法制现代化进程中的地理基础

法制现代化与地理存在一定的关联性.15世纪以来西方的世界性扩张不仅在地理空间方面结束了各古老区域文明的相互隔绝状态,实现了全球范围内的关系整合,而且伴随着全球化的进程,西方的法律制度开始向东方国家扩张.19世纪末20世纪初中国也在全球地理背景的影响下开始了法制现代化的进程.     

美国的中亚战略及前景

冷战后尤其是“9.11”事件发生以来,中亚地区对于世界各大国或相关地区强国的地缘和能源战略的重要性凸显。美国作为一超,在企图独霸世界的全球战略中逐渐认识到中亚地区的重要性并逐步调整其中亚战略,其成就令其他利益角逐者刮目相看。但是,美国在追求自己的战略目标和利益诉求过程中不可能一帆风顺,会受到很多内外因素的影响和掣肘。中亚地区的未来不会取决于美国的一厢情愿,但是美国依然会将建立和加强中亚地区平衡作为自身在欧亚大陆综合性地缘战略的一个主要目标。     

中国海外能源投资的地缘风险与法律对策

中国海外能源投资在欧美、非洲和拉丁美洲具有明显的地缘特点,面临的风险也带有一定的地缘特征,因而有必要采取相应的法律对策.中国能源企业在欧美主要通过跨国并购进行投资,主要面临政府许可风险,其对策主要在于如何以法律手段通过国家安全审查;在非洲的投资主要采取国家契约的方式,主要面临政治风险,需要强化投资保护协定和反恐对策;在拉丁美洲的投资则主要面临卡尔沃主义带来的法律变更风险和国有化与征收风险,需要加强国家契约条款的保护和灵活运用CISID仲裁机制加以保护.     

Food Safety Warrior

正A graduate student becomes the latest online phenomenon with his Internet database of problematic food Wu Heng,a 27-year-old postgraduate student in historical geography at Fudan University in Shanghai,never expected the food safety informationsharing website he created a year ago would go viral as it did in May.On May 11 alone the site received 404,000 visits,compared     

Geographical patterns of incendiary and accidental fires in Springfield,Massachusetts, 1980–1984

Arson is a serious crime occurring with increasing frequency in urban America today. To date, this crime remains poorly documented and seldom discussed in the literature, particularly from a geographical viewpoint. This study examined the spatial distribution and underlying factors associated with 440 arson and 732 accidental fires recorded in Springfield, Massachusetts, between 1980 and 1984. Based upon a series of dot and choropleth maps, there was evidence that both incendiary and accidental fires were clustered not only in specific Springfield neighborhoods but also along individual city streets. In an attempt to understand better the varying frequency of arson fires among the 36 census tracts in the Springfield study area, a multiple regression analysis was performed using census data reflecting a variety of social, economic, and housing characteristics. Two variables, representing housing vacancy and tenement-type housing, entered into the final regression equation. Together, these two variables accounted for 70.4% of the reported arson cases. A subsequent inspection of the regression residuals revealed a random geographical pattern, thereby precluding any simple explanation for the remaining unexplained arson. Other factors such as insurance, building ownership, and length of occupancy were thought to warrant examination in future research.     

略论百年来中国新闻业的地理观流变

清朝道咸同光时期舆地学的兴盛以及逐渐巩固的“九州之外更有九州”的世界地理观念 ,成为近代以降国人进行新闻实践的思想、文化资源。在地理观成为民族—国家观念重要成分的历史情境内 ,新闻业对中国地图业发展的推动和对具有舆地学传统的报道方式的实践 ,弘扬了时代精神。旅行通讯现象的背后是新闻记者的地理自觉 ,这一新闻体裁因此成为历史事件与地理文化的双重结构文本。处于传播全球化的当代 ,“国家地理”除其地缘政治意义外 ,已转化为颇有意味的传媒符号。地理学视野的新闻定义就是对受众未知的某一时间的地理空间活动和现象的描述。     

Separatism,coexistence and the landscape: Jews and Palestinian-Arabs in mandatory Haifa

Haifa was named a ‘mixed city’ by the British, who ruled Palestine from 1917 to 1948, in reference to the two national communities that inhabited the town. This definition was not neutral, and reflected the Brits aspirations to create national coexistence in Palestine among the diverse urban societies.

Reality was more complicated. The basic assumption of this paper follows the idea that the bi-national urban society of Mandatory Haifa developed into dual society, albeit with much overlapping in economic and civil matters, but takes it one step further: through highlighting changes in the urban landscape, I wish to argue dominance of the national European modern Hebrew society over the Palestinian-Arabs and the traditional and oriental Jewish societies and ideas alike. The changes in the urban landscape tell us the story of Zionism's growing influence and dominance, and the way the urban landscape was used to embody Zionism's modern European ethos. The neighbourhood's segregation, therefore, represents not only the effort to separate but to create a modern national ‘sense of place’ that influenced the city development.     

Housing and populism

Abstract

The recent success of populist candidates in the UK and Continental Europe has sparked a major debate between those who view populism as a reaction of the economically ‘left behind’ and those who view it as a cultural ‘backlash’ by groups with declining social status, pointing to stark divisions between urban and rural areas, core and periphery. This paper bridges the economic and values-based approaches to populism by arguing that the geography of wealth inequality offers a convincing explanation for the pattern of populist vote share. Drawing on fine-grained house price data in the UK and France, it is shown that the pattern of house prices ? even within small districts ? plays a major part in shaping support for Brexit and Marine Le Pen. The findings illustrate how longstanding variation in local wealth shapes the geography of discontent and drives populist appeal. Populism, the article concludes, is primarily a politics of place, and place is a product, in part, of the housing market.     

Determinants of voting results in Poland in the 2015 parliamentary elections. Analysis of spatial differences

This paper analyses spatial differences in the voting results in Poland in the 2015 parliamentary elections. Eleven clusters defining different support profiles are determined using the two most popular stopping rules. Parameters of the multinomial logit model are estimated and determinants of Polish communes' membership in specific clusters are identified. The results of the estimation indicate that economic, sociodemographic and location variables strongly determined the Poles' electoral preferences. However, historical and cultural factors turned out to be the most important determinants.