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。     

我国高校信息化建设发展路径探析

高校信息化建设是教育改革发展的助推器,也是实现教育跨越式发展的重要手段和途径之一。信息技术引发的社会变革对高等教育的教学与管理观念、模式、手段、工具等方面产生冲击。通过对我国高校信息化建设现状及问题的剖析,探讨高校信息化建设的发展趋势,进而从领导重视、正确认识、开发资源、建设队伍等方面提出对策与建议,说明加强高校信息化建设的重要性和紧迫性。     

BOT项目公司固定资产折旧会计方法选择分析

通过对我国运用BOT模式的分析,以路（桥）类固定资产为例,探讨了BOT项目公司固定资产折旧会计方法的选择问题。     

福建沿海地区农村基础设施供给方式创新研究

建设社会主义新农村要求改善农村基础设施;发展农村基础设施建设将对新农村建设起到重要作用。本文根据对福建沿海地区部分农村基础设施调查的结果,分析当前农村基础设施供给存在的问题,即供给不足、结构不合理、权责不对称和市场化水平低以及地区差异大,并基于建设社会主义新农村以及农村税费改革的大背景下,从供给主体体系、供给空间顺序和筹资渠道以及决策机制等方面提出创新农村基础设施供给方式的若干思路。     

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.     

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.     

Getting back on track: the expanded use of PPPs in Ireland since the global financial crisis

The global financial crisis that took hold in late 2008 resulted in a major slowdown of activity in the global market for public-private partnerships (PPPs). Ireland was one of the countries most affected with over 20 major infrastructure PPP projects postponed or abandoned. Since 2012 however, the Irish government has adopted a number of initiatives to make PPP more attractive to bidders and private sources of finance. This paper describes these initiatives and shows that they have been associated with a renewal of PPP activity. It suggests that some of the adopted measures may involve trade-offs between encouraging PPP investment and achieving standard PPP objectives such as economic efficiency and better innovation. However, the attraction of public sources of finance from sources such as the European Investment Bank should result in a relatively lower cost of finance and enhance value for money if providers adopt rigorous risk management strategies.     

Infrastructures for ethnicity: understanding the diversification of contemporary Indonesia

Social categories need to be replicated to endure. Commentaries about social practices drive replication. Commentaries increase the number of signs emblematic of this category. In contemporary nation-states, mass education, bureaucratic processes, and mass media create large participation frameworks that facilitate replication. I term these participation frameworks ‘infrastructures for ethnicity’. This paper examines two types of infrastructures that have facilitated replication of emblems of ethnicity in Indonesia. My data is drawn from a soap opera, Internet commentaries about this soap, and news stories about clothing and culture. In looking at this data, I examine how old elements that point to ‘ethnicity’ are combined with new elements, how this new combination invites commentaries, how this process increases the semiotic density of these categories, and how all of this engenders diversity in Indonesia.