Concurrency: a system design approach to environmental management and sustainability

The lessons of history indicate that mismanagement of natural resources and the environment often leads to potentially adverse consequences.The increasing interest in economic development,particularly in the developing countries of the world coupled with increasing population pressures and the globalization of economic activity is placing noticeable stresses on the ultimate sustainability of both human and environmental systems.Sustainable development is not a new concept.It has been an area of concern for different elements of society for some time.Yet efforts to understand the implications of sustainable development have not,until recently,been formalized.We have focused singularly on economic development and environmental quality as if they were mutually exclusive.This paper focuses on the concept of concurrency as both a conceptual framework and practicable method of understanding and implementing the ecology and economy of sustainability.     

试论水质管理与饮水安全

随着生活水平的不断提高，人们对饮用水质量提出了更高的要求，而水环境质量的普通恶化又使人们不得不考虑饮用水的安全性。在简介了我国水资源现状的基础上，文中阐述了水质问题的重要性和我国水体环境质量的严峻性，指出了水质问题不仅制约着社会经济的发展，更直接地丰人们饮用水的安全性，已成为进入21世纪我国水资源问题的主要矛盾；在分析了我国水资源水质管理存在问题的基础上，从法律、法规、政策、经济等方面，着重探讨了加强水质管理与解决水资源供需矛盾和保证饮用水安全的关系。     

西藏生态经济系统的能值分析与可持续发展研究

在简要分析西藏的自然、社会经济概况及其在中国的战略地位基础上，运用能值理论与方法，对其主要资源的贮存价值、总能值用量、能值的流入流出情况、人口承载力、能值投入率、能值使用强度、环境负荷等指标进行了系统研究，并与其他国家的有关指标进行了比较研究，提出了进一步开发西藏资源、实现可持续发展目标的政策建议。     

1 941～1 947年豫东黄泛区的蝗灾

在1941～1947年间,豫东泛区频繁发生的蝗灾具有数量多、范围广、危害大等明显特点.肆虐的蝗灾,不仅给豫东泛区的农业生产造成惨重的损失,而且引发了众多的饥荒.为防治蝗灾,当时的河南省政府制定了种种措施,并取得一定成效,对当今治理蝗灾有一定的借鉴意义.     

我校建立灾害经济学学科的重要性

本文回顾了灾害经济学的发展历程,分析了灾害经济学的理论框架及与其他学科的关系,从经济学的角度阐述了建立这一学科的必要性,并探讨了建立这一学科的基础条件.全文从经济学的角度阐述了建立这一学科的必要性.并探讨了建立这一学科所要研究的理论知识.     

试析突发性灾害对旅游业的影响

突发性灾害就其致灾成因而言可分为两类:自然性和人为性.无论是突发性自然灾害还是人为灾害,对于旅游业来说都不啻为重击.突发性自然灾害的发生是大自然向人类发出的警示,而突发性人为灾害的频繁发生,无不体现着要构建和谐社会的重要性与必要性.     

从绿色贸易壁垒谈中国农产品贸易的对策思路

本文运用环境经济学的理论和方法 ,分析了 WTO中的绿色贸易壁垒从质量、成本、营销三个方面对中国农产品贸易产生的影响以及中国目前农产品贸易的形式 ,提出中国在入世后农产品贸易全球化发展中所应采取的对策和建议     

Biodiversity and industry ecosystem management

The term biodiversity describes the array of interacting, genetically distinct populations and species in a region, the communities they comprise, and the variety of ecosystems of which they are functioning parts. Ecosystem health, a closely related concept, is described in terms of a process identifying biological indicators, end points, and values. The decline of populations or species, an accelerating trend worldwide, can lead to simplification of ecosystem processes, thus threatening the stability and sustainability of ecosystem services directly relevant to human welfare in the chain of economic and ecological relationships. The challenge of addressing issues of such enormous scope and complexity has highlighted the limitations of ecology-as-science. Additionally, biosphere-scale conflicts seem to lie beyond the scope of conventional economics, leading to differences of opinion about the commodity value of biodiversity and of the services that intact ecosystems provide. In the face of these uncertainties, many scientists and economists have adopted principles that clearly assign burdens of proof to those who would promote the loss of biodiversity and that also establish near-trump (preeminent) status for ecological integrity. Electric utility facilities and operations impact biodiversity whenever construction, operation, or maintenance of generation, delivery, and support facilities alters landscapes and habitats and thereby impacts species. Although industry is accustomed to dealing with broad environmental concerns (such as global warming or acid rain), the biodiversity issue invokes hemisphere-wide, regional, local, and site-specific concerns all at the same time. Industry can proactively address these issues of scope and scale in two main ways: first, by aligning strategically with the broad research agenda put forth by informed scientists and institutions; and second, by supporting focused management processes whose results will contribute incrementally to the broader agenda of rebuilding or maintaining biodiversity.     

Congestion at Recreation Areas: Empirical Evidence on Perceptions, Mitigating Behaviour and Management Preferences

Economists have tried to estimate the demand for recreation under conditions of congestion, struggling especially with a model that uses observed rather than stated behaviour to obtain results. This paper reports statistical analyses of data on perceptions, mitigating behaviour and management preferences in order to highlight the difficulties related to empirical analysis of congestion. We offer evidence that may be of assistance to those wishing to construct measures of congestion for use in an observed behaviour model. The results may also be useful to recreation area managers who can implement a quota or permit system or change site entry or access fees to control access to the site they manage.     

河南省小麦白粉病流行原因和减灾对策

本文阐述了河南省小麦白粉病流行成灾的特点、原因和发展趋势,指出今后数年内小麦白粉病的发生仍将严重,并提出了短期和长期减灾对策建议.