Accessibility of European museums to visitors with visual impairments

People who have visual impairments exceed 250 million persons worldwide and represent an important cohort of museum visitors. However, they experience many constraints to participation in daily life. Few studies analyse the accessibility of museums to visitors with visual impairments, and many are confined to a single museum and to a small set of strategies for improving accessibility. This article aims to identify a broad set of strategies to increase the accessibility of museums to visitors with visual impairments and analyse the accessibility of museums in four European cities. Conclusions and implications for policy-makers and museum managers, designed to promote the creation of inclusive museums, are presented.     

Rehabilitating unauthorised touch or why museum visitors touch the exhibits

In 2014 The Senses and Society published a special issue on “Sensory Museology.” Registering the emergence of this new multi-disciplinary field, the editor usefully observed that “its most salient trend has been the rehabilitation of touch.” Arguably, however, touch has only been rehabilitated as an area of study insofar as it is authorised by the museum. Scholars have rarely considered the propensity of visitors to touch museum exhibits when they do not have permission to do so. In this article I suggest that the academic emphasis on authorised forms of contact privileges the institution’s aims and perspective. Conversely, researching unauthorised touch places a higher degree of emphasis on the visitors’ motivations and responses, and has the capacity to bring dominant characterisations of the museum into question. I substantiate and work through these claims by drawing on interview-based research conducted at the British Museum, and by investigating why visitors touch the exhibits without permission, what they touch, and what experiences that encounter enables.     

哈尔滨市博物馆利用对策

以哈尔滨市博物馆为研究对象，以不同人群对博物馆的使用需求和行为特征为切入点，通过分析博物馆的区位交通、周边环境及馆内存在的问题，为城市博物馆的建设与管理等方面提出建议，使博物馆能够良性发展，更好地承担起普及知识、教育大众、传承文化的责任。     

网络渠道交易价值的实证分析——以L品牌手机淘宝BtoC店为例

以国产手机著名品牌L品牌淘宝BtoC店为例,按入口时搜索的关键词的特点,将来访顾客分成渠道忠诚访客和品牌忠诚访客,连续30天观察总的页面浏览量、2种类型的访客数量、分别带来的成交量,以及每日询盘量。对渠道忠诚顾客带来的成交占总成交的比例进行均值估计,得知其比例为38.3%;对2类访客与相应的成交量分别作回归分析,结论均为有显著影响。文章在此基础上对提高网店价值,提出了相应的建议。     

云南世界遗产地的旅游审美价值及旅游入境人数分析

云南世界遗产地丽江古城和“三江并流”景点,均具有世界级的旅游审美价值,而且紧紧相邻。但是其入境旅游人数却极为悬殊:前者人满为患,后者游人稀少。导致这种两极化旅游现象的原因很多,其中一个十分重要的原因是中西审美心理差异。为此,不仅应该研究两处世界遗产地的外部旅游环境的平衡、优化问题,而且还应该研究对国内旅游者旅游审美心理的引导问题。     

Perceptions of Ecological Risk Associated with Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) Infestations in Banff and Kootenay National Parks of Canada

Western Canada is experiencing an unprecedented outbreak of the mountain pine beetle (MPB). The MPB has the potential to impact some of Canada's national parks by affecting park ecosystems and the visitor experience. Controls have been initiated in some parks to lessen the impacts and to prevent the beetle from spreading beyond park boundaries. We examine the perception of ecological risk associated with MPB in two of Canada's national parks, the factors affecting perceptions of risk, and the influence of risk judgments on support for controlling MPB outbreaks in national parks. Data were collected using two studies of park visitors: a mail survey in 2003 and an onsite survey in 2005. The MPB was rated as posing a greater risk to the health and productivity of park ecosystems than anthropogenic hazards and other natural disturbance agents. Visitors who were familiar with MPB rated the ecological and visitor experience impacts as negative, unacceptable, and eliciting negative emotion. Knowledge and residency were the most consistent predictors of risk judgments. Of knowledge, risk, and demographic variables, only sex and risk to ecosystem domains influenced support for controlling the MPB in national parks. Implications for managing MPB in national parks, visitor education, and ecological integrity are discussed.     

游客对世界文化遗产保护资金支付意愿的研究

在文化遗产支付意愿现有研究的基础上建立了游客对世界文化遗产保护资金支付意愿影响因素的研究假设,选择世界文化遗产景区——南京明孝陵作为研究案例,通过问卷调查,利用Logistic回归模型,对研究假设进行检验,揭示影响游客对世界文化遗产保护资金支付意愿的主要因素。结果显示:文化旅游参与度、重游意向、性别、教育水平和平均月收入对游客文化遗产保护资金支付意愿有显著的作用,而平均月收入的作用最明显。     

信访机制的民主化——协商民主的视角

当下中国在强调信访法制化的同时,对信访民主化的重视也应得到加强。协商民主作为社会冲突的协调机制具有其他治理机制无法比拟的优势,信访民主化可以成为解决“信访悖论”的主要路径。中国基层三个典型的信访协商民主个案表明,信访协商民主具有明显的优势,在实践中也存在一些问题。信访民主化路径的关键在于创新性地整合各种协商民主方法,将信访的正式协商与非正式协商有机结合起来,在已有的实践经验的基础上不断完善,构建出一套符合中国国情的信访民主机制和制度,包括信访协商的包容与中立机制、专职化和社会化机制及相关衔接机制等     

腾格里沙漠东南缘沙木蓼传粉生态学特性研究

研究了腾格里沙漠东南缘沙坡头地区沙木蓼的花部性状、花粉胚珠比(P/O)、花粉活力和育性、柱头可授性、访花昆虫种类和访花频率、杂交指数(OCI)及不同套袋处理的结实率.主要结果如下:沙木蓼单花花期3 d,开花初期花粉活力最高,可达74%,可持续4 h,柱头可授性在开花9 h后达到最高;繁育系统为异交,部分自交亲和,需要传粉者,不存在无融合生殖现象;主要传粉昆虫有宽结大头蚁、意大利蜜蜂、黑带食蚜蝇等.