The roads of immanence: infrastructural change in southern Chile

In southern Chile, the building of roads has triggered profound socio-material transformation in indigenous worlds. In this article, we attempt to comprehend and conceptualize the capacities of roads to reconstitute radically a relationally constituted world, a world that is therefore in itself contingent. We suggest that the material alteration of indigenous worlds produce uncertain results, including possibly its own destruction. The arguments raised in this article indicate that the analytical and political problem of ontological self-determination can be advanced once reshaped in infrastructural terms.     

The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database

The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database provides the foundations for new comparative and longitudinal research on the causes behind, and the consequences of, welfare states and social citizenship rights. The SPIN database is oriented towards analyses of institutions as manifested in social policy legislation. To date, SPIN covers 40 countries, of which several have data on core social policy programmes from 1930. There are currently six data modules in SPIN, covering different social policy areas. The following research note describes the theoretical and conceptual basis of the SPIN project, as well as the data it contains.     

交通基础设施与民族地区高质量发展——来自高铁开通的证据

交通基础设施的持续完善,是我国民族地区实现高质量发展的重要基础支撑。以高铁开通作为民族地区交通基础设施改善的准自然实验,结合2004~2018年民族八省区地级城市的经济社会发展数据,采用渐进性双重差分模型,实证检验了交通基础设施对我国民族地区高质量发展的影响,结果显示:民族地区的高铁建设具有选择性,高铁发展阶段、城市规模、以及与规划骨干网的距离均有可能影响所在城市的高铁开通;整体来看,高铁开通对民族地区的高质量发展具有积极影响,且高铁的影响既表现出显著的“节点效应”,又展现了较强的“场所效应”;从影响的异质性看,高铁规模和新建站点对高质量发展的影响会分别随城市财政实力的增强和人口密度的增加而增大,体现出影响的“马太效应”;从影响的动态性看,在高铁开通的第三年,其对城市高质量发展的影响开始变得显著,至第五年累积影响则达到最大,其后快速衰减,显示出高铁影响高质量发展的时滞性和阶段性;从影响的机制看,高铁开通可通过交通改善机制和投资激发机制促进民族地区的高质量发展,且当前投资激发机制所具有的中介作用更大;基于有效挖掘“高铁红利”考量,研究结果蕴含的政策含义包括:进一步加强民族地区的高铁建设;完善高铁站点周边的配套基础设施建设;增强高铁配套设施建设资金的保障力度。     

北京奥运基础设施项目融资模式初探

针对目前北京奥运基础设施建设对资金的迫切需要和项目融资市场的巨大发展潜力,对项目 融资各种模式的优缺点进行分析,分层次探讨北京奥运会基础设施建设可采取的融资方式, 提出相关建议     

对北仑港区经济发展的几点思考

根据宁波市“以港兴市,以市促港”发展战略,提出了北仑港区经济发展总体思路,着重指出港口与城区经济互相促进的纽带是相关产业和设施,并提出了若干意见和建议。     

Sequential Hazards Resilience of Interdependent Infrastructure System: A Case Study of Greater Toronto Area Energy Infrastructure System

Coupled infrastructure systems and complicated multihazards result in a high level of complexity and make it difficult to assess and improve the infrastructure system resilience. With a case study of the Greater Toronto Area energy system (including electric, gas, and oil transmission networks), an approach to analysis of multihazard resilience of an interdependent infrastructure system is presented in the article. Integrating network theory, spatial and numerical analysis methods, the new approach deals with the complicated multihazard relations and complex infrastructure interdependencies as spatiotemporal impacts on infrastructure systems in order to assess the dynamic system resilience. The results confirm that the effects of sequential hazards on resilience of infrastructure (network) are more complicated than the sum of single hazards. The resilience depends on the magnitude of the hazards, their spatiotemporal relationship and dynamic combined impacts, and infrastructure interdependencies. The article presents a comparison between physical and functional resilience of an electric transmission network, and finds functional resilience is always higher than physical resilience. The multiple hazards resilience evaluation approach is applicable to any type of infrastructure and hazard and it can contribute to the improvement of infrastructure planning, design, and maintenance decision making.     

Protest Camps and Repertoires of Contention

Protest camps have become a prominent feature of the post-2010 cycle of social movements and while they have gripped the public and media's imagination, the phenomenon of protest camping is not new. The practice and performance of creating protest camps has a rich history, which has evolved through multiple movements, from Anti-Apartheid to Anti-war. However, until recently, the history of the protest camp as part of the repertoire of social movements and as a site for the evolution of a social movement's repertoire has largely been confined to the histories of individual movements. Consequently, connections between movements, between camps and the significance of the protest camp itself have been overlooked. In this research profile, we argue for the importance of studying protest camps in relation to social movements and the evolution of repertoires noting how protest camps adapt infrastructures and practices from tent cities, festival cultures, squatting communities and land-based autonomous movements. We also acknowledge protest camps as key sites in which a variety of repertoires of contention are developed, tried and tested, diffused or sometimes dismissed. To facilitate the study protest camps we suggest a theory and practice of ‘infrastructural analysis’ and differentiated between four protest camp infrastructures: (1) media & communication, (2) action, (3) governance and (4) re-creation. We then use the infrastructures of media and communications as a brief example as to how our proposed infrastructural analysis can contribute to the study of repertoires and our understanding of the rich dynamics of a protest camp.     

入境游客对我国旅游接待设施评价的因子分析

利用多元统计分析方法中的因子分析方法建立数学模型，分析了入境游客对北京、辽宁、上海、江苏、浙江、海南、四川、云南、陕西、新疆等全国十大旅游热点地区的旅游接待设施（包括宾馆／饭店、餐饮、交通、娱乐、购物场所、游览／参观点的接待和旅游景区厕所等7个部分）的评价情况，为这些地区针对性地完善旅游接待设施，促进旅游业的发展提供借鉴。     

项目管理在农业基础设施建设中的应用研究

随着项目管理理论的不断发展,其应用的领域也越来越广泛,在农业基础设施建设中引入项目管理的概念和方法,可以缩短建设工期,减少建设成本,降低风险和减少失误.但是在当前农业基础设施项目管理中却存在管理机构缺乏、前期准备不足、资金使用不规范等一系列问题.文章在分析农业基础设施项目管理中存在问题的基础上,提出了相应的解决措施.     

农业基础设施投资主体行为分析

农业基础设施建设是农业发展的前提条件,要想发展农业,彻底解决“三农”问题,加大农业基础设施建设投资是关键。农业基础设施与其它基础设施相比,有共同的方面也有不同的特征,在农业基础设施的建设过程中,不同的投资主体的投资行为会有很大的不同。加强农业基础设施建设,需要以不同投资主体的行为特点为基础,采取加大政府预算投入力度、加强政策性金融的投资、有效动员商业金融及农户的投入等措施。