Stigma Happens: Social Problems in the Siting of Nuclear Waste Facilities

The paper by Metz challenges the view that stigma associated with a nuclear waste repository might lead to significant economic losses to the host region. We have been invited to comment on the general issues raised by this paper. We find that much of the evidence presented in the paper consists of factual and conceptual errors and misrepresentations of the research literature. Based on our review of evidence documenting the social and economic impacts of perceived risk, we conclude that stigma is an important phenomenon that is symptomatic of fundamental problems with the way in which nuclear waste facilities are sited.     

Habitat equivalency in urban estuaries: An analytical hierarchy process for planning ecological restoration

Ecosystem restoration is critically important in urbanized landscapes because habitat degradation is severe and ubiquitous in such areas. Because successful restoration requires specification of desired environmental endpoints, a generally applicable method for valuing and comparing possible restoration endpoints is needed. One method available for comparative valuation is the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). AHP allows a suite of alternatives to be valued on a rank scale based on simple, tractable, paired comparisons among all alternatives. Given a sound technical foundation for the paired comparisons, the method yields an objective set of rank values. By incorporating the relative values of various restoration alternatives in a restoration scaling evaluation such as a Habitat Equivalency Analysis (HEA), restoration programs can be designed effectively both qualitatively (in terms of the kinds of resources or habitats desired) and quantitatively (in terms of the amounts or areas of each). In this study, we develop and apply AHP in the context of a specimen HEA for US Mid-Atlantic coast estuaries. By ranking various habitat types as potential restoration targets based on their value for a suite of key natural resources, a series of restoration ratios is produced, relating relative habitat areas of each type needed to offset specific impairment levels. These ratios provide a basic tool for restoration planning in urbanized estuaries, as these comprise nearly entirely built environments with little or no natural habitat. Under these conditions, restoration planners must specify desired states of the ecosystem, and the restoration ratios allow various permutations of presumed post-restoration environments to be valued and compared.     

试析变文对白话小说的影响

白话小说是中国古代文学的一种重要的文学体裁。变文从题材内容、体制特点、文体、语言等诸方面对白话小说产生了决定性影响     

古代少数民族移民对内地的影响

本文论述了少数民族移民对内地政治、军事、经济、文化和习俗的影响。该文认为 ,少数民族移民迁入内地 ,成为一支重要的政治军事力量 ,并改变了某些地区的民族人口构成 ,促进了民族融合。少数民族移民对内地畜牧业、商业的发展 ,对内地汉族文化、饮食习俗也产生了重要的影响。尤其是少数民族移民生产方式变农为牧 ,客观上有利于自然环境的保护。     

流行音乐对青少年的影响及应注意的问题

根据美国心理学家班杜拉的观察学习理论,本文从青少年对流行音乐的心理需求和流行音乐自身特点两个方面,对流行音乐在青少年中占有相当市场进行了原因分析,并对其在青少年中产生的影响进行了客观剖析,向广大传媒及成人社会提出注意的问题,让他们有意识地引导青少年正确面对流行音乐。     

江枫和艾米莉·狄金森诗歌翻译

著名诗歌翻译家江枫1981年在《诗刊》杂志上发表的5首艾米莉·狄金森译诗是中国大陆最早的狄金森汉译文,他1984年出版的《狄金森诗选》是中国第一本狄金森诗歌汉译选本。江枫的译本忠实可靠,与其它译者翻译的狄金森诗歌汉译本相比,再版次数最多,发行量最大,影响最广,对在中国普及狄金森诗歌的贡献也最大。     

Family separation and the impacts on refugee settlement in Australia

In recent years, governments, researchers, non‐government organisations, service providers and international institutions have become increasingly concerned with how to best support the settlement of refugees in UNHCR resettlement nations. Anxieties about the formation of a refugee underclass and the intergenerational impacts of social stratification motivate such inquiries. Settlement is often viewed through either of two lenses; the biomedical frame or the social inclusion frame. These frameworks are complementary rather than exclusive. It is from this combined theoretical perspective that this paper explores the impacts of family separation on the settlement of refugees in Australia. Drawing on focus groups and in‐depth interviews across three refugee background communities in metropolitan Melbourne, the paper finds that family separation has pervasive impacts on the wellbeing of the participants and on their capacity to participate and direct their own futures. Family separation is found to be a barrier to settlement and therefore a crucial consideration for the design and provision of settlement services to people with refugee backgrounds.     

Three Gorges Project: Effects of Resettlement on the Environment in the Reservoir Area and Countermeasures

Environmental problems resulting from human displacement and resettlement are considered to be secondary impacts of hydro projects. There is a significant gap in knowledge concerning the environmental consequences of resettlement of the Three Gorges project (TGP), China. This study examines critical environmental problems associated with the TGP resettlement. It reveals that the contradiction between the land inundation and demand for land in resettling rural residents is a critical environmental issue. On the positive side, countermeasures that are discussed include: engineering works for farmland protection, developing eco-agriculture, reforestation and constructing a green belt in the peripheral zone of the reservoir, and adjustments to resettlement policy.     

红色旅游效应评价体系研究——以南昌为例

在分析红色旅游功能特性及各种旅游效应评价方法的基础上,结合德尔菲法和层次分析法,探讨并初步构建了定性与定量相结合的红色旅游效应评价体系,并选取南昌为调研地,采用调查问卷和访谈的方法,运用SPSS和Yaahp软件,对评价体系进行了实证研究,得到了与南昌红色旅游效应实际情况基本吻合的结果,证明了这一评价体系的科学性和可行性.     

辩证审视改革实践过程对人们思想的影响

中国二十多年来的改革实践促进了社会结构的极大变化,对人们的思想产生了双重影响.正确思想与锚误思想相交织,进步观念与落后观念相影响,形成了较为复杂的精神景观.对此,有必要坚持科学态度,分清主流和支流一方面大力弘扬主旋律,坚定社会主义改革的决心和增强社会主义信念;一方面不回避矛盾,认真对待落后和错误的东西,加强和改进党的思想政治工作.