Exploration of the “Living” Protection of Historic Blocks in South of the Yangtze River——A Case Study of Ancient Shajiabang Town, Changshu City

Historic blocks that focus only on protection of tangible constructed environment have shown various disadvantages and gradually lost their originality, according to the investigation. Protection of historic blocks should attach more importance to maintaining original lifestyles and community customs, protecting intangible contents and cultural diversity. The authors proposed that protection of historic blocks should follow the principle of "putting protection and repair on the top priority, using reasonably" and stress the "living" protection. There are three patterns of "living" protection, specifically, joint participation of local residents, construction of education base, moderate tourism development. Vitality of local economy can be enhanced and social humanistic environment protected effectively by improving the locals' living environment, so as to show true care for the people living in the historic block, and bring historic blocks to the real life.

Protection and Control Method of the Newly Built Underground Pipelines in the Embankment of Yangtze River

In the year of 2011, in the emergency reinforcement project of the main dike of Yangtze River in Luhe District, Nanjing City, four underground pipelines were vertically crossed with the embankment. In this project, each pipeline had been es- tablished independent culvert structure for protection and high pressure injection method had been used for the foundation treatment. To extend the length of the foot of slope and to improve the impermeable capacity of the dike, additional com- posite geomembranes had been installed in the riverside slope. By optimizing the construction program and enhancing the settlement observation during the constrution period, the safe operation of the pipelines had therefore been ensured.

Thoughts and Practice of Ecological Protection and Restoration of Mountains, Rivers, Forests, Farmlands, Lakes and Grasslands

The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China stated that it was necessary to establish and practice the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets,treat the ecological environment as life,and coordinate the management of mountains,rivers,forests,farmlands,lakes and grasslands.In recent years,China has organized a series of pilot projects for the ecological protection and restoration of mountains,rivers,forests,farmlands,lakes and grasslands,breaking the boundary between administrative divisions,departmental management and ecological elements,and implementing conservation and restoration oriented towards the improvement of ecosystem services,so as to solve the problem of the lack of overall planning for ecological protection and restoration projects and the separated management of ecological elements.This study systematically elaborated the theoretical basis and connotation characteristics of ecological protection and restoration of mountains,rivers,forests,farmlands,lakes and grasslands.It proposed the implementation path of ecological protection and restoration project of mountains,rivers,forests,farmlands,lakes and grasslands by taking the water source conservation area of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei as a case,so as to provide reference for the implementation and decision-making management of ecological protection and restoration projects in various regions.

Analysis of the Motive for the Use of LNG-Powered Ships in the Inland Waters of Yangtze River

The fuels that hardly pollute water body and atmospheric environment during burning are regarded as clean fuels. Liquefied Petroleum Gas （LPG）, Compressed Natural Gas （CNG） and Liquefied Natural Gas （LNG） are three representative clean fuels that are widely used in the shipping industry. From both ecological and economic point of view, LNG is treated as the best fuels in shipping industry by the ship-owners and Chinese government. In this paper, the wide applications of LNG-powered ships are analyzed from three aspects, including the global energy source structure, economic demands and the formulation of international conventions. Also, the functions of relevant domestic policies on how to accelerate LNG-powered ships widely used in inland waters of Yangtze river, China are summarized. At last, the reasons of the use of LNG-powered ships in inland waters of China in recent years under the impulsion of various factors are discussed in the end.

Protection Forest for Yangtze River

The Yangtze River is the largest river in China, about 6,300 kilometres long with a drainage area and population accounting for 18.8 percent and 33 percent respectively in China. Aiming at increasing forest and vegetation areas on the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River to control water and soil erosion, the Chinese government in 1989 decided to commence a construction project for the protection of the forest system on the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. The project covers 645 counties (cities and districts) in 13 provinces,

A Modified Self-adaptive Method for Mapping Annual 30-m Land Use/Land Cover Using Google Earth Engine:A Case Study of Yangtze River Delta

