The design of post‐mining landscapes using geomorphic principles

Nature can provide analogues for post‐mining landscapes in terms of landscape stability and also in terms of the rehabilitated structure ‘blending in’ with the surrounding undisturbed landscape. In soil‐mantled landscapes, hillslopes typically have a characteristic pro?le that has a convex upper hillslope pro?le with a concave pro?le lower down the slope. In this paper hillslope characteristic form is derived using the area–slope relationship from pre‐mining topography at two sites in Western Australia. Using this relationship, concave hillslope pro?les are constructed and compared to linear hillslopes in terms of sediment loss using the SIBERIA erosion model. It is found that concave hillslopes can reduce sediment loss by up to ?ve times that of linear slopes. Concave slopes can therefore provide an alternative method for the construction of post‐mining landscapes. An understanding of landscape geomorphological properties and the use of erosion models can greatly assist in the design of post‐mining landscapes. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

西南岩溶石山地区石漠化信息自动提取技术研究

介绍了以TM数据为信息源,基于GIS系统平台的矢量化石漠化信息计算机自动提取原理、方法、步骤及提取效果。     

高原交通干线对土地利用和景观格局的影响——以兰州至格尔木段为例

运用景观生态学方法和Arc/Info软件，研究1995年至2000年兰州至格尔木铁路沿线的区域土地利用和景观格局变化，分析交通干线（公路和铁路）的影响程度与范围。主要结果如下：（1）东线土地利用和景观格局没有发生显著变化，西线土地利用和景观格局变化较大；（2）东线缓冲带土地利用程度综合指数没有显著变化，西线缓冲带土地利用程度综合指数明显升高。缓冲带综合土地利用动态度的变化反映了交通干线的轴向影响规律；兰州至西宁铁路对土地利用变化的显著影响范围是5km，青藏铁路对土地利用变化的显著影响范围是7km；（3）9个城市缓冲带的土地利用变化分析表明：城市扩展主要发生在1km缓冲带内。     

科尔沁沙地巴克窑地区近150年的环境演变*

在沉积和花粉分析的基础上,对科尔沁沙地东南部巴克窑地区过去150年的植被和环境演变进行了重建。巴克窑等湖泡的诞生时间是在上个世纪前期,约1837年前后。这个时间也正是科尔沁沙地东南部地区首次大规模人口移入和垦荒年代。突然增加的人类活动导致了沙丘植被的迅速破坏,而植被减少和沙丘活化引起区域水文循环的重新调整,即原来通过植物蒸腾作用输出的水量明显减弱,致使地下潜水位上升,形成一系列湖泡。以后,沙地系统的演化主要是在人类活动、气候和系统内部反馈机制的共同作用下完成的。     

山水风景旅游资源开发利用研究

风景是旅游资源的精华和主体，山水风景作为风景的主体，在旅游开发中既是主要的观赏客体，又起到风景总特征基本骨架作用。山水风景旅游资源开发潜力很大，以山水风景观察游鉴为主要目的旅游仍然是当前和今后旅游活动的基本形式。     

宁夏盐池县土地沙质荒漠化的发展趋势及其防治

宁夏盐池县是我国北方农牧交错带沙质荒漠化强烈发展的地区之一。通过分析该区土地沙质荒漠化的发展趋势及其成因，认为该区土地沙质荒漠化有日趋扩大、日益严重的发展趋势；在潜在自然因素的基础上，人为因素是造成该区土地沙质荒漠化的主要因素。针对该区土地沙质荒漠化的发展趋势及其成因，结合沙质荒漠化土地的农林牧综合开发，提出了防治土地沙质荒漠化的目标、实施步骤及基本对策。     

Science and the desertification debate

Desertification is an environmental issue that has major environmental and social dimensions, and which has been controversial in a number of respects. The recent UN Convention on Desertification and Drought places considerable emphasis on the social dimensions of the problem and the role local peoples and NGOs have to play in tackling it. When desertification first became regarded as a major issue in the 1970s, science was seen to have a major role in understanding and solving the problem, but in some circles has been regarded as failing to contribute usefully. This paper explores the nature of scientific contributions, why science may have been seen to fail to serve the needs of policy-makers, and why scientific findings may have been misinterpreted in broader circles dealing with the issue. It concludes by identifying areas where science has still a valuable role to play in an issue that is now perhaps regarded as more political and social than scientific.     

LANDSCAPE PERMANENCE AND NUCLEAR WARNINGS

ABSTRACT. From the perspective of a human lifetime, the hazards of some nuclear wastes are permanent, so the warnings we place at contaminated nuclear sites must be permanent too. I address questions of how best to provide one hundred centuries of public warning at the first facility for permanent disposal, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico. Scenarios of intrusion developed to guide the design of warning markers predicted that most of the changes in the area will be social and cultural. Because blatant and permanent markers will increase, not reduce, the probability of inadvertent intrusion, the most appropriate warning is a “landscape of illusion.” Such a landscape needs not permanent surface markers but underground warning devices beneath a soft surface marker. No warning can guarantee deterrence for 10,000 years, however.     

山西省土地荒漠化特征

从土地荒漠化的概念出发,对山西省土地荒漠化的现状及特征进行了分析,指出土地荒漠化是目前困扰山西社会经济可持续发展的一个重要的生态环境问题,并提出了土地荒漠化的防治举措。