The ‘Green' China Hand

正The new U.S.ambassador has deep connections butlittle experience in managing Sino-U.S.relations On February 21,the day of former U.S.Senator Max Baucus’swearing in as the country’s new ambassador to China,U.S.President Barack Obama caused a ruckus by meeting with the Dalai Lama,a move that Beijing said caused damage to bilateral relations.Although most Chinese analysts on U.S.studies have a positive view of the senior U.S.politician,the complicated Sino-U.S.relationship may mean that the latest incarnation of his political life will not be an easy one.     

Clinical psychologists’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators to engaging service users in index offence assessment and formulation within a medium secure unit

Index offence assessment and formulation (IOAF) helps service users (SU) in secure units to make sense of their index offence, provides detailed understanding of risk and contributes to treatment planning and discharge decisions. Clinical psychologists’ perceptions of barriers and facilitators to engaging SUs in IOAF within the men’s and women’s services of one medium secure unit were explored through focus groups. Thematic analysis identified two relevant domains: person-specific factors and the organisational context. Person-specific barriers included challenges in working with fragmented narratives, conflicting motivations to engage, SU defences and distorted perceptions of clinical psychologists’ roles. Giving clarity and choice to SUs facilitated engagement with the work. Regarding the organisational context, clinical psychologists within both services identified the importance of having adequate resources and care-team support to complete this work. Findings highlight the importance of developing an evidence-based framework for IOAF to be embedded within clear ‘risk’ care pathways through secure services.     

试论我国生态经济发展与绿色GDP的建立

近年来由于环境污染和生态破坏的严重性,传统衡量社会发展的总指标GDP开始暴露出各种缺陷。为此,改变传统的经济发展模式和经济核算体系,大力发展生态经济和绿色GDP的经济核算体系,引导经济与资源环境保护的协调发展,就成为实现人与自然和谐发展的重要途径。我国应大力发展绿色产业,走可持续发展道路,推广以绿色GDP为衡量标准的生态经济。     

绿色奥运与北京环境法律实施对策研究

绿色奥运,是2008年北京奥运会的重要指导方针,是北京奥运三大理念之一,环境保护已是奥运计划中一个不可缺少的主要部分.本文从分析北京市有关环境保护方面的法律实施中的问题入手,结合环境保护法律制度及奥运规则的要求,结合北京目前的环境现状,探讨解决环境问题的对策.主要就环境保护中的大气污染和水资源问题进行初步探讨.     

采用绿色GDP对我国经济社会发展的积极影响

采用绿色GDP的核算方式,能更确切地反映经济增长与发展的数量和质量表达的对应关系,并将对经济社会的发展与环境的保护、政府执政理念的转变与科学发展观的确立带来积极的影响。     

论技术性贸易壁垒的成因及我国的对策

随着经济全球化和贸易自由化的发展,关税壁垒逐步弱化,一些发达国家凭借其科技、管理、环保的优势,以“保护环境、保护人类健康”为由,设置以技术法规、标准、合格评定程序为主要内容的技术性贸易壁垒。这种壁垒表面上看有其合理性,但真正推动其被普遍实施的动力在于通过抬高市场准入门槛或市场准入费用来保护本国的产品和市场不受进口产品的冲击。技术性贸易壁垒内容复杂、隐蔽性强、扩散效应大、影响面广,已经成为我国出口发展的最大障碍。我国应当从政府、企业及行业协会的各自职能入手,发挥不同功效应对歧视性的技术性贸易壁垒。     

Valence politics and economic crisis: Electoral choice in Canada 2008

This paper investigates factors affecting voting behavior in Canada’s October 2008 federal election. The election was held in the context of a rapidly worsening financial crisis that threatened to become a global economic meltdown. National survey data gathered in the 2008 Political Support in Canada Study reveal that the deteriorating economy trumped the opposition Liberal Party’s Green Shift Program as the major campaign issue by a huge margin. Damage done to the governing Conservatives by the economic crisis was limited by perceptions of their leader, Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Analyses of a mixed logit model of electoral choice shows that although the Conservatives had a relatively small share of party identifiers and Harper was widely disliked, his image as “safe pair on hands” helped his party weather the political storm generated by the flood of bad economic news.     

我国国际警务合作的障碍分析与对策

当今跨国犯罪、国际犯罪在全球范围内蔓延,国际警务合作是国际社会共同打击犯罪的需要。但是各国政治体制、法律制度和司法制度等方面的差异给国际警务合作带来种种障碍。加强我国国际警务合作的策略应包括：遵循相互尊重与沟通协调原则;完善法律法规制度,为国际警务合作提供法律依据;完善情报信息主导警务,提高打击国际犯罪的能力等5个方面。     

管窥境内外大学生沟通交流的屏障与出路

侨校普遍存在的一个问题是：境内生和境外生沟通的机会和环境不够多,有意识地促进其沟通交流的活动也不够多;思想文化和制度管理的差异是其沟通交流的屏障。从搭建平台、打破界限和创新方式入手探寻境外生与境内生的有效交流沟通途径,将更好地促进境内外文化的传递,增强境外生对中华文化的认同。     

Disparities in Infant Mortality Rates Among Immigrant Caribbean Groups in New York City

SUMMARY

This study examined infant mortality rates (IMR) in New York City (NYC) to identify those groups reporting higher IMR concentrations in recent years and to determine what factors and explanations are associated with this new trend.

Analysis of data from NYC Department of Health (DOH) identified infant mortality patterns throughout the City by both maternal birthplace and NYC Health Districts. In addition, infant mortality rates for those NYC populations with the highest concentrations were compared to the most recently available IMR data from their countries of origin. Focus group sessions were conducted with women in the identified groups in New York City in an effort to obtain their perspectives on causality and other factors associated with the new trend.

Strong patterns emerged from this study pointing to a concentration of the City's highest IMR among groups from the circum-Caribbean region. Results of focus group sessions with women in the identified population groups yielded a list of specific barriers faced by this population in the utilization of perinatal care services. In addition, the study resulted in some clearly delineated program and policy approaches that can help to address the disparities in IMR.

Myriad causative factors contribute to the high rates of IMR among Caribbean immigrant groups. Expanding the availability of both successful program models and promising practices is critical to decreasing infant mortality in immigrant communities. Specific recommendations are for the development of a strategic set of interventions designed to eliminate this most serious challenge to the health of new immigrant groups in NYC.

Any references to comparisons between data from NYC and data from the countries of origin were merely to serve as a reference point as it is not often possible to determine the level of scientific rigor applied to the collection and analysis of data external to the United States (U.S.).

Implications for social work practice with immigrant populations include the need for delivery of culturally competent services in general and for cultural sensitivity to health beliefs surrounding maternal child health issues in particular.