Annual Land Use/Land Cover(LULC)change information at medium spatial resolution(i.e.,at 30 m)is used in applications ranging from land management to achieving sustainable development goals related to food security.However,obtaining annual LULC information over large areas and long periods is challenging due to limitations on computational capabilities,training data,and workflow design.Using the Google Earth Engine(GEE),which provides a catalog of multi-source data and a cloud-based environment,we developed a novel methodology to generate a high accuracy 30-m LULC cover map collection of the Yangtze River Delta by integrating free and public LULC products with Landsat imagery.Our major contribution is a hybrid approach that includes three major components:1)a high-quality training dataset derived from multi-source LULC products,filtered by k-means clustering analysis;2)a yearly 39-band stack feature space,utilizing all available Landsat data and DEM data;and 3)a self-adaptive Random Forest(RF)method,introduced for LULC classification.Experimental results show that our proposed workflow achieves an average classification accuracy of 86.33%in the entire Delta.The results demonstrate the great potential of integrating multi-source LULC products for producing LULC maps of increased reliability.In addition,as the proposed workflow is based on open source data and the GEE cloud platform,it can be used anywhere by anyone in the world.

A holistic approach to creating a new yangtze river basin protection legislation

The protection of the Yangtze River Basin is a top priority in China,and the National People's Congress(NPC)Standing Committee has started to draft a new protection legislation specifically for the Yangtze River Basin.The Basin forms the epicenter of environmental,social,and economic life.Any efforts to protect the Basin must accommodate several competing interests from a multiplicity of interested parties and stakeholders such as local governments,villages,and business enterprises.Current relevant institutions and organizations are unable to sufficiently ensure environmental protection and green development in the Basin.The NPC Standing Committee must thus adopt a more holistic approach when creating new protection legislations aimed at the Yangtze River Basin.

Three Gorges Project:a project for ecological improvement and environmental protection in Yangtze River Basin

Seeking water and earning their livelihoods is the natural selection of human beings.Like other rivers on the earth,the Yangtze River is the birthplace of human civilization and survival.As an ecosystem,the Yangtze River Basin is evolving under the influences of natural factors and human activities.Because of soil erosion,pollution and human activities,the imbalance of secondary environment is exacerbated and the ecological environment has become more vulnerable,so it is urgent to mitigate and prevent the ecological crisis.The practice has proved that implementation of engineering measures is an effective way to improve the ecological environment.The Three Gorges Project (TGP) has a flood control storage capacity of 22.15 billion m 3,effectively storing the flood water upstream of Yichang,and protects 15 million people and 1.5 million hm 2 farmland.Furthermore,the project can prevent or slow down the sedimentation and shrinkage of the lakes in the middle Yangtze River such as Dongting Lake;with an average annual power generation of about 90 billion kW· h,it can significantly reduce the emissions of harmful gas like CO 2.In general,the construction of TGP is conducive to the ecological and environmental protection in the Yangtze River Basin and China,even the world.

Infestation risk of the intermediate snail host of Schistosomajaponicum in the Yangtze River Basin: improved results by spatial reassessment and a random forest approach

Background:Oncomelania hupensis is only intermediate snail host of Schistosomajaponicum,and distribution of 0.hupensis is an important indicator for the surveillance of schistosomiasis.This study explored the feasibility of a random forest algorithm weighted by spatial distance for risk prediction of schistosomiasis distribution in the Yangtze River Basin in China,with the aim to produce an improved precision reference for the national schistosomiasis control programme by reducing the number of snail survey sites without losing predictive accuracy.Methods:The snail presence and absence records were collected from Anhui,Hunan,Hubei,Jiangxi and Jiangsu provinces in 2018.A machine learning of random forest algorithm based on a set of environmental and climatic variables was developed to predict the breeding sites of the 0.hupensis intermediated snail host of S.japonicum.Different spatial sizes of a hexagonal grid system were compared to estimate the need for required snail sampling sites.The predictive accuracy related to geographic distances between snail sampling sites was estimated by calculating Kappa and the area under the curve(AUC).Results:The highest accuracy(AUC=0.889 and Kappa=0.618)was achieved at the 5 km distance weight.The five factors with the strongest correlation to 0.hupensis infestation probability were:(1)distance to lake(48.9%),(2)distance to river(36.6%),(3)isothermality(29.5%),(4)mean daily difference in temperature(28.1%),and(5)altitude(26.0%).The risk map showed that areas characterized by snail infestation were mainly located along the Yangtze River,with the highest probability in the dividing,slow-flowing river arms in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in Anhui,followed by areas near the shores of China's two main lakes,the Dongting Lake in Hunan and Hubei and the Poyang Lake in Jiangxi.Conelusions:Applying the machine learning of random forest algorithm made it feasible to precisely predict snail infestation probability,an approach that could improve the sensitivity of the Chinese schistosome surveillance.system.Redesign of the snail surveillance system by spatial bias correction of 0.hupensis infestation in the Yangtze River Basin to reduce the number of sites required to investigate from 2369 to 1747.

