平原型农村适用的小型污水处理技术研究

通过对集成式污水处理装置工艺和运行参数进行优化,选择水力停留时间为32 h、回流比为100％、好氧区D0 2 mg/L为最佳运行工况.并在此基础上,研制出一体化处理设施——净化槽,在北京市大兴区庞各庄镇梨花村对其进行了示范应用,结果表明净化槽具有一定的耐冲击负荷的能力,出水水质稳定,对于推动北京平原地区农村生活污水达标排放具有重要意义.     

Measuring conservation success beyond the traditional biological criteria: the case of conservation projects in Costa Rica,Mekong Valley,and Cameroon

Traditionally, the criteria used to measure conservation success or failure are based on biological factors. Biological factors include changes in the amount of targeted conserved species, biodiversity, and total area conserved. However, conservation efforts are not simply a matter of biological concern; environmental, political, social, and conflict pressures on different scales (ranging from local to global) also have strong influences on the outcome of conservation. These other factors can either pose threats to or enhance conservation, but are not addressed by current criteria. Using a proposed holistic rubric that includes interdisciplinary fields, this paper examines a set of conservation factors on different scales – ranging from local to global – to determine their importance in conservation. The paper analyses positive factor influences with more successful conservation and negative factor influences with less successful, or failed, conservation attempts. Neutral and non‐applicable factor influences are also identified, defined, and ranked as a standardization mechanism. The determination of success changed when the holistic rubric was applied to conservation projects in Costa Rica, Mekong Valley, and Cameroon. In the Costa Rica case study, conservation success for Guanacaste and Talamanca national parks is rated ‘moderately low’. In the case of Mekong Valley, conservation success is rated ‘low’ for Lower Mekong, ‘moderately low’ for Greater Annamites, and ‘low’ for Phong Nha‐Ke Bang national parks. Cameroon's Congo Basin and Sangha Tri‐National conservation efforts are both rated ‘low’, while Dja Faunal is rated ‘very low’. We conclude that if conservation efforts are to attain a high level of success, the strategy for global conservation must move away from the traditional biological approach, which focuses mainly on biological concerns, and embrace a holistic approach, which in addition to biological concerns, addresses environmental, political, social, and conflict pressures, which have strong influences on the outcomes of conservation.     

Efficient management capacity evaluation of tourism in protected areas

Despite the increasing number of protected areas around the world and their importance in the conservation of species and ecosystems, protected areas management capacity remains difficult to evaluate. A standard is needed to help policy makers compare the goals with the results obtained. This empirical research builds a tool to analyze the management efficiency and predicts the new touristic outcomes in case of a policy change. Using as example the state parks agencies in the USA, this paper develops a technological frontier using data envelopment analysis based on the Protected Areas Management Approach. After that, a prediction of the outcomes is analyzed with a budget change for any state park agency. Data suggest that many of them need to improve their performance to be more efficient. Another result obtained shows how budget changes will affect each agency's performance in different degrees and, therefore, budget reductions should be modeled separately.     

连片特困区农村防灾减灾能力建设存在的突出问题——基于武陵山片区三个少数民族村的调查

灾害是导致我国集中连片特殊困难地区贫困落后的重要原因之一。加强以村级组织防灾减灾能力为核心工作的底层设计,提升防灾减灾能力已成为片区区域发展与扶贫攻坚国家新战略顺利实施的重要前提条件。基于由公共设施建设能力和自然灾害风险管理能力等九大能力为一级指标与39项二级指标构成的村级组织防灾减灾能力建设框架体系,对武陵山片区三个少数民族农村社区村级组织防灾减灾能力建设进行全面考察。结果显示,片区农村在九大能力方面均存在明显不足。     

Describing Damage to Stream Modification Projects in Constrained Settings

Complex relationships between stream functions and processes make evaluation of stream modification projects difficult. Informed by vague objectives and minimal monitoring data, post‐construction project evaluations can often be a subjective attribution of success or failure. This article provides a simple framework to rapidly describe the degree of damage in stream modification projects performed in constrained settings. Based on widely accepted evaluations of physical habitat quality and stream stability, the damage states framework describes a continuum of damage in multiple categories that relate natural stream functions to the often desired state of static equilibrium. Given that channel form is closely related to stream function, it follows that changes to the channel form result in changes in function. The damage states focus on damage to flow hydraulics, sediment transport and channel equilibrium, hydraulic, and geomorphic parameters that describe basic stream functioning and support higher level functions in the modified channel. The damage states can be used in decision making as a systematic method to determine the need for repair and design adjustments.     

