安徽省沿江地区产业的协调发展

安徽沿江地区是安徽省和长江经济带生产力的重心之一.通过对安徽沿江地区当前经济特点的分析,从区域分工与协作的角度出发,探讨了沿江地区主要城市的功能定位、产业结构调整、长江沿江产业带的发展方向、新产业带的开发等问题.     

"平退"工程与洞庭湖区湿地生态保护

从考察洞庭湖湿地生态特征入手,探讨了"平退"工程对洞庭湖区湿地生态环境的影响,认为通过"平退"防洪标准较低或影响江湖行蓄洪水的洲滩民垸以扩大江湖槽蓄来提高江湖调蓄洪水的能力,"平退"工程不但不会破坏湖区湿地生态环境,反而会使湖洲草滩及候鸟等越冬环境得到稳定和改善.同时,提出了保护洞庭湖湿地的相关对策.     

Use of an Area Index to Retrospectively Analyze the Elimination of Fox Rabies in European Countries

Oral vaccination of foxes (OVF) is a powerful tool to combat rabies in wildlife, and large parts of western Europe have been freed from rabies using this tool. Nevertheless, the success of OVF, given with the number of campaigns needed to eliminate the disease, depends on many factors. This article for the first time focuses on and assesses difference in OVF with respect to the spatial setting of vaccinated areas with time. The size of the areas vaccinated with time and the size of the overlapping area of consecutively vaccinated areas are particularly considered. In order to integrate these two aspects into one single figure, an Area Index is proposed ranging between 0 and 1. A statistical analysis indicates that the number of campaigns needed for rabies elimination significantly decreases on condition that the total rabies endemic area is consecutively treated right from the beginning of oral vaccination. Hence, from an economical and environmental point of view, vaccination areas should be selected the way that guarantees an Area Index close to 1. The concept of an Area Index, as described here, is a useful tool not only in the context of OVF, but it could also be used for other control schemes against infectious diseases in wildlife.     

Municipal Solid Waste Management in the Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana

Municipal solid waste management in Accra, Ghana, is at present delivered in an unsustainable manner. Due to uncontrolled urbanisation, large quantities of waste are generated daily in Accra, and this exerts much pressure on an over strained solid waste management system. Coupled with weak institutional capacity, and lack of resources, both human and capital, the city authorities face difficulties in ensuring that all the waste generated in the city is collected for disposal. Home collection of waste is limited to high and, some middle income areas while the poor are left to contend with the problem on their own. This leads to indiscriminate disposal of waste in surface drains, canals and streams, creating unsanitary, and unsightly environments in many parts of the city.     

DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF LAND/WATER RESOURCES: THE EVERGLADES,AGRICULTURE, AND SOUTH FLORIDA1

ABSTRACT: South Florida and the Everglades have been under intensive development since 1850 by Federal and State governments who encouraged and financed extensive drainage and hydraulic changes, primarily for agricultural settlement. Agricultural development of the sugar industry in the northern Everglades adjacent to Lake Okeechobee rapidly progressed only after the 1900s. Political and resource management conflicts have arisen because policies which once favored development are now being reversed by policies and regulation efforts to restore and conserve natural ecosystems. Currently, the environmental and ecological impacts of agricultural land use adjacent to natural wtlands of the Everglades are being assessed. The objectives of this paper are: (1) to outline the historical development of south Florida and the sugar industry, (2) to relate this history to political and management policy changes occurring as it pertains to ecosystem restoration and the multiuser competition for water/land resources, and (3) to propose how integrated resource management might be utilized for a sustainable Everglades and south Florida. This paper outlines the historical paradox of urban settlement, land development, and agricultural production, with efforts in the recent decade to acquire, manage, and preserve land and water resources for natural areas conservation. Only though the use of integrated resource management will the defined resource conflicts be mediated.     

“红三角”地区城镇体系结构分形研究

分形维数是刻画城镇体系结构的有效参数。将“红三角”地区分成韶关、郴州、赣州三个城镇体系，分别测算各个城镇体系的Hausdorff维数、空间关联维数及牛鸦维数比、随机集聚维数。测算结果表明:①赣州、郴州两市的中等位序城市较多，人口分布比较均衡，而韶关市城镇体系等级规模差异明显，人口分布差异程度较大，韶关市区人口规模大，具有较强的垄断性；②各城镇体系中的城镇有集中到某一地理线上的趋势，具有轴线特征，同时整个地区的交通网络比较完善，整体通达性好，但城镇体系空间关联程度不够紧密；③各城镇体系空间分布呈现集聚性特征。最后对“红三角”地区城镇体系建设提出了发展次级中心城镇、加强区域空间结构轴建设、适当调整行政区划和加快交通基础设施建设的建议。     

