Political economy,poverty, and polycentrism in the Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) for Climate Change Adaptation

Climate change adaptation refers to altering infrastructure, institutions or ecosystems to respond to the impacts of climate change. Least developed countries often lack the requisite capacity to implement adaptation projects. The Global Environment Facility’s Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) is a scheme where industrialised countries have disbursed $934.5 million in voluntary contributions to support 213 adaptation projects across 51 least developed countries. But how effective are its efforts—and what sort of challenges have arisen as it implements projects? To provide some answers, this article documents the presence of four “political economy” attributes of adaptation projects—processes we have termed enclosure, exclusion, encroachment and entrenchment—cutting across economic, political, ecological and social dimensions. Based on extensive field research, we find the four processes at work simultaneously in our case studies of five LDCF projects being implemented in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, the Maldives and Vanuatu. The article concludes with a discussion of the broader implications of the political economy of adaptation for analysts, program managers and climate researchers at large. In sum, the politics of adaptation must be taken into account so that projects can maximise their efficacy and avoid marginalising those most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.     

成本转嫁与养老保险的脆弱性

与养老保险相关的成本转嫁可以分为三个方面:(1)社会保险领域之外向养老保险领域的成本转嫁;(2)社会保险内部转嫁;(3)养老保险内部成本转嫁。不断指向养老保险的成本转嫁增加了养老保险的支付风险和脆弱性,严重威胁到我国养老保险的可持续性。本文从地方政府、企业和员工等利益主体的理性行为入手,基于养老保险的俱乐部产品性质,分析地区、代际间以及部门间的养老成本转嫁,进而提出恢复养老保险制度的独立性以及建立养老保险基金收支平衡的评估体系等建议。     

University students’ support to penalty enhancement for hate crime

Laws enabling penalty enhancement for crimes motivated by hostility or prejudice, i.e. hate crimes, have become common in many countries. However, laws as a measure against hate crimes have been contested, because their deterrent effect has gained none or little support in the (limited) literature, and they may be considered symbolic rather than deterrent. This study investigates attitudes towards penalty enhancement for hate crimes. Previous empirical investigations of this question are scarce. The material consists of a survey targeting nearly 3000 Swedish university students. Support for penalty enhancement for hate crime was moderate, shown by one third of the total sample. Results supported the premise that students belonging to a minority group, assumed to be at risk of hate crime victimization, agree to a higher extent of penalty enhancement than students belonging to the majority. Previous victimization experiences and worrying about being victimized were not significantly related to punitive attitudes. However, respondents who perceived the risk of victimization to be increased for minority groups in general were more likely to support penalty enhancement for hate crime. Findings should be confirmed in a nationally representative sample since the public’s perspective on the criminal justice system is important for understanding and dealing with the social problem of hate crime.     

以区域合作应对东亚金融风险

金融危机暴露出亚洲金融脆弱性：经济基本面未脱钩、私人资本主体区外流动、外汇储备管理陷入困境、汇率制度选择依赖美元、区域货币基金缺乏、金融市场欠发达。为应对上述金融风险,东亚国家需要加强区域金融合作。     

Target congruence theory and Latino youth victimization

While a number of studies have found that immigrant youth are less likely to engage in delinquency, they are more likely to report victimization. Scholars have traditionally attributed this finding to American cultural norms that may generate marginalization and culture conflict that, in return, increases the likelihood of victimization. However, few studies have applied victimization theories to this study population. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to apply Target Congruence Theory to test its capability to explain victimization among Latino youth. Data collected from the Dating Violence Among Latino Adolescents (DAVILA) Study shows that a target’s vulnerability, gratifiability, and antagonism modestly predicted their victimization. Results, as well as the study’s limitations and suggestions for future research, are discussed.     

‘Vulnerable by law (but not by nature)’: examining perceptions of youth and childhood ‘vulnerability’ in the context of police custody

This paper, drawing upon qualitative data produced through interviews with custody officers (COs) at two custody suites in England, examines how the vulnerability of children and young people is conceptualised generally, within the criminal process, and then, more specifically, in police custody. It uses the appropriate adult (AA) safeguard under Code C to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 as the point of reference and explores, firstly, how childhood is conceptualised and, secondly, how childhood vulnerability is understood by COs. The responses of COs are perhaps indicative of a wider issue within the criminal process – the construction of youth and childhood and, accordingly, the criminal law response to children and young people. Within this paper, whilst it is accepted that childhood and vulnerability are non-static concepts, it is nevertheless contended that children and young people are vulnerable, particularly when facing the criminal process.     

