观察到的基体金属腐蚀吻合较好。电化学阻抗谱(EIS)方法测得的10 Hz处相位角的变化规律与0.1Hz处阻抗模值的变化规律一致。结论 30Cr Mn Si A在只涂1层H06-076底漆的情况下其抗腐蚀性能很差,在外场大气环境中使用极易发生腐蚀。利用电化学阻抗谱(EIS)方法可有效表征有机涂层涂覆下的金属腐蚀行为并评估涂层的保护性能。     

基于改进EMD—小波阈值联合去噪的城市地下管线识别与定位

探地雷达(GPR)目标回波信号极易由于背景杂波的干扰而被淹没。为了有效滤出杂波,提出了一种改进的EMD-小波阈值联合去噪法,即用改进的基于统计特性和自相关函数特性的EMD去噪法对回波信号进行预处理,在此基础上对EMD分解后的噪声主导模态分量进行小波阈值处理,最后进行信号的重构。结果表明,该联合去噪法不仅可以有效地滤除杂波,而且最大限度地保留了目标回波有用信号,从而使去噪后的回波剖面为城市地下管线的识别与定位提供了可靠的图像解释资料。     

基于CAN总线的新型煤矿粉尘浓度检测系统的研究

为了实现对粉尘的实时在线检测和粉尘超限报警,以及实现煤矿粉尘浓度检测系统的高性能运行,本文设计了一种基于CAN总线的新型煤矿粉尘浓度检测系统.本文首先对粉尘浓度检测系统的整体设计方案进行了描述,然后对系统的传感器及调理转换电路、声光报警电路和CAN通信电路等硬件电路进行了设计,对粉尘检测系统的软件进行了详细的设计分析.最后给出了实验结果,并通过实验结果证明了该系统能长时间实时监测粉尘浓度,并通过CAN总线接口可以实现系统的远距离、高可靠性通信功能和远程监控功能.本系统具有测量准确、速度快、可靠性高和能及时报警等特点.     

隧道围岩含水性预报技术

隧道地质超前预报关系到隧道工程施工质量和安全,是国内外研究的前缘课题,也是工程地球物理研究中的疑难问题之一。目前超前预报使用的方法有工程地质推断、地质雷达探测、反射地震‘负视速度法’、TSP、TRT 和TST等技术,取得了一定的效果,但是对围岩含水性预报还存在问题。本文介绍了用高密度电法解决含水性预报问题的实例,效果很好,希望能引起业界重视。在未来的超前预报工作中应该推广综合预报方法。     

石墨烯在装备技术相关领域的应用研究(二)

基于石墨烯的材料和器件正在传统和新兴领域广泛应用,简要综述了石墨烯基材料在电化学储能、装备抗腐蚀和吸波领域的研究进展,介绍了基于不同物理机制和观点的研究热点。指出高质量单层或少层、分散良好的石墨烯材料的制备尚未有工业化的方法,且大量的应用是基于石墨烯为模板的衍生物是石墨烯大规模工业化应用仍然为数不多的原因。提出高效地对石墨烯的表面、化学键进行功能化,同时保留石墨烯本体完美碳骨架的技术难题。最后提出研究石墨烯与其他功能材料的复合机理和微观机制,解决复合界面问题,开发绿色、高效、低成本的复合工艺,将促进石墨烯的应用。     

新疆G30线速度管理和控制技术研究

速度管理和控制技术是高速公路交通运输中重要的措施和手段,合理的速度管理和控制技术可以提高高速公路的运营管理水平并确保其运营安全.本文针对新疆G30线高速公路的地域、线形、运行特点,探讨了各种速度管理和控制技术在该路段的实施效果,并提出了合理的速度管理和控制措施,以为该高速公路设计和改造升级的速度控制提供借鉴和依据.     

Exploring the origins of ‘social license to operate’ in the mining sector: Perspectives from governance and sustainability theories

In the mining sector, local communities have emerged as particularly important governance actors. Conventional approaches to mineral development no longer suffice for these communities, which have demanded a greater share of benefits and increased involvement in decision making. These trends have been spurred by the growth of the sustainable development paradigm and governance shifts that have increasingly transferred governing authority towards non-state actors. Accordingly, there is now widespread recognition that mineral developers need to gain a ‘social license to operate’ (SLO) from local communities in order to avoid potentially costly conflict and exposure to social risks. A social license can be considered to exist when a mining project is seen as having the ongoing approval and broad acceptance of society to conduct its activities. Due to the concept's relatively recent emergence, however, only a limited body of scholarship has developed around SLO. Drawing on examples from northern Canada, this paper uses governance and sustainability theories to conceptualize the origins of SLO in the mining sector and describe some of the associated implications. Further research is needed to determine governance arrangements which help facilitate establishment of SLO in different mineral development contexts.     

Small-scale mining in Ghana: The government and the galamsey

This paper argues that the current formalization system for small-scale gold miners in Ghana has been undermined and the small-scale mining laws no longer capture the reality of the sector’s activities. The paper will examine the small-scale mining system and shows that registered and unregistered actors operate not only in parallel but are actually intertwined and highly dependent on one another. The paper shows that the perceived dichotomy of formal and informal actors in the sector does not actually exist. The sector has instead evolved into a highly intertwined group of semi-formal sectors operating with varying degrees of legal registrations. The paper concludes that political leniency and law enforcement corruption has resulted in a booming small-scale gold system under poor government control. The paper recommends that politicians move to enact reforms to regularize the small-scale mining sector and curtail ubiquitous environmental and occupational safety problems. Anti-corruption initiatives and law enforcement reforms are the most urgent. However, reforming the laws is also necessary to capture and regulate the technological innovations the sector is currently using.     

Corporate social responsibility in the mining industry: Perspectives from stakeholder groups in Argentina

Since the liberalisation of its investment regime in the 1990s, Argentina has seen a rise in foreign direct investment into large-scale exploration and exploitation of mineral resources. However, many social groups (local communities, grassroots movement and the church) often strongly oppose new mining projects on the grounds of environmental, ethical and economic concerns. In a situation marked by widespread conflict, mining companies continue operating and develop Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives which are often promoted as a means of contributing to the sustainability and development of the nation. The paper develops a framework to highlight how the principles of stakeholder theory could be used as conceptual and practical guidance for conflict-resolution oriented CSR policies. The framework is further used to analyse two case studies of conflictive mining projects in Argentina. The paper explores how key stakeholders perceive contribution of CSR to welfare and the socio-economic development of mining communities and sustainable development of the nation. It demonstrates that institutional and social stakeholder networks often strongly oppose the idea of voluntary self-regulation implied by CSR in situations characterised by weak governance. Even though the CSR of companies could be improved in areas of corporate communication, transparency, stakeholder engagement and dialogue, it is not seen as a panacea for the social conflicts in the sector.