Neighbourhood perceptions among inner-city adolescents: Relationships with their individual characteristics and with independently assessed neighbourhood conditions

We investigated relationships between adolescents’ perceptions of their neighbourhood, their mental health and independently assessed indicators of conditions in their residential neighbourhood. The Research with East London Adolescents Community Health Survey (RELACHS) provided information for 2370 adolescents on area perceptions (specifically alienation from/attachment to the area and satisfaction/dissatisfaction with local amenities and services), and on individual and family attributes including mental distress (measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire). These were combined for this study with independently assessed small area geographical indicators proposed by government to measure local deprivation in England. A Bayesian regression analysis using Gibbs sampling investigated associations between the predictor variables and neighbourhood perception. Alienation from neighbourhood and dissatisfaction with local amenities was greater for girls than for boys and for the older adolescents sampled. Those of ‘Asian’ or ‘Black’ ethnicity, from relatively harmonious families, or with higher levels of social support were less likely to express negative area perceptions. While previously published research found no significant direct association between mental health and small area indicators, this analysis suggests that those with relatively high levels of distress did have worse area perceptions. Also, certain independently assessed area indicators were associated with adolescents’ views of their neighbourhood.     

Prospering Revolution of Resource Efficiency in Northeast Industrial Area in China

Despite its strong advantages in resource, technology and human resource, China＇s Northeast Industrial Area is also experiencing problems of unreasonable industrial structure, environmental pollution, and the degradation of ecological condition, etc., which prevent this area from achieving a sustainable devel- opment. Through analyzing the resource problem, the present paper proposed a strategy of circular economy for the prosperity of this are, discussed the theories of circular economy and resource recycling, and finally concluded that improving resource productivity is at the core of circular economy.     

基于RS和GIS的三峡库区生态环境综合评价

以遥感影像作为主要数据源,在地理信息系统技术的支持下,以生态环境脆弱典型区——三峡库区为研究对象,针对区域主要生态问题,选取水热条件、地形地貌、土地利用和土壤侵蚀为评价因子,建立了生态环境质量综合评价模型,并对评价结果的空间分异格局进行了分析。结果表明,三峡库区的生态环境现状整体较差,良好等级的区域仅占4.25％,较差及以下等级的区域占区域总面积的60％;生态环境质量的空间分异比较明显,中海拔地区生态环境质量最为脆弱。因此,必须因地制宜地采取相应措施,从而加强库区生态环境的保护。     

内蒙古河套灌区不同盐碱程度的土壤细菌群落多样性

采用变性梯度凝胶电泳(DGGE)技术对内蒙古河套灌区三种不同盐碱程度土壤(盐土,强度盐化土,轻度盐化土)不同深度(0~20cm和20~30cm)土壤细菌16S rDNA V3~V6可变区扩增片段进行分析,并对土壤理化性质进行了测定.结果表明:细菌群落多样性随土壤盐碱化程度的加深而减少(轻度盐化土 > 强度盐化土 > 盐土),随土壤深度的增加而降低(细菌群落多样性0~20cm土层大于20~30cm土层).细菌Shannon-Wiener指数在轻度盐化土中最大为3.36,在强度盐化土和盐土分别为3.05和2.49.不同盐碱程度土壤以细菌相似系数聚类,分为0~20cm层与20~30cm层两大族群,土壤细菌群落Shannon-Wiener指数在0~20cm层中(盐土为3.04,强度盐化土为3.29,轻度盐化土为3.36)均大于在20~30cm层(盐土为2.49,强度盐化土为3.05,轻度盐化土为3.14).相关性分析和典范对应分析表明,土壤w(EC)、pH值、w(SOC)、w(TP)是土壤细菌群落结构多样性的显著影响因素,不同盐碱程度土壤中细菌群落的Shannon-Wiener指数与土壤w(EC)(r=-0.542,P < 0.05)、pH(r=-0.526,P < 0.05)呈显著负相关,与土壤w(SOC)(r=0.700,P < 0.01)和w(TP)(r=0.805,P < 0.01)呈极显著正相关.w(EC)和pH对盐碱土壤细菌群落结构的影响力最大. 回收DGGE图谱中20个优势条带进行测序分析,结果显示,变形菌纲(α-变形菌纲、β-变形菌纲、γ-变形菌纲和δ-变形菌纲)是盐碱土壤的主要类群.