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  • 《景觀設計學》2021年4期

    作 者:
    G?馬蒂亞斯?康道夫(G. Mathias KONDOLF),史書菡(SHI Shuhan),張晉(ZHANG Jin)等
    類 別:
    景觀
    出 版 社:
    高等教育出版社有限公司
    出版時間:
    2021年8月

構建和修復一個健康的水生態系統——《景觀設計學》2021年第4期“主編寄語”

Building and Restoring a Healthy Aquatic Ecosystem, by Yu Kongjian


剛剛過去的7月,除了持續變異升級的新冠肺炎(COVID-19)疫情威脅著世界各地的人民以外,洪澇肆虐的報道亦成為各國媒體的頭版頭條。從7月12日到7月底,在德國、比利時、荷蘭等歐洲最富裕的地區發生的發洪澇災害已吞噬228條生命,其中有184人喪生于素有“工程師故鄉”之譽的德國,而這也是德國自1962年北海洪水以來最慘烈的一次自然災害[1];7月20日,中國鄭州的特大暴雨事件中,截至8月2日12時已致292人遇難[2]。這些洪澇災害幾乎都發生在經濟發達的國家和地區——這或許就是我們常常將自然災害與人類文明相提并論的原因。在遭受災害的城市中,包括地鐵、公交在內的交通系統,手機、寬帶等通訊系統,以及水電系統等人類文明的象征一度癱瘓,城市脆弱性暴露無遺。此外,在許多城市公園完好無損、許多內部河道也并未出現過大洪水的同時,一些與人民生命安全密切相關的服務設施卻面臨著巨大風險,如鄭州阜外醫院恰恰處在城區最低洼地帶[3]

反思之聲在業界和外界哄然而起。筆者以為最應反思的是現代城市缺乏應對不確定的自然“災害”的韌性,這反映了整體水生態系統的病態。對于韌性較高的城市而言,這些“事件”并不足以構成洪澇災害。殊不知,正是人類引以為豪的鋼筋水泥所構筑的、堅不可摧的灰色基礎設施(如堤壩和大型水庫等復雜的工程設施),將自然過程轉變為了“災害”。其實,與水相關的災害何止洪澇,工業化、城鎮化,以及全球氣候變化正使世界范圍內(尤其是在中國)的人水關系矛盾日益尖銳,水和以水為主導因子的生態系統的安全和健康問題已經威脅到人類及我們賴以生存的環境的可持續性!

地球上的任何生態系統都離不開水,因此,我們很難脫離地球科學和地理學來探討水的健康。但水又不得不受到特別關注,人們一開始就試圖探討水的分布、運動和管理,從而發展出了水文學;后來,人們發現水與生物具有密切關系,并構成了相互作用的系統,即水生態系統,因而發展出了生態水文學;接著,發現水和人類也是相互作用的系統,于是又發展出了社會水文學;再后來,干脆將研究與水相關的科學全部統一稱為水科學。然而,上述這些關于水的學科似乎仍無法涵蓋筆者關心的問題,即探討系統性的水/完全的水[4];既是地理學和水文學意義上的水,也是孕育生命的水。她是多尺度的空間存在,從生境和場地,到城市和區域,再到國土和全球;同時,水與大地、城市、鄉村、動植物和人類及其活動相互作用,構成了水生態系統。她既表現為水與其他景觀元素或水生態系統與其他生態系統之間的空間格局與過程的關系,也表現為水生態系統的內部結構和功能的關系,其中包括物質流、物種流、能流和信息流。在任何尺度上,人的因素都是不可或缺的,甚至是占主導地位的。

因此,我們需要從生態系統服務的視角來理解、保護和修復水生態系統/水系統,并評價其健康狀態,具體包括:支持服務,即提供棲息地,支持生物傳播、繁衍和遷徙等生命承載能力;供給服務,即提供水及水產;調節服務,即應對洪澇和干旱等環境變化的生態韌性;以及文化服務,即提供審美啟智、文化認同、歸屬感和休憩等服務。一個病態的水生態系統,不但不能給予人類良好的生態系統服務,反而會危害人類的健康甚或生存。

