War and the commons: Assessing the changing politics of violence, access and entitlements in Sri Lanka     

Benedikt Korf  Hartmut Fünfgeld 《Geoforum》2006,37(3):391-403

There are two antagonistic, but equally influential traditions in the study of the nexus between resource use and violent conflict. One works through a Malthusian frame linking resource scarcity with violence, the other school of thought establishes a nexus between resource abundance and the incentives to use violence for rent monopolisation in a political economy of war or markets of violence. The tacit essentialism inherent in both schools of thought has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by geographers and anthropologists. To escape such essentialism requires a more detailed study of the dynamism of the political economy of (civil) war and its spatial dynamics, the political geographies of violence. In this paper, we study endowments and entitlements of people depending on common-pool or open-access resources in war-affected areas of Sri Lanka. Rural spaces in the war-affected areas became both a strategic retreat for fighters and an important common-pool resource on which a large part of the rural populace depended for their survival. Our research illustrates how the political geographies of war affect access regimes and entitlements to common-pool resources and thereby confine the livelihood opportunities of resource users. These dynamics of the political economy of war cross different scales and go beyond simple place-based struggles, for they are rooted in broader spatial dynamics of warfare creating place-space tensions in the sense that spatial dynamics of military control impinge changing access regimes upon specific places.  相似文献   

Gender and voluntary work in late adulthood in rural communities in the Netherlands     

Joos Droogleever Fortuijn  Marieke van der Meer 《GeoJournal》2006,65(4):381-392

This article discusses the involvement of older women and men in voluntary work in rural communities in the Netherlands. Gender, ageing and civil society form the core concepts in the article. Politicians and policy makers in the Netherlands are worried about the perceived decline of civil society and about the consequences of this decline for specific categories of older women in terms of well-being and social exclusion. The paper presents the results of two surveys of involvement of older women and men in civic organisations, voluntary work and local actions. The surveys indicate high levels of involvement of both women and men. No gender differences are found in activity level. However, the data demonstrate the gendered nature of civil society. Women are more engaged in informal voluntary work and informal local actions, while men are more active in formal organisations and functions. This gender segmentation is not absolute, however. Many older women and men transgress the traditional feminine–masculine boundaries. The surveys highlight the involvement of women and men in rural communities, but indicate lower activity levels in urban areas.  相似文献   

Analyzing empowerment: An ongoing process of building state-civil society relations - The case of Walnut Way in Milwaukee     

Parama Roy 《Geoforum》2010,41(2):337-348

Arguments regarding citizen involvement and empowerment within neoliberal urban politics are ample in geographic literature. Existing discussions often define and evaluate empowerment as either some social, political, or economic end-product of a specific event. Such singular conceptualization is problematic. First, different kinds of social, political, and economic changes can simultaneously empower/disempower communities in contradictory ways. In addition, the view of empowerment as an end-product of a present event obscures a more nuanced understanding of empowerment as an ongoing process of state-civil society relation-building. An in-depth assessment of such a process is only possible with reference to the past and the potential future occurrences. Elwood’s (2002) multi-dimensional conceptualization of empowerment recognizes the limitations of a singular definition of empowerment. However, it falls short of operationalizing empowerment as a temporal process with a historically and geographically contingent past, dynamic present, and future in the making. Therefore, in this paper I expand on Elwood’s framework to show how a process-based view as opposed to a narrow end-product-based or event-based one can provide a deeper understanding of state-civil society interaction and community empowerment. This paper analyzes the interaction between the City of Milwaukee, the residents of a predominantly black inner-city neighborhood, the Walnut Way, and their community organization, the Walnut Way Conservation Corp. within a land-use dispute related to the development of a park space into a housing project. Using data collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews, archival research, and participant observation, this paper emphasizes that despite methodological limitations of collecting long-term data, community empowerment can and should be studied as a process with reference to the past, present, and potential future state-civil society interactions.  相似文献   

江苏民营矿业发展探讨          下载免费PDF全文

吴雪梅  赵立鸿  周刚 《江苏地质》2010,34(1):98-103

通过对江苏民营矿业基本情况的调查研究,分析了民营矿业对促进地方经济发展的作用、资源开发利用总体情况,总结了民营矿业发展和管理中的基本问题,提出了促进其发展的措施与建议。对于把握江苏民营矿业发展现状、经济形势、存在的问题,以及加强对江苏民营矿业发展引导和监督管理,具有一定的指导意义。  相似文献   

典权在农村土地经营权流转中的扬弃——民法典编撰过程中“典权要入典”     

