Engaging Diasporas for Development: a case study of Pitcairn Island     

Maria Amoamo 《The Australian geographer》2015,46(3):305-322

Diaspora engagement is a growing trend and many governments, international organisations and policy makers are increasingly focusing on the role of diaspora in development strategies for the homelands. Such policies are predominantly critical to island-dense regions such as the Caribbean and Pacific that have suffered high rates of outmigration during the postcolonial period. One such Pacific island is Pitcairn, a British Overseas Territory, and is the focus of this article. But while most of the literature focuses on the positive benefits of diaspora engagement, this paper examines the dynamics of diaspora (dis)engagement and (dis)affection. Each diaspora has a unique set of needs and capabilities based on its historical experience and the present realities of its countries of origin and destination. While much has been written celebrating the role of diasporas in development, diaspora have also shown themselves to have dual natures, with sometimes conflicting identities and allegiances. Based on analysis of a recent Pitcairn Diaspora Survey and ethnographic data, discussion in this paper reveals that the best intentions of engaging diaspora for development can be impeded by several factors including: (1) the complex nature of identity, place and politics; (2) difficult negotiations between past, present and future intentions of movers; and (3) shifting ‘roots/routes’ and boundaries of identification. Consequently, the paper aims to highlight the realities of settlement and relationships of diaspora space and subjectivity with the homeland.  相似文献   

Crossing-over between land cover and land use: Exploring spatially varying relationships in two large US metropolitan areas     

《Applied geography (Sevenoaks, England)》2015

Difficulties in identifying actual uses of land space from remote sensing-based land cover products often result in lost opportunities to enhance the capacity of applied research on human settlements. In an attempt to address these difficulties, this study investigates how land cover and land use are interrelated with each other and what determines the relationship patterns by analyzing detailed land use and land cover data for two large US metropolitan areas – the five-county Los Angeles and six-county Chicago regions – where a broad spectrum of human settlements, ranging from urban cores to less-urbanized edges, coexist. The analysis shows that the land cover-land use relationship substantially varies not only across regions but across neighborhoods within each region. Through multivariate regression, it is also found that the intraregional variation is highly associated with the neighborhood's stage of urbanization, median housing age, and other development characteristics, suggesting that the relationship pattern can largely be shaped by the history and evolution of urban design/development.  相似文献   

Progress and prospect of research on forest landscape model     

DAI Erfu  WU Zhuo  WANG Xiaofan  FU Hua  XI Weimin  PAN Tao 《地理学报》2015,25(1):113-128

The Forest Landscape Model (FLM) is an efficiency tool of quantified expression of forest ecosystem''s structure and function. This paper, on the basis of identifying FLM, according to the stage of development, summarizes the development characteristics of the model, which includes the theoretical foundation of mathematical model, FLM of stand-scale, primary development of spatial landscape model, rapid development of ecosystem process model as the priority, and developing period of structure and process driven by multi-factor. According to the characteristics of different FLMs, this paper classifies the existing FLM in terms of mechanism, property and application, and elaborates the identifications, advantages and disadvantages of different types of models. It summarizes and evaluates the main application fields of existing models from two aspects which are the changes of spatial pattern and ecological process. Eventually, this paper presents FLM''s challenges and directions of development in the future, including: (1) more prominent service on the practical strategy of forest management''s objectives; (2) construction of multi-modules and multi-plugin to satisfy landscape research demand in various conditions; (3) adoption of high resolution''s spatial-temporal data; (4) structural construction of multi-version module; (5) improving the spatial suitability of model application.  相似文献   

区域发展战略与城镇空间结构规划关系剖析——兼议山东省城镇空间结构     

于兰军 《地域研究与开发》2015,(1)

从区域发展战略和城镇空间结构规划的基本概念和内涵入手,剖析两者的关系及主要差异,分析了山东省区域发展战略和城镇空间结构。结果表明:区域发展战略在空间上表现为政策区概念,面向封闭的均质区域,区内具有普适性,其实施是自上而下的政府主导过程,不同发展战略在空间上不具有排他性;城镇空间结构规划则表现为开放性特征,以"点、线、网络"等结构化语言为基本要素,是一种自下而上的自组织过程,更多地体现了发展的规律性,且同一尺度的不同城镇群体在空间上一般不应交叉。当前山东省城镇空间结构表述中存在过于依赖区域发展战略和重叠过多的问题,并对省域城镇空间结构进一步发育提出了建议。  相似文献   

环渤海区域旅游非均衡发展时空特征研究     

翁钢民  姚昭屹  贾丽丽 《地域研究与开发》2015,(3):91-95

受资源禀赋、地理区位、经济水平等因素的影响,环渤海区域旅游发展水平不尽相同,非均衡性问题日益突显,且差距有拉大的趋势。空间自相关是一种空间统计分析方法,旨在探索旅游要素的空间分布规律和作用机制。根据2004—2013年的数据,计算环渤海地区的接待入境旅游人数、国际旅游外汇收入、国内旅游人数、国内旅游收入4组全局Moran’s I值,分析该时期环渤海区域旅游空间集聚演变过程。在局部空间自相关方面,选取2013年截面数据,通过Moran散点图和LISA分析,探究环渤海区域旅游发展相关程度和集聚情况,为区域旅游发展政策制定提供决策依据。  相似文献   

