How Collaborative Approaches to Environmental Problem Solving View Indigenous Peoples: A Systematic Review

Collaborative approaches to environmental problem solving are becoming commonplace around the world. These processes often occur in the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples. Hence, how Indigenous peoples are viewed in the collaboration literature is important because of the distinctive position they hold in many societies. In this article we conducted a systematic review of the collaboration literature that focused on environmental concerns and referred to Indigenous peoples. The goals were to identify how Indigenous peoples are discussed in this literature, and to reveal the assumptions that are made about the roles and views of Indigenous peoples and nations. The Indigenous governance literature was used to highlight the contrasting perspectives of Indigenous peoples. The systematic review revealed discordant assumptions about the roles of Indigenous peoples between these two bodies of literature. Implications for the theory and practice collaborative environmental problem solving are identified.     

Understanding Effectiveness in its Broader Context: Assessing Case Study Methodologies for Evaluating Collaborative Conservation Governance

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Collaborative forms of governance are increasingly favored in conservation and potentially offer a range of practical and outcome-based benefits. However, tools for critically assessing whether and how collaboration enhances the attainment of conservation objectives are lagging behind the enthusiasm. We use a framework that considers effectiveness in relation to capacity of key actors and institutions to achieve outcomes and respond to emergent problems, robustness over time (i.e. adapting to changes while still achieving objectives), context-specific drivers of change, and the structure of networks and institutions to assess common approaches for evaluating effectiveness. Network analysis performs well in terms of structure, while action research and the diagnostic method offer deep insights into capacity and context. Scenario planning performs well in understanding robustness and context but performs better when combined with a diagnostic. The evaluation reveals important insights for approaching and standardizing investigations of collaborative governance regimes and their effectiveness.     

Assessing Collaborative Conservation: A Case Survey of Output,Outcome, and Impact Measures Used in the Empirical Literature

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Much existing research on collaborative conservation has focused on process, even as researchers have called for greater attention to explaining what results these processes yield. It is time to take stock of collaborative conservation research by mapping what kinds of variables researchers are including in analyses. Here we conduct a case survey from the SCAPE database of environmental decision-making cases. We include cases involving collaboration across government, environmental protection, and resource exploitation interests in western democratic countries. Results reveal patterns in what researchers include in their outputs, outcomes, and impacts measures of collaborative conservation. While there is little difference by publication type (peer-reviewed journals, scholarly book chapters, or gray literature) or over time, we find significant differences in explicit measures across variable types. In particular, variables more proximate to process in a logic chain are more often measured, as are social rather than ecological variables.     

秦岭山前截洪引渗与地下水库调蓄及其协同效应研究

本文分析了秦岭山前截洪引渗条件,以及涝河冲洪积扇截洪引渗方式与方案及其效果,采用数值模拟方法研究了截洪引渗与地下水库调蓄的协同效应。得出涝河冲洪积扇采取有水库、有引渗方案,实施截洪引渗工程与地下水库调蓄的联动,平水年可增补地下水0.45×108m3/a,丰水年可削减洪峰90%以上,增开状态的地下水位与泉流量仍可持续恢复。秦岭山截洪引渗条件和地下水库调蓄功能优越,实施截洪引渗工程对调节水资源时空分配不均、储蓄南水北调水量,缓解关中地区水资源供需矛盾、减轻洪灾等具有重要意义与作用。     

北京市居民居住—就业选择的协同性研究

居民在住房市场上的迁居决策和劳动力市场上的工作迁移决策,是城市空间结构塑造和演化的重要微观因素。本文以2009 年北京市城市居住环境评价和偏好选择抽样调查问卷为基础,探讨了居民居住迁移和工作迁移决策的协同性及其异质性,结果发现：居民居住迁移决策和工作迁移决策是一个存在正向相互联系的协同决策过程,而非两个独立的决策过程;居住迁移和工作迁移决策的正向反馈强度随着微观主体住房产权、户籍和家庭就业结构等状况的不同而具有异质性,非北京市户籍、租房户和单职工家庭居民的居住迁移和工作迁移的正向相关关系要显著大于有北京市户籍、购房户和多职工家庭居民,并且不同社会经济属性的居民其居住迁移决策和工作迁移决策的影响因素也具有异质性。     

Notes on a Program of Field Mapping for Undergraduates

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鄂尔多斯盆地矿权问题及解决机制探析

鄂尔多斯盆地赋存多种矿产且资源量极为丰富,是我国重要的能源基地。盆地内各矿产资源存在交叉,特别是能源矿产资源如石油、天然气、煤层气、煤炭等资源的矿区叠置问题极为严重,极大制约了矿产资源开发利用和产业发展。本文结合鄂尔多斯盆地内能源矿产的特征,以及开发现状、管理模式、法律法规等方面深入分析了矿权叠置形成原因,针对性的探析解决机制,并提出:建议协同开发,确定合理的利益分配。制定统一管理措施,加强协调监管。构建精简的矿权审批体系,形成一贯的执行标准。探明采矿权和探矿权,制定配套信息共享制度等措施建议。     

基于MAS协同框架的谈判支持系统

提出了用多Agent系统 (multi agentsystem ,MAS)协同工作模型来克服已有谈判支持的不足 ,研究了MAS系统的组织结构和交互机制 ;给出了基于MAS协同框架系统体系结构和工作模式 ,并介绍了系统的开发环境和实验结果。     

Collaborative validation of GlobeLand30:Methodology and practices

30-m Global Land Cover(GLC)data products permit the detection of land cover changes at the scale of most human land activities,and are therefore used as fundamental information for sustainable development,environmental change studies,and many other societal benefit areas.In the past few years,increasing efforts have been devoted to the accuracy assessment of GlobeLand30 and other finer-resolution GLC data products.However,most of them were conducted either within a limited percentage of map sheets selected from a global scale or in some individual countries(areas),and there are still many areas where the uncertainty of 30-m resolution GLC data products remains to be validated and documented.In order to promote a comprehensive and collaborative validation of 30-m GLC data products,the GEO Global Land Cover Community Activity had organized a project from 2015 to 2017,to examine and explore its major problems,including the lack of international agreed validation guidelines and on-line tools for facilitating collaborative validation activities.With the joint effort of experts and users from 30 GEO member countries or participating organizations,a technical specification for 30-m GLC validation was developed based on the findings and experiences.An on-line validation tool,GLCVal,was developed by integrating land cover validation procedures with the service computing technologies.About 20 countries(regions)have completed the accuracy assess-ment of GlobeLand30 for their territories with the guidance of the technical specification and the support of GLCVal.     

密西西比河流域监测、修复管理经验对我国流域生态保护修复的启示

美国流域保护修复的研究与实践开始较早,并在密西西比河的修复与治理上取得了良好成效,对我国流域生态保护修复工作具有一定借鉴意义。介绍了密西西比河的管理模式,并对美国在密西西比河开展的具有代表性的长期生态监测及修复管理工作进行了总结,总结了对我国流域生态保护修复工作的7点启示: ①建立和完善流域生态系统监测与评价指标体系; ②建立流域综合监测网络,进行全流域持续监测; ③建设流域生态信息平台,加强数据共享; ④以流域为单元开展生态状况调查和评估; ⑤建立和完善监测、评估、规划、实施循环体系; ⑥提升对流域生态系统的科学认知; ⑦加强流域协调治理,创新我国流域生态保护修复管理体系。旨在为我国广泛开展流域保护修复工作提供一个覆盖河源头至河口的流域监测与修复管理案例。