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《Geoforum》2015
Ethical consumption is a vibrant field of research but suffers from both empirical and conceptual biases. Empirically, too much of the data is gathered in the global North, often framing a false binary in which consumption spaces are located in the global North while production takes place in the global South. Conceptually, there is a growing demand for researchers to move away from an emphasis on the individual consumer and instead focus on collective agency and structural change. This paper offers contributions to both of these frontiers of research. It reports on data on ethical consumption and public procurement, collected through the first ever large scale representative survey on procurement criteria and 16 focus groups in Brazil. It concretises these debates by focusing specifically on the pioneering Brazilian school meals policy which supports both “family farms” and organic modes of production at a massive scale, in providing meals to 43 million Brazilian children. Lessons learnt from the study include, firstly, the potential for successfully scaling up ethical consumption through public procurement; secondly, the way in which such scaling-up forces the public debate to engage with food production and consumption at a systemic level; and thirdly, how the systems-level debate leads to a repoliticisation of the discussion of the cultural, social, economic and environmental role of food and farming. The focus group discussions showed a high degree of support for the school meals policy, including from affluent citizens whose children would not benefit from the scheme. Surveys also showed strong support from Brazilian citizens for using environmental and social criteria in public procurement. 相似文献
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国家重点研发计划“深地资源勘查开采”重点专项（简称“深地专项”）以大幅提升中国资源发现率和资源获取能力,全面支撑国家找矿突破战略行动为核心目标。按照国家重点研发计划“全链条设计,一体化实施”的要求,专项重点资助的研究工作包括：中国深部资源成矿成藏、预测评价与深部开采相关重大基础理论研究,航空-地面-地下立体勘查和智能化、无人化绿色采矿共性关键技术装备研发以及相关应用示范研究。“深地专项”共包含“成矿系统的三维结构与控制要素系统”等7项任务,各任务及专项的目标通过若干相互关联、有机衔接的项目落实。结合专项启动以来的立项情况,梳理了7个任务方向专项经费的分布情况,并分析总结了各任务方向的研究重点、难点和预期目标,全面呈现了“深地专项”的研究布局、空间布局和资金布局,为相关研究工作和管理工作的开展提供了参考。 相似文献
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Jennifer S. Evans-Cowley 《GeoJournal》2010,75(5):407-420
There has been rapid growth in the use of online social networking sites, such as Facebook. The public is increasingly using these sites for organizing around place-based issues. This research examines the extent to which the public and planners are using social networking sites to organize the public around place-based planning issues. Using content analysis of social networking sites, place-based planning groups are identified and analyzed. The administrators for the groups were contacted to determine their goals and satisfaction with their groups’ work. Planning departments in the same communities were then contacted to determine the degree to which the social networking groups influenced the planning process. The results of this study found that the public primarily organizes to oppose development projects. While on average these groups attract hundreds of people, planners and group administrators report that there is minimal influence on the planning process. 相似文献
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M. M. Yagoub 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2016,9(19):721
During the last 30 years, UAE witnessed earthquakes that ranged from minor to moderate, with maximum magnitude of 5.1 that occurred in the Masafi area (eastern UAE, on March 11, 2002). Recent earthquakes that hit Iran such as on May 11, 2013, caused tremors and mild shaking of buildings in some UAE cities. Although the tremors are small in magnitude, their sequences apparently become an important research topic and deserve more assessment from different perspectives such as geographical, geological, engineering, and social. This is because low risk does not equal no risk. This study is concerned with public perceptions of earthquake preparedness (reduction of disaster impact) that can be measured by various variables such as developing an emergency plan, preparation of disaster supply kits, and training. The methodology consists of a survey of 470 people who live around the Masafi area, near Fujairah city, UAE. GIS and GPS were used for site selection in conducting the survey, and remote sensing was used as an aid in identification of buildings’ ages. Results show that around 90% of the people surveyed have water tanks that can support them up to 3 days, and 60% of them normally buy food that can support them up to 2 days. Thirty percent of the respondents were familiar with storing first-aid kits and tools such as flashlights. The findings point to a need for more research regarding public awareness about earthquakes. The findings of this study may be useful for people who are involved in the four cornerstones of disaster risk reduction: community participation, public policy actions, safer construction and urban development, and development of a culture of prevention. 相似文献
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The DigitalOcean (DO) Project is designed to bring essential Web 2.0 capabilities to an open-source software platform built
for scientific collaboration and publishing. The DO platform is being built using the Drupal content management system (CMS).