Conservation and Sustainable Exploitation of Forest Ecosystem in Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River -Case Study on Gongga Mountain

The deforestation on large scale in the upper reaches of Yangtze River has caused serious problems of ecosystem and environment. Restoration of the degenerated forest ecosystems is one of the main research fields. Taking Gongga Mountain as an example, degeneration features and existing problems of forest ecosystems are analyzed in this paper, and the measures are also proposed.

Spatiotemporal variation and hotspots of climate change in the Yangtze River Watershed during 1958-2017

The Yangtze River Watershed in China is a climate change hotspot featuring strong spatial and temporal variability;hence, it poses a certain threat to social development. Identifying the characteristics of and regions vulnerable to climate change is significantly important for formulating adaptive countermeasures. However, with regard to the Yangtze River Watershed, there is currently a lack of research on these aspects from the perspective of natural and anthropogenic factors. To address this issue, in this study, based on the temperature and precipitation records from 717 meteorological stations, the RClim Dex and random forest models were used to assess the spatiotemporal characteristics of climate change and identify mainly the natural and anthropogenic factors influencing climate change hotspots in the Yangtze River Watershed for the period 1958-2017. The results indicated a significant increasing trend in temperature, a trend of wet and dry polarization in the annual precipitation, and that the number of temperature indices with significant variations was 2.8 times greater than that of precipitation indices. Significant differences were also noted in the responses of the climate change characteristics of the sub-basins to anthropogenic and natural factors;the delta plain of the Yangtze River estuary exhibited the most significant climate changes, where 88.89% of the extreme climate indices varied considerably. Furthermore, the characteristics that were similar among the identified hotpots, including human activities(higher Gross Domestic Product and construction land proportions) and natural factors(high altitudes and large proportions of grassland and water bodies), were positively correlated with the rapid climate warming.

Simulation and prediction of multi-scenario evolution of ecological space based on FLUS model: A case study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

Building the Yangtze River Economic Belt(YREB)is one of China’s three national development policies in the new era.The ecological environment of the Yangtze River Economic Belt must be protected not only for regional economic development but also for regional ecological security and ecological progress in this region.This paper takes the ecological space of the Yangtze River Economic Belt as the research object,based on land use data in 2010 and 2015,and uses the FLUS model to simulate and predict the ecological space of the research area in 2035.The variation of the research area’s ecological space area and its four sub-zones has remarkable stability under diverse situations.Both the production space priority scenarios(S1)and living space priority scenarios(S2)saw a fall in ecological space area,with the former experiencing the highest reduction(a total reduction of 25,212 km^(2)).Under the ecological space priority scenarios(S3)and comprehensive space optimization scenario(S4),the ecological space area increased,and the ecological space area expanded even more under the former scenario(a total growth of 23,648 km^(2)).In Yunnan-Guizhou,the ecological space is relatively stable,with minimal signs of change.In Sichuan-Chongqing,the Sichuan Basin,Zoige Grassland,and Longmen Mountains were significant regions of area changes in ecological space.In the middle reaches of the Yangtze River,the ecological space changes mainly occur in the Wuyi Mountains,Mufu Mountains,and Dabie Mountains,as well as the surrounding waters of Dongting Lake.The Yangtze River Delta’s changes were mainly observed in the eastern Dabie Mountains and Jianghuai Hills.

