Asset building and livelihood rebuilding in post-disaster Sichuan,China

In May 2008, a severe earthquake struck Sichuan Province, devastating many rural communities. Mudslides followed in 2010, undermining some attempts to rebuild. Despite rapid reconstruction efforts by the Chinese central government, many survivors faced uncertainty and substantial challenges. To support rural survivors' efforts to regain livelihoods and hope, social workers launched several asset-building initiatives in the area. The use of asset building as a strategy to address poverty emerged in the United States in the 1990s and spread to Chinese communities in Taiwan and Hong Kong, but there have been only a few efforts to apply the strategy in rural China. This article discusses the conceptual framework of asset building and details asset-building efforts in disaster-stricken rural communities. The article also documents an evolution in the concept of assets and proposes that the concept should be broadened further to include two additional types of assets: social and cultural.     

Small-Area Estimation of Economic Statistics

A ratio-correlation (multiple regression) approach for estimating key economic statistics for small areas is proposed and compared with several synthetic estimation methods using various measures of performance. Using published data that are easily accessible, the methods provide a means of estimating statistics not currently published with a reasonable amount of error.     

柘荣县生态旅游开发的整体规划与对策

在阐释生态旅游内涵的基础上,分析了福建省柘荣县的生态旅游资源的现状及其优势,提出了柘荣县生态旅游开发的指导思想、整体规划以及生态旅游可持续发展的对策。     

外迁型移民与移民文化融合——丹江口水库之淅川县移民迁置荆门研究

本文主要研究移民与迁居地人民的文化交流与融合情况,用纵向比较法,较深入地分析了丹江口水库淹没区之河南省淅川县移民迁置荆门后,因两地分属不同区域所造成的文化差异,在迁居地曾发生了文化问的相拒、相斥、相容终至相安、相适,继之采益补绌共同发展,并在耕作、饮食、语言、政治、习俗、服饰、娱乐、婚姻诸方面出现了文化上的融合趋势。文章认为,这种融合趋势已成为迁置地长治久安的社会文化保障体系。     

固原市县域经济现状及发展对策研究

固原市土地面积和人口约占宁夏回族自治区的 1/3,而国内生产总值仅占全自治区的 8.79% ,全市 5县 1区均为国定贫困县 ,农业人口占 90 % ,尚处于传统农业阶段。在全面建设小康社会的进程中 ,面临着五个问题和三个难点。本文在分析固原市县域经济现状及面临的问题、困难的基础上 ,提出了该市县域经济发展的五条对策     

试析自然地理环境对民俗事象的影响——以乾隆时期宜川县为例

自然地理环境因素对众多民俗事象产生重要的影响,以宜川民俗事象为例,其起源、发展、演变受其区域自然地理环境包括区域气候、区域水文、区域地貌、区域土壤、区域植被、区域动物等要素的综合影响,形成了其特有的民俗事象.     

Key natural impacting factors of China’s human population distribution

China is a large country with a population of 1.292 billion, accounting for 1/5 of the world population. However, the geographical distribution of population is greatly unbalanced. There are many factors contributing to the unbalanced population distribution, including natural condition, social and economic development, and transportation infrastructure. In this article, we specifically explore how natural factors (resource and geographical factors) influence the population distribution. We use the multiple linear regression to analyze how the county population and prefecture (districts under city administration) population density is influenced by different natural factors. The analysis is conducted at two scales: the national scale and the regional scale (including east region, northeast region, middle region and west region). Our results show that arable land proportion, precipitation, elevation, accumulated temperature (also called Effective Accumulated Temperature (EAT), means the sum of daily temperature for the period of daily mean temperature (Td) above 10°C) and the distance from energy distribution location, the distance from main rivers are the significant factors for all the counties in China. For the prefectures, the significant impacting factors include elevation, arable land proportion and distance from the main rivers. For the east region, elevation and arable land proportion are the significant impacting factors of population distribution. For the northeast region, arable land proportion, precipitation and accumulated temperature are the significant impacting factors. For the middle region, arable land proportion, accumulated temperature, distance from energy distribution location and elevation are the significant impacting factors. For the west region, arable land proportion, precipitation, distance from the main rivers, distance from energy distribution location and accumulated temperature are the significant impacting factors.     

Asian Americans and Mental Health Services

Abstract

Research in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that Asian Americans, compared with other ethnic groups, tended to under-utilize mental health services. This article is aimed at adding new information to the literature by examining data from the 1990s. The raw data comprised 97,212 total admissions representing 45,774 total individuals utilizing mental health services during a four-year period in San Diego County, California. By comparing our findings with previous research cases on utilization patterns of mental health services, new evidence is found about Asian Americans in terms of their (1) underrepresentation in mental health services, (2) presentation of more severe symptoms than those of other racial/ethnic groups when first seen at clinics, (3) lower dropout rates and higher average lengths of stay than other racial/ethnic groups, and (4) higher percentages of using day treatment and outpatient programs but lower percentage of using inpatient programs.     

眉县杨家村器铭历日的难题

眉县杨家村新发现的西周青铜器窖藏,有两组鼎铭记宣王四十二、四十三年历日,但与现代推算的历表有不合之处。如认为铭文本身有误,或有关文献有误,都有困难。由同时的鄀公缄鼎可知,当时颁行的历日曾出现混乱,将来有更多的材料,应可详细了解。     

安县清泉镇“三票制”公推直选乡镇党委班子的调研报告——兼与成都市新都模式和巴中市平昌模式进行比较分析

四川省安县清泉镇在近期开展的公推直选镇党委领导班子成员试点工作中,重点探索了改革传统的领导干部候选人推荐提名方式和领导干部最终人选决定方式,试点工作取得了丰富经验和初步成效。本文将此次试点的主要经验与成都市新都模式和巴中市平昌模式进行了比较和总结,同时也对存在的问题进行了具体分析,并在此基础上提出了一些自己的思考和建议。