Polycentric Systems and Multiscale Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in the Built Environment

Addressing climate change requires consideration of mitigation and adaptation opportunities at multiple spatial scales. This is particularly true in the built environment, defined here to include individual buildings, neighborhoods, and the spaces between. The current U.S. political environment portends fewer resources and coordinating services for mitigation and adaptation at the federal level, however, reinforcing the relevance and necessity of actions at subnational levels. In this study, we evaluate the applicability of a polycentric model of governance to the implementation of mitigation and adaptation practices, as well as the presence of polycentric systems in the built environment. We assemble a database of practices with the potential to achieve both mitigation and adaptation objectives, as well as those that may be cross‐purposed or that may achieve one but not the other. We review practices to gauge the applicability of a polycentric model of governance to mitigation and adaptation practices in the built environment, and examine the attributes of three existing adaptation and/or mitigation programs to assess the extent to which they exhibit polycentric attributes. We conclude with recommendations for a broader research agenda, including efforts to develop more in‐depth examinations into individual programs and comparative analysis of performances of different governance attributes.     

Venue Preference and Earthquake Mitigation Policy: Expanding the Micro‐Model of Policy Choice

Seismologists have reported that a majority of recent earthquakes in Oklahoma have been triggered by the activities of oil and gas companies. Despite this fact, there is evidence of strong opposition toward earthquake mitigation policy. In this article, we argue that how individuals define issues affect their policy choice. Furthermore, we incorporate the concept of venue shopping from the literature on macro theories of the policy process to investigate the effect of problem definition in shaping individual venue preference for policy choice. Using unique survey data, we find that problem definition, particularly issue causality and issue image, is strongly related to individual support for earthquake mitigation policy. However, a more nuanced relationship between individual problem definition and venue preference is observed. Our findings contribute to scholarly endeavors to understand the politics of problem definition at an individual level, which may be the precursor of understanding policy choices at the institutional level.     

Governing Unconventional Oil and Gas Extraction: The Case of Pennsylvania

Over the past decade, directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing enabled an unconventional oil and gas extraction (UOGE) boom in many regions of the United States, including parts of Pennsylvania. This revolution has created serious concerns about the capability of existing institutions to govern important societal outcomes associated with UOGE. We present a conceptual framework for assessing key societal outcomes influenced by UOGE governance. In applying this framework to Pennsylvania, we discern certain institutional strengths that have allowed the Commonwealth to reap appreciable short‐term economic growth from rich resource endowments. We also find, however, that several institutional weaknesses have allowed costs externalized to the environment, public health, and community integrity to offset some proportion of those economic benefits. Likewise, we find that governance of UOGE in Pennsylvania has contributed to a bifurcated sociopolitical landscape wherein adversarial coalitions dispute the legitimacy of the industry and its governance.     

海峡西岸经济区区域三螺旋合作深化发展路径探讨

区域正日益转变为由政府、科研院所和企业组成的三螺旋创新空间。本文首先对区域三螺旋创新空间的形成及运行特点进行了理论探讨;在此基础上,针对海峡西岸经济区正日益成为实现两岸要素资源优化整合的先行先试区域,对海峡西岸经济区区域三螺旋合作的现状和存在的问题进行了分析;最后,对推动海峡西岸经济区依托对台合作深化区域三螺旋合作提出了一些政策建议。     

凉山彝族习惯法探析——以普雄地区习惯法为重点的考察

以普雄地区习惯法为考察重点,介绍凉山彝族习惯法的概念以及普雄地区习惯法的具体内容,剖析了凉山彝族习惯法的特点和作用。凉山彝族习惯法在弥补国家法的不足,维持社会秩序以及传承彝族法律文化等方面发挥着积极的作用。因此,我们应当重视并发挥其积极作用,努力克服其消极影响,从而在凉山彝区社会中实现法治现代化与传统法文化的和谐发展,推进民族法治建设。     

关于少数民族法律人类学的反思

很多少数民族法律民族志,只是在进行资料创新而非观点创新,经验和理论呈现出两张皮样态:一边是少数民族奇闻趣事的繁琐陈列;另一边是跟经验材料关系不大的各种大名鼎鼎的理论。少数民族法律民族志要真正实现从实践出发,需要:深入经验调查,实现知识的可解释性;展开交流对话,实现知识的可积累性;进行区域比较,实现知识的可类型化。     

Striking the federal bargain in Russia: comparative regional government strategies

The central research goals of this article are to classify and explain the positions of the 89 state “governors” of Russia with regard to the most desirable federal division of power. The state governors are classified along a 5-item autonomy index based on events data and content analysis of their speeches, declarations, petitions, threats and actions from 1991–1995 as reported in two regional sources. Theoretical propositions derived from four schools of thought (essentialism, instrumentalism, relative deprivation and resource mobilization) are tested to discover which, if any, provide useful insights into the preferences and behavior of regional elites in Russia. In the end, a combined model that synthesizes elements of the above is shown to be most useful in explaining variation in elite positions.     

区域和谐社会环保制度研究

目前区域差距已经成为影响和谐社会发展的重要因素之一。我国为此制定了一系列的区域协调发展战略规划。区域协调发展战略的最终目标是实现区域和谐。区域和谐,不仅包括各地区之间的经济协调发展,也包括区域内经济和环保等问题的协调发展。构建区域和谐,区域经济发展应当与环境保护同步。以承接产业转移带来的污染转移为研究点,试图构建一个可行的区域和谐社会的环境保护制度。     

NAFTA本田汽车原产地规则案再探——兼论对中国区域合作的启示

北美自由贸易区在本田汽车原产地认定方面,强调了在像汽车这种由很多重要部件和次要部件经常在多数国家中组装而成的产品原产地问题的重要性。本田案件提出的根本问题在计算中如何衡量非本土材料在组件的本地含量,加工成本是否可以囊括在当地含量之内,进而通过重新定义的净成本方法解决该问题。该案对中国区域合作中海关在原产地认定方面也具有...     

柬埔寨问题与新加坡地区外交的转机

柬埔寨问题是东盟做为外交共同体出现于国际社会的关键，展示了东盟及其成员国为地区事务所做的共同努力，新加坡表现尤其活跃，在协调东盟内部分歧、促进柬埔寨抗越力量的联合、促使问题国际化等方面发挥了积极作用。柬埔寨问题的出现为新加坡提供了参与地区事务的契机，改变了其地区形象，增强了其对地区合作的信心。柬埔寨问题是新加坡地区外交的重要转机。