From catfish to organic fish: making distinctions about nature as cultural economic practice     

Becky Mansfield 《Geoforum》2003,34(3):329-342

This paper addresses the cultural economy of nature and the material culture of economic practice. Attending to ways that cultural notions about the biophysical world play key roles in political economic conflicts, discussion centers on two recent debates involving the cultural economy of seafood production and trade. The first debate is over whether the label “catfish” should include catfish imported from Vietnam into the United States; the second deals with whether fish and shellfish should be eligible to be certified “organic” under new US regulations. Analysis reveals that the key dynamic in these debates is not necessarily how people think about “nature”, but instead is how people make distinctions about the world. Rather than focusing on what is natural or not, key actors make distinctions among both organisms and environments. The ways that different groups define and enclose the biophysical world works to distinguish places as either appropriate or not for certain kinds of production activities. The overall argument is that significance and meaning of the biophysical become implicated in economic geographies by making distinctions about the world that then become important for how economic activity can work. As such, cultural economic approaches should attend to the ways that the biophysical is involved in relations such as competition and international trade, while nature-society approaches should shift focus from Nature to specific aspects of the biophysical world.  相似文献   

Paleoecology of two marine oxygen isotope stage 7 sites correlated by the Sheep Creek tephra, northwestern North America     

Charles E Schweger 《Quaternary Research》2003,60(1):44-49

Pollen analysis at two sites, correlated by the presence of the 190,000 yr-old Sheep Creek tephra, documents fluctuations in vegetation and climate consistent with this date and indicates that the records span marine oxygen isotope stage 7 and the stage 6/7 transition. Dawson Cut, near Fairbanks, Alaska, provides a 5.2-m-long pollen record of interglacial boreal forest succeeded by shrub tundra and then forest/tundra. Ash Bend, Stewart River, central Yukon, provides a 9.5-m-long record of interglacial boreal forest succeeded by forest/tundra, shrub tundra, and herbaceous tundra. The replacement of forest at both sites by more open or tundra vegetation indicates warm interglacial conditions giving way to cold and arid climate. It is not clear whether stage 7 was warmer than the present. The warm-cool-warm climate oscillation evident at both sites may correlate to Lake Baikal substages 7a, 7b, and 7c. Sheep Creek tephra fell on forest/tundra vegetation.  相似文献   

Variability of NO₂ in different environments at a moderately polluted island over the southwestern Indian Ocean     

Chatrapatty Bhugwant  Jean-Luc Hoareau 《Atmospheric Research》2003,66(4):241-259

This work presents the temporal evolution and spatial distribution of nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) measured with the help of passive diffusion tubes in different environments: rural, sub-urban, urban, at La Réunion Island in December 1997 and November 2000 (austral spring), respectively. NO₂ concentration exhibits notable enhancement from 1997 to 2000. For instance, its mean concentration was 16 and 20 μg/m³ in December 1997 and November 2000, respectively, at La Réunion Island, especially in inhabited regions due to increase of local anthropogenic activities, mainly traffic circulation, in the absence of house heating and biomass burning. We also observe a net increase of pollutant levels by a factor two in rural/remote areas within 3 years, which is tied to the extension of inhabited areas and air-flows from enhanced local sources. The increase of atmospheric pollutants is mainly due to enhancement of anthropogenic activities (traffic) since the 1990s at La Réunion Island, which results from a constant increase of population and consequently, from a higher number of vehicles in circulation. Importantly, in cities like Saint-Denis, where traffic network has been subject to notable improvement (e.g. single to double lanes, etc.), pollutant levels exhibit little variability as in temperate continental latitudes. Semi-continuous NO₂ concentration measured in parallel with ozone in November 2000 also showed that daytime photochemical ozone production is influenced by pollutant and precursor (NO₂) levels at Saint-Denis, while nighttime ozone increase is mainly tied to dynamical processes. The November 2000 ozone diurnal pattern is notably different from that observed in September 1995, during which a daytime ozone loss was observed, pointing out that atmospheric conditions have been subject to notable changes, i.e., clean to moderately polluted, within a few years at La Réunion Island. The results presented here point out that the ‘source enhancement effect’ is superimposed on dynamical and photochemical processes to influence pollutants variability and hence atmospheric chemistry, in a quite ‘pristine’ tropical oceanic region.  相似文献   