A new era of flood control strategies from the perspective of managing the 2020 Yangtze River flood

Flood control of the Yangtze River is an important part of China’s national water security.In July 2020,due to continuous heavy rainfall,the water levels along the middle-lower reaches of the Yangtze River and major lakes constantly exceeded the warning levels,in which Taihu Lake exceeded its highest safety water level and some stations of Poyang Lake reached their highest water levels in its history.In August 2020,another huge flood occurred in the Minjiang River and the Jialing River in the upper Yangtze River,and some areas of Chongqing Municipality and other cities along the rivers were inundated,resulting in great pressure on flood control and high disaster losses.The 2020 Yangtze River flood has received extensive media coverage and raised concerns on the roles of the Three Gorges Dam and other large reservoirs in flood control.Here we analyze the changes in the pattern of the Yangtze River flood control by comparing the strategies to tackle the three heavy floods occurring in 1954,1998,and 2020.We propose that the overall strategy of the Yangtze River flood control in the new era should adhere to the principle of"Integration of storage and drainage over the entire Yangtze River Basin,with draining floods downstream as the first priority"by using both engineering and non-engineering measures.On the basis of embankments,the engineering measures should use the Three Gorges Dam and other large reservoirs as the major regulatory means,promote the construction of key flood detention areas,keep the floodways clear,and maintain the ecosystem services of wetlands and shoals.In terms of non-engineering measures,we should strengthen adaptive flood risk management under climate change,standardize the use of lands in flood detention areas,give space to floods,and promote the implementation of flood risk maps and flood insurance policies.The ultimate goal of this new flood control system is to enhance the adaptability to frequent floods and increase the resilience to extreme flood disasters.

新时期长江流域水资源保护规划及管理工作的思考

组织编制并实施水资源保护规划是国家赋予水行政主管部门的法定职责,也是水利部门履行水资源管理和生态环境保护责任的重要工作。长江流域水资源保护规划经历了从起步、探索、实践与发展到形成完善体系的过程,推进了流域水资源保护与管理科学有序发展。随着国家机构改革部门职能调整和《中华人民共和国长江保护法》出台,为更好地推进和落实新时期长江流域水资源保护规划和管理工作,系统梳理长江流域水资源保护规划发展历程与成效,分析当前流域水资源保护面临的形势与挑战,厘清流域水资源保护工作定位和思路,并据此提出新时期流域水资源保护规划及管理的工作建议,对凝聚流域水资源保护规划共识、建立流域水资源保护规划体系、推进水资源保护高质量发展、助力实现治江现代化具有重要的指导意义。

长江经济带知识产权保护与城市绿色技术创新效率——基于创新价值链视角的空间效应分析

基于创新价值链视角,将绿色技术创新活动分解为科技研发和成果转化两个阶段,对2011—2020年长江经济带108个城市知识产权保护的绿色创新效应进行实证分析。结果表明:(1)知识产权保护对本地绿色技术创新总效率及其子阶段效率的直接影响均显著为正;空间效应结果表明,知识产权保护对科技研发效率存在正向空间溢出效应,对成果转化效率则具有负向空间溢出效应,但对总效率的空间影响效应依然为正。(2)强化知识产权保护能够通过吸引外商直接投资、促进金融发展、提高人力资本质量三种渠道促进城市绿色技术创新效率提升。(3)异质性分析表明,长江经济带下游城市强化知识产权保护有利于推动科技研发效率和成果转化效率的提升;而中上游城市加强知识产权保护对科技研发效率的提升作用并不显著,对成果转化效率甚至具有消极影响。本文结论为长江经济带推进知识产权保护建设和绿色技术创新发展提供了有益启示。