基于“脆弱性-能力”综合视角的公共安全评价框架:形成与范式

国际社会的公共安全评估框架在不断发展之中,从单独的脆弱性视角或能力视角进行公共安全评价,到形成较为完善的公共安全评价的脆弱性-能力综合视角,大体经历了三个过程。本文阐述了在脆弱性-能力综合视角下的公共安全评价主要研究内容,以及该评价框架的范式与应用。脆弱性-能力综合视角的评价框架研究,把质性研究与定量方法相结合,从脆弱性和应对能力综合的视角出发,通过引入系统动力学,提出了一种公共安全与公共危机管理动态评价的新思路,构建了一个公共安全与公共危机管理的动态评价和识别框架,为公共安全评价工具和方法提供新的视角和前提。     

Reconciliation Arguments in John Rawls’s Political Philosophy

Abstract

Recently debates about the worth of “ideal theory” have directed attention to the functions that an account of a perfectly just society can serve. One function is that of “reconciliation”: learning that a seemingly undesirable feature of the social world would exist even in the perfectly just society can show us the value that it has in the present as well. John Rawls has emphasized reconciliation as among the roles of political philosophy. For instance, Rawls claims that his theory of justice can reconcile us to the pluralism of liberal democracies. In this essay, I argue that Rawls’s political theory also can reconcile the inhabitants of liberal democratic societies to the fact that such societies may be cognitively confusing on account of their complexity. Then I contend that Rawls’s work offers valuable theoretical resources for analysing a society’s transparency or lack thereof.     

Analysis of the Spectre of Urban Density From the Perspective of Compactness of Forms A Response to a New Urban Vulnerability

The concepts of ＂density＂ and ＂urban morphology＂ are today at the centre of debates on architecture and urban planning. The concept of＂density＂ provides a solution to the issue of urban sprawl and, consequently, offers a way of rethinking sustainable urban and rural development. The densification of urban centres makes it possible to reduce a vulnerability related to the excessive use of suburban areas. However, densification is not a ＂turnkey＂ solution. Numerous criteria relating to its use are poorly understood. As numerous contemporary experiences have demonstrated, urban densification exposes space systems to new, unknown forms of vulnerability. First, the concept of ＂vulnerability＂ will be defined, specifically that of urban vulnerability, as well as related concepts, such as those of risk, hazard, and challenges. Secondly, forms of vulnerability inherent in the over-densification paradigm are pinpointed： This will involve determining the specific hazards, challenges, and risks of this space system. Thirdly, the authors will demonstrate how the concept of ＂compactness＂ makes it possible to review at the different urban levels the densification processes of territories and urban areas. Finally, a tool for the optimisation of compact urban morphologies for use in countering the related hazards and risks will be proposed.     

黄连解毒汤对ApoE-/-小鼠动脉粥样硬化炎症及主动脉斑块稳定性作用的机制研究

目的 观察黄连解毒汤对ApoE-/-小鼠主动脉粥样硬化炎症及斑块稳定性的影响,探讨黄连解毒汤治疗主动脉斑块稳定性的作用机制。方法 将36只ApoE-/-小鼠随机分为空白组,模型组,黄连解毒汤低、中、高剂量组,阿托伐他汀组,每组6只。模型组及给药组ApoE-/-小鼠给予高脂饮食构建主动脉粥样硬化模型8周后,黄连解毒汤低、中、高剂量组小鼠分别按10、20、40 g/（kg·d）剂量给予黄连解毒汤;阿托伐他汀组小鼠按10 mg/（kg·d）剂量给予阿托伐他汀;空白组、模型组给予等量的蒸馏水。每日灌胃1次,共8周。第16周末采集标本,采用苏木精—伊红染色观察各组小鼠主动脉内膜的组织形态;半自动生化分析仪检测各组小鼠血清总胆固醇（total cholesterol,TC）、三酰甘油（triglyceride,TG）、低密度脂蛋白—胆固醇（low density lipoprotein-cholesterol,LDL-C）及高密度脂蛋白—胆固醇（high density lipoprotein-cholesterol,HDL-C）水平;采用ELISA法检测各组白细胞介素-1β（interleukin-1β,IL-1β）、白细胞介素-6（interleukin-6,IL-6）、肿瘤坏死因子-α（tumor necrosis factor-α,TNF-α）、白细胞介素-10（interleukin-10,IL-10）含量;组织学特殊病理染色技术测定斑块内巨噬细胞含量、α-平滑肌肌动蛋白（α-smooth muscle actin,α-SMA）细胞含量、斑块内胶原纤维含量及斑块内脂质含量,从而计算斑块不稳定指数（vulnerability index,VI）。结果 黄连解毒汤能明显改善小鼠主动脉管壁的病理变化。与空白组比较,模型组小鼠血清TC、TG、LDL-C水平均显著上升（P＜0.05）,HDL-C水平显著下降（P＜0.05）;IL-1β、IL-6、TNF-α含量均显著增加（P＜0.05）,IL-10含量显著减少（P＜0.05）;VI显著增加（P＜0.05）。与模型组比较,黄连解毒汤中、高剂量组小鼠血清TG、TC、LDL-C水平均显著下降（P＜0.05）,HDL-C水平显著上升（P＜0.05）;IL-1β、IL-6、TNF-α含量均显著减少（P＜0.05）,IL-10含量显著增加（P＜0.05）;各给药组小鼠主动脉内膜斑块VI均显著减少（P＜0.05）。黄连解毒汤高剂量组改善上述指标的效果与阿托伐他汀组相当（P＞0.05）。结论 黄连解毒汤对动脉粥样硬化ApoE-/-小鼠主动脉血管内炎症反应及斑块稳定性具有一定的改善作用,且呈剂量依赖性,其机制可能与降低血脂水平、缓解炎症损伤有关。