A conceptual model to integrate the regional context in landscape policy,management and contribution to rural development: Literature review and European case study evidence

Agri-environmental policies and planning influence agricultural landscape management, and thus the capacity to deliver landscape services and to contribute to rural viability. Numerous models and frameworks have been developed to improve comprehension of the mechanisms and interrelationships between policies, landscape and socio-economic values and benefits. As social-ecological systems, landscapes are closely depending from the socio-institutional and territorial context of the specific rural locality. The paper proposes an enhanced framework for assessing these mechanisms by acknowledging the critical role of the regional macro-environment. A literature review and the revisiting of evidence from eight European case studies are applied to establish a comprehensive understanding and exemplification of the links between the policies, landscape, ecosystem services and value flows. Results highlight the need for integrative, inter- and transdisciplinary research approaches. Efficient landscape policies require enhanced regional embeddedness and targeting, acknowledgement of user demands and the capability of regional community and governance structures for policy implementation and natural capital valorisation.     

Trans-Arctic shipping routes expanding faster than the model projections

Rapid declines in Arctic sea ice coverage over the past four decades have increased the commercial feasibility of trans-Arctic routes. However, the historical changes in navigability of trans-Arctic routes remain unclear, and projections by global circulation models (GCMs) contain large uncertainties since they cannot simulate long-term Arctic sea ice changes. In this study, we determined the changes in trans-Arctic routes from 1979 to 2019 by combining two harmonized high-quality daily sea ice products. We found that the trans-Arctic routes are becoming navigable much faster than projected by the GCMs. The navigation season for open water (OW) vessels along the Northeast Passage (NEP) has lengthened from occasionally navigable in the 1980 s to 92 ± 15 days in the 2010 s. In contrast, previous GCM projections have suggested that navigability would not be achieved until the mid-21st century. The 90-day safety shipping area for OW vessels expanded by 35% during 1979–2018, reaching 8.28 million km² in 2018, indicating an increasing rate of 0.08 ± 0.01 million km² per year. The shortest trans-Arctic routes were also shifted further north than the model projections. Regular ships have been able to safely travel north along the islands in the NEP and transit through the M’Clure Strait in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago during the 2010 s, while previous studies have projected that this would not be feasible until the mid-21st century. We also found that the improved navigability of trans-Arctic routes enables commercial ships to transport approximately 33–66% (at the same load factor) more goods from East Asia to Europe during the Arctic shipping season than by the traditional Suez Canal route. These findings highlight the need for aggressive actions to develop mandatory rules that promote navigation safety and strengthen environmental protection in the Arctic.     

Movement of Heavy Metals in Soil through Preferential Flow Paths under Different Rainfall Intensities

Preferential flow in soils deserves attention due to its potential role in accelerating the movement of contaminants to groundwater. This study investigates the movement of Cd, Cu, and Pb through preferential flow paths under different applied rainfall intensities. Artificial acid rain (pH of 4.1) containing CdCl₂, CuCl₂, and Pb(NO₃)₂ was applied to undisturbed soil and repacked sand columns at low and high intensities, and leachate metals and chloride concentrations were measured. Cd was found in the leachate at both low and high rates in all columns, while the increase in Cu concentrations in the leachate was detected only at the high rate of the undisturbed columns. Pb was retained in both columns. For undisturbed columns, the breakthrough curves of Cd and Cu were similar to those of Cl, showing early initial breakthrough by preferential flow and dependency on rainfall intensities. The Cd concentrations were detected in the leachate from repacked columns for high rate rainfall, implying that even homogeneous soil may not be perfectly able to retain metals and the initially wet condition is more harmful for subsurface contaminant transport. In conclusion, the study demonstrated that, despite its highly sorptive nature, the transport of some metals may be as fast as that of a tracer under preferential flow conditions, and the rainfall intensity is a significant factor for the degree of transport.     

Sources and pathways of natural and anthropogenic hydrocarbons into the natural dump Arkona Basin (southern Baltic Sea)

 Surface sediments, suspended particulate matter and fluffy-layer material, collected in the Arkona Basin and the Pomeranian Bay during 1995–1997, as well as air particulate matter, collected on the island of Rügen during August 1995, were analysed for total organic carbon content, saturated and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). The resulting concentrations and distributions of these compounds and molecular PAH ratios are discussed in terms of matrix, origin of the organic matter and seasonal variations. The data show that the Oder river can be identified as a major source for PAH transported into the southern part of the Arkona Basin. A strong atmospheric input of PAH is noted for the central and northern part of the basin. In general, anthropogenic and bacterially degraded hydrocarbons bound to organic carbon-rich and small particles are mainly deposited in the basin center, whereas their natural counterparts accumulate mainly on the basin flanks covered by coarser grained sediments. Received: 2 March 1999 · Accepted: 8 June 1999     

