An Optimization Method Based on Scenario Analysis for Watershed Management Under Uncertainty

In conjunction with socioeconomic development in watersheds, increasingly challenging problems, such as scarcity of water resources and environmental deterioration, have arisen. Watershed management is a useful tool for dealing with these issues and maintaining sustainable development at the watershed scale. The complex and uncertain characteristics of watershed systems have a great impact on decisions about countermeasures and other techniques that will be applied in the future. An optimization method based on scenario analysis is proposed in this paper as a means of handling watershed management under uncertainty. This method integrates system analysis, forecast methods, and scenario analysis, as well as the contributions of stakeholders and experts, into a comprehensive framework. The proposed method comprises four steps: system analyses, a listing of potential engineering techniques and countermeasures, scenario analyses, and the optimal selection of countermeasures and engineering techniques. The proposed method was applied to the case of the Lake Qionghai watershed in southwestern China, and the results are reported in this paper. This case study demonstrates that the proposed method can be used to deal efficiently with uncertainties at the watershed level. Moreover, this method takes into consideration the interests of different groups, which is crucial for successful watershed management. In particular, social, economic, environmental, and resource systems are all considered in order to improve the applicability of the method. In short, the optimization method based on scenario analysis proposed here is a valuable tool for watershed management.     

基于土地利用变化的农牧交错带典型流域生态风险评价——以洋河为例

为揭示土地利用变化对农牧交错带典型流域生态风险的影响,在Arc GIS技术支持下,以洋河流域1990、1995、2000和2008年遥感数据和土地利用数据为基础,定量分析洋河流域1990—2008年的土地利用动态变化特征;根据景观生态学理论,将研究区划分为525个生态风险评价单元,从土地利用变化和景观结构角度构建景观生态风险评价模型,评价洋河流域生态风险的时空变化特征。结果表明:耕地和草地面积占研究区总面积的67%以上;1990—2008年,洋河流域总体景观生态风险值(ERI)由0.197 3上升到0.238 4。低风险区(ERI≤0.17)面积减少3.53%,高风险区(ERI0.68)面积减少0.43%,较低(0.17ERI≤0.26)、中等(0.26ERI≤0.42)和较高(0.42ERI≤0.68)风险区面积均有增加,整体生态风险增加;洋河流域5种风险等级分布较集中,具体表现为洋河支流及其一级支流两侧地区生态风险相对较大(ERI0.26),而离河道越远的区域生态风险值越小(ERI≤0.26)。     

九龙江流域大气氮湿沉降研究

通过2004～2005年对位于我国东南沿海的九龙江流域及周边共17个站点的实地观测,运用GIS技术定量揭示了大气氮湿沉降强度和时空分布特征,并利用氮稳定同位素分析雨水硝态氮的主要来源.结果表明,①17个站点雨水总氮平均浓度为(2.20±1.69)～(3.26±1.37) mg·L-1(以N计,下同),铵态氮、硝态氮和有机氮分别占39%、25%和36%;②雨水氮浓度随降雨强度的增大呈降低趋势,旱季浓度明显大于雨季,降水对大气具有清洗作用;③低δ15N值表明雨水硝态氮主要来源于汽车尾气排放、化石燃料燃烧和化肥施用;④九龙江流域大气氮湿沉降量平均9.9 kg·hm-2,春夏2季约占全年的91%,大气氮湿沉降占沉降总量的66%,揭示了该地区1∶2的大气氮干湿沉降结构.大气氮湿沉降时空差异与降雨量和氮的排放直接相关.     

流域累积效应及其评估中存在问题的探讨

阐述了累积效应、流域累积效应和累积效应评估的概念，并从技术、哲学和社会价值体系3方面着重论述了螺积效应评估存在的问题。通过对流域累积效应评估的研究及未来展望，提出了更加完善合理的流域生态管理思路。     

Hydrogeomorphic considerations in development planning and stormwater management,central Texas Hill Country,USA

Watershed ordinances in Austin, Texas, USA, are intended to protect streams from stormwater degradation. Their adequacy is being questioned, however, where development is advancing into the Hill Country northwest and southwest of the city. Detailed investigation into hillslope runoff reveals that several important facts were overlooked in the ordinances, including locally high infiltration rates and drainage basins, which function as partial area systems. As a result, development planning is not taking advantage of the natural mitigation potential of the land. Roads cut across infiltration and moisture retention areas on side slopes, enlarging the partial area system feeding streams with stormflows. In addition, most residential planning is not responsive to the stepped microtopography of Hill Country drainage basins and the critical scale at which local runoff processes operate. Recommendations include adjusting the scale and configuration of development to conform with local runoff processes and features and taking advantage of the water-absorbing capacities of basin side slopes. The lesson for ordinance writers is that standard models of community stormwater ordinances are not appropriate for all terrains, especially complex ones like the Texas Hill Country.     

Should restoration of small western watersheds be public policy in the United States?