而要維護健康的水生態系統,最根本的措施是給水以自由。只要考察一下歷史上最嚴重的洪水災害,就會發現最威脅生命財產安全的往往都是決堤。典型例子包括:1962年德國的北海洪水事件即是洪水沖垮堤壩所致;1975年8月8日的河南駐馬店特大暴雨,堪稱世界最慘洪災,死亡人數以萬計,也是由板橋水庫、石漫灘水庫等一系列水庫連環決堤造成的[5];中國歷史上有記載的、造成巨大生命財產損失的黃河洪災,也都是決堤帶來的;即使是1960年建成的意大利的瓦依昂大壩,算得上是當時世界上最堅固、最高的大壩,也在1963年10月9日的深夜,遭遇了嚴重的岸坡下滑,幾乎掀翻了整個水庫,近兩千人在睡夢中喪命。所謂的“壓迫越深重,反抗也將越猛烈”,不僅適用于人類社會的關系,也適用于人與水的關系。要與水謀安全、謀和諧,首要之策便是適應和規避水的不可抗力—道理很簡單,水需要足夠的空間。雖然人類文明在一定程度上意味著從必然王國走向自由王國,即人類通過對自然的控制而獲得自身的自由;相反,若人類剝奪了自然的自由,也必將遭受自然的反抗。這并非在否定人類文明的成果,而是強調在應對不確定的自然過程時,任何對抗自然力的灰色人工技術和設施,無論它們多么堅固和復雜,最終都會因其韌性的局限而加劇自然的破壞性。

那么,水到底需要多大的自由空間?以中國為例,在宏觀的國土尺度上,早在2006年,北京大學研究團隊便探討了國土尺度水源涵養安全格局,并發現只要保護和恢復占國土面積43.6%的山脈體系,國土尺度上的水源涵養便會達到良好狀態,對于一個山地和丘陵占了近70%的國家來說,這似乎是可以實現的。而通過洪水調蓄安全格局的分析發現,在季風氣候的條件下,每年的洪水淹沒區域大約在國土面積的0.8%~2.2%之間。[6]因此,一個聽起來浪漫的假設是:將這些洪澇頻發的土地歸還于水,困擾中國幾千年的人水矛盾便會得到徹底解決。

然而,這些適合作為生態蓄洪區的國土,也正是河漫灘上最為肥沃的土地,它們占全國耕地面積的6%~15%左右[7]。歸還河漫灘在幾十年前都是不可接受的,因為在當時,保護一畝三分地,就是保護一家人的生存機會。但在今天,這不再是個奢侈的假設。僅從經濟角度來講,如今的中國,農業產值僅占全國GDP的8%,事實上,大量土地撂荒已成為廣大農村的普遍現象。間隙性淹沒可以滋潤河漫灘與洪泛區因被用作農田而日漸貧瘠的土地,并修復其所在的水生態系統。與動輒以億元計的灰色防洪工程投資相比,哪一個更具經濟性已不辯自明。更重要的是,通過釋放水域空間,數千年來被破壞的國土水生態系統將會逐漸修復。有人會問:淹沒區的數千萬人口如何安置?宏觀層面的城鎮化發展機遇、中觀層面的生態優先的新城鎮選址和規劃、微觀層面的高臺避洪策略,以及與水共生的生態智慧和健全的洪澇災害防控體系的建立,都將為此戰略的可行性做出貢獻。然而,當前泛濫全球的、粗暴的大型水工設施,包括攔河大壩、防洪高堤、大型水庫、長距離跨流域調水、侵占水域,以及低洼地的造城行為等,正在為保障國土和區域的水生態系統健康帶來巨大壓力。

