Conservation in Context: Toward a Systems Framing of Decentralized Governance and Public Participation in Wildlife Management

Governance scholars have long championed the adaptive utility of decentralized management institutions, in part due to their ability to bring diverse stakeholders into decision‐making processes. However, research into the link between decentralization and participation often looks at policy design but bypasses important system feedbacks that shape sustained participation over time. To paint a more robust picture detailing how decentralization and participation are related, this paper uses a complex systems framework to explore interacting structural, operational, and cultural components of decentralized wildlife governance institutions in the United States and Botswana. Through this comparative analysis, I argue that the landscape of public participation in decentralized governance institutions appears to be significantly impacted by three factors: 1) how decentralization processes occurred, 2) where in the process of decision making participation is situated, and 3) perceptions of power distribution between groups with competing interests.     

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.     

The devil we know and the angel that did not fly: An examination of devil/angel shift in twitter fracking “debates” in NY 2008–2018

Recent work has applied the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) to examine narrative strategies in policy debates on social media platforms. We contribute to the literature by applying the NPF to fracking policy debates in New York using well-established Natural Language Processing tools, including sentiment analysis. We combine this computational approach with a qualitative hand-coding of pro- and antifracking Twitter influentials. This approach allows us to consider a much larger corpus of tweets over a much longer time frame than has been done thus far. We adapt and test NPF propositions related to the use of the devil/angel shift strategies before and after a major state-wide policy change, that is, a state-wide moratorium on high volume hydraulic fracturing or fracking. Overall, we find evidence for the use of the devil shift narrative strategy by the pro-fracking coalition aimed at the Governor prior to the moratorium. After the moratorium, the relative percentage of Tweets containing devil shift sentiments decreases as the pro-fracking coalition generally downshifts in its use of angel shift language without a corresponding increase in devil shift language, whereas, conversely, the anti-fracking coalition generally downshifts in its use of devil shift language without a general increase in angel shift language. When we shifted our analysis to Tweets containing fracking and the Governor, we found a similar postban decrease in devil shift language among anti-fracking users. Our findings offer lessons for using computational tools in the NPF as an approach to expand analytic ability and for the operationalization of concepts such as narrative strategies and policy entrepreneurs.     

幼儿园多元艺术环境创设和策略研究

环境已成为引发幼儿的各种学习、展示、互动交流以及发展的重要途径。创设多元艺术环境是开展艺术教育的重要手段,开展相应的环境创设策略研究,能挖掘幼儿的艺术潜能,促进幼儿欣赏、表现、创造等综合能力的发展。     

残疾人无障碍通行权实施现状及对策研究——基于成都市的调查

权利存在着应有权利、法定权利和实有权利三种状态。权利的实现是一个从应有权利到法定权利再到实有权利的动态过程。在我国现阶段，无障碍通行权已从应有状态上升到法定状态，完成了权利实现的第一步。但无障碍通行权的实有状态与法定状态之间还存在较大的差距，主要体现为无障碍环境的缺乏。为保证残疾人获得平等的生存和发展机会，国家和社会应采取措施，积极地营建无障碍环境，促使这项权利从法定状态上升到实有状态。     

论中国—东盟自由贸易区人民币区域化发展的国际金融生态环境

本文以全球金融危机为背景,通过对传统国际金融生态环境的主要矛盾分析,总结全球金融危机后国际金融生态环境的新特点,初步探索推动人民币国际化的战略模式选择,并在充分尊重区域经济、政治不平衡发展的客观规律基础上,提出推进中国—东盟人民币区域化发展的战略意义和地缘要求。     

论新媒体环境下大学生思想政治教育面临的新机遇

新媒体环境下,大学生思想政治教育既面临着新的挑战,也面临新的机遇。各类新媒体给高校思想政治教育客体的学习生活带来了积极影响,极大地丰富了思想政治教育的内容,增强了其时效性、互动性和针对性,拓宽了思想政治教育的范围和空间,有利于思想政治教育新的方式方法的运用。     

以法制教育深入推进法制环境建设

深入开展法制宣传教育,弘扬法治精神,积极探索适应油区特点的法制宣传教育的形式和载体,努力推进构建油区"法制环境"。不断适应油区法制建设的新特点,积极创造法制宣传教育新平台,并不断加强推进"法制环境"建设的保障机制,加快油区社会主义法制建设。     

嬗变与调适：监狱执法环境与执法维度

良好的执法环境是构建和谐社会的有力保障。监狱的执法环境发生了诸多新的变化：犯罪构成由相对单一向多样化转变、监狱结构由义务主体向权利主体转变、监管目标由狱内安全向狱外不再重新犯罪转变、狱务公开由封闭性向相对开放性转变。针对监狱执法环境的转型及现实之困惑,应落实完善法律体系、规范执法程序、提高执法能力、落实执法责任等调适之...     

试论我国生态环境法治建设

文章从“良法之治”和“普遍守法”两个方面来对我国生态环境法治建设进行论述,提出了对我国生态环境法治建设的一些具体设想。