Making democracy matter: Responsibility and effective environmental governance in regional Australia

This paper will critically examine the changing social relations of responsibility associated with Australia's current regional ‘experiment’ in environmental governance. This experiment centrally involves the transfer of responsibility for natural resource management (NRM) from Federal and State governments to community-based regional bodies. Although governments are promoting democratic NRM planning at the regional level as a more effective means of addressing Australia's environmental problems, we argue that a tension is emerging in association with the simultaneous pursuit of these goals: ‘effectiveness’ has been defined in terms of the accountability of regional communities to central governments for the achievement of short-term results, an approach which is undermining the democratic promise that regional bodies would be responsive to wider community concerns. The notion of ‘responsibility’ provides a means of investigating this tension, as accountability and responsiveness are both elements of the overarching concept of responsibility. The examination of NRM institutions through this theoretical lens indicates that the shared substantive interests required to motivate a sense of shared responsibility amongst regional actors have been sidelined by the procedural demands of accountability. We argue that, if NRM planning is to be genuinely accountable and responsive to substantive public ends, the properly social and dialogical nature of responsibility relationships must be recovered. The paper concludes with a discussion of the social and political relations of responsibility that appear to provide the best opportunities for effective environmental governance, and thus for the achievement of more sustainable NRM outcomes, at the regional level.     

浅谈现阶段发展农村信息服务业的对策

社会主义新农村建设需要农业信息化。认为发展农村信息服务业不仅仅是解决“三农”问题的手段和条件,而且是新农村建设的重要内容。并根据目前我国农村信息服务业发展现状,分析了农民对信息的需求,提出了为建设社会主义新农村发展农村信息服务业的建议和对策。     

论建立会计教育学

本文结合中等职校会计教育存在的问题,分析了建立会计教育学的必要性、可行性和研究目标,勾画了研究会计教育学理论的基本框架.     

Changing ecological and cultural states and preferences of nature conservation policy: The case of nature values trade in South-Western Finland

We present a rural Finnish case of nature conservation called the nature values trade (NVT) as an example of the process of changing ecological and cultural states and preferences of environmental policy. We emphasise the importance of local ecological and cultural circumstances for the formulation of environmental policy. The study shows how regional actors in nature conservation and forestry were able to combine forest ownership and nature conservation through authentic dialogue, and overcome a nature conservation conflict, brought about by conflicting international biodiversity goals and the cultural preferences of landowners. Later, their ideas were included in the National Biodiversity Programme and implemented as a pilot project by regional actors, which in turn affected the ecological and cultural state of nature conservation. The NVT reflected international and large-scale trends in environmental policy, and opened new opportunities for further developing environmental policy.     

The workflow system and its applications

Recent information technological advances have led to the workflow system that provides an effective technical solution for productivity improvement and business process reengineering. Workflow is a network of activities, also commonly known as a business process, defined for a specific business objective. The fundamental principle of workflow technology is the separation of business process from (software) applications and data. This implies a flexible, adaptable system that can support dynamic business changes. This flexibility, however, is not built upon complexity. Instead, the system should be easily modified for a new business environment. On the other hand, a good workflow system facilitates individual tasks, and collectively the entire business process by providing accurate inputs (data, forms tools) and effective routing control. Workflow technology has a wide range of applications and, when appropriately implemented, can increase productivity, reduce operating costs, improve response to customer requests and shorten the business process cycle. A great opportunity for a company is in evidence to advance its competition edge to a new level through implementation of workflow technology in the next few years. This paper discusses workflow environments, system components, architecture, integrated applications for external program execution, and future trends.     

融合模式下企业信息系统战略规划的组织机制

企业信息系统战略已经成为企业战略能力形成的使能器。尽管信息系统战略规划框架越来越多,但许多信息系统战略规划框架并没有意识到与信息系统相关的问题不仅是技术上的,而是由于忽略了IT/IS与组织环境的相互关系而造成的。此项研究旨在从提高信息系统战略规划效果的角度探索与信息系统战略规划相关的关键组织机制。     

Information criteria in identifying regression models

This paper proposes to use information criteria to discriminate the standard regression model from error components models, heteroskedastic models, or models with autocorrelated errors.     

Selecting IT applications in manufacturing: a KBS approach

The use of the right type of Information Technology (IT) applications or manufacturing systems is expected to usher in a competitive advantage. Selection of the right type of IT application is, however, a challenging task. When a company, with a given dominant process structure, emphasizes two or more competitive priorities, such as quality, product flexibility, etc., an unaided manager faces a complex decision problem in choosing from alternative IT applications available in the areas of product design through distribution. In this paper, we present a Knowledge Based System (KBS) that would assist managers with the identification of IT applications that are consistent with both the competitive priorities and the process structure. Validation of the system illustrates that its performance is consistent with the human experts, and it has the potential to facilitate effective and swift decision-making in the selection of appropriate IT applications that best match an organization's manufacturing strategy.     

教学资源集成化平台的CardSpace认证机制研究

CardSpace是Microsoft公司的一种基于标准的身份认证解决方案,能够让用户对网络上的身份标识进行统一、高效的管理。文章探讨在教学资源管理平台上集成CardSpace的身份认证机制的技术细节。结果表明Web教学资源管理平台在架构上很好的支持了CardSpace的集成,值得在教学资源管理平台上推广。     

行动研究在会计学课程教学中的应用

以提高教学质量为根本,在＂会计学＂课程教学中采用了行动研究的方法。从教学大纲的修订,到体验课和实验课建设、教学方法和手段改革及网络建设等方面进行了具体实践,并取得良好的效果。