在中觀的城鎮和鄉村尺度上,一個健康的水生態系統體現在如何使水在建成區內擁有足夠的自由空間,以及如何尋找合適的地方就地滯蓄,自然積存、自然凈化、自然滲透并補充地下水,以保持地下水平衡,并保證濕地與溪流擁有足夠的水來滋養與其共生的生物群落。鑒于缺水乃是中國、也是世界范圍的人水矛盾的關鍵,建設并維護像海綿一樣具備韌性、能適應極端暴雨事件的水生態基礎設施,是人工干預下的城鄉水生態系統達到健康狀態的標志——而這也正是海綿城市的出發點。關于這方面的智慧,世界上的許多古老文明都為我們留下了豐厚的遺產,包括在高山上建造梯田以涵養水源,在平原上挖掘坑塘以調節旱澇,在河漫灘和三角洲營造桑基魚塘以利棲居和生產,在沼澤水域上堆土成垛、營建水上田園,在城市和鄉村聚落中修建水塘溝瀆,以適旱澇之變。從黃泛平原兩千多年的水城關系來看,城市中足夠的“海綿體”(如水塘濕地)是保障城市韌性的水生態基礎設施[8][9]。當前,為了治理城市洪澇災害而利用灰色管道構建的集中式排水系統和鋼筋水泥式的深隧工程等設施會導致城市水生態系統問題的進一步惡化——這些都將在未來被證明是無效的,甚至是飲鴆止渴的。對這樣的灰色基礎設施的過度依賴,無疑會導致人民的生命財產安全隨全球氣候的變化和不確定性的增加而面臨巨大風險。

在微觀的水體、濕地等水生生境尺度上,一個健康的水生態系統體現在生物與水之間的良好生態關系上。生物離不開水,同樣沒有生物的水也是死水!植物的吸收和蒸騰作用讓水分得到循環;植物的生長和死亡能凈化和豐富水體中的養分;以水為媒,物種得以繁衍和遷徙擴散。濕地之群落、水岸之形態,溪流之水堨、深潭淺灘之變化等,都是一個健康的水生態系統中舉足輕重的元素。

基于上述認識,維護安全與健康的自然和人類水生態系統,離不開三大關鍵策略:1)保障水源涵養和洪水調蓄安全格局,給水自由的空間,通過水安全格局的規劃,劃定人-水交集邊界,奠定人水和諧共生的空間格局;2)提高水生態系統韌性,即構建海綿國土——包括海綿城市、海綿田園等——來實現城水相融,而核心就是源頭就地滯蓄、過程減速消能、末端彈性適應;3)修復水生環境與生境,去工業化、變灰為綠、削減人工合成化學物質的危害;重建水與田園、人與其他生物的和諧共生關系,使水生態系統藍綠交織、清新明亮。

這三大策略都是基于自然的途徑,但這并不是提倡回到傳統農業時代或漁獵時代,而是希望在批判吸收以往文明成果的基礎上,創造新的、生態的文明,唯有如此,水生態系統與國土生態系統才能健康、美麗,從而滋養出一個健康、繁榮的社會,即所謂“生態興,則文明興”。


In addition to the COVID-19 virus variants that keep threatening people all over the world, raging floods made headlines across the globe in July. From July 12 to the end of the month, floods in most affluent European countries, such as Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands, killed 228 lives—Germany, “the hometown of engineers,” suffered from the worst natural disaster in the country since the North Sea Flood of 1962, causing 184 deaths[1]. On July 20, 292 people died (by noon on August 2) in a cruel storm in Zhengzhou, China[2]. These floods mostly took place in developed countries or regions—Maybe this implies the relation between natural disasters and human civilization. In the disaster-stricken cities, symbols of civilization—transportation systems, communication systems, as well as water-power systems—all paralyzed overnight. While many urban parks were little damaged and no severe floods were seen in the rivers inside the parks, the city’s daily service facilities have to faced huge risks. For instance, Zhengzhou Fuwai Hospital is located in the lowest part of the city[3].

