低碳经济背景下俄罗斯能源效率问题探析

低碳经济成为21世纪全球经济发展的一个重要趋势,这一趋势对于经济全球化中的各国能源效率提出了严峻挑战。俄罗斯既是能源出口大国,又是能源消耗大国。高耗能在推动俄罗斯经济快速增长的同时,也带来了诸多环境问题。因此,俄罗斯须在复杂的国际和国内政治经济环境中建设性地参与应对气候变化,在节能减排、提高能效和技术创新等方面,做好向低碳经济转型的准备。     

Fiscal Distress in Local Authorities in Israel: the Convened Committee as a Method and a Solution

This study addresses fiscal distress in local authorities in Israel and around the world, and provides an in-depth analysis of the city of Bnei Brak from 1994 to 2003. When the city of Bnei Brak grappled unsuccessfully with fiscal distress, the Ministry of the Interior appointed a Convened Committee (CC; Va'adah Kruah) to handle the crisis. This study explores the methods and solution used by the government to extricate the authority from bankruptcy, while examining the sources and repercussions of this decision. The findings show that the CC solution was borne of necessity, due to the gravity of the financial crisis and the fact that the government had no other way of bailing out the city. However, the situation in Bnei Brak did not improve even after the CC was appointed, which challenges the very efficacy of the solution. This forms the basis for a discussion of the complexities of resolving the fiscal distress of localities in Israel.     

The ‘heart’ of Eurasia? Kazakhstan's centrally located capital city

In a world still dominated by a geopolitical system of territorial states, one tool in the state- and nation-building repertoire is the strategy of moving a capital from one city to another, and to an ostensibly more ‘central’ location of a geometrically conceived territory. From Ankara to Brasília, the technique has been used in a variety of places around the world, and Kazakhstan's new capital since 1997, Astana, is one more recent iteration. Taking a Foucauldian approach to analysing political technologies of government, the author examines the strategy of the centrally located city and considers how it has been instrumental to simultaneously producing a ‘state effect’ and a ‘territory effect’ in newly independent Kazakhstan. Part of a larger mixed-methods study, this article draws on a diverse range of methods, including data from interviews, participant observation, textual analysis, focus groups and a country-wide survey.     

新生代农民工的城市融入困境与法律对策研究

随着我国流动人口数量的逐年递增,新生代农民工在流动人口中占据了相当大的比例。与第一代农民工相比。新生代农民工群体表现出鲜明的时代特征,既受到各方面条件的限制,也面临着现实的发展困境。为了加强对新生代农民工群体的服务与管理,有必要从法律角度提出相应的对策,以期使新生代农民工走出城市融入过程中所面临的困境。     

城市反恐重要目标安全防范试点与研究

“9·11”以来,国际恐怖活动与反恐斗争的较量已经持续了十余年,但以全球化为背景的恐怖主义威胁不仅没有消失,反而持续存在且更加突出.“三股势力”和由于各种原因导致的个体暴力恐怖威胁将成为今后相当长一段时间内影响我国安全与稳定的主要因素.借鉴国内外相关研究和城市反恐试点单位的成功做法,提出如下对策建议：一是建立党政领导,部门参与的反恐防范工作格局;二是加强防范恐怖犯罪公众教育,增强公众的防范意识;三是建立统一高效的情报信息工作机制;四是明确责任,建章立制,夯实基础;五是制定应对预案,通过演练予以巩固完善;六是强化检查考核,促进防范责任和措施落实.     

历史演进与功能定位:北京建设世界城市的战略思考

将处于中国城市领军地位的首都北京建设为独具特色的世界城市,对于首都的发展乃至中国的发展而言意义重大。本文基于历史演进与功能定位的双重视角,分析了伦敦、纽约、东京三大世界城市在形成过程中遵循的普遍规律以及发展过程中各具特色的功能定位,探讨了北京建设世界城市的功能定位,并给出对策建议。     

发展低碳服务业的必要性与对策建议

低碳服务业是随着低碳经济的兴起而产生的,与国内外蓬勃发展的低碳经济实践相比,低碳服务业的概念依然处于初期讨论中。资源节约型、综合效益型与生态安全型是低碳服务业的特点。发展低碳服务业既是实现低碳经济目标的有效途径,更是促进社会经济可持续发展的必然选择。发展低碳服务业应健全规章制度,促进低碳服务业有序发展;加强载体建设,夯实低碳服务业发展基础;加强技术创新,推进传统服务业改造升级。     

Driving South: The globalization of auto consumption and its social organization of space

ABSTRACT

Don Mitchell is one of the most influential contemporary cultural geographers and has long been at the forefront of scholarship on intersections of capital, nature and labor. His work engages the geo-historical processes of landscape co-production and discusses how social, political and labor struggles that formed landscapes have been hidden or erased. Mitchell’s research and work are informed by an urgency to uncover the forces shaping the human–land dialectic. It is difficult not to sense profound urgency at the current political–ecological conjuncture, which is why we turned to Don Mitchell to reflect on his research, intellectual practice and the state of academia and activism today. The first section of the interview centers on Mitchell’s research and the tools and methods he employs in his work. In the second section of the interview, we discuss strategies and tactics in resistance struggles, campus activism and radical scholarship. Infused throughout the interview are the influences that have shaped Mitchell’s unique approach to teaching, research and a critical academic life. We conclude with a section on current academic practice.     

Re-branding without re-developing: constraints of Hong Kong's ‘Asia's World City’ brand (1997–2007)

Abstract

Interest among academics towards Hong Kong's global status has gradually waned since 1997. However, identifying Hong Kong's position on the international platform is essential if the Special Administrative Region's competitiveness is to be distinguished from that of regional rivals. The positioning challenge not only results from the sovereignty retrocession, but also from the rapid pace of globalization and the intensified competition from major cities in the Greater China Region. Instead of focusing on the much-researched topic of the direct competition between Hong Kong and Shanghai or Singapore, an exploration of Hong Kong's hitherto little-researched re-branding experience not only throws light on Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's policy orientation, but is also valuable in understanding how other cities in the region conducted similar exercises. This article reviews the overall evolution of the ‘Asia's World City’ (AWC) discourse as promoted by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region from 1997 to 2007. It starts by reviewing the international identity of post-colonial Hong Kong as background to the discourse, in order to reconstruct various theoretical assumptions that led to the re-branding exercise. The second section examines the purpose and evolution of the AWC campaign, and identifies the problems within the discourse. The concluding section focuses on the unrealized theoretical assumptions and other administrative and ideological constraints that the HKSARG faced in the exercise as a means to explaining the overall limited achievements of the campaign and proposes possible ways to remedy the shortcomings.     

试论对台优势与建设厦门都市型农业

随着厦门经济建设的发展和城市化进程的加快,加速城郊型农业的转型,发展与之相适应的都市农业是厦门农业可持续发展的必然选择。而都市农业的建设有赖于现代物质技术条件的提升,生产技术和装备的投入以及相关设施的兴建等,所有这一切需要积极开辟投资渠道,建立多元化的投资机制。厦门可以借助与台湾农业的合作和交流,通过汲取台湾发展都市农业的经验、引进台湾资金和技术来促进厦门都市农业的建设。