数字空间解读的机理分析

本文阐述了以地球表层为研究对象的地理学在信息革命的巨大影响下 ,将面临的 3大问题 :(1 )可持续发展--弄清地球表层巨系统的驱动力、运行机制、调控方法等可持续发展问题 ;(2 )经济全球化--各种经济、社会要素在大尺度空间内流动与融合 ,研究其地域分异规律和人地系统问题 ;(3)人类行为与区域响应--信息分布、交流的新格局对人类社会行为的影响和与其相关的自然、人文地理问题。认为地理学的空间观、时间观、尺度观、变化观、综合观、表达观及其方法论为地理学解决上述问题提供了可能性。指出了在信息社会里解读数字空间将遇到的 4个转变 :研究对象的转变 ,时空观的转变 ,研究手段的转变 ,研究方法的转变。提出了通过对数字空间的解读 ,实现对地球表层的全面深入的研究 ,同时也使地理学的定量研究方法走向成熟。     

我国"信息社会的地理学"关键研究领域综述

该文旨在描述十年来我国"信息社会的地理学"发展的大体轮廓。依据主题词选择、领域选择、期刊选择和论文选择的标准,以国内地理期刊上发表的96篇论文为研究对象,并按期刊、主题词、研究方法、研究区域进行分类分析,进而从7大领域综述我国"信息社会的地理学"的研究内容。研究发现,十年来我国"信息社会的地理学"呈现出研究不断深化、领域和主要内容全面化、研究方法和研究区域多样化的特点,据此探讨其研究趋势以引导未来的研究。     

地形位指数模型改进及其在植被覆盖评价中的应用

地形作为影响植被覆盖的重要因素,对植被恢复评价以及生态修复规划意义重大。地形位作为测度地形因子综合效应的指标,具有单一地形因子难以比拟的优势。然而,现有地形位指数算法以整个研究区为参照,未考虑空间异质性,难以反映植被生长的局部环境特征。基于地理学第三定律对地理环境相似的强调,融合“空间位置邻近”和“环境特征相似”,对传统地形位模型进行改进：(1)引入局部窗口算法,以突出局部地形特征;(2)在不同生境因子组合下测算地形位指数,以排除环境差异对地形位作用的干扰。案例研究表明,新模型有效提升了地形位指数对植被覆盖水平的解释力度;当考虑生境因子组合,且采用最优窗口时,局部窗口地形位指数与植被覆盖度之间的相关性最高。此外,通过观察不同生境组合下的地形位指数发现,在高热少水阴坡和高热少水阳坡条件下,植被覆盖度与局部窗口地形位指数具有更高相关性;可见,越是水资源相对匮乏区域,植被覆盖对局部窗口地形位的响应越敏感。本文有望为植被恢复评价与规划提供新的指标。     

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试论知识经济时代的地理学

近几年,知识经济这一概念在全世界范围得到迅速传播,引起了社会各界的强烈反响．尽管,对于知识经济时代空竟何时到来,学者们虽有争议,但是大家都不约而同地认为,知识经济这一概念恰当地概括了当今世界经济的特征和发展趋势,知识经济将改变人类社会经济生活的各个方面。     

Laborative Untersuchungen zur Beschreibung des Migrationsverhaltens sprengstofftypischer Verbindungen in Porengrundwasserleitern

Laboratory Experiments for Describing the Migration of Explosives in Sandy Aquifers Leaching the munition residues from the former explosive production site Elsnig in the Upper Elbe Valley (Saxony, Germany) resulted in an undefined plume of groundwater contaminated by nitroaromatics and nitroamines approaching important drinking water resources. Laboratory experiments were carried out to investigate transport and fate phenomena of such substances in aquifer materials. Specific solute storage and migration parameters for modelling the subsurface migration processes were obtained from steady state experiments in soil cores used as 0-dimensional reactors and from dynamic breakthrough curves in soil columns. Using the 0-dimensional reactor tests we focused on isotherm estimation. Sorption was found to be reflected best by Freundlich isotherms for concentrations of nitroaromatics less than 10 mg L^?1 and low organic carbon content in the tested subsurface material. TNT-adsorption was slow and strongly correlated with soil permeability. Preliminary kinetic measurements revealed sorption equilibrium after two days. RDX-adsorption was low. All sorption experiments were conducted under non-sterile and aerobic conditions. Microbial activity was controlled by measuring the enzyme activity and the biomass in water and soil samples. After steady state experiments in the 0-dimensional reactors, products initiated by biodegradation of explosives such as aminonitrotoluenes were found. Based on literature, degradation was estimated and correlated with soil texture. For five components, different retardation was observed depending on soil texture by using native groundwater samples in the columns. Specially designed reactor facilities and soil column installations with temperature and flux control as well as on-line measurements of pH, pE, and conductivity were applied. Concentrations of contaminants were analysed both by high performance liquid chromatography and thin layer chromatography. Photolytic reactions have been prevented. Based on all these laboratory experiments, sorption, degradation, and retardation parameters of trinitrotoluene (TNT), hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX), dinitrobenzene (DNB), dinitrotoluene (DNT), and mononitrotoluene (MNT) in Elsnig sandy aquifers were estimated.