Code of Practice For Ocean Mining: An International Effort to Develop a Code For Environmental Management of Marine Mining

A code of practice for ocean mining has been developed by the International Marine Minerals Society. The code provides general guiding Principles for development of marine mineral resources and delineates Operating Guidelines for application, as appropriate, at specific mining sites. In total 11 operating guidelines are provided to serve as benchmarks for industry and targets for regulatory agencies and other stakeholders. They include the following commitments: •To sustainable development, •To environmentally responsible corporate ethics, •To the development of effective community partnership, •To implementation of environmental risk management, •To the integration of environmental management into all phases of development, •To the establishment of corporate environmental performance targets, •To timely environmental improvements and upgrading, •To responsible rehabilitation of operations sites and decommissioning of facilities, and •To accurate and timely, reporting and documentation, archiving, and performance review.     

Karst database development in Minnesota: design and data assembly

The Karst Feature Database (KFD) of Minnesota is a relational GIS-based Database Management System (DBMS). Previous karst feature datasets used inconsistent attributes to describe karst features in different areas of Minnesota. Existing metadata were modified and standardized to represent a comprehensive metadata for all the karst features in Minnesota. Microsoft Access 2000 and ArcView 3.2 were used to develop this working database. Existing county and sub-county karst feature datasets have been assembled into the KFD, which is capable of visualizing and analyzing the entire data set. By November 17 2002, 11,682 karst features were stored in the KFD of Minnesota. Data tables are stored in a Microsoft Access 2000 DBMS and linked to corresponding ArcView applications. The current KFD of Minnesota has been moved from a Windows NT server to a Windows 2000 Citrix server accessible to researchers and planners through networked interfaces.     

国外灾害风险管理对我国城市洪水保险的启示

全球变化和城市化的共同作用将导致城市洪涝灾害加剧,在这一新背景下,结合国外灾害风险管理的研究,对洪水保险进行了有益的探索,针对以前我国洪水保险试点在农村地区失败的原因,提议我国应该从城市开始实施洪水保险计划,认为实施城市洪水保险有必要性和可行性,可以进一步拓展城市洪涝灾害风险管理的渠道。     

国土资源信息化进程中的软件项目外包管理研究

本文简要论述了软件项目、软件项目管理及国土资源信息化建设特点,概括分析了国土资源行业的软件项目特点,总结了我国国土资源未来信息化发展趋势,同时结合当今信息化及国土资源行业软件项目特征,提出了在国土资源信息化建设进程中对于外包软件项目管理实施中需要注意的一些问题     

Towards an EU Action Plan on Cetacean Bycatch

For decades, cetacean bycatch has been a major conservation and welfare concern in Europe, with high numbers of harbour porpoises, dolphins and whales continuing to die each year. Despite binding legal requirements to reduce bycatch, there has been limited effective monitoring or mitigation. Bycatch is also an important welfare issue. At this critical juncture, with discussion of incorporating monitoring and mitigation of bycatch of protected species in Europe into the Data Collection Framework and Technical Measures Framework taking place to help deliver the reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), a clear, effective strategy could identify the steps that are required by all EU Member States to reduce bycatch towards zero. Here, implementation of current monitoring and mitigation obligations are reviewed. Recommendations are made for the provision of clear EU guidance in order to improve and unify population surveillance and bycatch monitoring, with enhanced implementation and enforcement from Member States. A more regionalised evidence-based approach to monitoring and mitigation is in line with the move to more regionalised management under the CFP, with Member States robustly showing that bycatch levels are decreasing over a set period of time (e.g. 5 years) by a specified amount. To this end, an EU Action Plan on Cetacean Bycatch, comparable to the existing 2012 Action Plan for reducing incidental catches of seabirds in fishing gear, might be beneficial and could ultimately form a model for an international Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Cetacean Bycatch Reduction Action Plan.     

地震前兆数据监视与管理系统

在北京十三陵地震台建设了一个高度集成的地震观测监控系统, 将原来分散的观测项目(如测震、 GPS、 气氡、 气汞、 电磁波、 地电场等测项), 改造为集中到一台服务器管理, 在一个监控平台上统一实现了对台站数据的收集、 入库、 管理、 处理、 监控等业务; 对这些观测项目可以在控制台上直接取数并将数据入库; 初步实现了观测数据的收集、 数据处理、 数据管理、 数据监控的软件管理系统, 减少了系统维护工作量, 方便台站工作人员操控。 监控系统的地震前兆数据监管软件系统DataMonitor可准实时监视数据, 检查数据的异常和到达情况, 并向台站数据管理人员告警; 可对数据库数据进行统计, 包括数据到达情况统计、 缺数统计、 数据连续率统计等, 并可按用户定制的测项分类进行统计。 该系统还提供多种前兆数据处理方法, 实现对前兆数据的各种常规分析处理。 地震前兆数据监视与管理系统已在北京十三陵地震台应用, 满足了数据管理人员日常工作需要, 可及时方便地掌握数据的情况并对观测系统进行维护。     

福建省基础空间数据管理技术研究

福建省基础地理信息中心作为福建省基础空间数据的管理和分发服务单位,管理和分发福建省多种类、多比例尺、多数据源、分布式、多时态的基础空间信息,在基础空间数据管理上存在多种形式,本文通过几种管理模式的技术分析,结合中心的管理实际,总结了福建省空间数据管理的多样性和技术特点,对比分析出各种管理模式的优势和缺点。     

A complicated relationship: Stakeholder participation and the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management

The relationship between stakeholder participation (SP) and the ecosystem-based approach to fisheries management (EBAFM) is often taken for granted, but is actually very complicated. The literature reveals five possible interpretations of this relationship: that they are (1) logically linked; (2) ethically linked; (3) instrumentally linked; (4) complementarily linked and (5) antagonistically linked. We examine these five formulations in the light of recent research on interactions between fisheries and their environment and conclude that the SP/EBAFM relationship manifests itself as predominantly instrumental in character.     

河北省地震局行政值班管理系统的设计与实现

近年来,各级党委政府全面推进机关事业单位值班工作制度化、规范化和标准化,地震系统行政值班人员数量、频次、要求越来越高,责任越来越大.针对河北省地震局行政值班工作的人工管理现状,科研人员结合当前值班规则与工作需求,设计开发一套河北省地震局行政值班管理系统,通过模块实现在线自动排班换班、实时更新排班情况与值班次数统计等功能...     

地理信息系统在无锡矿产资源管理信息中的应用

为了达到矿产资源管理系统科学、准确定量、动态反映等目的,我们以地理信息系统技术核心,在无锡市现有地质资料和管理资料的基础上,研制开发了以查询、统计、输出为主要功能的矿产资源管理信息系统（第一版）。建立了省、市、县、矿４层拓扑关系,实现了勘查项目管理、储量管理、资源开发管理和机构查询等功能。