环境科学专业实践教学模式的探索

培养基础扎实、知识面宽、能力强、素质高、具有创新意识和实践能力的应用型专门人才是新建本科院校的培养目标,为此文章就加强环境科学专业实践教学进行了探索,介绍了黄山学院环境科学专业课程教学体系改革、创新型实验、实习实训、毕业设计和综合素质等方面所采取的相应措施与取得的经验效果。     

我国水环境治理与污染控制探析

分析了我国水环境现状,从城市以及农村两个角度出发,对我国水环境现状进行了分类分析,并对水环境的治理以及污染控制的方式提出了相应的控制策略。     

环境道德：校园绿色文化建设的核心和灵魂

环境道德的建树是绿色文化的核心和灵魂,就是在人类活动中宣传、教育、培养、树立环境道德观念和信仰,提高人类的类本质。绿色文化及环境道德的打造是校园文化的核心和灵魂,校园文化建设和活动的终极目标和路径,和绿色文化的建设是同一的,即师生们环境道德意志的培养和提高。     

论阿尔胡斯公约对环境公害诉讼的构建

阿尔胡斯公约确立的环境公害诉讼机制,具有三项影响深远的内容:一是在欧洲大陆地区创建了环境公害行政诉讼;二是以公民环境信息知情权和环境决策公众参与权为支柱构建环境公害诉讼,明确了环境公害行政诉讼范围;三是明确了公民和环境团体或其他组织的环境司法诉权主体地位。     

治边思想、国家决策与明清大理地区的生态环境变迁——兼论白族生态文化的价值

明清王朝的治边思想基本继承了汉唐王朝"守中治边""守在四夷"的思想,两代王朝在西南边疆驻军、移民、屯垦。特别清雍正以后,迫于人口压力,移民规模浩大的问题,建立了比明代卫所制度更为重要的汛塘制度,更进一步地促进了西南边疆的开发。在这样的背景下,自然条件相对优越、农业发展程度较高的大理地区更是如此。农业生产是对自然生态环境有目的地改造,大规模的无序开发必然引起大理地区自然生态环境的变迁。     

环境污染下基于最优捕获的 Filippov系统的稳定性

建立了一类环境污染下治理污染物及捕获种群的Filippov系统,给出了各类平衡点及伪平衡点的稳定性。     

道德语境论探析

道德语境论是一种以语境为工具,研究道德原则、道德判断、道德信念以及其他道德实在论和道德认识论问题的实践方法论理论。道德语境论认为不存在道德原则,不存在“事实－价值”依附性,道德判断和道德信念是不需要依赖原则的道德认知过程。道德语境论把人的能动性和语境的权威性摆在了十分突出的位置上,具有较强的反理论性,为实践事实、道德认知过程和人的能力提供了更真实的理论描述。     

Against neoliberal pedagogies of plants and people: mapping actor networks of biocapital in learning gardens

This paper attempts to answer this question: what should ecoliteracy mean in a biocapitalist society? The author situates his analysis of this question within the general context of the neoliberal reconstruction of education in the US. Specifically, focus is given to the shared model of governmentality GE food industries and education policies both utilize to manage life in the field and classroom – one where optimizing the value of plants and people for ‘flat world’ economic competition is the defining goal. Given this landscape, I suggest that what some environmental educators have called ‘ecological literacy’ or ‘critical ecoliteracy’ must now include a dimension that rejects the ways both human and nonhumans are progressively being implicated into biocapitalist enterprises. I offer an example of how biocapitalist industries educate market understandings of life by looking at how the GE food industry’s educational projects attempt to teach students and the public to think of nature and themselves as entrepreneurial actors. In the final section, I provide an example from my research using actor network theory in learning gardens as a way to develop a theory and practice of ecoliteracy that is capable of identifying and resisting the ways both human and nonhuman life are being captured and reconstructed within biocapitalist development ventures.     

(Re)creating spaces for uMunthu: postcolonial theory and environmental education in southern Africa

Colonialism goes beyond territorial conquest: it affects one’s epistemological stance, worldviews and perceptions. Although most African countries gained independence in the 1960s, the impacts of colonialism continue to be present through modern-day globalization as a form of neocolonialism. Education systems in many countries in southern Africa continue to be grounded in Western viewpoints, marginalizing local Indigenous ways of knowing and being (I capitalize the word ‘Indigenous’ because it is a proper noun referring to particular people, their knowledges, ways of living, etc.). An increased number of scholars in southern Africa are engaging with counter-hegemonic strategies as frames of analysis to counter the impacts of neocolonialism. This paper reviews environmental education studies in southern Africa that have applied postcolonial theory as a frame of analysis either explicitly or implicitly. Postcolonial theory provides a platform to challenge the dominant truths espoused by Western thought. In doing so, it paves the way for other truths to have space in the knowledge discourses, including the sub-Saharan African worldview of Ubuntu/uMunthu. While many scholars are engaging with counter-hegemonic strategies, the review calls for the need for further research from postcolonial frames not only in southern Africa but also other parts of the world as well.     

The problems with a ‘fact’-focused approach in environmental communication: the case of environmental risk information about tidal flat developments in Japan

One of the main approaches used in communicating environmental issues to citizens is conveying ‘factual’ information about a particular environment. However, despite previous research and recommendations made by critical environmental educators, there still seems to be a belief that the more ‘factual’ information one can convey, the more citizens will become aware of the issue, and this will prompt them to change their behaviours. In this article, I will argue that continuing with a ‘fact’-focused practice in Japan and elsewhere could be problematic for three key reasons: (1) it ignores diversity in the ‘facts’ provided to people; (2) it reinforces the ‘hierarchy of knowledge’; and (3) it ignores the ‘myth of nature’ among information receivers and senders. Key recommendations for incorporating a critical environmental education approach include utilising locally available environmental information on contentious environmental issues; investigating particular terminology used and missing information (including tacit knowledge); and encouraging critical learning about statistics and pictorial representations.