Navigating the evolution of marine policy in Panama: Current policies and community responses in the Pearl Islands and Bocas del Toro Archipelagos of Panama     

《Marine Policy》2015

Recent changes in marine policy in Panama are closely related to sustained expansion of the Panamanian economy in the past ten years. Important drivers of economic growth such as the Panama Canal expansion, tourism, and real estate development directly involve marine and coastal areas. Therefore, maintaining the quality of these environments, as well as the sustainability of the human communities that depend on them, calls for the implementation of adequate management and planning policies. In light of a complex history of marine and coastal policy in Panama, current institutional restructuring processes, and a growing recognition of the importance of marine and coastal geographies, the authors aim to document the current status of, and community response to, marine and coastal policy in Panama, analyzed in terms of three important cross-cutting sectors: tourism, fishing, and conservation. To do so, the authors introduce two case studies: one in the Pearl Islands Archipelago and one in Bocas del Toro, each with varying degrees of participation or involvement in each sector, to illustrate the range of adaptations to change occurring in coastal communities. Based on an in-depth policy analysis and the case studies, the authors suggest that there are important administrative and structural gaps in the legislation and institutions that enforce them, as well as a lack of integration across institutions. In particular, the authors highlight the lack of clear marine and coastal property regimes as an obstacle to the implementation of integrative marine policies in Panama.  相似文献   

盆地基底岩性的综合地球物理预测方法——以松辽盆地滨北地区基底岩性预测为例   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

李成立  崔瑞华  刘益中 《地球物理学报》2011,54(2):491-498

预测盆地基岩岩性不仅对于研究盆地的深部地质结构及盆地的形成演化具有重要的意义,而且也对基岩风化壳油气藏的勘探具有一定的指导作用.本文通过对盆地重、磁异常成因的综合分析,提出了一系列盆地基底岩性综合预测研究的综合地球物理资料处理解释方法技术.指出在地震构造界面的约束下采用重力剥皮技术可以较为可靠地获取基底岩性重力异常并分...  相似文献   

竖向质量分布对框架结构动力特性影响的研究   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

祝文畏  杨学林  岳燕玲 《地震工程与工程振动》2011,31(5):97-103

在框架结构动力分析中,往往是把填充墙质量集中在楼层处进行求解.文中考虑填充墙实际分布对结构自振特性的影响,通过传递矩阵法求解结构自振频率和振型,并进一步分析了高阶频率的分布规律.结果表明,与采用集中质量模型的振型叠加法相比,填充墙的竖向质量分布会对框架结构高阶频率产生很大影响;框架结构的高阶模态具有局部性和密集分组的特...  相似文献   

溶质类型与矿化度对土壤水分扩散率的影响   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

郭全恩  王益权  马忠明  车宗贤  南丽丽  徐世文  刘延东 《干旱区地理》2011,34(1):86-90

以甘肃省秦安县果园石灰性土壤为研究对象,采用水平土柱入渗法,探讨了不同矿化度下(lg/L、3g/L、5g/L、10g/L)的三种钠盐(Nacl、Na2SO4和Na2CO3)对石灰性土壤水分扩散率的影响.结果表明:在水盐复合迁移体系中盐分与水分迁移具有不同步性,影响不同步性的因子与盐分类型有很大关系.NaCl对水分移动速...  相似文献   

湖南九嶷山复式花岗岩体SHRIMP锆石定年及其地质意义   总被引：53，自引：11，他引：42  

付建明  马昌前  谢才富  张业明  彭松柏 《大地构造与成矿学》2004,28(4):370-378

应用SHRIMP锆石U-Pb法获得九嶷山复式花岗岩中的主要岩体形成年龄为:雪花顶花岗岩(432±21)Ma、金鸡岭花岗岩(156±2)Ma、砂子岭花岗岩(157±1)Ma和西山火山-侵入杂岩(156±2)Ma。结果显示砂子岭岩体属燕山早期而非印支期;西山火山-侵入杂岩属燕山早期而非燕山晚期。花岗岩中继承锆石复杂,其形成时代为1579Ma、2108Ma和2669Ma,提供了九嶷山地区存在古-中元古代,甚至太古代基底的年龄信息。新元古代(912Ma)锆石的大量出现为扬子陆块和华夏陆块碰撞带通过本区的认识提供了一个间接证据。  相似文献   

The influence of freezing drizzle on wire icing during freezing fog events   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

周悦  牛生杰  吕晶晶 《大气科学进展》2013,30(4):1053-1069

Both direct and indirect effects of freezing drizzle on ice accretion were analyzed for ten freezing drizzle events during a comprehensive ice thickness, fog, and precipitation observation campaign carried out during the winter of 2008 and 2009 at Enshi Radar Station (3017'N, 10916'E), Hubei Province, China. The growth rate of ice thickness was 0.85 mm h－1 during the freezing drizzle period, while the rate was only 0.4 mm h－1 without sleet and freezing drizzle. The rain intensity, liquid water content (LWC), and diameter of freezing drizzle stayed at low values. The development of microphysical properties of fog was suppressed in the freezing drizzle period. A threshold diameter (Dc) was proposed to estimate the inuence of freezing drizzle on different size ranges of fog droplets. Fog droplets with a diameter less thanDc would be affected slightly by freezing drizzle, while larger fog droplets would be affected signicantly. Dc had a correlation with the average rain intensity, with a correlation coefficient of 0.78. The relationships among the microphysical properties of fog droplets were all positive when the effect of freezing drizzle was weak, while they became poor positive correlations, or even negative correlations during freezing drizzle period. The direct contribution of freezing drizzle to ice thickness was about 14.5%. Considering both the direct and indirect effects, we suggest that freezing drizzle could act as a catalyst causing serious icing conditions.  相似文献   

