Ecological Production Research Articles

新时代绿色技术创新助推生态产品价值实现研究

新时代绿色技术创新助推生态产品价值实现研究

Development of Circulation Mechanism and Mode of Ecological Products and Its Enlightenment to Ecological Industry of Rocky Desertification Control

Development of Circulation Mechanism and Mode of Ecological Products and Its Enlightenment to Ecological Industry of Rocky Desertification Control

Valuation of aquatic ecological products based on water cycle simulation: Taking the Huangshui River Basin as an example

Valuation of aquatic ecological products based on water cycle simulation: Taking the Huangshui River Basin as an example

The practical logic of ecological product value realization: A study of grounded theory based on 87 typical cases in the field of natural resources

The practical logic of ecological product value realization: A study of grounded theory based on 87 typical cases in the field of natural resources

Value realization paths of ecological products through tourism in agricultural heritage sites from the perspective of farmers: An example of the Dancong tea culture system in Chaozhou City

Value realization paths of ecological products through tourism in agricultural heritage sites from the perspective of farmers: An example of the Dancong tea culture system in Chaozhou City

Land use optimization of comprehensive land consolidation based on the trade-off between the ecological value and realization potential of ecological product value

Land use optimization of comprehensive land consolidation based on the trade-off between the ecological value and realization potential of ecological product value

The supply situation of cultivated land public ecological products and the path of capacity improvement: Taking Henan province as an example

The supply situation of cultivated land public ecological products and the path of capacity improvement: Taking Henan province as an example

Value realization of ecological products of wetland resources: Basic logic, core mechanism and mode

Value realization of ecological products of wetland resources: Basic logic, core mechanism and mode

Analysis on concept and accounting framework of the quaternary industry of ecological products

Analysis on concept and accounting framework of the quaternary industry of ecological products

Agroecology as a strategic direction in the system of rational land use

Today there is growing demand for organic products principals to the growth in the production of ecological products and biologization of land. Traditional organic farming is a complex of elements of a reproductive nature with industry specifics and a set of elements. Agroecology does not involve the practice of biochemical vegetable defense product. The transition to organic farming requires agricultural producers to fulfill several conditions, which is an element that slows down the pace of development of both land biologization and the attractiveness of the organic products segment for producers. The Russian market is characterized by high average annual growth rates of organic lands; increasing the share of land for the production of organic agricultural products; unstable number of producers; stabilization of the volume of the internal market for organic products at the level of 120 million euro; stabilization of the export volume of organic products at the level of 4 million euro. Production of organic products is advisable in local product markets, since the production of organic products is a product with high added value, increased requirements for certification of organic products and a narrow segment of consumers.

Analysis of Civil Environments Cleaning Services—Microbiological and LCA Analysis after Traditional and Sustainable Procedures

The development of sustainable processes has an important role to play in balancing social productivity requirements, protecting the environment and natural resources. Up to date, efforts to combat microbial contamination have focused on the use of chemical-based sanitation procedures, which may have various limitations, as testified by the persistence of contamination itself, by the growing antimicrobial resistance of microbes and by the chemical related pollution. The purpose of this paper is to present a comparative analysis of the use of conventional and sustainable cleaning products and processes in civilian environments. The sampling campaign is conducted in a sports hall in Turin, Italy. Each sample comes from a specific environment, surface, furniture and sanitary and is taken using RODAC contact plates and swabs with a neutralizing agent in order to standardize the result of the microbiological evaluation. Sampling occurred before and after traditional and sustainable cleaning procedures. The sustainable experimental design using ecological products in the cleaning procedures of the analyzed areas proved to be a relevant technique. From CAM (minimal environmental criteria) requirements, the sustainable protocol must give equal or better results than the traditional protocol from both microbiological and environmental (LCA) point of view. It can be concluded that the ecological experimental system meets this criterion and has demonstrated better performance both in antimicrobial activity and in environmental impact than the conventional system: all findings are in an acceptable state of sanitation, with no evidence of pathogenic micro-organisms specified in the guideline.

Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice. By Cleo Wölfle Hazard

“Rivers matter for queer trans life,” begins Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice, by Cleo Wölfle Hazard (3). The concluding sentence of the introduction responds: “Queer trans lives matter for rivers” (35). The interplay between these two ideas structures the book, which brings together feminist science studies, Indigenous science, queer theory, and river ecology to advance both a method and an overlooked research subject: the hidden yet vibrant movements—both material and political—that percolate beneath surfaces. For Wölfle Hazard, these underflows encompass both the unseen hyporheic zone beneath a river’s bed and “latent discourses that lie hidden or disregarded,” from queer and trans sciences, to the Indigenous protocols ignored by settler-colonial governance regimes (8). The concept of underflows unites these various concerns and guides Wölfle Hazard’s assertion of queer trans thought as a vital strategy for “transfiguring settler-colonial riverine science into a tool for justice” (8). Embodying a dynamic approach to the “promiscuous ecological productivity of amphibious landscapes,” Wölfle Hazard’s methodology is itself wonderfully promiscuous as it embraces the interplay between metaphor and materiality (xvii). For example, they figure their methodology as the “raindrop nucleus” of Indigenous and co-generated research methods surrounded by the “condensate” of “kitchen table ethnography”—a playful, queer, and feminist response to traditional field ethnography—along with queer trans critical physical geography and ecopoetics (28). This dynamic methodology yields an exciting study that traverses five sites of water conflict and river restoration along the US West Coast. Through an ethics of collaboration with human and more-than-human communities, Wölfle Hazard explores how rivers—through their simultaneous sense of direction and unruliness—embody “resistance to Manifest Destiny projects” (8). Chapter 1 engages “hyporheic imaginaries” and multispecies commons while thinking alongside salmon and beavers about riverine ecology in California’s Scott River. The second chapter imagines a field praxis informed by queer-trans subjectivities spanning “fishy feelings from the field to sites of scientific performance” such as conferences, journal articles, and policy debates (82). In Chapter 3, Wölfle Hazard traces the contours of queer trans collaboration with beavers, noting how beavers “flout boundaries” and inspire their human collaborators to do the same, suggesting a “beavery trans ethics” that rejects settler management regimes (123). Chapter 4 thinks alongside queer performances of grief and mourning as a way for ecologists to affectively attune to species extinction. In the subsequent chapter, subtitled “Cruising a Waterfront with José Esteban Muñoz,” Wölfle Hazard engages queer ecopoetics to theorize queer ecologies in urban river waterfront spaces. He reflects here on “cruising the Duwamish in search of its specific histories and futurities of resistance to enclosure,” while thinking alongside Indigenous and environmental justice politics (191). The epilogue introduces a new collaboration with Karuk practitioners along the Klamath River to develop a river model of justice. Even as the book is organized into discrete chapters, six prefatory sections titled “Underflow” invite ways of thinking under, through, and beyond the chapters.

The next step for China's national park management: Integrating ecosystem services into space boundary delimitation

The contradiction between ecological conservation and economic development posed significant challenges to the management of National Parks. From the perspective of Ecological Economics, the cause of the contradiction is the difficulty of creating monetary profits from biodiversity conservation, which is the primary target of National Parks. Integrating Ecosystem Services (ESs) into space boundary delimitation is the next step in National Park management since ESs are closely related to human well-being and can provide monetary benefits. Extending the boundary of the National Park to high-ES areas and promoting ES trading can help generate funds for ecological restoration. Using the Sanjiangyuan National Park (SNP) as an example, this study proposed integrating ESs into National Park delimitation for sustainable National Park management. It was found that the current SNP boundary provides insufficient coverage of high-ES areas, while most of the multiple ES supply areas were dispersed to SNP's southeast edge. The Core conservation area showed the most prominent contradiction between ecological conservation and economic development, resulting in many low-level ES sites in the Traditional use area failing to be included in the Restoration area for protection. Future approaches would be well-advised to re-adjust SNP boundary by expanding the ES hotspot areas on the southeastern edge of SNP, as well as expanding funding sources via ecological product trade and other tools to supplement the input for ecological restoration. Overall, this study can act as a reference for optimizing National Parks within and beyond China, and promote the understanding of the Ecological Economy and sustainable development.

Graffiti coating eco-remover developed for sensitive surfaces by using an optimized high-pressure homogenization process

Nanostructured fluids (NSFs), such as water-in-oil (w/o) nanoemulsions (NEs), comprise one of the best examples of new, ecological products dedicated to removing various graffiti coatings (so-called eco-removers) from sensitive surfaces without causing damage underneath. These contemporary acceptable formulations are intended to be more efficient in removing undesirable graffiti coatings than traditional organic solvent-based preparations. In this paper, systematic studies were performed on the selective and controlled removal of paint and ink coatings from substrates that were sensitive to mechanical cleaning by using innovative graffiti coating removers in the form of “brush on, wipe off” detergents. The w/o NEs were fabricated by using a high-pressure homogenization process (HPH) from the following ingredients from sustainable sources of raw materials: esterified used cooking oils (Oil-PEG-8-ester), ethyl lactate (EL), water and saccharide-derived surfactants, such as alkyl polyglucosides (APGs), which have excellent wetting and detergent activities. The most efficient formulations achieved during the HPH process were determined by optimization through response surface methodology (RSM). The optimized w/o nanoemulsions were tested for the selective removal and wetting ability of graffiti coatings from selected sensitive surfaces, such as plastics, ceramics, or painted metal surfaces. Additionally, in studies of interaction with graffiti coatings, evaluating their surface properties (topography, wettability) on a real paint coating allowed for the assessment of the mechanism of graffiti paint removal by the proposed ecological remover. Using the "brush on, wipe off" cleaning procedure based on the developed w/o nanoemulsion systems has the potential to remove safely rough and heterogeneous graffiti coatings. Therefore, nanotechnological detergents are an outstanding environmentally friendly alternative to conventional graffiti coating removers.

