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B. R. Hubble Stanley Siegel L. H. Fuchs H. R. Hoekstra B. Tani P. T. Cunningham 《Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (1995)》2013,63(4):343-346
Abstract Inspection and maintenance programs for motor vehicles in the United States increasingly use loaded mode mass emissions testing (IM240). A method was developed to predict mass emission rates and mass emission changes, particularly from repair benefits, using a low-cost, portable four-gas non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) vehicle exhaust gas analyzer. A single vehicle was tested several times with the analyzer while on the dynamometer and undergoing successive repairs. Excellent correlations for CO and HC were observed. Five vehicles were measured using an on-road driving loop before and after emissions-related repairs, while another three vehicles were tested with no repairs performed. The on-road concentration data used to guide the repair process were converted to grams per gallon; when divided by estimated miles per gallon, this gave grams per mile emissions for comparison to IM240. Correlation coefficients (r2) of 0.87 for CO and 0.76 for HC were achieved for the 13 tests. The linear correlations between IM240 and emissions measured by this method would allow repair facilities to perform a relatively inexpensive test for diagnostic purposes and to estimate repair effectiveness without the need for a dynamometer. 相似文献
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The design and integration of models projecting the effects of management on environmental systems is one step in the environmental planning process. Interactions between resources produced on the same unit of land under current and future management can be examined only when assumptions and processes of these dynamic environmental systems are quantified. Multiresource interaction models have generally been large and cumbersome while also suffering from an inadequate amount of detail. This article presents a conceptual framework for integrating individual resource models to project multiresource interactions at a regional scale. Land management impact projections require common definitions of the total land base and common definitions of management activities applied to the same land unit. A case example focusing on the resources of timber, forage, wildlife, fish, and water for the southern United States is presented. 相似文献
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Linda A. Joyce Curtis H. Flather Patricia A. Flebbe Thomas W. Hoekstra Stan J. Ursic 《Environmental management》1990,14(4):489-500
The impact of timber management and land-use change on forage production, turkey and deer abundance, red-cockaded woodpecker
colonies, water yield, and trout abundance was projected as part of a policy study focusing on the southern United States.
The multiresource modeling framework used in this study linked extant timber management and land-area policy models with newly
developed models for forage, wildlife, fish, and water. Resource production was integrated through a commonly defined land
base that could be geographically partitioned according to individual resource needs. Resources were responsive to changes
in land use, particularly human-related, and timber management, particularly the harvest of older stands, and the conversion
to planted pine. 相似文献
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Since the ban on the use of trichloroacetic acid (TCAA) as a herbicide in several countries, TCAA is still found ubiquitously in the environment. The presence of TCAA nowadays is suggested to originate mainly from the atmospheric degradation of tetrachloroethene. Our mass balance calculations indicate that this may be true for the presence of TCAA in the atmosphere. However, our mass balance calculations also provide tentative evidence for the formation of TCAA in soil. If our calculated production fluxes are realistic estimates, a very large source of TCAA in soil has been identified. 相似文献
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An Integrated Approach Towards Assessing the Value of Water: A Case Study on the Zambezi Basin 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
The aim of this paper is to develop a methodology for assessing the value of water in the different stages in the water cycle.
It is hypothesised that if a cubic metre of water provides some benefit in some spot at a certain moment, this cubic metre
of water has a certain value not only at that point in space and time, but in its previous stages within the water cycle as
well. This means that, while water particles flow from upstream to downstream, water values ‘flow’ in exactly the opposite
direction. The value of water in a certain place is equal to its value in situ plus an accumulated value derived from downstream. This value-flow concept is elaborated for the Zambezi basin.
It is found that water produces the smallest direct economic benefits in the upper part of the Zambezi basin. However, water
flows in this part of the basin − due to their upstream location − have the highest indirect values. Return flows from the
water-using sectors are particularly valuable in the upstream sub-basins. The analysis shows that the value per unit of river
water increases if we go from downstream to upstream. Another finding of the study is that percolation of rainwater is generally
more valuable than surface runoff. Finally, a plan to export water from the river Zambezi to South Africa is evaluated in
terms of its opportunity costs.
The results of this study show that the value-flow concept offers the possibility of accounting for the cyclic nature of water
when estimating its value. It is stressed, however, that for the current study many crude assumptions had to be made, so that
the exact numbers presented should be regarded with extreme caution. Further research is necessary to provide more precise
and validated estimates.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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5 –106 times higher compared with less sensitive species. The use of assessment factors in effect assessment procedures may lead
to an underestimation of effects on the more sensitive species.
For many priority pollutants there is little information on their ecotoxicity. Predictive techniques are needed to compensate
for this lack of data. Knowledge of the relation between modes of action of compounds and interspecies variation in sensitivity
should be integrated in risk assessment procedures in order to make more efficient use of the limited financial resources
available. 相似文献
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Trophic transfer of persistent organochlorine contaminants (OCs) within an Arctic marine food web from the southern Beaufort-Chukchi Seas 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
Hoekstra PF O'Hara TM Fisk AT Borgå K Solomon KR Muir DC 《Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)》2003,124(3):509-522
Stable isotope values (13C, 15N) and concentrations of persistent organochlorine contaminants (OCs) were determined to evaluate the near-shore marine trophic status of biota and biomagnification of OCs from the southern Beaufort-Chukchi Seas (1999-2000) near Barrow, AK. The biota examined included zooplankton (Calanus spp.), fish species such as arctic cod (Boreogadus saida), arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus), pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), and fourhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus quadricornis), along with marine mammals, including bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus), beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas), ringed seals (Phoca hispida) and bearded seals (Erignathus barbatus). The isotopically derived trophic position of biota from the Beaufort-Chukchi Seas marine food web, avian fauna excluded, is similar to other coastal food webs in the Arctic. Concentrations of OCs in marine mammals were significantly greater than in fish and corresponded with determined trophic level. In general, OCs with the greatest food web magnification factors (FWMFs) were those either formed due to biotransformation (e.g. p,p'-DDE, oxychlordane) or considered recalcitrant (e.g. -HCH, 2,4,5-Cl substituted PCBs) in most biota, whereas concentrations of OCs that are considered to be readily eliminated (e.g. -HCH) did not correlate with trophic level. Differences in physical-chemical properties of OCs, feeding strategy and possible biotransformation were reflected in the variable biomagnification between fish and marine mammals. The FWMFs in the Beaufort-Chukchi Seas region were consistent with reported values in the Canadian Arctic and temperate food webs, but were statistically different than FWMFs from the Barents and White Seas, indicating that the spatial variability of OC contamination in top-level marine Arctic predators is attributed to differences in regional sources of contamination rather than trophic position. 相似文献