关于建立地方政府国土资源保护利用考核评价指标体系的思考

国土资源是经济社会发展的载体,是工业生产的主要原料和动力,它关系着国计民生.国土资源的稀缺性和大多不可再生性迫切要求坚持在保护中开发、在开发中保护,切实落实地方政府的国土资源保护与开发利用责任制,以保障和促进科学发展.     

广安——厚重的热土

小平故里广安,近年来在国土资源管理工作中稳定潮头,亮点频现,市国土资源管理部门按照“发展、创新、稳定、为民”的总要求,以保护资源为第一原则,以促进发展为第一要务,以维护广大人民群众利益为第一标准,围绕省政府下达的国土资源资源管理责任目标,抢抓机遇,开拓创新,攻坚克难,各项工作取得了新的突出成效。耕地保护成效显著将耕地保护作为国土资源管理工作的重中之重和首要任务来抓,一方面,严格落实耕地保护的各项措施,严厉查处破坏和滥占耕地的违法行为,狠抓土地开发整理工作;另一方面,又服务和服从于地方经济建设大局,为经济发展和重点工程建设提供     

资阳市以卫片执法为抓手切实强化执法监察

资阳市委、市政府和市国土资源局高度重视国土资源管理工作,认真总结2009年度、2010年度卫片执法和简阳市例行督察经验教训,坚决贯彻落实国土资源管理法律法规和政策,有力推动了全市国土资源管理事业的全面发展,国土资源管理秩序初步实现由乱到治的转变. 一、领导重视是关键,规范管理是根本 (一)加强学习,提高认识. 2012年初,资阳市举行市委中心组学习(扩大)会议,特邀国家土地督察成都局常嘉兴局长作了国土资源管理专题辅导报告;市委书记李佳主持会议并作重要讲话,要求围绕全市发展大局,依法依规加强国土资源管理,确保全市社会经济科学发展、可持续发展.2012年6月,市政府在市委党校举办为期3天的领导干部培训班,各县(市、区)政府分管领导、市级相关部门主要领导、市县(市、区)工业发展集中区管委会负责人、全市国土资源系统科级以上干部参加培训,市长邓全忠亲自上了第一课,提出了要求.通过学习培训,切实增强了市县领导干部依法管理国土资源意识,提高了各级国土资源管理干部依法行政和创新工作的能力.     

《国土资源“十二五”规划纲要》印发

日前,国土资源部正式印发《国土资源"十二五"规划纲要》,确定了未来五年国土资源管理的总体目标。《纲要》指出,"十二五"期间国土资源管理工作的指导思想为:围绕科学发展主题和加快转变经济发展方式主线,落实资源节约优先战略,实施总量控制、供需双向调节、差别化管理,坚持积极主动服务、严格规范管理,统筹保障发展、保护资源,不断深化改革、开拓创新,构建保障和促进科学发展新机制,以加快资源利用方式转变促进经济发展方式转变,进一步提高国土资源保障能力和保护水平,促进经济社会全面协调可持续发展。《纲要》确立了国土资源"十二     

国土部26项政策助力西部大开发加大土地政策支持力度推进优势矿产开发利用

为进一步加快资源优势转化为发展优势,发挥国土资源对推动西部地区经济社会又好又快发展的保障和促进作用,国土资源部日前印发<关于贯彻落实〈中共中央国务院关于深入实施西部大开发战略的若干意见〉的意见>,从加强国土资源调查评价、加大土地政策支持力度、强化耕地保护和节约集约用地、推进优势矿产资源开发利用、加强地质灾害防治和地质环境保护、加快构建符合西部实际的国土资源管理新机制六方面,出台26条支持政策,为新一轮西部大开发保驾护航.     

乘势而上改革创新努力开拓国土资源管理事业的新局面——在全省国土资源管理工作会议上的报告

二、2013年全省国土资源管理主要工作 2013年是全面深入贯彻落实党的十八大精神的开局之年,是为我省全面建成小康社会奠定坚实基础的重要一年.全省国土资源管理工作的总体要求是全面贯彻落实党的十八大、省第十次党代会、省委经济工作会议和部省国土资源管理工作会议精神,紧紧围绕主题主线,牢牢把握全省"科学发展、加快发展"的工作基调,以"保障加快发展、从严保护资源、倾情服务民生、促进生态文明"为导向,以"保发展、守红线、重生态、促节约、惠民生、抓改革、严管理"为抓手,务实创新,开拓进取,为我省全面建成小康社会做出新的更大的贡献.     

