ESTIMATING RESIDENTIAL FLOOD CONTROL BENEFITS USING IMPLICIT PRICE EQUATIONS1

ABSTRACT: An implicit price model relating residential lot value to price determining characteristics of land is developed to measure the benefits of a structural flood control project. Special attention is given to the selection of relevant price determining characteristics of residential lots. An implicit price equation is estimated for both the with and without project conditions. Flood damages are quantified through the use of a dummy variable indicating a flood plain location. The analysis shows that annual flood damages were reduced by $15,275.     

RECREATION AT THE MC CLELLAN-KERR ARKANSAS RIVER NAVIGATION SYSTEM1

ABSTRACT: Recreation has produced substantial employment, incomes, economic development, and migration impacts since completion of the McCle-lan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. These impacts support the influence of navigation, hydropower, flood control, and channel stabilization outputs on regional development. The marked success is not without substantial costs in public resources, including manpower which are devoted to recreational management. Increasing the share of financial resources obtained from recreational users and transfer of management responsibilities to nonfederal agencies, including private concessionaires is recommended.     

黄金采选业污染防治成功案例研究

河南金源公司祁雨沟金矿在新技术改造项目中引进了清洁生产工艺,可节约生产用水资金,提高劳动生产效率;减排生产废水和污染物等,实现经济和环境效益双赢。     

煤矸石砖在生态建筑中应用的市场潜力

通过分析煤矸石堆积所带来的环境问题以及在煤矸石砖与传统的黏土砖进行比较的基础上,从经济效益、环境效益以及社会效益几个方面分析了煤矸石砖在生态建筑中的应用前景,说明了煤矸石砖在生态建筑中应用的市场潜力是无穷的。     

稻田养鱼的生态防灾机制与效益分析——以湖南为例

以湖南为例从分散蓄水与扩容蓄水、即时蓄水与重复蓄水、分级截流与设阻截流等角度,分析了稻田养鱼的生态防灾机制,得出湖南宜鱼稻田87.0万hm2,以蓄水30cm计算可蓄存107.9亿m3.通过重复蓄水、设阻蓄水,接纳多次降雨洪水,调节水分时空分布,创造减灾避灾的人工生态防灾系统,形成多物种共生共存的农田湿地生态系统,提高农田生态经济效益.     

低压旋转脉冲袋式除尘器的研究

中国的资源国情决定了中国能源结构以火电为主。随着烟尘排放标准的不断提高,袋式除尘器将在除尘领域发挥重大作用。综合比较三种类型的袋式除尘器,低压旋转脉冲袋式除尘器凭借其优点将在燃煤电厂的除尘领域中有十分广阔的应用前景。本文主要介绍了低压旋转脉冲袋式除尘器的滤料性能、本体结构特点和工艺系统等内容。     

从设计的角度来看土地整理项目生态环境效益——以百色市西林县普合乡土地整理项目为例

在我国土地整理项目的规划设计中农业生态效益并未得到相应的重视,土地整理尚停留在对农业生产基础设施的综合改善阶段,我们试以设计的角度出发来探讨其产生的原因和改进的方法。     

温拌沥青混合料环境与经济效益分析

为了研究温拌沥青混合料相比热拌沥青混合料产生的环境与经济效益,不仅对它们在拌和与摊铺过程中产生的有害气体排放量的检测数据进行了对比分析,还引用计算CO2排放量的回归方程对沥青混合料在不同生产温度时的CO2排放量进行了计算分析。结果表明:在沥青路面工程中应用温拌沥青混合料具有明显的环境与经济效益。在对我国2009年用于公路建设的沥青消耗量带来的燃料消耗与废气排放量进行计算分析后,认为推广应用温拌沥青混合料对国家公路的绿色建设以及经济的可持续发展都有着重要意义。     

重点区域生活垃圾焚烧行业实施大气污染物超低排放的可行性技术路线研究

随着中国城镇化建设进程的不断加快,生活垃圾焚烧行业迅猛发展。在钢铁、焦化以及燃煤电厂等行业已实施超低排放的情况下,推行生活垃圾焚烧行业超低排放,对进一步改善大气环境具有积极意义。国内一些省份和城市已经或者正在制定生活垃圾焚烧行业地方标准,积极推动行业污染物超低排放。笔者结合各地经验,探讨了4种不同技术方式、不同运行成本的超低排放可行性技术路线,为重点区域垃圾焚烧实施超低排放提供参考和依据。     

Indirect fitness benefits are not related to male dominance in a killifish

Recent theoretical and empirical studies have shown that male dominance is often at odds with female mate preference and that indirect (genetic) benefits of mate choice may not be related to male dominance. We tested whether female preference corresponded to male dominance and whether mating with dominant males conveyed benefits to offspring fitness in a small freshwater fish, the African annual killifish Nothobranchius korthausae (Cyprinodontiformes), a species without parental care. The experimental design used controlled for the effect of male age, possibility of sperm and egg depletion, and accounted for a potential that females express their preference through maternal effects by manipulation of egg mass during ovulation. By sequentially mating females with males of known dominance, we found that female N. korthausae showed no mate preference in terms of egg numbers deposited with respect to male dominance or body size and no congruent mate preference to specific males was detected. However, males sired offspring with consistently higher hatching success and the effect was repeatable across individual females. Thus, some males provided females with indirect benefits related to additive genetic quality (“good genes”) and expressed via increased hatching rate, but this benefit was not related to male dominance status or body size.