The organized hypocrisy of ethical foreign policy: Human rights, democracy and Western arms sales     

Richard Perkins  Eric Neumayer 《Geoforum》2010,41(2):247-256

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Recombinant workfare, across the Americas: Transnationalizing “fast” social policy   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Jamie Peck  Nik Theodore 《Geoforum》2010,41(2):195-1109

The paper presents a genealogy of the Bloomberg administration’s Opportunity NYC program, launched in 2007 as part of New York City’s explicitly experimental anti-poverty strategy. Opportunity NYC was modeled on “conditional cash transfer” programs, currently operating in more than thirty countries across the Global South, drawing direct inspiration from Mexico’s widely touted Oportunidades program. This striking case of South-North policy emulation calls attention to some distinctive features of what is characterized here as a transnationalizing “fast-policy” regime, based on technocratic forms of program evaluation and development, dense expert networks, and orchestrated communities of practice, within which a range of policy intermediaries—particularly those connected with multilateral agencies—are assuming significant new roles. What appears to be a pragmatic form of policy learning in fact operates in the context of narrow ideological parameters, within which there is a concerted technocratic “push” toward favored solutions.  相似文献   

贵州省矿产资源总体规划编制中把握“四性”的规划实践     

陈林 《贵州地质》2010,27(2):118-120,123,147

第二轮矿产资源总体规划的编制,以科学发展观为统领,坚持"在保护中开发,在开发中保护"的方针,充分体现战略性、政策性、科学性和可操作性,实现保护资源与保障发展的双向效应。  相似文献   

BOOK REVIEWS     

《The Journal of geography》2012,111(2):91-92

Abstract

The Regional Geography of Canada, 3rd ed.Robert M. Bone Oxford University Press 70 Wynford Drive, Don Mills, ON, M3C 1J9, Canada 2005, xxi + 572 pp Hard Cover ($45.00 US) ISBN 0-19-541933-2  相似文献   

Traces of the New Zealand psychiatric hospital: Unpacking the place of stigma     

Robin Kearns  Alun E. Joseph  Graham Moon 《New Zealand geographer》2012,68(3):175-186

We survey the status of former public psychiatric hospitals, asking what has happened to the land and buildings. Drawing on Anderson's notion of traces, we argue for the transcendent role of stigma in closure processes and in subsequent reuse. We examine the extent to which evidence of mental health care remains at former hospital sites and developed a fivefold classification of end uses – retained health care; trans‐institutionalisation (to new institutional uses); residential; commercial; and dereliction. We conclude that while stigma is pervasive in shaping traces of the psychiatric hospital, its effects are filtered by locality‐specific factors including commercial potential.  相似文献   

BOOK REVIEWS – LITTERATURANMELDELSER     

《Norsk geografisk tidsskrift. Norwegian journal of geography》2012,66(4):216-217

Innovation systems and clusters are perhaps the most widely used concepts found in recent economic geography literature focusing on innovative industrial production and locational agglomeration. Both concepts have been universally embraced since the early 1990s onwards. However, recent literature has expressed criticism of their use as tools for policymaking. The authors studied innovation and cluster rhetoric in a geographical context by using empirical evidence obtained from the policy documents of the Finnish regional councils. They used a theoretical conception of spatial scaling as a geographical framework. Spatial scales proved to be a black box for regional strategies in Finland. Regional strategic programmes use a similar language that ignores the spatial variations of their locations. Clusters and regional innovation systems should be considered as parts of vertical and horizontal interlinkages within the economy and not as individual islands of organizational proximities in isolated contexts. The authors argued that an imprecise understanding of the innovation systems and cluster approaches, both conceptually and practically, has led to some ambiguity, resulting in the use of the terms clusters and innovation systems as buzzwords. This misuse hampers the ability of administrations to execute regional development in their respective areas.  相似文献   

The fiscal-geographic nexus: An overview of fiscal impact assessment in local policy development     

R. David Lamie 《Applied geography (Sevenoaks, England)》2012,32(1):54-60

Fiscal impact assessments exist to provide decision makers with the tools to make informed decisions regarding local government finances. Every type of change in a community will have a unique impact on the local economy. This impact cannot be evaluated without careful attention to the particular geographic setting of the study. Unfortunately, geography is currently underutilized in the practice of fiscal impact analysis. This paper argues that the increased application of geographic tools is a key to improving the accuracy of fiscal impact reports.  相似文献   

京津冀都市圈合作思路与政府作用重点研究   总被引：20，自引：1，他引：19  

张可云 《地理与地理信息科学》2004,20(4):61-65

京津冀都市圈合作是中国统筹区域发展的战略问题之一。该文依据区域经济合作发展的一般规律与发达国家经验,从理论与全局的角度分析京津冀都市圈合作的必要性,并探讨政府促进京津冀都市圈合作的思路、规划与政策重点。笔者认为,完善京津冀都市圈合作机制,关键在于完善区域管理制度基础;京津冀都市圈企业主导型合作应该注意克服地方利益矛盾,并用合理的政策促进地区间企业合作。  相似文献   

Developing adaptive capacity for responding to environmental change in the Arab Gulf States: Uncertainties to linking ecosystem conservation, sustainable development and society in authoritarian rentier economies   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Andy Spiess   《Global and Planetary Change》2008,64(3-4):244

The recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has emphasized that understanding the institutional context in which policies are made and implemented is critical to define sustainable development paths from a climate change perspective. Nevertheless, while the importance of social, political and cultural factors is getting more recognition in some parts of the world, little is known about the human dimensions or the contexts in which they operate in the affluent oil economies of the Arabian Peninsula. Policies that implicitly subsidize or support a wasteful and environmentally destructive use of resources are still pervasive, while noteworthy environmental improvements still face formidable political and institutional constraints to the adaptation of the necessary far reaching and multisectoral approach. The principal aim of this paper is to identify some of the major shortcomings within the special context of the Arab Gulf states' socio-cultural environment in support of appropriate development pathways. Conclusions highlight that past and current policy recommendations for mitigating environmental threats are likely to be ineffective. This is because they are based on the unverified assumption that Western-derived standards of conduct, specifically the normative concept of ”good governance” and ”democracy”, will be adopted in non-Western politico-cultural contexts.  相似文献   

Introduction: Advancing governance of areas beyond national jurisdiction     

《Marine Policy》2014

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