Resettling,disconnecting or displacing? Attending to local sociality,culture and history in disaster settings

In many disaster settings, top‐down responses emphasise ‘expert‐led’ solutions that often involve relocating disaster‐affected communities. While the intention might be to move people from harm's way and facilitate recovery, failure to attend to local pre‐disaster circumstances as well as the interplay between power, resilience and vulnerability within and around affected communities often sees resettlement reconfigure as displacement or disconnection. This oversight may even usher in a new phase of dispossession and disadvantage for marginalised groups (particularly in colonial settings). This paper explores experiences in Australia, Japan and Taiwan to reflect on what issues of local sociality, local culture and local resilience need to be attended to in framing ‘better’ disaster responses.     

云南岩溶地区石漠化生态恢复的思路

云南岩溶面积达11.09万km2,占全省国土面积的28.14%,是西南地区岩溶集中分布区,岩溶石漠化面积已达2.15万km2.分析云南岩溶的分布,以及岩溶地区生态脆弱给当地人民带来生产、生活的生态危机,并结合云南石漠化治理的成功经验,提出岩溶地区生态恢复的思路.     

JDDY型粮油滴定分析仪在稻谷玉米脂肪酸值测定中的应用

采用基于机器视觉技术的JDDY型粮油滴定分析仪代替人工滴定进行稻谷、玉米脂肪酸值的测定.通过添加亚油酸标准溶液测定稻谷、玉米脂肪酸值的回收率,验证采用滴定仪测定稻谷、玉米脂肪酸值的准确性.实验结果表明,稻谷回收率在99.5％～107.3％之间,玉米回收率在96.1％～105.7％之间,滴定仪对稻谷、玉米的测试值与理论添加值之间具有较好的相关性,线性相关系数分别为r=0.9993,r=1.0000,具有较宽的测量范围,能够满足目前稻谷、玉米试样脂肪酸值指标的品质检验要求.     

JM-1400型卷绕式拾膜机的试验研究

膜下滴灌技术具有节水与增产等诸多优势,但由于残膜回收不净会带来"白色污染"的问题。按照将地膜"搂集成束"的思路,设计了JM-1400型卷绕式拾膜机。针对机车前进速度、集膜轮工作角度、起膜铲入土深度、两起膜铲横向距离和分膜铲入土深度等5个拾膜率影响因素进行试验研究,通过方差分析得到了影响拾膜率变化的3个主要因素,并找到各因素的分布范围。     

电动汽车制动能量回收系统研究

为进一步提高电动汽车的能量利用效率以改善其续驶里程,开发了一套电动汽车制动能量回收系统。系统结构简单,可靠性高,并具有机械制动备份功能。同时,考虑到电动汽车电动机和电池性能参数,开发了高效的再生制动控制策略,算法具有较强的移植性。采用硬件在环的方式对系统的控制效果和制动能量回收效率进行了仿真测试。结果表明,再生制动力和摩擦制动力可以很好地协调运作,同时有效地回收制动能量。最后,在燃料电池汽车上进行转鼓实验,很好地完成了Japan-1015循环工况,能量回收效率高达59.15%。     

Yield, water and nitrogen-use response of rice to zeolite and nitrogen fertilization in a semi-arid environment

Water scarcity and soil nitrogen (N) loss are important limitations for agricultural production in semi-arid region especially for rice production. Zeolite (Z) as a soil conditioner can be used to retrain water and nitrogen in near-surface soil layer in lowland rice production system. The objectives of this study were to investigate the effects of different application rates of natural zeolite (clinoptilolite) and nitrogen on rice yield, yield components, soil nitrogen, water use, water productivity in a silty clay soil in 2004 and 2005. Zeolite was only applied in the first year. In order to study the long-term and continuous effect of zeolite on the objectives of the study, no zeolite was applied in the second year and the study was conducted on the same land as the first year. Zeolite and N were applied at rates of 0, 2, 4, and 8 t ha⁻¹ and 0, 20, 40, and 80 kg ha⁻¹, respectively in 2004. In 2005, each plot received the same amount of N as received in 2004. It is concluded that by decreasing N application rates, higher Z application rate is needed to improve grain yield. Highest grain yield was obtained at N application rate of 80 kg ha⁻¹ and Z application rate of 4 t ha⁻¹. Higher grain yield was mostly attributed to lower unfilled grain percentage and higher 1000-grain weight that were a result of higher N application rate and N retention in soil due to Z application. Nitrogen and Z applications resulted in higher grain protein contents and nitrogen recovery efficiency (NRE). Based on these results and due to higher N retention in soil under Z application, improved grain yield quality, nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE), and nitrogen recovery efficiency (NRE) could be obtained at Z application rate of 8 t ha⁻¹ and N application rate of 80 kg ha⁻¹ or more. However, this was not satisfied for NUE. Moreover, it is found that at higher N application rates lower Z application rates are needed to effectively retain soil residual mineral nitrogen. Furthermore, at N application rates of 80 kg ha⁻¹ or more, Z application increased soil water retention and resulted in lower seasonal water use and higher water productivity. In general, it was concluded that the effect of Z application in retaining soil N was also effective in the second year.     

Management of Nitrogen-Rich Legume Cover Crops as Mulch in Traditional Olive Orchards

A low-input agricultural system needs a natural source of nitrogen (N). Legume species can fix great amounts of N that can be subsequently used by a nonlegume crop. In this study three legume cover crops were grown in traditional olive orchards in northeastern Portugal from October 2009 to May 2010, and the aboveground biomass was mechanically destroyed and left on the ground as a mulch. In the following growing season, from October 2010 to May 2011, two nitrophilic plant species were grown in circular microplots of 154 mm surrounded by polyvinyl chloride rings to assess the soil N availability. The N fixed by the legume cover crops, estimated by the difference technique, was shown to vary from 79.7 to 187.5 kg N ha^?1. The nitrophilic plant species identified a small peak of soil available N in the autumn of 2010, probably resulting from the mineralization of the root system of the legume species. In the next spring, the increase of soil-available N in the plots where the legume cover crops had been grown, in comparison to the control plot, was residual. The great amounts of N present in the mulched materials seem to disappear without having entered the soil. Mulching with high-N content biomass may be troublesome due to the high risk of N losses probably by ammonia (NH₃) volatilization.     

Peanut macronutrient absorptions characteristics in response to soil compaction stress in typical brown soils under various tillage systems

Soil tillage, a major agricultural management, could effectively alter soil structure and plant growth, particularly under groundnut plantations. To understand effects of different tillage measures on nitrogen(N), phosphorus(P) and potassium(K) absorptions and use efficiencies for peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.), four tillage treatments: no tillage (NT), deep loosing (DL), deep plow (DP), and shallow plow (SP), were examined for two growing years at three typical peanut-producing sites of Qishan, Wangcheng, and Xiadian in Shandong, China. Results showed that average soil bulk density under DL, DP, and SP at the three sites was decreased by 7.1–19.5% compared with NT treatment for the 2 years. Significantly higher average total N accumulations in underground peanut part patterned as DP (163 kg/ha) > SP (149 kg/ha) > DL (144 kg/ha) > NT (117 kg/ha), while total N in aboveground peanut part was 8.7–22.1% higher under DP than other treatments. Absorptions of N, P, and K in underground parts were extremely significantly contributed to high peanut yields (P < 0.01), whereas increase of N and P absorptions in aboveground parts did not promote peanut yields. Soil bulk density was significantly negatively correlated with plant macronutrient amounts in underground peanut parts and peanut yields (P < 0.01). Moreover, N:P, N:K, and P:K ratios were similar between NT and noncompaction stress treatments of DL, DP, and SP. These results indicate that DP is a rational tillage practice for promoting nutrient uptake amount, efficiency, and peanut yields by alleviating soil compaction stress in peanut-producing fields.     

Slurry injection with nitrification inhibitor in maize: Plant phosphorus,zinc, and manganese status

Slurry injection below the maize (Zea mays L.) row may substitute a mineral nitrogen (N) phosphorus (P) starter fertilizer (MSF) and thus reduce nutrient surpluses in regions with intensive livestock husbandry. We investigated the plant P, zinc (Zn), and manganese (Mn) status compared to the current farm practice. In 2014 and 2015 field trials were conducted to evaluate plant nutrient status at different growth stages. Besides an unfertilized control, two slurry injection treatments (±nitrification inhibitor (NI)) were compared to slurry broadcast application plus MSF. In both experiments NI addition significantly increased nutrient concentrations during early growth (6-leaf 2015: +33% P, +25% Zn, +39% Mn). Under P deficiency due to cold weather conditions broadcast application showed higher P uptake until 6-leaf (36–58%), while it was lower at 8- (32%) and 10-leaf (19%) stage compared to slurry injection (+NI). Zn availability was enhanced for slurry injection (+NI) during early growth and Zn and Mn uptakes were higher at harvest. Slurry injection decreased P balances by 10–14 kg P ha^?1, while Zn and Mn balances were excessive independent of treatments. Slurry injection (+NI) can substitute a MSF without affecting early growth and enhances the Zn and Mn status. This new fertilizing strategy enables farmers to reduce P surpluses.     

马鞍山市向山垃圾填埋场抽气实验研究

本文根据马鞍山市向山垃圾填埋场的现场抽气实验，分析了影响垃圾填埋气体产生的各因素的变化规律，确定了抽气压力、气体流量和甲烷含量的关系及其影响因素，并以此为基础对填埋气体收集利用工程中填埋场的选择和系统的设计提出了建议。