国土资源信息化建设的进展情况及存在问题——以广安市为例

国土资源信息化是国家信息化的重要组成部分,在社会经济发展中起到基础性、公益性和战略性作用,是实现国土资源管理方式根本转变和国土资源工作现代化及政务公开的重要途经,是保障国家对土地、矿产、地质等资源的监测、监管,提高国土资源开发利用水平的战略举措。近年来,广安市国土资源局面对信息科技发展日新月异的新形势,积极适应国土资源现代化管理要求,狠     

撑起一方蓝天河南省焦作市高新区国土协管员队伍建设纪实

2009年3月,河南省焦作市高新区国土资源分局从需要出发,建队伍,强素质,重管理,严考核,建立了一支适应当前国土资源形势要求的村级国土资源协管员队伍.经过一年的任用和管理,这支队伍已经成为高新区国土资源局的重要组成部分.他们在政策宣传、协助管理、信息收集等作用得到了充分发挥,目前已经成为国土资源管理部门的好帮手.     

《国土资源“十二五”规划纲要》印发

日前,国土资源部正式印发《国土资源"十二五"规划纲要》,确定了未来五年国土资源管理的总体目标。《纲要》指出,"十二五"期间国土资源管理工作的指导思想为:围绕科学发展主题和加快转变经济发展方式主线,落实资源节约优先战略,实施总量控制、供需双向调节、差别化管理,坚持积极主动服务、严格规范管理,统筹保障发展、保护资源,不断深化改革、开拓创新,构建保障和促进科学发展新机制,以加快资源利用方式转变促进经济发展方式转变,进一步提高国土资源保障能力和保护水平,     

对村级国土协管员队伍建设的探讨

"为政之要,惟在用人".农村是土地管理的难点和热点,从农村土地管理特点上看,建立村级国土协管员队伍是农民自我保护耕地的有益探索,也是基层国土资源管理的重要辅助力量. 一、加强村级国土协管队伍建设是加强基层国土资源管理的有益尝试     

Back and Forth and Beyond

The Journal invited Tom Andersen, author of major pioneering work on the reflecting team, and his colleagues, to offer comment on The Reflecting Team Process in Training. We thought such a north-south dialogue was in keeping with the spirit of reflecting teams, and the team members in Melbourne and Tromsø agree — Editor.     

Time and aging--mechanisms and meanings

A recent European Molecular Biology Laboratory Conference on Science and Society entitled "Time & Aging--Mechanisms & Meanings" fascinated scientists from different research areas as well as nonscientists. Topics discussed included not only the biological aging process but also the psychological effects of aging and social influences that affect this process.     

Arts and Crafts and Reconstruction

Abstract

This paper examines the role of arts and crafts in reconstructing communities after times of upheaval, their use in creating employment opportunities, and their impact on the nature of South African art history. It looks at craft initiatives during and after the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, and draws parallels with early twentieth-century initiatives, particularly those of Florence Phillips, who founded the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 1910, Emily Hobhouse, who established Boer home industries, and the South African National Union, which promoted the manufacture and use of local products.     

Sexual Compulsivity and Sexual Behaviors Among Gay and Bisexual Men and Lesbian and Bisexual Women

Within the existing body of research, the information pertaining to sexual compulsivity (SC) among women, both homo- and heterosexual, remains rather limited in comparison to men. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of SC in a community sample of gay and bisexual men and lesbian and bisexual women and to identify differences in sexual practices based on classification as sexually compulsive within gender. Supporting previous research, the findings indicated that gay and bisexual men were significantly higher in SC when compared to lesbian and bisexual women. Similarly, sexually compulsive gay and bisexual men were more likely to report drug use with sex than their non-sexually compulsive peers, suggesting that “party n' play” may play a larger role for men with SC. In addition, the findings demonstrated empirical support for the proposition that lesbian and bisexual women with symptoms of SC were more likely to engage in specialized sexual behaviors in comparison to their non-sexually compulsive peers. These data suggest that SC manifests differently in gay, lesbian, and bisexual men and women.     

