Monitoring salmon aquaculture waste: The contribution of First Nations’ rights, knowledge, and practices in British Columbia, Canada

British Columbia's current approach to monitoring salmon aquaculture waste is disconnected from political and legal trends towards the recognition of Aboriginal rights in Canada. Drawing on insights from collaborative monitoring in northern Canada and interviews with 23 Kwakwaka’wakw clam-diggers and cultural specialists (2006–2007), preliminary directions for integrating First Nations’ values, knowledge and stewardship practices into marine environmental monitoring are identified. Kwakwaka’wakw monitoring practices include the use of qualitative individual, community and population scale indicators and the integration of traditional knowledge as baseline data about the healthy conditions of traditional food resources.     

Participatory artisanal fisheries management in islands: Application to the Canary Islands (Spain)

Socio-economic development of small-island fishing communities is greatly dependent on local coastal and marine resources. However, illegal fishing and aggressive practices in insular ecosystems lead to over-exploitation and environmental deterioration. Moreover, a lack of scientific data increases uncertainty and prevents the adequate monitoring of marine resources. This paper focuses on the integration of local fishing communities into decision-making processes with the aim of promoting artisanal fishing on the Island of Tenerife (the Canary Islands), as a way to preserve the marine ecosystem and socio-economic development of traditional cofradias (fishers' organisations). A qualitative methodological framework, based on participatory problem-solution trees and focus groups, was used to identify the main factors impeding the sustainable development of the artisanal fishing sector on the island and to elaborate collective proposals with policy implications. The fishing community involved identified four main issues that are maintaining an unsustainable island fishery: 1) Over-exploitation; 2) Poor self-management of cofradias and commercialisation problems; 3) Fisher individualism and low co-management strategies, and 4) Illegal fishing increase vs. artisanal fishing decline. Results show the required policy enhancements to tackle them and the need to adapt regulations to the local situation.     

测绘知识基础设施建设构想

从知识基础设施的概念出发 ,阐述了建设测绘知识基础设施的重要性及其任务。认为测绘知识基础设施是测绘知识创新和技术创新的基础 ,建设测绘知识基础设施应重点加强测绘期刊的规范化出版和加快测绘知识数据库建设及信息网络建设。     

The geotechnical effects of long human habitation (2000< years): Earthquake induced landslide hazard in the city of Zefat, northern Israel

This work studies the effects of long human habitation on site geotechnical conditions. It is focused on the city of Zefat that is located on the borders of the Dead Sea Transform in northern Israel. The city of Zefat, suffered severe damage and loss of life in historical earthquakes, as a consequence of earthquake induced landslides (EILS). In this work we evaluate the current EILS hazard for the city of Zefat using a GIS-based regional Newmark analysis, with calibration of the calculated Newmark displacement (representing EILS hazard) using maps of field evidence and historical documents testifying to slope instability that occurred in historical earthquakes.

We found that the core city of Zefat is built on a layered anthropogenic material, few meters deep which, was deposited as a result of more than 2000 years of human habitation. The anthropogenic material is mechanically weak, susceptible to slope failure and to amplification of seismic-shaking. It is responsible for the city's devastation in historical earthquakes and it is the source for the current high seismic hazard as well.

Our model shows that earthquakes of magnitudes (M_w) 5, 6 and 7 at distances of up to 10 km, 50 km and more than 100 km, respectively, are likely to induce landslides in the core city of Zefat. The current engineering status of the city is poor, and as a consequence severe damage and loss of life are expected in future earthquakes due to EILS, unless major engineering efforts are made. Cities in the Eastern Mediterranean with comparable long habitation histories (e.g., Jerusalem, Tiberias, Nablus, Amman) are expected to have similar geotechnical problems in their old sections and are advised to take appropriate engineering steps to reduce damage and loss of life in future earthquakes.

Evaluation of historical earthquake magnitudes based on reported local-damage may, however, lead to overestimated magnitudes where the damaged sites are built on anthropogenic talus (a common setting in the vicinity of the Dead Sea Transform).     

突变理论在边坡工程应用的研究进展

突变理论是非线性科学领域中的一个重要分支,作为一种数学工具已经在众多领域得到广泛应用,在边坡工程中的应用尤为活跃。首先简述了突变理论的发展概况和基本原理,然后分别从3个方面详细论述了突变理论在边坡工程应用中的研究进展,即基于尖点突变法的边(斜)坡稳定性分析、基于突变级数法的边(斜)坡稳定性评价和基于灰色理论、模糊数学的尖点突变预测模型对滑坡时间预报,重点讨论了相应的理论模型、应用方法和实际效果,最后结合目前存在的问题探讨突变理论在边坡工程的发展趋势。     

基于CiteSpace和VOSviewer的国内半城市化研究可视化分析

随着新型城镇化和国土空间规划工作的推进,半城市化地区的科学发展与治理已成为城乡融合发展的重要环节。基于文献计量分析方法,运用CiteSpace和VOSviewer可视化工具,对近30年来国内半城市化研究进行知识图谱分析。结果表明：1）作者与机构研究力量分散,地域分布特征明显;2）研究热点聚焦于分析北京、广州、上海等发达城市的土地利用、景观格局、失地农民、影响因素等问题,其内容可聚类为形态特征、空间界定、驱动机制、协调发展4类主题;3）半城市化研究发展经历了3个阶段,研究区域从东南沿海向内陆转移,内容从定性理论分析向定量实证探讨转化,视角也由自然特性分析向社会发展研究转变,体现出更多人文关怀。最后,从半城市化地区空间范围界定、人居环境建设、农业转移人口市民化路径探讨和基本公共服务均等化实施4个方面进行展望,旨在为中国半城市化地区的发展提供参考。     

基于图斑空间关系的遥感专家分类方法研究

以光谱均质单元——图斑作为空间对象粒度的基本单元，采用图斑邻域搜索算法，获取不同类别图斑间的空间关系。在ERDAS专家分类系统中，根据图斑相邻关系以及DEM信息对初始分类结果进行了修正，提高了湿地、草地和农业用地的分类精度。     

AN ANALYSIS OF THE RANGE AND SPATIAL GRADIENT OF URBAN RECREATIONAL HINTERLANDS

Because medical geography is a dynamic and developing area of thought, a number of conceptual and empirical problems are, as yet, relatively unexplored. This essay constitutes an attempt to delimit these problems, which include the application of geographical analysis to ascertaining disease causation, the prediction of future disease patterns and disease diffusion, and evaluation of the importance of maximizing geographical access to health care facilities.     

对网络环境下测绘科技信息知识服务模式的探讨

知识服务这种新的服务理念已成为创新信息服务手段，提高信息服务保障能力和服务效率的新途径。本文阐述了网络环境下测绘科技信息服务的发展特点，指出新时期测绘科技信息服务工作呈现出知识性的特点。分析研究了知识服务的现实需求、保障模式和发展措施等。