矿物肥料的抗旱作用实践与机理的初步研究     

常安之 《化工矿产地质》1997,19(2):122-128

光合作用是绿色植物通过叶绿体，利用光能的催化反应把二氧化碳和水合成储存能量的一种过程，特别是水在光合作用下，若不能与二氧化碳保持一定比例的平衡，则光合作用不能继续进行，势必影响到作物的产量。因此，若施用抗旱肥料，不仅光合作用得到新的平衡，更由于光照强度大，时间也长，使合成有机物的丰度大为改观。所以，作物若施用新肥，不仅抗旱，还能保产与增收。  相似文献   

中国板块构造与盐类矿产   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

关绍曾  江宗龙 《化工矿产地质》1996,18(2):73-81

中国大陆的华北、塔里木、准噶尔－兴安、华南及甘青藏等五大板块发展过程中于地块边缘活动带、陆间裂谷、陆内裂谷等场所生成的含盐盆地，沉积了各时期（Ｏ、Ｃ、Ｔ、Ｊ－Ｅ和Ｑ）盐类矿床。通过分析对比认为，甘青藏板块兰坪－思茅拗陷带（Ｊ２－Ｅ１、Ｑ），塔里木板块（Ｃ、Ｋ－Ｅ、Ｑ），华北板块（Ｏ２），华南板块（Ｔ１－２）为成钾有利地带，中国东部众多的Ｋ－Ｅ红层盆地中成钾条件较差  相似文献   

纪念中国发现钾盐40年     

宣之强 《化工矿产地质》1996,18(4):314-316

中国察尔汗钾盐矿床是在开发柴达木盆地进程中由筑路工人提供线索，１９５６年，化工部派员初步确定，１９５７年“中国科学院盐湖科学考查队”进行初步评价得以证实的。首次发现的钾盐是一种人工盐坑中新生的含钾光卤石矿物  相似文献   

The influence of marine inflows on the chemical composition of groundwater in small islands: the example of the Cyclades (Greece)     

J. Dazy  C. Drogue  P. Charmanidis  Ch. Darlet 《Environmental Geology》1997,31(3-4):133-141

 Marine contamination of groundwater may be caused by seawater intrusion and by salt spray. The role of both processes was studied in the Cyclades archipelago on four small islands (45–195 km²) whose aquifers consist essentially of fractured, weathered metamorphic rocks. Annual rainfall ranges from 400 to 650 mm and precipitation has high total dissolved solids contents of 45–223 mg l^–1. The chemical characteristics of the groundwater, whose salinity is from 0.4 to 22 g l^–1, are strongly influenced by seawater intrusion. However, the effect of atmospheric input is shown in certain water sampling locations on high ground elevation where the dissolved chloride contents may attain 200 mg l^–1. Received: 14 November 1995 · Accepted: 9 September 1996  相似文献   

中国海洋地球物理进展   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：2       下载免费PDF全文

刘光鼎 《地球物理学报》1997,40(Z1):46-49

在中国地球物理学会50周年之际，总结海洋地球物理工作是十分重要的文章从中国海油气普查、近海工程地质调查。大洋多金属结核调查和中国海基础调查四个方面简要地阐述它们的进展。  相似文献   

电法勘探的发展和展望   总被引：9，自引：1，他引：9       下载免费PDF全文

何继善 《地球物理学报》1997,40(Z1):308-316

电法勘探在经历了近一个世纪的发展后，其方法理论、仪器设备、野外数据采集、处理和解释等方面都经历了一系列重大变化．本文以方法理论的进展为主线，回顾、展望了目前电法勘探中几个重要而令人关注的研究焦点．这些问题的研究进展将会对21世纪的电法勘探产生深远的影响．  相似文献   

在1996年南方油气勘探工作会议上的讲话(主要部分) 努力实现南方海相油气勘探重大突破     

周永康 《海相油气地质》1997,(1)

南方地质条件有四方面的特点:碳酸盐岩区与特提斯域有关,具有良好的含油气前景;叠置在碳酸盐岩区上的南、北两大前陆盆地带,对古生界原型盆地烃源岩的演化、油气藏形成和保存起到重要作用;南方海相地层具有丰富的烃源岩;后期多旋回构造运动,使南方海相油气系统变得十分复杂。南方油气选区评价的关键是保存条件,在含油气系统中“保存单元”是优选勘探目标的重要依据。“九五”期间,一要主攻中、下扬子区,获重大突破;二要积极做好滇黔桂地区三个盆地(南盘江盆地、楚雄盆地、十万大山盆地)的预探;三要进一步搞好区域评价。  相似文献