The economics of ending Canada's commercial harp seal hunt     

John Livernois 《Marine Policy》2010

The roots of the Canadian harp seal hunt can be traced to the 16th Century. But in the mid-20th century, opposition to the commercial hunt became widespread after television images of seal pups being killed with clubs on the pack ice off the coast of Newfoundland were broadcast around the world. International conservation groups, animal welfare groups, animal rights groups, and foreign governments have been calling for the Canadian government to end the commercial seal hunt on the grounds that it is inhumane and that harvest levels are unsustainable. The Canadian government defends the traditional practices of hunting harp seals, argues that seal pelts are an important source of income for sealers, and insists that the killing methods are humane and that harvest levels are sustainable. Emotions run high on both sides of the debate. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether or not there is a purely economic argument for ending Canada's commercial seal hunt. The paper finds that the benefits of ending the commercial hunt exceed the costs, but not unequivocally. However, the paper argues there should be a higher criterion—the Pareto criterion—for ending the commercial hunt; that is the hunt should end only if winners compensate the losers. The paper goes on to argue that an effective way to satisfy this criterion is to introduce a system of individual transferable quotas (ITQs) and let the market reveal the value of the commercial seal hunt. In addition to many other advantages such as improving the safety and efficiency of the hunt, the ITQ market could provide a mechanism by which those willing to pay to end the hunt could do so directly to sealers thereby ensuring that the hunt is scaled back or ultimately ended only when it is economically efficient and unambiguously welfare-improving.  相似文献   

Influence of heterogeneity on unsaturated hydraulic properties: (1) local heterogeneity and scale effect     

Pen‐Yuan Chen  Chu‐Hui Chen  Nien‐Sheng Hsu  Cheng‐Mau Wu  Jet‐Chau Wen 《水文研究》2012,26(23):3593-3603

Spatial heterogeneity is ubiquitous in nature, which may significantly affect the soil hydraulic property curves. The models of a closed‐form functional relationship of soil hydraulic property curves (e.g. VG model or exponential model) are valid at point or local scale based on a point‐scale hydrological process, but how do scale effects of heterogeneity have an influence on the parameters of these models when the models are used in a larger scale process? This paper uses a two‐dimensional variably saturated flow and solute transport finite element model (VSAFT2) to simulate variations of pressure and moisture content in the soil flume under a constant head boundary condition. By changing different numerical simulation block sizes, a quantitative evaluation of parameter variations in the VG model, resulting from the scale effects, is presented. Results show that the parameters of soil hydraulic properties are independent of scale in homogeneous media. Parameters of α and n in homogeneous media, which are estimated by using the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity curve (UHC) or the soil water retention curve (WRC), are identical. Variations of local heterogeneities strongly affect the soil hydraulic properties, and the scale affects the results of the parameter estimations when numerical experiments are conducted. Furthermore, the discrepancy of each curve becomes considerable when moisture content becomes closer to a dry situation. Parameters estimated by UHC are totally different from the ones estimated by WRC. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

石油污染对黄河口沉积物工程性质的影响     

王林昌  袁守启  邢可军 《中国海洋大学学报(自然科学版)》2010,40(1)

对黄河口胜利油田某油井附近沉积物进行石油污染状况调查研究,采用坑探试验现场调查污染范围,发现油井沉积物在一定范围内存在石油污染,污染多在0.2～1.5 m深度内,水平距离在140～440 m之间.原位测试污染沉积物强度,取样进行室内石油浓度和沉积物物理力学指标测试.石油污染沉积物物理力学性质与未污染的有较大差别,污染后沉积物的重度、渗透系数和强度等均有所降低.污染后的沉积物结构,多成块状和板状结构.  相似文献   

Structural, electronic and optical properties of orthorhombic distorted perovskite TbMnO₃     

蔡鲁刚  刘发民  钟文武 《海洋学报(英文版)》2010,29(9)

This paper calculates the structural parameters, electronic and optical properties of orthorhombic distorted perovskite-type TbMnO₃ by first principles using density functional theory within the generalised gradient approximation. The calculated equilibrium lattice constants are in a reasonable agreement with theoretical and experimental data. The energy band structure, density of states and partial density of states of elements are obtained. Band structures show that TbMnO₃ is an indirect band gap between the O 2p states and Mn 3d states, and the band gap is of 0.48 eV agreeing with experimental result. Furthermore, the optical properties, including the dielectric function, absorption coefficient, optical reflectivity, refractive index and energy loss spectrum are calculated and analysed, showing that the TbMnO₃ is a promising dielectric material.  相似文献