The following are some of the core features of the proposed platform: social networking, media/data sharing/publishing, and
collaboration spaces for scientific virtual organizations (VO); active support for VO governance and reputation systems for
members and objects; Creative Commons licensing, support for preprint archives and micro-articles, and; professional user-profiles
that can be saved as well formatted biosketches. The DO platform serves as a collaboration environment for active research
teams, a personal repository for individual researchers, an aggregation/filter for science information, and a scientific publishing
tool. This article will outline the history and goals of the DO Project, the core technology concerns and solutions, and the
opportunities that this new platform will bring to scientists across the planet. 相似文献
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Stewart Barr 《Geoforum》2004,35(2):231-249
Throughout the western world, public support for environmental protection measures has grown consistently during the past three decades. Endorsement for a wide array of measures to reduce the human impact on nature and conserve resources has been high among individuals in the UK, relating to a variety of environmental issues, such as transport, waste management, water quality and green consumerism. These stated concerns are somewhat in contrast to the behavioural responses which similar research projects have reported. This attitude-behaviour inconsistency, or more colloquially, the ‘value-action gap’, has become a major area of soul searching for policy makers who have used techniques such as contingent valuation and willingness to pay models to construct their policy measures. Accordingly, this paper presents an alternative means of investigating the attitude-behaviour inconsistency, with the use of research by social psychologists, sociologists and geographers. A framework of environmental behaviour is presented, so as to provide environmental researchers with a means of examining which variables modify the relationship between stated intention and action. The results indicate that whilst there is a moderately strong relationship between stated intention and behaviour, the factors influencing these two constructs are significantly different so as to suggest that public rhetoric towards environmental action may be influenced by different antecedents to that of actual behaviour. As such, the paper provides a fresh perspective on the difference between rhetoric and reality in environmental action. 相似文献
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A simple model for forecasting the effects of nitrogen loads on Chesapeake Bay hypoxia 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The causes and consequences of oxygen depletion in Chesapeake Bay have been the focus of research, assessment, and policy
action over the past several decades. An ongoing scientific re-evaluation of what nutrient load reductions are necessary to
meet the water quality goals is needed. While models can provide insights and advice for public policy on load reduction goals,
they are caricatures of nature, and it is wise to use independent modeling approaches. In this paper, we describe our simple,
biophysically based model that offers a middle ground between statistical models and complex dynamic models. Our model suggests
that the target total nitrogen load reduction of 35% will reduce hypoxic volumes by 36–68%, which, on average (53% or 3.4
km3) is lower than values reported for 1950–1970 (4.2 km3), and roughly half of the values reported for 1980–1990 (7.2 km3). By pursuing a simple model construct, we were able to quantify uncertainty to a greater extent than is possible with the
more complex numerical models. Yet, by retaining some mechanistic detail we could validate the model against state variables
and process rates, an advantage over simple regressions. 相似文献
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Divergent growth trajectories in China’s chemical industry: the case of the newly developed industrial parks in Shanghai,Nanjing and Ningbo 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
In the late 1990’s, the “new-economy” industries in China proved to be relatively vulnerable and were strongly hit by the
financial crisis in Asia. As a result, a new economic support policy was introduced in China’s Yangtze Delta region, which
put greater emphasis on the support of traditional industrial sectors, including the chemical industry. This paper investigates
the effects of the growth of this industry, as well as the potential and current problems emerging from new growth paths.
