A sustainable development metric based on youth

Nearly two decades ago, the World Bank declared achieving sustained and equitable development to be the greatest challenge facing the human race. In this article, an index of youth investment (IYI) is proposed to highlight children and the intergenerational dimension of sustainable development. The index incorporates quality-adjusted measures for child health and education. Comparisons with two complementary indicators of sustainable development, the human development index (HDI) and the adjusted net saving rate (AS), are made. A cross-section of 34 nations for 2006 is used as an illustration. A discussion of policies for promoting sustainable development through investing in children concludes the article.     

A Revealed Preference Approach to Estimating Supply Curves for Ecosystem Services: Use of Auctions to Set Payments for Soil Erosion Control in Indonesia

Abstract:  To supply ecosystem services, private landholders incur costs. Knowledge of these costs is critical for the design of conservation-payment programs. Estimating these costs accurately is difficult because the minimum acceptable payment to a potential supplier is private information. We describe how an auction of payment contracts can be designed to elicit this information during the design phase of a conservation-payment program. With an estimate of the ecosystem-service supply curve from a pilot auction, conservation planners can explore the financial, ecological, and socioeconomic consequences of alternative scaled-up programs. We demonstrate the potential of our approach in Indonesia, where soil erosion on coffee farms generates downstream ecological and economic costs. Bid data from a small-scale, uniform-price auction for soil-conservation contracts allowed estimates of the costs of a scaled-up program, the gain from integrating biophysical and economic data to target contracts, and the trade-offs between poverty alleviation and supply of ecosystem services. Our study illustrates an auction-based approach to revealing private information about the costs of supplying ecosystem services. Such information can improve the design of programs devised to protect and enhance ecosystem services.     

Incorporating basic needs to reconcile poverty and ecosystem services

Conservation managers frequently face the challenge of protecting and sustaining biodiversity without producing detrimental outcomes for (often poor) human populations that depend on ecosystem services for their well-being. However, mutually beneficial solutions are often elusive and can mask trade-offs and negative outcomes for people. To deal with such trade-offs, ecological and social thresholds need to be identified to determine the acceptable solution space for conservation. Although human well-being as a concept has recently gained prominence, conservationists still lack tools to evaluate how their actions affect it in a given context. We applied the theory of human needs to conservation by building on an extensive historical application of need approaches in international development. In an innovative participatory method that included focus groups and household surveys, we evaluated how human needs are met based on locally relevant thresholds. We then established connections between human needs and ecosystem services through key-informant focus groups. We applied our method in coastal East Africa to identify households that would not be able to meet their basic needs and to uncover the role of ecosystem services in meeting these. This enabled us to identify how benefits derived from the environment were contributing to meeting basic needs and to consider potential repercussions that could arise through changes to ecosystem service provision. We suggest our approach can help conservationists and planners balance poverty alleviation and biodiversity protection and ensure conservation measures do not, at the very least, cause serious harm to individuals. We further argue it can be used as a basis for monitoring the impacts of conservation on multidimensional poverty.     

甲醇提取-吹扫捕集-气质联用法快速测定土壤中8种苯系物

采用甲醇提取-吹扫捕集的前处理方法并结合气相色谱-质谱仪来测定土壤样品中的8种苯系物。实验结果表明,8种苯系物在前处理过程中被有效提取出来并被准确定性和定量,对于低浓度样品也具有良好的实验效果。此方法的检出限为0.3～0.8μg/kg,测定下限为1.2～3.2μg/kg。加标低、中、高3种不同质量比的标准物质,经实验分析土壤中8种苯系物相对标准偏差(RSD)为2.1%～6.8%,加标回收率为91.0%～105%,与相关行业标准相比具有一定的优势。     

气体钻井突发性井壁失稳动力演化机理及试验研究

从致密砂岩损伤破坏的角度出发,综合考虑致密砂岩的物理力学性质、地应力、裂缝圈闭高压等因素,在分析孔隙压力、地应力、裂缝圈闭高压在突发性井壁失稳过程中所起的作用基础上,将气体钻井突发性井壁失稳具有强烈时间效应的动态力学过程分为孕育、突变、井筒运移和终止4个阶段。对裂缝圈闭高压、地应力作用下致密砂岩的加速损伤演化引起的突发性井壁失稳机理进行了阐述,裂缝圈闭高压是突发性井壁失稳的主要动力源,地应力对突发性井壁失稳起辅助作用。通过模拟实验表明,受地应力破坏后的致密砂岩岩体在有裂缝情况下,卸压初始时刻释放的能量是无裂缝时的5~10倍,且该能量与动力学失稳密切相关。     

