Pay to protect: Examining the factors of the use of market-based instruments for local water sustainability

Given the myriad of policy instruments aimed at enhancing water quantity conservation available to municipalities, what drives them to opt for a market-based instrument (MBI)? MBIs can be effective and efficient policy instruments to enhance water quantity conservation, but there is little known about why municipalities utilize them. This study hypothesizes that three contextual elements influence a municipality's use of an MBI: the natural, political, and structural environment. The results from two logistic regression models suggest that in a municipality suffering a higher drought level, both a conservative political environment and operating under a council-manager form of government (with the effect more pronounced under a non-council-manager form) will increase the likelihood that it will use an MBI to address water conservation.     

城市轨道交通对旅游边缘区旅游增长极影响机制研究——以杭州为例

论文首先从城市轨道交通建设改善城市旅游边缘区可达性、城市轨道交通建设促进对城市旅游边缘区的旅游需求、城市轨道交通建设促进对城市旅游边缘区的旅游需求、城市轨道交通建设促进新城区的建设等4方面分析了城市轨道交通建设对城市旅游增长极形成与发展的影响机制,然后以杭州市为例,从杭州城市旅游边缘区人口的增长、杭州城市轨道建设与旅游边缘区旅游需要统筹发展、杭州城市轨道交通建设尽可能向城市旅游边缘区腹地拓展等3方面论述了杭州城市轨道交通建设对杭州城市旅游边缘区旅游增长极形成与发展的影响。     

浅议促进城乡发展体一化

城乡发展一体化,是我国工业化、城镇化和农业现代化发展的现实要求。目前,以城乡二元经济结构为主的体制、较低的城镇化发展水平、农村产业不合理结构、差距明显的城乡基础设施建设以及政策制度的缺陷影响了城乡发展一体化,因此,应以促进城乡农业经营、城乡基础设施建设和公共服务、城乡建设与管理一体化为路径,加快促进城乡发展一体化。     

Meet the Narco: increased competition among criminal organisations and the explosion of violence in Mexico

Several previous studies have found that interventions by security forces against criminal organisations result in increased violence related to organised crime. However, much less is known about how and why this effect occurs. Our study not only identifies the causal mechanisms that explain this outcome, but also evaluates the empirical validity of these mechanisms. Employing a novel data set, we find that following security-force intervention, the number of criminal organisations increases, and such greater fragmentation in turn raises the incidence of violence among criminal organisations as the relative power of the organisations changes. We employ a mediation model to verify the existence of these causal mechanisms. In addition, we find a decreasing rate of rise in levels of violence as the number of organisations increases.     

Narcomessages as a way to analyse the evolution of organised crime in Mexico

Drug-related homicides in Mexico have increased to levels never before seen and organised crime has evolved accordingly, becoming more fragmented and diverse. This work analyses the evolution of organised crime and drug-related violence in Mexico by examining how drug trafficking organisations (DTOs) communicate through the messages left next to executed bodies from 2007 to 2011. Results suggest that the use of narcomessages has changed and developed in parallel with the evolution of organised crime. In the beginning, DTOs used their victims merely to position themselves. Over time, as the organisations became stronger, they began to direct and sign their narcomessages. By 2009, rivalries were firmly entrenched between several criminal groups, even while the increasing violence led to the creation of new groups with the stated purpose of defending citizens. The evolution of organised crime is observed by the fragmentation of existing groups, the consolidation of new alliances, and the creation of new groups.     

城市生活垃圾循环经济管理理念初探

以北京市城市生活垃圾处理的现状和问题为个案研究,揭示传统的垃圾管理思想和模式已不适应当前和未来经济和社会发展的客观需要,提出建立循环经济型城市生活垃圾管理模型的核心理念,是实现城市的可持续发展,建设资源节约型社会的必然转变,用科学的发展观认识和实现对城市生活垃圾管理理念和思路的转变,管理手段和方式的转变,从而妥善解决城市生活垃圾问题。     

吉林省统筹城乡发展的难点与对策

本文以吉林省正在实施的＂三化＂统筹战略为视角,提出城乡一体化进程中面临的难点主要集中在：人往哪里去、钱从哪里来、土地问题怎样解决三个方面。笔者认为,应通过加大对农村经济发展的财政支持,统筹城乡产业布局,开展农民职业技能教育,构建农村劳动力向城镇转移的制度体系和规范土地流转等措施,推动吉林省统筹城乡发展,实现城乡一体化。     

城市管理专业的人才培养目标与模式

城市管理专业是随着当代中国城市发展导致的城市管理专业化趋势及其对城市管理专门人才的急需而发展起来的一个新兴专业。城市管理的综合性特点要求城市管理专业的课程设置注重综合,强调应用,并实现文、理、工科相结合,其专业基础课应横跨管理学和城市科学两大学科基础,专业课则应突出城市管理作为一个独立学科、综合性专业的特点。完善符合城市管理专业应用型复合型人才培养需要的教学体系,当前的重点是强化实践教学,建立一体化的实践教学体系,相应地需要创新师资队伍,促进教师实践能力的提升和素质的优化,以保障城市管理专业教学体系高质量地运行。     

后奥运时代的城市文化特色与青岛城市发展

城市文化是指一个城市的地域特征、现存建筑及风格等实体性要素及其相互关系的总和;又是指一个城市的独特历史、市民的价值观、民俗民风、日常性和季节性的文化活动等直接相关的种种文化现象、文化因素及其相互关系的总和。城市文化是一个复杂的、多层次的系统。当今时代,培育城市、经营城市、发展城市已成为普遍的社会共识。以古齐文化为主脉,在欧陆文化碰撞交融下的青岛文化,具有务实性、开放性、平民化特性,青岛的海派文化特色孕育着休闲文化功能。奥林匹克精神为青岛文化与城市发展注入了新的生机和活力。     

我国城乡一体化研究述评

加快形成城乡经济社会发展一体化,是党的十七届三中全会对新形势下推动农村改革发展提出的根本要求,是具有重要创新价值的发展战略。城乡一体化是我国实现现代化的必然选择,对于我国的经济发展和社会变革具有十分重要的意义。