Additional research is needed to determine whether restoration of degraded watersheds in the western United States should become large-scale public policy. Numerous small projects have demonstrated that vegetation can be restored, sediment losses halted, and, in some cases, formerly ephemeral streams made perennial. But if all watersheds in a basin were restored, what would be the overall effects both ecologically and economically? For example, if large-scale restoration of small watersheds were conducted in a western river basin, what would be the effects on water yield and quality for the basin as a whole? Would implementing basin-wide watershed restoration be cost-effective? A means of examining this question is to monitor a watershed prior to and during the restoration process and to compare the results to a control watershed. The watersheds would be instrumented such that the ecological processes and water balance could be monitored both instream and within the associated groundwater system. Overall effects would then be subjected to economic and policy analysis, and modeling would be used to extrapolate the new information over the entire basin. These results would then be available to political leaders and government agencies for determining whether large-scale watershed restoration should be public policy.     

Gaining forests but losing ground: A GIS evaluation in a Himalayan watershed

GIS overlay techniques were used to provide a quantitative historic documentation of deforestation and land-use dynamics in the Middle Mountains of Nepal between 1947 and 1990. Deforestation was most critical in the 1960s, but active afforestation programs in the 1980s have reversed the process. In spite of these trends, the degradation problem is more complex. The GIS evaluation showed that 86% of the recently afforested land is now under pine plantations located primarily at lower elevations and moderately steep slopes. In contrast, rainfed agricultural expansion is most pronounced on acidic soils and steeper, upper elevation sites, suggesting marginalization of agriculture. Agricultural expansion coupled with major losses of grazing land to pine forests are the key processes pointing towards major animal feed deficits. An alternative animal feed source is suggested through GIS using a topographically based microclimatic classification to generate a tree-planting map where the optimum ecological conditions for selective native fodder tree species are identified.     

土地利用和生态系统服务功能变化研究 ——以三峡库区大宁河流域为例

将土地利用类型分类为耕地、有林地（森林地）、灌木林地、草地、迹地、水体、建设用地和未利用地8类。以遥感数据为数据源，通过自动分类和人工解译相结合的方法获取了以上土地利用类型，并对三峡库区大宁河流域的土地利用变化过程和驱动力做了分析。以Costanza等人的全球生态系统服务价值的估测结果为基础，对各种地类生态服务功能价值重新赋值，进而估算近30年大宁河流域的生态服务价值，分析了其变化过程。结果表明：近30年，大宁河流域土地利用总的变化趋势是林、灌、草地经历了不断破坏和缓慢恢复的过程，耕地面积经历了先增后减，建设用地不断扩展。经济发展、人口增长和国家政策是土地利用变化的主要原因。生态系统服务功能经历了一个先损害后恢复的过程，表现为生态服务价值从1973年到1995年不断减少，而1995年到2002年连续增加。     

我国东部河流水文水质对气候变化响应的研究

基于A2和B2气候变化情景,采用统计降尺度模型SDSM,将由3个国际上流行的大气环流模式GCMs(Had CM3、CSIRO-Mk2和CGCM2)模拟的未来我国东部长乐江流域的气温和降水,与水土评价模型SWAT相耦合,分析了该流域水文水质对气候变化的响应,并比较了3个大气环流模式模拟结果的异同.结果表明,所有气候情景下,TN浓度有明显的升高趋势;TP浓度有增有减,总体上仍呈微弱增加趋势.河川径流呈微弱减少趋势,而营养物负荷量呈微弱增加趋势,说明该流域水文水质状况受气温升高的影响大于降水微弱增加的影响.另外,在不同的气候变化情景下,年内径流和营养物负荷变化情况存在较大差异.研究结果可为理解河流水环境对气候变化的响应及其应对管理提供理论依据.     

不同土地利用/覆盖情景下东北沟流域植被生态需水量及其对产流影响

针对京津水源区上游生态环境建设需水与向下游多输水的矛盾现实,基于气象、土壤、土地利用/覆盖(1990年和2009年)数据,应用Penman-Monteith公式估算潜在蒸散量,再用土壤和植被信息对其进行修正,计算了水源区东北沟流域1990年、2009年及其他5种不同土地利用/覆盖情景下的最小生态需水量和适宜生态需水量。结果表明:2005-2009年4-10月潜在蒸散量是715.04 mm;2009年流域植被适宜生态需水量是399.42 mm,最小生态需水量是339.68 mm,比1990年的适宜和最小量分别多122.5 mm、144.5 mm;平水年的降雨均可满足各种情景生态需水要求,其中需水量较大的是情景Ⅲ(草地转化为林地),其适宜需水量达784.69×10⁴ m³,情景Ⅱ(林地转化为草地)的需水量最小,适宜需水量是687.27×10⁴ m³,该情景较适合向下游输水为目的的生态建设,但该情景实施的前提是建立下游向上游的生态补偿机制。