Spontaneous Structural Reform in Australian Local Government: the case of the Gilgandra Co-operative Model in New South Wales     

Brian Dollery  Warrick Moppett  Lin Crase 《The Australian geographer》2006,37(3):395-409

Dire financial constraints and the threats of forced structural reform have had the unforeseen effect of forcing municipal councils across Australia to reconsider their operational activities and organisational arrangements. With considerable ingenuity, numerous municipalities have proposed and sometimes adopted new structural formations that embody various forms of co-operative service provision. This remarkable development has unfortunately been largely ignored in the scholarly literature on Australian local government. In a modest effort aimed at remedying this neglect, the present paper seeks to outline the small, rural New South Wales Gilgandra Shire Council's (2004) ‘Co-operative/Local Government Service Company’ model, place it in the broader context of alternative models of local governance suitable for Australian conditions, and evaluate its characteristics.  相似文献   

河流形态的分维及与洪水关系的探讨——以长江中下游为例   总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10       下载免费PDF全文

马宗伟  许有鹏  李嘉峻 《水科学进展》2005,16(4):530-534

河流水系形态特征可以通过河流的分形特征来反映,分形维数则是河流分形特征的量化表示,其与河流洪水之间存在着一定的关系。以长江中下游为例,利用网格覆盖法计算出长江中下游河流分维,分析了长江中下游河流的分形特性,并在此基础上结合长江中下游洪水分析不同水系特征下洪水的特点。研究结果表明,一般来说河道分维越大、河网分维越小,洪水发生可能性则越高。  相似文献   

利用ERS-2 SAR图像纹理分析方法揭示长白山天池火山近代喷发物空间分布特征   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4       下载免费PDF全文

单新建  叶洪  陈国光 《第四纪研究》2002,22(2):123-130

简单介绍了SAR图像的纹理特征以及正交小波变换纹理提取方法。论述了SAR图像的纹理特征参与分类的重要性。以长白山天池火山为例,通过对ERS2SAR图像进行纹理分析,提取了SAR图像两个层次的尺度变化、时频局部化和方向性纹理特征。并将SAR纹理特征与TM图像及DEM进行复合,利用多源信息各自的优势,进行了BP神经元网络分类,从较大范围对长白山天池火山735±15aB.P.大喷发的喷发物空间分布进行评价。获取了长白山天池火山近代喷发物的空间分布及规模。这对长白山天池火山未来喷发危险性初步评价、火山地质制图及火山灾害预测有重要意义。  相似文献   

4280 a B.P.太行山大地震与大禹治水后(4070a B.P.)的黄河下游河道   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：2  

任美锷 《地理科学》2002,22(5):543-545

我国古籍所载黄河下游最早河道有禹贡河和山经河，它们在今郑州以北均沿太行山东麓北流。其原因可能与公元前4280年太行山大地震有关。  相似文献   

高职GIS专业实践教学及实践基地建设     

张立  陈波 《现代测绘》2003,26(6):45-46

高职教育是GIS人才培养的重要组成部分。本文通过介绍职教GIS专业的建设，探索GIS实践教学与实践基地建设模式、方法及对人才培养的影响。  相似文献   

Computer-assisted teaching and learning in photogrammetry     

Joachim Höhle 《ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing》1997,52(6):266-276

The advanced personal computer models, new storage media such as CD-ROMs, new authoring tools and especially the Internet will influence the production of learning software for photogrammetry. Some examples of learning programs are presented, including experience from the development and use of these programs in the education of land surveyors. They demonstrate the progress made over the years as well as the potential and possibilities of computer-assisted teaching and learning in photogrammetry.  相似文献   

Productivity Profiles of PhD-Granting Geography Departments in the Unites States: 1980–1994     

Richard E. Groop  Randall J. Schaetzl 《The Professional geographer》1997,49(4):451-464

In our study, 48 U.S. departments that grant geography PhDs are compared along four measures of academic productivity. Using 1980–1994 as the base period, research productivity of faculty was assessed by counting book titles, as well as authorships in 77 journals. Teaching productivity was determined by placement of PhDs in graduate programs of geography in North America, and by a weighted index of teaching outcomes. Data were summed for departments, but are reported primarily as productivity per person (per FTE count). The results point to a wide variety of departmental profiles, from those departments that appear to emphasize teaching outcomes to those that are more productive in book publishing and journal authorship, with several exhibiting a balance between teaching and research.  相似文献   

浅议中国地震科技期刊   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

张宝红 《山西地震》2004,(4):45-47

对地震系统科技期刊普遍存在的问题进行了梳理．分析了形成的原因。指出，只有摆脱传统办刊的束缚．树立全行业、全社会办刊的意识．进行管理模式的改革、对系统内期刊进行整合、与系统外期刊进行联合．才能使地震科技期刊走出困境。  相似文献   

沉积学的发展历程与未来展望   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

于兴河  郑秀娟 《地球科学进展》2004,19(2):173-182

沉积学的概念自提出以来，其发展经历了：萌芽、初步形成、专业研究、总结提高、理论升华及学科渗透与综合 7个发展阶段，每一阶段都充分表现出，一方面受科学技术进步的影响，另一方面对全球经济的发展与进步又起到了不可忽视的推动作用，尤其是在各种沉积矿床和油气的寻找方面。随着地质勘探与开发实践的不断进行，已陆续在沉积体中发现了油气、煤、黄金、铀、金刚石、钾、水晶、铂、铝、锰、膏盐及天然气水合物等多种重要矿产，为全球经济的发展做出了不可磨灭的贡献。沉积学未来的发展在 7个方面表现出明显的规律性：层次上，由宏观向微观；方法上，由定性向定量；目的上，由理论向应用；形式上，由静态向动态；学科上，由单学科向多学科；手段上，由手工向计算机；领域上，由地区向全球发展的总体趋势。  相似文献   

Wildlife management and land reform in southeastern Zimbabwe: a compatible pairing or a contradiction in terms?     

William Wolmer  Joseph Chaumba 《Geoforum》2004,35(1):87-98

This paper examines the melding of two discourses in southeastern Zimbabwe: land reform and wildlife management. The former seeks to redistribute large, ‘under-utilized’ landholdings to smallholders whilst the latter needs extensive land holdings to be viable. These two discourses are rooted in very different models of development. The land reform exercise emphasizes direct redistribution, equity and land for crops; whilst the wildlife management discourse tends to stress maximizing foreign exchange earnings, encouraging public-private partnerships and trickle down. Yet there has been a recent flurry of interest in the development of ‘wildlife models’ for land reform which would combine the two. This paper investigates whether the competing discourses about land for smallholders and wildlife-based land reform are compatible or can be successfully reconciled. It traces the ways they have come together in Zimbabwe’s southeast lowveld and examines the ‘science’ and politics underlying their melding. Finally it explores the potential implications for rural people’s livelihoods of this development. It concludes that land reform and wildlife management can be reconciled, but probably not in a particularly equitable way: it is more likely to provide an opening for an equitable land reform agenda to be usurped by local and non-local elites with wildlife interests.  相似文献