It compares the growth of three newly developed chemical industry parks in Shanghai, Nanjing and Ningbo. The paper is based
on an institutional perspective of clustering processes arguing that regional industrialization is subject to formal and informal
institutions which shape the growth paths and contribute to divergent regional trajectories. Although these industrial parks
all benefit from the general economic upswing in China, their development is influenced by different business models, economic
contexts, goals and strategies, leaving room for divergence and specialization. Due to the existing structure of operations,
these parks have a great deal of potential but also face substantial challenges, such as the establishment of internal networks
and close customer linkages. It is argued that this might limit their innovative capability in the future. Furthermore, their
growth prospects differ depending on future government policies. 相似文献
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Elena Domene 《Geoforum》2007,38(2):287-298
This paper examines urban vegetable gardens in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona (MRB) in the context of a political ecological approach. We argue that these gardens provide an interesting example of how the urbanization process creates particular “socionatures” linked in this case to retired members of the working class who occupy (often as squatters) and transform the interstices left by the expanding city in order to produce food at a small scale. We document how these vegetable gardens are the product of a peculiar form of the recent urban history of the area, and also how they are increasingly under pressure due to the rapid process of sprawl now characterizing the expansion of the built environment in the Barcelona region. Vegetable gardens also highlight the contradictions of public policies in managing urban development, since the general attitude towards their elimination from the urban landscape stands in opposition to many of the sustainability initiatives such as the “greening of cities” promoted by city councils in this area.The empirical analysis was carried out in the municipality of Terrassa, one of the largest cities in the MRB, and also one with a higher number of vegetable gardens. We interviewed 132 plot users and obtained data about the legal status of gardens, their size and appearance, and crops grown, as well as the reasons for pursuing this activity. Our results show that, in general, this is an activity undertaken by people over 60 years old, often retired members of the working class that migrated to Catalonia from other Spanish regions in the 1960s and 1970s, and that use these spaces for a variety of reasons (personal goals, support to their families, and also as a bond to their rural past). Finally, we develop some conclusions regarding vegetable gardens in which we maintain that different social classes may create different natures but that class and power relations appear to legitimize some of these natures over others, for example, private and public gardens having a much larger social and institutional appeal and support than the vegetable gardens of the retired workers. 相似文献
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尚未完成的地质年代表--第四纪悬而未决的前程 总被引：10，自引：4，他引：6
第四纪是以气候变化、人类出现和现生生物物种占优势为特征的最新地质时期。第四纪的地层多以松散沉积物为主,是人类赖以生存居住的主要场所。鉴于第四纪研究对地质学,地球系统科学和全球变化科学的贡献,近几十年来学术界和公众对其产生极大兴趣和更加重视。为了回应2 0 0 4年春国际地层委员会提出的“国际地层表”( 2 0 0 4 ) ,详细地介绍了国际第四纪联合会为争取第四纪在地质年表中的合理地位所作的努力以及目前争论的结果:今年比利时最终定论。呼吁我国广大的第四纪工作者积极加入到支持国际第四纪联合会保留第四系作为独立地层单元的行列中。同时简略地介绍了第四纪(系)术语的来由,国内外关于第四纪下限研究的历史和现状 相似文献
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The purpose of this research is to investigate what factors influence the management of International Business Air Travel (IBAT). The researchers interviewed 34 business travellers, travel organisers and executives involved in IBAT from ten organisations in differing industries, in Australia. It was found that there are a multitude of factors influencing IBAT management, including professionalism and job satisfaction of travellers and the achievement of organisational goals such as carrying out successful international ventures or operating effectively in international markets. From the findings a strategic model was developed called the Threshold of Tolerance Model—which illustrates the potential point where both organisational goals are most likely to be met and where IBAT is most likely to be well managed for both travellers and organisations. 相似文献
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Estuarine Biotope Mosaics and Habitat Management Goals: An Application in Tampa Bay,FL, USA 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Many types of anthropogenic stress to estuaries lead to destruction and conversion of habitats, thus altering habitat landscapes
and changing the “arena” in which the life history interactions of native fauna take place. This can lead to decreased populations
of valued fauna and other negative consequences. The Tampa Bay Estuary Program (TBEP) pioneered a system-wide management framework
that develops estuarine habitat restoration and protection goals based on supporting estuarine-dependent species and the habitat
landscapes they require (for example, the extent of seagrass beds, mangrove forests, oyster reefs, or oligohaline marshes)
within an estuary. We describe this framework and provide related statistics as methods to help managers set system-wide ecological
goals using larger conceptual approaches that are easily communicated to stakeholders and the public; we also discuss applications
of the approach to existing and evolving paradigms of estuarine management. The TBEP and partners used this framework to combine
a simple and unifying vision with a diverse and complex set of management tools, resulting in greatly improved environmental
conditions within Tampa Bay. 相似文献
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Researching the South African tourism and development nexus 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Under apartheid, tourism was essentially anti-developmental in focus and tourism research largely centred on the recreation