土壤中苯系物的吹扫捕集-气相色谱-质谱测定方法

采用吹扫捕集-气相色谱-质谱联用(PT-GC-MS)法,研究了污染土壤中苯系物(包括苯、甲苯、乙苯、对间二甲苯、邻二甲苯和异丙苯)的测定方法,优化了吹扫捕集作为北京潮土中苯系物预处理方法的参数. 结果表明,吹扫时间11 min,解吸温度190 ℃和解吸时间0.5 min为最佳的吹扫捕集方法参数. 采用PT-GC-MS法测定土壤中的苯系物的平均加标回收率为99.0%～103.9%,相对标准偏差为10.3%～17.5%(n=7);苯系物的检出限为1.6～2.8 μg/kg,定量限为5.4～9.6 μg/kg. 将研究结果与文献中的苯系物监测质量控制参数进行比较发现,由于采用有机质含量低、砂质壤土质地的北京潮土为研究对象,使该试验的回收率均高于文献中的结果;同时,相对标准偏差和检出限与文献中的结果也存在差异,主要是由于挥发性污染物所赋存的介质及实验仪器操作条件不同所致.      

《昆明-蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架》下的生物多样性监测

生物多样性监测是执行和评估《昆明-蒙特利尔全球生物多样性保护框架》（简称《昆-蒙框架》）长期目标和行动指标所需要的关键数据的主要来源。简要介绍了《昆-蒙框架》下的全球生物多样性观测网络（The global biodiversity observation network,GEO BON）概况、中国已有的生物多样性监测/观测网络,构建全球生物多样性观测系统（A global biodiversity observation system,GBiOS）的目的和核心监测指标,分析了生物多样性监测网络建设的一般步骤和GEO BON建议的4种生物多样性监测新方法。提出,地理空间单元与生物类群的全覆盖监测是建设生物多样性监测网络的主要目标,传统监测方法和新监测技术的互补是当前生物多样性监测的重点工作内容。     

MS/MS的原理和GC/MS/MS在环境分析中的应用

介绍了空间串联质谱和时间串联质谱的原理、结构和特点 ;描述了时间串联质谱的离子化、母离子选择和储存、碰撞诱导裂解、离子抛出和检测的分析过程以及离子阱串联质谱与气相色谱联用在二恶英、农药残留、多氯联苯 ,多环芳烃和环境激素等环境分析中的应用。     

基于DEA与ESDA的中国国家级贫困县发展效率的测度与时空演化研究

本研究从发展效率角度出发,以592个国家级贫困县为研究对象,构建了投入-产出指标体系,采用数据包络分析法,测度了2002和2012年中国国家级贫困县的发展效率,并基于GIS空间分析法对发展效率的空间差异格局进行了深入分析。研究发现:第一、国家级贫困县覆盖的面积在扩大,西南地区的贵州省和西北地区的甘肃省成为目前国家扶贫开发的重点和难点地区。第二、特色资源的利用和开发是国家级贫困县实现经济发展的关键。贫困地区往往具有得天独厚的矿产资源、自然景观资源等,利用好上述资源可以促使贫困地区真正实现经济的成长发展。2002年DEA有效的贫困县主要是自然资源、人力资源和旅游资源相对丰富的地区,这些地区通过相关资源的开发已经实现了自身经济的"内生式增长",而且这些地区基本都已经退出了国家级贫困县的范畴。贵州和甘肃等各类资源非常匮乏的地区成为DEA效率最低的国家级贫困县集中区。这两个省份地理位置闭塞,自然条件恶劣,资源禀赋贫乏,缺乏可以支撑经济内生发展的支撑。第三、DEA有效和DEA效率偏低的贫困县都表现出一定的空间相关性。根据贫困县的空间临接性,采取集中连片的扶贫开发政策符合贫困县的实际情况。第四、2002-2012年间,国家级贫困县县域经济的热、冷点格局发生了很大变化。国家级贫困县的经济发展态势出现了很大的改变。     

吹扫捕集-快速气相色谱-质谱联用法测定水中54种挥发性有机物

采用吹扫捕集与快速气相色谱-飞行时间质谱联用法,通过质谱定性和各目标物的特征离子定量,建立了同时测定水中54种挥发性有机物(VOCs)的吹扫捕集-快速气相色谱-质谱的分析方法。结果表明,与常规方法相比,建立的吹扫捕集-快速气相色谱-质谱联用法在保证各目标物灵敏度和仅2组物质分辨率受影响的同时,分析时间由31 min缩短至13 min。该方法具有良好的重现性,除萘和1,2,3-三氯苯值为9.3%和8.7%外,其他目标物的重现性值皆小于5%,在线性范围1~200μg/L内皆具有大于0.99的良好相关度,各目标物的检出限值介于0.53~278 ng/L之间。