Wide debates on the urban infrastructure construction arose since the 7?20 Zhengzhou Storm. In the eyes of the author, the most sticking problem is that modern cities often lack resilience to the uncertainty of natural disasters. In other words, on the whole, our aquatic ecosystems are sick. For cities with greater resilience, such storms would not lead to so much loss. However, it is the indestructible gray infrastructures—including the complex engineering facilities such as dams and large reservoirs—built with concrete and steel that turn these natural processes into “disasters.” In fact, besides floods, water disasters are increasingly frequent along with industrialization, urbanization, and global climate change, exacerbating the conflicts between human and water around the world, especially in China. The safety and health of the water and aquatic ecosystems has profound impacts on the sustainability of mankind and our living environment!

Water is essential to all ecosystems on the earth. The study of water health is difficult in isolation from Earth Sciences and Geography, but it still requires special attention. We exploring the distribution, mobility, and management of water, Hydrology emerged; We discovering the affecting patterns of water on organisms and the causality on aquatic ecosystem, Ecohydrology was proposed; We studying the coupled human-water system, Sociohydrology came into being. Later, disciplines that study water are viewed as Water Science. However, research in these disciplines still have not explored the water as a holistic system oriented subject[4], which is not only in the geographic and hydrologic sense, but also about the essence of life; which exists across spatial scales: habitats and sites, cities and regions, countries and the globe. Water interacts with land, cities, villages, animals, plants, humans and their activities, as the aquatic ecosystem, which covers not only the relationship of spatial patterns and processes between water and other landscape elements or water ecosystem and other ecosystems, but also the structures and functions within the ecosystem, including the interactions between the flows of materials, species, energy, and information. Human is indispensable, or even crucial to aquatic ecosystems at all scales.

Therefore, we need to evaluate, protect, and restore aquatic ecosystems/water systems based on the understanding of ecosystem services. The aquatic ecosystems provide supporting services, i.e. providing habitats, and supporting species spread, reproduction, and migration; provision services, i.e. providing water and aquatic products; regulating services, i.e. maintaining ecological resilience in response to environmental changes such as floods and droughts; and cultural services, i.e. fostering aesthetic tastes, cultural identity, sense of belonging, and offering recreational spaces. Unhealthy aquatic ecosystem cannot provide sound ecosystem services for humans, or worse, endanger human health or survival.

Maintaining the natural flow is critical to the health of aquatic ecosystem. In history, most damaging floods were caused by dyke bursting. Examples include the North Sea Flood in Germany in 1962 and the heavy flood in Zhumadian, China on August 8, 1975. The latter was one of the most disastrous in history, leading to tens of thousands of deaths, and also caused by serial bursting of the Banqiao Reservoir, the Shimantan Reservoir, and others[5]. Recorded floods that took place along the Yellow River and caused huge loss of life and property also resulted from dyke bursting. The Vyion Dam in Italy built in 1960 was seen as the solidest and highest dam in the world of the time. On the evening of October 9, 1963, a sudden landslide shattered the entire reservoir, and nearly two thousand people died overnight—As the saying goes, “the harder the oppression, the more violent the resistance will be.” This is also true to the relationship between man and water. To harmonize with water, it is necessary to allow sufficient space for the natural flow. Although human beings are gaining greater freedom through the control over nature, but are more terribly retaliated by the nature at the same time. I’m not denying the achievements in human history, but pointing out that gray artificial techniques and facilities which go against nature would exacerbate the destructive force of nature due to the inadequate resilience.

Then, how large the space do we need for the natural flow of water? Take China as an example. In 2006, the research team from Peking University explored the security pattern of water conservation at the national scale, and found that as long as protecting and restoring the mountains, accounting for 43.6% of the total territory, the water conservation at the national scale will be greatly improved. This goal is possible for China, a country where mountains and hills account for nearly 70% of its territory. An analysis of the security pattern of flood regulation and storage showed that, under the monsoon climate, the annually flooded area ranges from 0.8% to 2.2% of the territory.[6] Therefore, a romantic hypothesis would be that, after experiencing the unprecedented urbanization in history, the flood-prone land areas would be reserved for the natural flow. Then the human-water conflicts that have troubled China for thousands of years will be addressed radically.