元以来云南杞麓湖的开发与治理     

王毅 《地域研究与开发》2015,(4)

以历史地理学为视角,依据相关的史料和碑刻对元以来云南杞麓湖的开发与治理进行探讨。元以来云南杞麓湖的开发历经了3个时期,即元明时期、清至民国时期、建国后至1980年代。杞麓湖的开发包括湖区土地、湖区渔业、湖区水路等。其中,湖区土地和湖区渔业是开发的重点,元明时期设立河泊所戍军屯田、清至民国时期挖海泥造田征收鱼课、建国后至1980年代围湖造田。人类在开发杞麓湖的同时也加强了对其的治理,元明时期发现并疏浚落水洞、清至民国时期开挖河道筑堤修沟划片管理、建国后至1980年代疏浚落水洞加强湖泊管理。  相似文献   

河南省区域经济发展水平评价分析     

陈璐  李成标 《地域研究与开发》2015,(4)

选取经济总量、对外经济开放程度、人民生活水平和基础设施4个系统共24个区域经济指标,构建河南省区域经济发展水平评价指标体系。回归分析法和KMO统计检验结果表明,因子分析法对评价河南省区域经济发展水平是合理有效的。依据2012年的数据,运用因子分析法对河南省18个地级市的区域经济发展水平进行综合评价,对评价结果进行K-均值聚类分析,将各区域经济发展水平分为4类,进而提出协调区域经济发展水平的建议。  相似文献   

基于“点—轴系统”理论的城市群边界识别   总被引：9，自引：3，他引：6  

高晓路  许泽宁  牛方曲 《地理科学进展》2015,34(3)

合理界定城市群的边界是认识和研究城市群的必然要求,也是通过空间规划落实区域功能空间布局和发展指向的基础条件。然而,社会各界对城市群的概念尚未达成统一的认识,对城市群空间范围的理解更是莫衷一是。为此,本文从经济地理学的"点—轴系统"理论出发,对城市群的概念进行了梳理,并提出判别城市群边界的4个步骤:一是分析对象区域是否存在若干发育良好的中心城市;二是分析这个区域的城市体系是否健全,是否具有较好的资源和环境条件;三是分析城市之间是否具有较强的社会经济联系,使之具有一体化发展的社会经济基础;四是通过对城市群实际生长边界的判别,对"点—轴系统"的发育程度进行评估,从而对该区域是否已经形成城市群进行判断。较之以往的学术研究,强调城市群的发育程度也应该作为城市群判别的重要条件,同时,也通过POI数据的Densi-Graph分析提出了判别城市群发育程度的方法。基于此,对京津冀及全国主要地区城市群的形成和发育进行了分析。结果表明,长三角城市群和珠三角城市群发展较为成熟,京津冀城市群一体化程度较之偏低,长江中游城市群和成渝城市群则尚处于形成阶段。这些结论对于客观认识城市群以及制定城市群未来发展的目标和战略具有重要意义,可为多层次的空间规划和管理政策提供参考。  相似文献   

新时期珠江三角洲城市群发展战略的思考   总被引：5，自引：3，他引：2  

周春山  金万富  史晨怡 《地理科学进展》2015,34(3)

近年来,国内外经济形势发生显著变化,以传统制造业为主的珠三角城市群面临新的挑战,珠三角下一步如何发展成为必须解决的新问题。现状,将其与国内外城市群对比,提出了珠三角发展战略思路。研究结果表明:2000-2013年期间,珠三角城市群经济发展速度有所降低,区域经济发展差距逐渐缩小;人口红利面临枯竭;产业结构向高级化转变,经济全球化程度下降等;珠三角城市群发展水平和竞争力与国外世界级城市群相比差距较大;与国内长三角、京津冀城市群相比,总体发展势头下降。在此背景下,应将产业技术创新、土地节约集约利用、人口政策创新、区域合作与人文引领作为新时期珠三角城市群发展战略的主要方向。  相似文献   

中国西南岩溶生态系统特征与石漠化综合治理对策     

曹建华  袁道先  童立强  Azim MALLIK  杨慧  黄芬 《资源与生态学报(英文版)》2015,(4)

以贵州省为核心的中国西南岩溶区面临双重危机：生态恶劣,石漠化严重;人口贫困,全国1/3强的贫困县分布在该地区。石漠化综合治理需要从岩溶生态系统结构和运行规律出发,重点关注岩溶地下水的开发和可持续利用,水土保持和土壤改良,植被恢复和可适应性的经济植物选择,力求区域生态经济双赢、农民脱贫致富。  相似文献