湖南烟区烤烟钾含量与土壤钾素的分布特点之间的关系

采用野外调查和室内分析相结合的方法,分析了湖南烟区烤烟钾含量与土壤钾含量的分布特点及相互关系,结果表明:湖南烟区土壤全钾质量比偏低,平均为14.92 g·kg-1,有19.90%的土样全钾质量比低于10 g·kg-1;土壤速效钾质量比较低(140.28 mg·kg-1),10.80%土壤样品中速效钾质量比≤80 mg·kg-1,63.04%土壤样品中速效钾质量比在80～160 mg·kg-1之间.不同产地间相比较,全钾质量比由高到低顺序为:凤凰、张家界、龙山、宁乡、常德、怀化、浏阳、永州、桂阳;速效钾质量比的高低顺序与全钾质量比有所不同.湖南烟区烤烟钾质量分数适中,平均为2.28%,不同等级烟叶钾质量分数的变化规律是X2F＞C3F＞B2F.各等级烟叶的钾质量分数在不同产地间差异均达到0.05显著水平.在对土壤速效钾质量比分组后,烟叶钾质量分数随着土壤速效钾质量比的增加而增加,其中在速效钾质量比较低时,烟叶钾质量分数增加速度较快.在相关分析基础上,建立了土壤养分与烤烟钾质量分数的逐步回归方程,所筛选得到的4个土壤因子(水溶性氯、有机质、交换性钙和速效钾)对烤烟钾质量分数的影响均达到极显著水平.     

高压天然气管道危险区域预测模型

介绍了ASME B31.8S-2001(天然气管道完整性管理)中采用的危险区域预测模型,该模型由火灾模型、气体释放速率模型和热强度阈值3部分组成,它表明了高压天然气管道断裂后,危险区域与管线直径、运行压力的关系.     

长江口及浙江近岸海域表层沉积物中多环芳烃分布、来源与风险评价

2013年对长江口及浙江近岸海域62个站位表层沉积物中多环芳烃(PAHs)进行了测定.结果表明,16种美国EPA优先控制的PAHs均有检出,PAHs总量水平(干重)为31.8~384μg·kg-1,平均含量为131.1μg·kg-1.其分布受到陆源输入和点源污染的影响,高值区域出现在长江口2号站位和宁波21号站位附近.与国内外其它海区相比,调查海域PAHs总体处于较低污染水平.调查海域沉积物中PAHs以4环、3环为主,来源分析显示PAHs主要来源于木柴、煤炭燃烧.利用沉积物质量基准法(SQGs)评价结果显示,调查海域表层沉积物中PAHs处于较低的生态风险水平;按照沉积物质量标准法(SQSs)评价结果表明,调查海域表层沉积物的PAHs污染已经具有一定程度的"显见生态负效应",需要采取相应的措施进行污染控制和削减.     

厦门市道路灰尘中铂族元素的污染特征

鉴于铂族元素(PGEs)对生态环境和人体健康的潜在危害,对厦门市道路灰尘中PGEs的浓度水平和分布特征进行研究.于2012年10月采集城区主干道、隧道、旅游区和工业区的道路灰尘样品,经王水微波消解及阳离子交换树脂(Dowex AG50W-X8)分离纯化后,利用电感耦合等离子体质谱(ICP-MS)进行测定.结果表明,厦门城区主干道道路灰尘中钯(Pd)、铂(Pt)和铑(Rh)的平均浓度(范围)分别为:246.82(58.68~765.52)、95.45(42.14~371.36)和51.76(21.04~119.72)ng·g-1,均比地壳丰度值高出两个数量级.与国内外其它城市相比,厦门城区道路灰尘中Pd、Pt和Rh浓度均处于较高污染水平.不同功能区道路灰尘PGEs含量分布为:隧道城区工业区旅游区,其分布特征主要受机动车流量的影响.PGEs元素之间的相关性分析结果显示Pd与Rh的相关性较大,而Pt与Pd、Rh的相关系数均较小,说明除了机动车排放以外,可能存在其他的污染来源.旅游区禁止机动车行驶,但仍检出较高含量的PGEs,说明周边地区道路灰尘中PGEs可通过大气扩散作用进行迁移.     

Conservation outside Protected Areas and the Effect of Human‐Dominated Landscapes on Stress Hormones in Savannah Elephants

Biodiversity conservation strategies are increasingly focused on regions outside national protected areas, where animals face numerous anthropogenic threats and must coexist with human settlements, livestock, and agriculture. The effects of these potential threats are not always clear, but they could have profound implications for population viability. We used savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) as a case study to assess the physiological stress associated with living in a human‐livestock‐dominated landscape. We collected samples over two 3‐month periods in 2007 and 2008. We used fecal DNA to identify 96 individual elephants in a community conservation area (CCA) and measured fecal glucocorticoid metabolite (FGM) concentrations as a proxy for stress. The CCA is community Maasai land managed for livestock and wildlife. We compared the FGM concentrations from the CCA to FGM concentrations of 40 elephants in Amboseli National Park and 32 elephants in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, where human settlements and intense livestock grazing were absent. In the CCA, we found no significant individual differences in FGM concentrations among the elephants in 2007 (p = 0.312) or 2008 (p = 0.412) and no difference between years (p = 0.616). The elephants in the CCA had similar FGM concentrations to the Maasai Mara population, but Amboseli elephants had significantly lower FGM concentrations than those in either Maasai Mara or the CCA (Tukey pairwise test, p < 0.001), due primarily to females excreting significantly lower FGM relative to males (p = 0.025). In the CCA, there was no relation among female group size, average pairwise group relatedness, and average group FGM concentration. We found no clear evidence of chronic stress in elephants living on CCA communal land, which is encouraging for conservation strategies promoting the protection of animals living outside protected areas. Conservación Fuera de Áreas Protegidas y el Efecto de Paisajes Dominados por Humanos sobre Hormonas del Estrés en Elefantes Africanos