However, this flood storage area, accounting for 0.8% to 2.2% of China’s territory[6], is the most fertile land on the floodplain (taking up a proportion of 6% to 15% of the arable land)[7]. It was unrealistic to turn arable land into flood storage area decades ago, when agriculture product contributed to most households’ income. But today it is no longer a fantasy: Agriculture product now accounts for only 8% of China’s GDP, and a considerable amount of arable land is left uncultivated in rural areas. Being impoverished due to excessive reclamation, the farmlands of floodplains and the whole farmland ecosystem could be restored by occasional inundation. Compared with the enormous investment in gray infrastructure projects for flood control, water system restoration is much more economical. More importantly, the damaged territorial aquatic ecosystem would be restored step by step as the increase of water space. The tens of millions of residents from the inundated areas can be well resettled through smart urbanization at the macro level, ecology-prioritized site selection and planning strategies for new towns at the medium level, and flood risk control measures such as building high platform at the micro level, together with the ecological wisdom of co-living with water and the building of a sound flood security system. However, large-scale hydraulic projects like barrages, levees and reservoirs, long-distance water diversion infrastructures across watersheds, waters invasions, and construction activities in low-lying areas, are endangering aquatic ecosystems.

A healthy aquatic ecosystem in cities, towns, or villages requires sufficient spaces for flood retention and storage in the built-up areas. Natural water storage, purification, and infiltration, as well as recharging of groundwater, ensures water circulation and stable water supply for wetlands and streams to nourish aquatic species. As water shortage is critical to China and other countries across the world, it necessitates the construction of resilient water ecological infrastructures to adapt to extreme rainstorms like “sponges,” thus guarantee the health of urban and rural aquatic ecosystems—This is also the goal of Sponge City construction. Many ancient civilizations left behind vast legacies in smart water management, such as developing terrace fields to conserve water, building ponds to regulate droughts and floods, creating mulberry-fish ponds in floodplains and deltas to foster local aquiculture, piling up soil on marshes to build water gardens, and digging ponds and ditches in urban and rural settlements. The history of the water-city co-existence in the Yellow River Basin tells that creating sufficient “sponges” (such as ponds and wetlands), as important water ecological infrastructures, can ensure urban resilience[8][9]. The centralized drainage systems built with gray pipelines and deep tunnels made of concrete and steel are introduced to control urban flooding. But they often prove to be ineffective and unsustainable in urban water system management. Over-dependence on such infrastructures will put people’s lives and property at huge risks due to the global climate changes and uncertainties.

At the micro-scale of hydrophytic habitats such as water bodies and wetlands, a healthy aquatic ecosystem sees dynamic interactions between organisms and water. Organisms and water are interdependent. The absorption and transpiration of plants facilitate water circulation. The growth and decay of plants clean and enrich the nutrients in the water body. Species can multiply and migrate via water. To build a healthy aquatic ecosystem, we need to pay attention to the communities in wetlands, forms of waterfronts, courses of streams, and changes in beaches.

There are three strategies on how to build safe and healthy aquatic ecosystems: 1) Ensure the security pattern of water conservation and flood regulation, allow for water’s natural flow, and define the interface between human and water through water security pattern planning to rebuild human–water harmony; 2) Enhance the resilience of aquatic ecosystems by building “Sponge Land” —including Sponge City and Sponge Countryside, increasing on-site flood storage, slowing down water flow processes, and improving the resilience of tail-end sponges; and 3) Restore aquatic and hydrophytic habitats, promote deindustrialization, minimize the use of synthetic chemicals, rebuild the harmony between water and fields, human and the nature, and enhance the integration of blue–green spaces.

These strategies are all nature-based solutions. Instead of calling for reintroducing of the lifestyles or production modes of the agricultural age or the fishing-hunting age, the author encourages building a new ecological civilization upon legacies. Only in this way could we have healthy and beautiful water systems and territorial ecosystems, for a greater societal prosperity.


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