of white South Africans. Since the 1994 democratic transition tourism has become recognised as an increasingly important sector
for South Africa's economy and for achieving the government's goals for reconstruction and development. In this paper a review
and critical analysis is presented of the changing directions and foci of tourism scholarship in South Africa. It is shown
that South African scholars are beginning to respond to the challenges posed by tourism as a developmental focus.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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黄淮海地区湿地水生态过程、水环境效应及生态安全调控 总被引：12，自引：1，他引：11
围绕国家重点基础研究发展计划(973计划)项目“黄淮海地区湿地水生态过程、水环境效应及生态安全调控”,介绍了湿地水生态过程、水环境效应和生态安全调控研究对我国社会与科技发展的意义、研究现状和发展趋势、拟解决的关键科学问题、主要研究内容和研究总体方案。该项研究的最终目标是发展一套集河流、湖沼、河口等湿地系统组分于一体的湿地系统层面上的湿地学理论,解决我国湿地研究面临的一系列基础科学问题,有效协调区域社会经济发展与湿地保护之间的矛盾,为建立不同目标下湿地系统整体调控模式,构建生态、社会和经济相互协调及环境友好型社会体系提供理论和技术支撑。 相似文献
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干旱地区内陆河流域水文问题的研究实践与展望 总被引：13，自引：0，他引：13
过去，干旱地区内陆河流域水文研究主要偏重于山区水文，注重山区来水及径流分析，而很少涉及灌区问题和生态问题，对绿洲水文和荒漠水文的研究十分缺乏。以新疆为例，通过对干旱地区河流的基本特征和水文机理的分析研究，从径流形成、水资源开发利用、生态环境保护三位一体，即从全流域水文循环的角度出发，提出了以山区水文、绿洲水文、荒漠生态水文为三大构成要素的干旱地区内陆河流域水文系统的新概念，并基于干旱地区内陆河流域水文问题的研究实践，提出了各自领域的研究内容和方向，进一步拓宽了水文问题的研究领域，对水文学科的研究与发展提出了新的思路，注入了新的内容。 相似文献
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Poverty and citizenship: Sociological perspectives on water services and public-private participation 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
José Esteban Castro 《Geoforum》2007,38(5):756-771
This article focuses on the arguments used to support private sector participation (PSP) in the provision of water and sanitation services (WSS) since the 1980s. It addresses the following questions: what was the historical evidence informing the claim that promoting PSP would be the best instrument for reducing water poverty? What are the principles that provided the foundation for this claim? And, what has been the empirical record of the resulting WSS policies? It argues that early neoliberal WSS policies since the 1980s were not intended to expand services to the poor. A pro-poor rhetoric was added to these policies since the 1990s, probably as a result of increasing citizen unrest in developing countries and the failure of privatized WSS projects in the Americas and Europe. However, the claim that PSP can provide the solution to public sector failure in extending coverage of essential WSS to the poor has little ground both in the theoretical literature and in the historical record. As could have been expected from the accumulated knowledge about the relationship between market-driven WSS and the poor, the recent experience with PSP projects has been disappointing. In practice these policies not only have failed to extend these essential services to the poor but have also contributed to deepening existing inequalities of power resulting in the weakening of state, local government, and civil society capacities to exercise democratic control over private water monopolies in most developing countries. Reversing this imbalance is one of the crucial challenges ahead in order to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. However, the article argues that the inertial forces set in motion by the neoliberal model of water policy based on market-centred governance of water and WSS remains the crucial obstacle for the achievement of the goals. 相似文献
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Culture provides an important perspective to understand society. It is one of the key factors that impact how people behave themselves, interact with one another, view the world; what they believe and value. Therefore, a good understanding of public disaster awareness and disaster coping is impossible without taking their culture context into consideration. Since the 1960s, cultural dimension in disaster issues and/or disaster reduction practices has been attracting increasingly attention; many empirical or theoretical explorations have been reported. This review aims to give an overview of research progresses on how culture impacts public awareness and coping of disasters, and analyze the corresponding implications for disaster research and disaster reduction practice. This review summarizes that: ①There is unanimous consensus on public awareness and coping of disaster, which are affected by their culture context. While the knowledge about the ways and degree of impact is still limited, further research is warranted. In addition, more systematic and in-depth studies conducted from cross-cultural perspectives are needed to design to further explore the origins of variance in public disaster awareness and coping, and to what extent from cultural differences. ②Research on public awareness of disaster, emergency response and recovery indicated that culture might have double-side impacts on disaster management—sometimes cultural factors such as value, norm, custom and belief might lead to people more vulnerable than the others, even could be the root causes, but they could also be the source of people’s resilience to disaster in some cases. How to identify those positive and negative impacts, then develop cultural-oriented disaster management policy is a challenge issue, which need special attention. ③There is an increasing acknowledgement that local knowledge and disaster subculture could play an important role in public disaster coping, while the lacking of the awareness of the value of local knowledge, the change of lifestyle, and the impact from external culture pose a threat to the inheritance of some local, traditional disaster coping strategies. So exploring how to conserve, protect, identify, document them, then combine them with modern science and technology should and will be the focus of relevant studies. On the bases of these summarizations, in terms of cultural dimension of natural disaster research in China, systematic and in-depth studies are needed to explore how Chinese culture affects public disaster awareness and coping, what cultural resources can be used in disaster (risk) reduction and for building and enhancing disaster resilience, and how to use them. 相似文献