流域保护区域协同立法的功能定位与规范进路

《长江保护法》《黄河保护法》为长江、黄河流域的区域协同立法提供了法律依据,在流域保护区域协同立法“入法”后,需要明晰其权力空间与运行规则,提升其科学化、规范化水平。流域保护区域协同立法在本质上仍属于地方立法,是功能主义进路下解决跨行政区域流域保护难题的一种选择,是流域整体性保护的立法回应。就其功能而言,具有落实国家立法确立的流域保护整体目标的实施性功能,以地方合作为中心,解决那些通过单独地方立法难以解决的跨行政区域地方性流域保护问题的协调性、自主性、创新性功能。在此基础上,应当通过明晰其立法层级,建立地方立法规划协同机制,改、废、释的协同机制,交叉备案与后评估机制,深化公众参与机制,完善流域保护区域协同立法的运行规则。

江苏沿江防护林主要树种选择研究

通过对江苏沿江8市古树资源和长江江苏段2岸1 km范围内森林中各树种资源分布调查,结合长江防护林造林树种选择相关研究,筛选出适用于长江江苏段防护林造林树种59个。分别针对沿路区、滨水区和滩面区3种生态位特点,通过生态效益、景观效益和社会效益3类共10个指标,采用定量与定性研究相结合的方法,对这些树种进行综合评价、排序和分类。结果表明:3种生态位上各造林树种均可分为3类,第1类树种3种生态位可作为优选树种分别有15,7,7个;第2类3种生态位作为一般树种,分别有22,40,29个;其他可作为备选树种。结合沿江不同造林环境的特点和相关树种的特殊适应性,提出了相应的树种选择和配置建议。

长江经济带工业资源环境协调发展研究

正确把握工业发展、资源利用和环境保护三者耦合协调关系,对于进一步推动长江经济带高质量发展具有重要意义。本文对2000—2022年长江经济带工业资源环境耦合协调发展水平及其动力因素进行分析。研究发现:长江经济带全域工业发展水平不断提升,资源利用水平总体平稳上升,环境保护水平先降后稳。长江各区域耦合协调度稳定提升,由高到低依次为:下游地区>全域>中游地区>上游地区。空间分布为“中间低两翼高,北部高南部低”,呈现“江浙”保持引领、“沪渝”相对缓慢、“湘鄂”稳步提升、“赣皖”逐步发力、“云贵川”发展放缓的格局。各动力因素对耦合协调度的影响各有差异,地区不对称性明显。因此建议:构建系统融合发展机制,坚持强化区域协同融通,推动资源要素顺畅流动。

湖南省山水林田湖草沙一体化保护修复工程规划与实践研究

湖南省两次成功申报并大力实施了两轮山水林田湖草沙生态保护修复工程(简称“山水工程”),在深入贯彻实施习近平生态文明思想和全国生态环境保护大会精神,统筹推进山水林田湖草沙一体化保护和修复方面走出了一条具有湖南特色的人与自然和谐共生的现代化道路。以生态环境类项目规划与实践为例,探讨了两批山水工程的实施成效,提出了山水林田湖草沙生命共同体实践综合管理策略,为促进长江经济带生态保护和高质量发展贡献湖南力量。

基于地理加权随机森林的长三角PM_(2.5)建模

采用随机森林(RF)和地理加权随机森林(GWRF)对长三角地区2003~2019年的PM_(2.5)浓度及其驱动因素数据进行训练、校验与测试,并探讨它们之间的关系.结果表明:(1)相比RF模型,GWRF模型对PM_(2.5)浓度的训练和预测更优,其各项模型评估指标均优于RF模型,且GWRF模型残差的空间自相关性更低.(2)GWRF模型预测2019年PM_(2.5)浓度分布优于RF模型,与实际观测浓度分布基本一致,但两个模型均存在北部高估南部低估的情况,且高估区域大于低估区域.(3)RF模型在研究PM_(2.5)浓度分布最重要且显著的驱动因子方面是全局性的,而GWRF模型得到干旱、气温、温差、风速以及人类干扰对PM_(2.5)分布的影响是局部性的.在大尺度下,这种局部性的效应对于PM_(2.5)精细化防控更具实际性的指导意义.此外,在全球气候暖干化和区域气候空间异质性的背景下,把干旱融入PM_(2.5)预测并建立具有局部效应的模型有助于环境监管机构及决策者制定防控措施.