Market of Kazakhstani organic products: problems of ensuring competitiveness

Organic agriculture is a new, promising direction for investment, which contributes to increasing the profitability and competitiveness of agricultural sector, new export supply channel, the possibility of attracting specialists to the village, additional source of income for the villagers that solve a number of environmental problems. The great popularity of organic products is that their production does not use chemical fertilizers, artificial additives, growth regulators, genetic engineering methods that have negative impact on human health and safety. The goal - is to present a comprehensive system analysis of the state of organic agriculture and the degree of competitiveness of Kazakhstan environmentally friendly products. Methods – comparative analysis, expert opinions, study of primary data. Results – classical and innovative ways of conducting agricultural production are shown. It was revealed that functioning of ecosystems is interconnected with such global socio-economic issues as sustainable development, climate change, food crises. The key factors that distinguish biological farming from traditional type are identified. A review of the key indicators of organic farming in leading countries has been conducted. The regions with the largest number of ecologically clean agricultural lands are presented. The results of the study were obtained using a system of econometric indicators in traditional and organic production. Conclusions – the market of organic products is one of the fastest growing in the world. The authors come to the conclusion that it is necessary to develop comprehensive universal tools that allow domestic ecological production to be competitive, produce products similar to other countries, and in the future to export ready-made natural food products. Priority should be given to the creation of an appropriate and effective regulatory framework.

Endogenous Driving Forces in Ecology-Production-Living Space Changes at Micro-Scale: A Mountain Town Example in Inland China

Studying land use transition and restructuring has value for promoting sustainable regional development, especially in China’s vast rural areas, which are undergoing rapid changes. Current research tends to focus on the macro level, and analyses of driving forces are mostly based on the correlation analysis of influencing factors. However, in the case of villages and towns, which are at the micro level, it is important to know who promotes land use transition and how to promote it under the influence of the macro environment. This study, therefore, focused on the endogenous driving force behind land use transition and its characteristics at the micro level of villages and towns. On the basis of our theoretical framework, an empirical study was carried out on the transformation and restructuring of ecology–production–living (EPL) spaces in the town of Zhulin in Central China over the past 30 years. We found the following: (1) The overall distribution of EPL spaces in Zhulin shifted from mixed distribution to relatively concentrated distribution, and the spatial transfer of EPL spaces showed fluctuations in the expansion and contraction of different types of spaces. (2) Land use transition was more active in spatial interface areas than in noninterface areas, where the interconversion of ecological space and agricultural production space was concentrated at the terrain interface. In addition, transformation processes related to living space and non-agricultural production space were concentrated at the urban–rural interface. (3) Macro-level social and economic changes were the root cause of land use transformation, and the autonomous spatial governance capability of villagers’ self-organization institutions was key to regulating land use transformation. The spatial interface was a sensitive area for land use transformation in a natural state. An endogenous driving mode of active response to land use transformation based on rural autonomous spatial governance capability and spatial interface sensitivity is proposed. How to improve the rural governance capacity of key local actors in different regions and at different levels is an aspect worthy of further consideration.

