我国国有企业债转股现状分析与对策

债转股是国有企业转机建制的一项新举措 ,在运作中 ,存在一些令人难以解决的问题。我们应在债转股对社会经济主体的影响的基础上 ,提出解决债转股所出现的问题的相应对策。     

试论哈尼族先民的生态观

本文从哈尼族对物种起源及其期盼五谷丰登、人畜平安的观念;寨址的选定;昭示人与自然和谐相处的含义;对生态资源的利用方式等方面,探讨哈尼族的生态观.     

“债转股”风险及法律防范

文章阐述了“债转股”政策对企业和银行的现实意义 ,同时分析了“债转股”过程中不同阶段存在的博弈、逆向选择、法律等各种风险。最后 ,针对性地提出了相应的法律对策。     

Not ‘women's burden’: how washing clothes and grinding corn became issues of social justice and development

Women's heavy and unequal responsibilities for care, long considered ordinary or insignificant by development workers as well as the wider public, are being reframed as issues of social justice through new methodologies for communities to analyse care work and advocate for change. Oxfam and local partners in the Philippines, Honduras, and Bangladesh are piloting two approaches. The first, Rapid Care-Analysis, uses focus groups to assess the local provision of care, identify problems, and propose solutions, reframing care as a compelling issue for both women and men. The second, the Household Care Survey, can be used to gather evidence to persuade governments and aid donors to invest in infrastructure to lessen the practical load of care work. This article shares the experience so far of evolving and piloting these innovative methods.     

Climate,agriculture, and hunger: statistical prediction of undernourishment using nonlinear regression and data-mining techniques

An estimated 1 billion people suffer from hunger worldwide, and climate change, urbanization, and globalization have the potential to exacerbate this situation. Improved models for predicting food security are needed to understand these impacts and design interventions. However, food insecurity is the result of complex interactions between physical and socio-economic factors that can overwhelm linear regression models. More sophisticated data-mining approaches could provide an effective way to model these relationships and accurately predict food insecure situations. In this paper, we compare multiple regression and data-mining methods in their ability to predict the percent of a country's population that suffers from undernourishment using widely available predictor variables related to socio-economic settings, agricultural production and trade, and climate conditions. Averaging predictions from multiple models results in the lowest predictive error and provides an accurate method to predict undernourishment levels. Partial dependence plots are used to evaluate covariate influence and demonstrate the relationship between food insecurity and climatic and socio-economic variables. By providing insights into these relationships and a mechanism for predicting undernourishment using readily available data, statistical models like those developed here could be a useful tool for those tasked with understanding and addressing food insecurity.     

减少砍伐和退化所致排放量（REDD＋）机制国内外研究新进展

减少砍伐和退化所致排放量（简称REDD＋）机制作为目前最可行的减排措施，可帮助中国以较低成本减少碳排放。对于REDD＋的研究，学者们主要沿着四条线索展开：一是评估REDD＋对于减缓气候变化的影响，二是研究激励机制对毁林行为的影响以及REDD＋对毁林行为的影响机制，三是分别从环境服务付费机制和原住民利益保护的视角研究REDD＋实施过程中的权力平等性问题，四是研究REDD＋的政策效果评估和实施策略。未来，应深化评估REDD＋对中国减缓气候变化影响的研究，分析REDD＋实施后所产生的毁林行为减缓效应背后的传导路径，研究定量评估方法，考察REDD＋权利平等性和REDD＋的政策实施效果。     

Going Green: Environmental Protest,Policy, and CO2 Emissions in U.S. States, 1990–2007

A major goal of the environmental movement is to conserve or improve the natural environment, but evidence showing that environmental mobilization produces positive environmental outcomes is mixed. This article addresses a fundamental question about the relative impact of pro‐environmental mobilization and the scope of an environmental policy regime on the natural environment. Using panel data at the state level from 1990 through 2007, we explore how environmental protest and environmental policies independently (or jointly) reduce CO₂ emissions in U.S. states. We find that the level of emissions in a state declines in states with increases in pro‐environmental protest, net of the effects of the range of environmental policies enacted, gasoline taxes, liberal attitudes, reliance on the fossil fuel industry, number of registered lobbyist organizations, gross state product, and population size.     

Tail density estimation for exploratory data analysis using kernel methods

It is often critical to accurately model the upper tail behaviour of a random process. Nonparametric density estimation methods are commonly implemented as exploratory data analysis techniques for this purpose and can avoid model specification biases implied by using parametric estimators. In particular, kernel-based estimators place minimal assumptions on the data, and provide improved visualisation over scatterplots and histograms. However kernel density estimators can perform poorly when estimating tail behaviour above a threshold, and can over-emphasise bumps in the density for heavy tailed data. We develop a transformation kernel density estimator which is able to handle heavy tailed and bounded data, and is robust to threshold choice. We derive closed form expressions for its asymptotic bias and variance, which demonstrate its good performance in the tail region. Finite sample performance is illustrated in numerical studies, and in an expanded analysis of the performance of global climate models.     

The Experience of Using Poverty Alleviation with Characteristic Industries in the Region of the Panzhihua-Xichang-Taking Miyi County of Panzhihua as a Case Study

Miyi county lies along the southeast edge of Qinghai - Tibetan plateau. It is in the southwest corner of Sichuan province,to the north￣east of Panzhihua,and lies at the intersection of the Yalong River...     

Indigenous mobility traditions,colonialism, and the anthropocene

ABSTRACT

The anthropocene is often discussed as an era of ‘new’ environmental changes that require unprecedented forms of societal adaptation, one example being climate-induced resettlement. Yet discussions of the anthropocene can also be better contextualized in terms of their featuring certain phenomena as ‘new’ that are really much more longstanding phenomena. For example, many Indigenous peoples have ancient traditions of environmental ‘mobility.’ This essay reviews some of the history of Indigenous philosophies, especially Anishinaabe, of mobility, migration, and resettlement. Often these philosophies focus on fluid and transformative relationships as constituting the fabric of resilient societies. Indigenous traditions of mobility are critically relevant for climate justice. They put into relief how colonial power can operate as a containment strategy that works to curtail mobility. In this way, looking at Indigenous mobility in the anthropocene involves unraveling layers of colonialism where containment has been widely imposed. This claim can be used to signal some of the dangers of centering the causal role of climate change in certain cases societal movement. To further support our claims, the essay concludes with a brief analysis of some of the literature and testimonies on resettlement in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska.