公众参与环境保护的一种实证研究——基于陕西、广东两省的比较分析

以陕西和广东的公众参与环境保护问卷调查为数据分析的依据,问卷涉及环境知识、环境态度、个人行为参与、环境评价参与和诉讼参与五个方面。数据显示广东省的环保公众参与水平整体高于陕西省,在环境知识和环保态度方面二者差距较小,而在环保参与行为方面差距较大。为此文章提出提升陕西环保公众参与度的对策建议。     

可持续发展的环境伦理观——可持续发展与水资源的永续利用

在环境危机日益严重的情况下提出了环境伦理与可持续发展,它的提出为人类解决环境问题提供了新的思路。鉴于目前水资源面临的严峻考验,从可持续发展环境伦理观的角度对水资源问题,尤其是对我国用水量最大的农业灌溉用水的节水问题进行了讨论,提出了一些降低农业用水量,提高用水率的对策。     

关于图书馆立法的思考

对图书馆的馆藏文献保护无法律法规依据,而图书馆的处罚条款因超越了其管理权限失去规范作用,是文献资源屡遭破坏的重要原因。图书馆事业的健康发展需要图书馆立法,我国法律体系建设为此奠定了坚实基础。图书馆立法条件已经成熟。图书馆立法必将为图书馆的资金来源、人才队伍的稳定、真正实现资源共享提供有利保障。     

论公司取得自己股份的涵义及价值判断

2006年1月1日生效的新《公司法》对公司取得自己股份制度进行了补充和完善,适应了市场经济发展的需要。然而关于公司取得自己股份的涵义,我国学者并没有统一的界定,而且对该项制度的价值也存在着质疑。对这两个问题进行研究的基础上,构建该制度的基本理论依据。     

中国环境史的兴起和学术渊源问题

关于中国环境史的兴起和学术渊源,中国学者已进行了比较系统的分析和总结,并形成了两类典型的叙述.在此基础上,值得进一步考虑的一个重要问题是,如何看待国外环境史的引入以及此前中国学界许多领域所涉及的相关研究对于当前中国环境史学科建构的意义.如果说,国外环境史成果为我们展示了构建环境史学科框架的蓝图,那么,中国学者的相关研究则为我们提供了建设中国环境史学科的基石和砖瓦.迄今,中国环境史学科大厦尚处于设计之中,其建设必将是一项巨大、艰辛的工程.     

夫妻约定财产制的立法研究

为了适应社会主义市场经济的建立和发展以及随之而来的婚姻家庭观念的变迁和财产关系的复杂化,2001年《婚姻法》制定了较为完善的夫妻约定财产制,但这一制度在立法上仍存在缺陷,有待进一步完善。     

简论中国古代的环境伦理思想

中国古代环境伦理思想的哲学基础是天人统一观 ,尊重生命 ,兼爱万物是这一伦理思想的主题。寡欲节用是中国古代珍惜自然资源的传统美德。中国古代就已形成了渗透环境伦理意识的政法理念。不同于西方传统伦理学所奉行的人类中心主义 ,中国先哲主张保持人和自然关系的和谐统一。作为珍贵的文化遗产 ,中国古代环境伦理思想是保证和维护中华民族几千年生存繁衍和中华文明绵延不断的重要因素之一 ,它对现代环境伦理学的发展也具有重大的理论借鉴价值。在当前现代化建设中 ,有分析地借鉴我国古代的环境伦理思想 ,对创建适合我国国情的环境伦理学 ,解决社会可持续发展问题是极有意义的     

Working-class ecology and union politics: a conceptual topology

ABSTRACT

This paper argues that Environmental Labour Studies may benefit from incorporating the perspective of environmental justice. We offer a theorization of working-class ecology as the place where working-class communities live and work, being typically affected by environmental injustice, and of working-class environmentalism as those forms of activism that link labour and environmental struggles around the primacy of reproduction. The paper’s theoretical section draws on a social ethnography of working-class ecology in the case of Taranto, a mono-industrial town in southern Italy, which is experiencing a severe environmental and public-health crisis. We show how environmental justice activism since the early 2000s has allowed the re-framing of union politics along new ways of politicizing the local economy. We conclude by offering a conceptual topology of working-class ecology, which situates different labour organizations (confederal, social/community, and rank-and-file unions) according to their positioning in respect to environmental justice.     

Sustainable supply chain management and the transition towards a circular economy: Evidence and some applications

In the last decades, green and sustainable supply chain management practices have been developed, trying to integrate environmental concerns into organisations by reducing unintended negative consequences on the environment of production and consumption processes. In parallel to this, the circular economy discourse has been propagated in the industrial ecology literature and practice. Circular economy pushes the frontiers of environmental sustainability by emphasising the idea of transforming products in such a way that there are workable relationships between ecological systems and economic growth. Therefore, circular economy is not just concerned with the reduction of the use of the environment as a sink for residuals but rather with the creation of self-sustaining production systems in which materials are used over and over again.Through two case studies from different process industries (chemical and food), this paper compares the performances of traditional and circular production systems across a range of indicators. Direct, indirect and total lifecycle emissions, waste recovered, virgin resources use, as well as carbon maps (which provide a holistic visibility of the entire supply chain) are presented. The paper asserts that an integration of circular economy principles within sustainable supply chain management can provide clear advantages from an environmental point view. Emerging supply chain management challenges and market dynamics are also highlighted and discussed.     

Process evaluation of an environmental walking and healthy eating pilot in small rural worksites

Small Steps are Easier Together (SS) was a pilot environmental intervention in small rural worksites in Upstate New York in collaboration with Extension educators. Worksite leaders teamed with co-workers to select and implement environmental changes to increase walking steps over individual baseline and to choose healthy eating options over 10 weeks. Participants were 226 primarily white, women employees in 5 sites. A mixed methods process evaluation, conducted to identify determinants of intervention effectiveness and to explain differences in outcomes across worksites, included surveys, self-reports of walking and eating, interviews, focus groups, and an intervention log. The evaluation assessed reach, characteristics of recruited participants, dose delivered, dose received, and context and compared sites on walking and eating outcomes. Emergent elements of participant-reported dose received included: active leadership, visible environmental changes, critical mass of participants, public display of accomplishments, accountability to co-workers, and group decision making. Participants at sites with high reach and dose were significantly more likely than sites with low reach and dose to achieve intervention goals. Although this small pilot needs replication, these findings describe how these evaluation methods can be applied and analyzed in an environmental intervention and provide information on trends in the data.