Evening and night work schedules and children's social and emotional well-being

ABSTRACT

An emerging body of evidence shows that parents’ non-standard work schedules have a detrimental effect on children's well-being. However, only a limited number of studies have investigated mediating factors that underpin this association. Likewise, only a few studies have examined the impact of fathers’ non-standard work schedules on children's well-being. Based on data from the Families in Germany Study (FiD), this study aimed to address these research gaps. The sample consists of parents and their children at ages 7–8 and 9–10 (n?=?838 child observations in dual-earner families). The data were collected in the years 2010–2013. Non-standard work hours were defined as working in evenings and or at night (every day, several times a week, or changing as shifts). Children's social and emotional well-being was measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). The findings show that both mothers’ and fathers’ evening and night work schedules are linked to an increase in children's externalizing and internalizing behavior and that this association is partially mediated by mothers’ and fathers’ harsh and strict parenting, with a stronger mediation effect for fathers parenting.     

History and the here and now

This paper explores the lesser-known histories and present-day realities of small towns and non-metropolitan areas in the internal provinces of South Africa. It is different inasmuch as it focuses on transformations that have taken place at the local level, and where possible, generalises from these, rather than following the normal route taken by social scientists – at least from 1994, which has been to examine them from the top down. One feature of such changes has been the growth of gated communicates across the length and breadth of South Africa, but there are many more. One reason for their anonymity is that their evolution has been gradual and corpuscular, that they have become unconsciously familiar and are left unexamined. Another is our collective preoccupation with the metropolitan areas rather than the smaller localities where such processes are subterranean and confined. This paper presents very briefly some of the results of the researchers of the Local Histories and Present Realities programme over the past five years, in 19 separate centres. It examines the history and present circumstance of chiefdoms of Ga-Mphahlele and reveals the surprise finding that much of recent and contemporary politics revolve around events 200 years old. An analogous situation has arisen in Venda as well as in Mpumalanga and elsewhere, where a combination of new legislation to revive chiefly powers, and land reclamation legislation have lent a new legitimacy to chiefly powers, and inspired hundreds of phantom – and time-consuming – quests. Another massive development which has gone on around us but whose internal dynamics have never been observed is the rise of game hunting and ranching all over the interior of South Africa. This is a monster subject which is likely to have influence on all of our lives into which our group is now in a position to offer insights. A change of equal proportions is the rise of mining all over the interior Bushveld Igneous Complex – Mokopane is a good example of this and the huge social consequences this has brought in its wake. One final theme which embraces all the communities that we have studied is the local histories of transformation – collectively the most important – since 1994. This is almost entirely hidden to a wider world, including the transformed positions of local Indian residents.     

Thinking and Speech and Protocol Analysis

Some form of verbal report—that is, a research participant' s concurrent or retrospective verbal account of thought processes during problem-solving activities—has been used throughout this century as the database from which psychologists have developed theories of human mentation. Newell and Simon (1972) and Ericsson and Simon (1980, 1993) have provided extensive justification for using one such method, protocol analysis, as a tool for investigating cognition from an information-processing (IP) perspective. Their arguments have characterized protocol analysis as a methodology capable of providing evidence of the ways in which people attend to information stored in short-term memory to solve problems, with the evidence providing them with the grounds from which to generate models of human cognitive processes. A different view of protocol analysis is available from the perspective of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) based on the work of Vygotsky (1987), Leont'ev (1981), and others, and its concern with the mediation of human development by culturally and historically grounded signs and tools. Because of its emphasis on culturally channeled development, a CHAT perspective views speech, including the speech that serves as evidence for cognition in psychological research, as a tool that potentially enables changes in consciousness. In this article I outline a CHAT perspective that accounts for protocol analysis along three key dimensions: (a) the relation between thinking and speech from a representational standpoint, (b) the social role of speech in research methodology, and (c) the influence of speech on thinking during data collection. The purpose of this discussion is not to refute the IP perspective on protocol analysis but to illustrate how this method can be viewed through a CHAT lens and to identify alternative assumptions that must be made to use it from a CHAT perspective.