李显冬  倪淑颖 《国土资源情报》2014,(10):25-31

引导农村土地经营权有序流转、发展农业适度规模经营是当前我国土地工作之重心.而实现所有权、承包权、经营权三权分置,自需研究和探索集体所有权、农户承包权、土地经营权在土地流转中的相互权利关系,特别是其具体实现形式.传统典权制度作为一种切实可行的制度构建模式,其既能够解决公有制条件下私权主体进入土地市场的难题,又能够赋予农民在农村土地集体所有权基础上更好获得土地经营权流转收益的权利.考虑到典权制度在农村土地流转、城镇保障住房建设等问题上的独特作用,未来我国在编撰民法典的时候,自应将作为本土法律资源的传统典权正式纳入我国的物权法律规范的体系之中.  相似文献   

地质和岩土工程光电传感监测研究新进展——第六届OSMG国际论坛综述     

朱鸿鹄  施斌  张诚成 《工程地质学报》2020,28(1):178-188

第六届地质(岩土)工程光电传感监测国际论坛于2017年11月3~5日在南京大学顺利召开。本届论坛主题为"基础设施监测技术前沿及应用",共设置了35场特邀报告,来自近20个国家和地区的350余位代表参会。本届论坛显示,近几年来国内外地质和岩土工程光电传感监测领域的研究工作又取得了很多新进展:(1)光电感测解调技术不断成熟和完善,监测信噪比、空间分辨率等指标也突飞猛进;(2)国际上出现了一系列适用于地质与岩土工程监测的新型光电传感器,如聚合物光纤土工织物等;(3)光电传感器及其监测系统成为保障隧道、堤坝、核电站、桥梁等基础设施安全运营的有力工具,为这些设施的健康状态诊断和损伤识别提供了数据支撑;(4)光电传感监测技术在地质灾害监测预警中扮演了越来越重要的角色。未来的研究热点主要集中于3个方面:(1)高性价比的分布式光纤传感解调技术的研发;(2)匹配地质和岩土工程监测需求的新型光纤传感器及其布设工艺的研发;(3)基于人工智能的监测数据处理和灾害预警系统的开发。  相似文献   

巴伦西亚水法庭处理农村水事纠纷的经验借鉴     

郝少英 《地下水》2012,(4):4-7

巴伦西亚水法庭是欧洲最古老的机构之一,其形式和内容一直延续至今,并对国际水法产生重要影响。针对我国越来越多的农村水事矛盾、水事纠纷事件,巴伦西亚水法庭处理水事纠纷的特点具有重要借鉴价值。研究表明:可以通过借鉴巴伦西亚水法庭重视农村水事纠纷特点的基础上处理好相邻关系;充分发挥民间调解在水事纠纷调处机制中的重要作用;增强用水自律意识;及时解决农村水事纠纷等措施,为充分发挥我国民间社团组织在处理农村水事纠纷的积极作用提供有益参考。  相似文献   

寻甸柯渡新村地质灾害与煤矿采矿影响分析     

吴文利  WU Wen-li 《云南地质》2011,30(2):167-170,150

不良工程地质组合导致房屋地基开裂或滑移,墙体承重失衡导致房屋结构性破裂。煤矿开采直接导致地下水位下降,部分影响建筑物地基稳定性及地面塌陷。  相似文献   

基于Web GIS的广州市人防工程地理信息系统研制   总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3  

钟凯文  黄建明  梅其岳  袁雪松 《热带地理》2003,23(2):130-133

分析基于java的Web GIS的技术发展和实现方法,在此基础上,结合广州市人防工程地理信息系统的研制实践,研发出一个人防工程地理信息原型系统,该原型系统实现了C/S 和B/S的有机结合、安全性和实用性有效结合,解决了矢量化地图的操作、图形和人防属性数据双向查询、统计、专题图、统计图制作、人防工事分布分析及规划等问题,对于提高人防工程信息化的管理具有广泛的社会应用价值.  相似文献   

Geography of advice seeking     

A. Patel  N.J. Balmer  P. Pleasence 《Geoforum》2008,39(6):2084-2096

Despite limited research on access to advice services, it has long been assumed that access is related to geographic proximity [e.g. Blacksell, M., 1990. Social Justice and access to legal services: a geographic perspective. Geoforum 21 (4), 489–502]. The current study uses data from the English and Welsh Civil and Social Justice Survey, a large-scale nationally representative survey of respondents’ experience of and response to civil and social justice problems [Pleasence, P., 2006. Causes of Action: Civil Law and Social Justice, second ed. TSO, Norwich], to examine the impact of proximity to mainstream advice services on awareness and utilisation of services. In general, proximity of advice services had a relatively modest impact on both awareness and advice seeking. However, proximity did impact upon mode of contact and there was some evidence of difference in strategy (particularly more inaction) for isolated individuals without use of motorised transport. The suitability of different modes of advice provision for particular demographic groups are discussed, as well as implications for service delivery.  相似文献