贵州少数民族文献数字化建设探讨

结合贵州少数民族文献资源实际,阐述了少数民族文献数字化建设的重要意义,探讨了少数民族文献数字化的基本策略。     

数字化图书馆的著作权保护与合理使用

著作权法中的“合理使用”是各国著作权法中对著作权限制的一种主要制度。然而随着信息化在全球的蔓延,特别是数字化图书馆的出现,现有的著作权合理使用制度已呈现出不适应的状况。著作权新载体的出现要求著作权法进行自我完善。     

海峡两岸环境犯罪之比较研究

随着全球环境问题的日益突出,各国各地区无不开始重视以刑罚手段惩治危害环境的行为。我国大陆刑法中规定了１４ 种环境犯罪, 而台湾地区则在刑事、经济、行政法律中共规定了１８ 种环境犯罪。对于这些犯罪, 大陆和台湾地区的法律规定在构成要件方面、处罚方式和程度方面, 均存在差异。本文在进行比较的基础上, 就完善我国大陆环境犯罪立法提出了一些思考。     

英美法系国家环境刑法与环境犯罪探究

一些环境保护先进国家, 如美国、德国、日本等,自 ２０世纪 ５０年代先后以刑法典、单行刑法和附属刑法的方式加强对环境犯罪的制裁。国际社会为保护人类环境加强国际间的协作亦付出了较大的努力。而属于普通法系判例法的国家．其制裁环境犯罪的突出特点,就是采用附属刑法的方式规定环境刑罚条款,使各类环境刑罚条款皆寄生于行政法之内。     

环境保护行政合同基本问题研究(上)

环境保护行政合同制度是市场经济发达国家普遍采用的一项环境保护和契约行政制度。为了执行环境保护法的规定和完成流域或行政区域环境保护的目标,有必要对环境保护行政合同的缔约根据、缔约目的、主要内容、法律效力、合同的变更和解除及其他的基本问题进行全面、深入的研究。     

How democratic decentralisation facilitates,sustains, and interrupts market-driven development in India

Democratic decentralisation has emerged as an instrument to implement market-driven development, and elected bodies now extend commercial inputs for commodity production and link households to firms. However, the nature of market-driven development under this condition is understudied. This article focuses on an Indian case where, while access to market inputs was shaped by political capital with elected leaders, narrowing market participation, leaders – now market intermediaries – fostered trust in firms, helping sustain market participation. Conflicts over electoral politics interrupted market production. Markets rely on state institutions and are intertwined with politics, contrary to market proponents’ claims that markets stand above society and are unmediated spaces of exchange.     

Climate change research in bilateral development programmes: experiences from India and Peru

This article reflects on the merits and shortfalls of bilateral research programmes aimed at strengthening climate change research capabilities, using the experience from two programmes, the PACC and IHCAP in Peru and India, respectively. The study highlights key aspects of these types of bilateral programmes, namely: capacity; performance, salary and appreciation; funding; bureaucracy and hierarchy; publishing; and data sharing. Furthermore, it emerged that these programmes would benefit from a more extensive consolidation phase of the research activities and partnership rather than rapidly transferring into out- and up-scaling phases.     

Participatory modelling and development practice: artisanal fishers in Nicaragua

Development plans with insufficient knowledge about local realities, and that do not share technical or planning details with the target communities, bedevil development practice. This study used a form of participatory modelling in three fishing communities in Nicaragua to enable fishers to explore their economy and the potential impacts of fishery-based development projects. Co-designing a model of the fishing economy in the form of a board game created a forum in which facilitators and participants could arrive at a shared understanding of local fishing practices and the costs and benefits of strategies for addressing the fishers’ priorities.     

Analysing pig traders in Uganda: sampling issues,marketing activities,and constraint analysis

An integral part of the pig and pork value chain in Uganda is trader activity. This article reports on a study that quantifies the nature of these traders in Mukono district, a major pig and pork marketing site adjacent to Kampala, Uganda. Little guidance is available from the literature about the sampling of traders for this kind of research, and the second task addressed by this study is to test sampling mechanisms and report on their influence on the statistical results generated. Different sources of sampling frame provided different samples, with some limited overlap. The two samples exhibited distinctly different profiles of traders.     

Flood risk reduction through insurance for SMEs in Pathumthani province,Thailand

Insurance could be an effective mechanism to assist small and medium enterprises mitigate unforeseen flood disasters. This article analyses insurance as an option for manufacturing SMEs to adopt to aid recovery from damage caused by floods, using data from flood-affected SMEs in Pathumthani province, Thailand, in 2011. The study findings suggest that inaccurate risk perception, reluctance of SMEs to utilise insurance due to high premium rates, and poor adoption of flood mitigation strategies resulted in longer recovery periods following the 2011 floods.