Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment: Information Tools for Community Adaptation to Changes in Climate or Land Use

To inform local and regional decisions about protecting short-term and long-term quality of life, the Consortium for Atlantic Regional Assessment (CARA) provides data and tools (for the northeastern United States) that can help decision makers understand how outcomes of their decisions could be affected by potential changes in both climate and land use. On an interactive, user-friendly website, CARA has amassed data on climate (historical records and future projections for seven global climate models), land cover, and socioeconomic and environmental variables, along with tools to help decision makers tailor the data for their own decision types and locations. CARA Advisory Council stakeholders help identify what information and tools stakeholders would find most useful and how to present these; they also provide in-depth feedback for subregion case studies. General lessons include: (1) decision makers want detailed local projections for periods short enough to account for extreme events, in contrast to the broader spatial and temporal observations and projections that are available or consistent at a regional level; (2) stakeholders will not use such a website unless it is visually appealing and easy to find the information they want; (3) some stakeholders need background while others want to go immediately to data, and some want maps while others want text or tables. This article also compares what has been learned across case studies of Cape May County, New Jersey, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and Hampton Roads, Virginia, relating specifically to sea-level rise. Lessons include: (1) groups can be affected differently by physical dangers compared with economic dangers; (2) decisions will differ according to decision makers' preferences about waiting and risk tolerance; (3) future scenarios and maps can help assess the impacts of dangers to emergency evacuation routes, homes, and infrastructure, and the natural environment; (4) residents' and decision makers' perceptions are affected by information about potential local impacts from global climate change.     

转型时期中国城市社区经济类型、特征及发展

改革开放以来，适应经济社会的转型与变迁，中国城市社区经济逐渐兴起并在城市社区生活中日益发 挥着越来越重要的作用，类型多样、特点鲜明的城市社区经济不仅为社区建设与发展提供了强大的物质经济支持，而且 吸纳了大量的城市社区富余劳动力，从而有利于增强社区凝聚力，提高了社区整合程度，促进整个社会的和谐发展。为 此，一方面我们要切实转变思想、更新观念，实现传统社区经济向现代社区经济的转变，另一方面因地制宜，结合实际，不 断创新发展社区经济思路与模式，切实提高社区居民生活水平，同时，提高管理水平，积极推进社区经济发展。     

First Nations and community economic development: a case study

A training project in a northern Canadian community providedan opportunity to examine participatory planning approachesand the meaning of work in First Nations communities. Focusgroups conducted three years after the unsuccessful interventionof a community economic development (CED) project suggest thatcomplex factors such as lack of support from community leadersand rate of pay for workers determine whether CED is alwaysappropriate in northern, First Nations contexts.     

区域经济理论与青海经济协调发展

区域经济理论是一种新兴的经济理论,它通过区域经济的协调发展推动整个经济的腾飞,缩小地区间的发展差异,达到共同富裕的目标。文章以区域经济理论为指导,对青海经济的发展问题作了阐释,并提出了具体的对策。     

重视社区体育提高生活质量--无锡市社区体育现状的调查及研究

通过广泛的社会调查,笔者对无锡市社区体育现状进行了分析研究,证实了社区体育在提高现代生活质量中所起的重要作用以及在发展过程中所存在的问题,并提出了建议对策。     

我国城市家庭养老与社区养老服务

养老是解决中国老龄问题的基础和核心问题。在我国城市,家庭养老仍然是目前主要的养老形式。但在今天,家庭养老面临挑战,家庭养老功能减弱,急需发挥社会养老的功能,其中,社区养老服务是社会养老的重要载体。加强社区在老年人的经济支持、生活照顾和精神慰藉方面的养老功能,既可保持家庭养老的传统和优点,又能弥补家庭养老不足。     

和谐社会的中小企业会计信息披露制度探讨

中小企业在我国国民经济中具有重要的地位和作用,它是国民经济健康协调发展的重要基础,是社会和谐、稳定的重要保证。规范中小企业会计信息披露行为和完善其制度建设,对于构建和谐社会具有重要的现实意义。文章试图从和谐社会的角度来探讨如何规范中小企业的会计信息披露制度。     

论科学协作精神在现代科学发展中的功能

科学本质上是科学共同体的产物。科学中的协作精神不仅是科学精神的重要内涵,而且也是衡量科学家素质的重要参数。在科学日益向高度综合化、整体化、社会化(包括国际化)发展的态势下,协作研究、团结攻关已成为科学研究活动的主导形式。因此,加强科学协作对科学创新具有十分重要的意义。     

改革、发展与社会和谐问题的产生

构建社会主义和谐社会是党的十六大和十六届三中全会、四中全会提出的重大任务,适应了我国改革发展进入关键时期的客观要求,体现了广大人民群众的根本利益和共同愿望。构建和谐社会,必须联系中国改革发展的实际,探索和谐问题产生的根源。     

高校社会捐赠与构建和谐社会

社会利益结构是和谐社会构建的基础,高校社会捐赠属于公益捐赠,是捐赠者的一种经济社会行为。从分析社会利益结构的发展变化出发,运用经济社会学的基本原理,分析认为高校社会捐赠对于构建和谐社会具有重要意义,针对我国高校社会捐赠事业发展的现状,提出了对策和建议。