Research on Ecosystem Service Consumption in Guilin City

Research on ecosystem service consumption not only helps to reveal the utilization intensity and management level of the ecosystem in Guilin, but it also provides a scientific basis for ecosystem investment, trade, subsidies and taxation by the Guilin government departments. Based on household survey data of urban and rural ecological consumption, the physical quantity accounting method is adopted for multivariate statistical analyses, such as analysis of variance and multiple comparison. This analysis reveals the differences and changes in the consumption level, consumption structure and consumption pattern of the main ecological products in Guilin among the various counties. The results fit into four main themes. (1) The annual per capita consumption of the main ecological products in Guilin varies either extremely significantly or significantly among the counties, but the consumption level of ecological products varies according to the type of products. There are significant or extremely significant differences in the annual per capita consumption of cereals, melons and fruits, pork, poultry, beef and mutton, fresh eggs and milk between urban and rural residents. (2) There are extremely significant differences in the annual per capita consumption of fruits, pork, poultry, beef and mutton, fish, fresh milk and vegetable oil among urban residents in different counties. There are also extremely significant differences in the annual per capita consumption of cereals, pork, poultry and alcohol among rural residents in different counties, and significant differences in the annual per capita consumption of fresh eggs and milk. The consumption level of ecological products by urban and rural resident varies with the type of products. (3) The ecological consumption patterns of all counties in Guilin mainly follow the “cereal + vegetable + fruit + meat” pattern for urban residents and the “cereal + vegetable + meat” pattern for rural residents (except for the rural residents in Pingle, which show the “cereal + vegetable” pattern). The consumption structure of urban residents is better than that of rural residents. (4) There is a large gap between the ecological consumption of urban and rural residents in Guilin and China′s recommended standards, except for cereals and meat. The main problems are excessive meat intake, and insufficient intake of dark vegetables, fruits, eggs, milk and fish. Therefore, we should make full use of forestland, grassland, water and other resources in the area, and vigorously develop fishery, fruit and vegetable production and herbivorous animal husbandry to meet people′s ecological needs for dark fruits and vegetables, eggs, milk and fish in Guilin City.

Tavuk Eti ve Yumurtalarının Organik ve Ekolojik Üretimi: AB ile Sırbistan Cumhuriyeti Arasındaki Mevzuat Uyumunun Gözden Geçirilmesi

The interest in organic livestock and products produced from animals has increased considerably in recent years; Studies on this subject have been concentrated. In this review, organic and ecological production of chicken meat and eggs: review of legislative harmony between the EU and the Republic of Serbia.

Активність антиоксидантних ферментів плодів вишні протягом зберігання за обробки розчином карагенану

Due to the significant pollution of the environment in the world, the demand for safe, clean, ecological products, including the use of edible biodegradable packaging based on polysaccharides, proteins, etс. is growing. The article shows the effect of carrageenan-based polysaccharide solutions on the antioxidant enzymatic activity of cherry fruits. Recently, the study of the role of antioxidant enzymes in plant cells, which includes superoxidedismutase, catalase, peroxidase, ascorbateperoxidase, is increasing, which are able to prevent the formation of hydroxyl radicals, the passage of oxidative stress and prevent the accumulation of oxygen and hydrogen peroxide and protection against it. To carry out research, cherry fruits of "Alfa" and "Pamyat Artemenko" varieties were selected, which were pre-sorted, washed and stored according to the options: without treatment (control sample) and treated with a mixture of solutions of 0.6% glycerin and carrageenan of 1% and 2% concentration. Cherry fruits were immersed in previously prepared solutions, taken out, dried, placed in boxes and stored in a refrigerator at a temperature of 1.0±0.5°С and a relative humidity of 95.0±1.0%. The analysis of the conducted studies made it possible to establish that after storage, the treatment of cherry fruits with a 2% carrageenan solution was the most effective, which made it possible to reduce the activity of antioxidant enzymes during 15 days of storage: peroxidase by 48.3—49.2% and polyphenoloxidase — by 61.1% —71.4%. Until the end of storage, the lowest superoxidedismutase activity was ob-served in cherry fruits treated with 2% carrageenanso-lution — 9.5—11.1%. An average correlation dependence was established between antioxidant enzymes of cherry fruits. The perspective for further research will be further studi¬es of the use of biodegradable films based on carrageenan on the quality of cherry fruits during storage.

Conceptual features of the green economy and the perspective of consumers in the Republic of Moldova

The adoption of the green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication as one of the two themes for Rio+20 focused international attention and provided the catalyst for new partnerships, consultations and collaborative research that led to the publication of a significant volume of literature. Although interest in the Green Economy has grown steadily and many definitions have been proposed for this concept, a consensual and concrete definition is still missing, the concept remains controversial due to theoretical vagueness and conceptual ambiguities. Thus, the paper aims to make a synthesis of the existing definitions, to analyze the conceptual differences and to present the importance of the green economy in the context of sustainable development. Also, the paper aims to highlight the main initiatives at the European level for the promotion of the green economy, as well as to analyze the national context regarding the implementation and promotion of the green economy in the Republic of Moldova. The methodology is based on methods of analysis and synthesis, interpretation and relevant comparisons. The results of the research highlight the fact that although Moldova has undertaken various actions to promote the green economy, their implementation remains very limited. The paper also presents some relevant results of the study carried out by the author among consumers regarding their perception of sustainability and ecological products, which helps to better understand the context and conditions for the promotion and development of the green economy, from the perspective of consumers.