Old Chico’s new tricks: Neoliberalization and water sector reform in Brazil’s São Francisco River Basin

This article examines changing water governance modalities in the context of the neoliberalization of nature. Specifically, it focuses on Brazilian water sector reforms passed in 1997 that mandate decentralized and participatory decision-making at the river basin scale. Critics have suggested that rescaling, decentralization, and participatory governance mechanisms – supposedly intended to render decision-making more equitable, accessible, and relevant – can serve to legitimate, facilitate, and thus further embed processes of neoliberalization. Examining the impact of Brazil’s water sector reforms on the state–society relationship, this article presents a case study of water governance in the São Francisco River Basin and finds that the reforms – despite their neoliberalizing potential – have not significantly contributed to the neoliberalization of governance therein. Instead, water governance continues to be characterized by longstanding patterns of traditional elite control. Through an institutional and socio-natural analysis, this article describes and accounts for the continued dominance of these patterns relative to neoliberalization and explores activists’ efforts to use water sector reforms to pursue more progressive possibilities. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications for variegation and contestation in ongoing debates over neoliberal natures.     

Progress in low-frequency radio astronomy and I.S. Shklovskii’s contribution to its development

Radio astronomy at decameter wavelengths is currently undergoing very active development. Large-scale, new generation low-frequency radio telescopes are being constructed and already used in many countries around the world. As before, the largest, most sensitive, and most versatile telescope at decameter wavelengths is the Ukrainian UTR-2 radio telescope operating at 8–32 MHz, which has an effective area of more than 10⁵ m² and an angular resolution of about 0.5?, as well as the URAN interferometric system based on the UTF-2. Many studies that have been carried out on these facilities have been based on important results and far-sighted predictions of Shklovskii. These include, in particular, studies of dynamical spectra and the brightness distributions of the sporadic and quiescent decameter radio emission of the hot solar corona, complex, broadband radio spectroscopy of the interstellar medium, and multi-frequency monitoring of secular decreases in the flux densities of supernova remnants. The coordinated use of highly effective existing and newly constructed radio telescopes joined into ground networks, as well as specialized space missions, are opening new prospects for low-frequency radio astronomy.     

IAEA和中国的硫同位素参考物质的δ33 S、δ34 S值与32S/33S、32S/34S绝对比值

用六氟化硫法对IAEA-S-1、I.AEA-S-2、IAEA-S-3、IAEA-SO-5、IAEA-SO-6、GBW-04414和GBW-04415的δ33S、δ34S值进行了测定.用人工配制的同位素混合物和六氟化硫法对IAEA-S-1、IAEA-S-2、IAEA-S-3和GBW-04414、GBW-04415的32S/33S、32S/34S绝对值进行了标定.其结果对IAEA硫同位素系列参考物质的定值起到了关键作用.     

Südwestafrika

Ohne ZusammenfassungVortrag auf der öffentlichen Sitzung der Januarversammlung Frankfurt 1937.Die Möglichkeit zu dieser Reise verdanke ich in erster Linie der Führung und Fahrung durch die HerrenHenno Martin undHermann Korn, demnächst der tatkräftigen Unterstützung von Dr.Ernst Scherz, Frau Dr.Loening undHerrn Erich Zelle in Windhuk. Wesentliche Förderung verdanke ich der Mandatsregierung des Landes, insbesondere dem Administrator Dr.Conradi, HerrnCurtney Clark und HerrnSchroeder als Leiter der Bergbauabteilung. Von den Farmern, deren Gastlichkeit uns half und erfreute, kann ich mit herzlichem Dank nur einige nennen: Die FamilienPutzler auf Ababis, FrauZiegenbein auf Urikos,Keet auf Tsais,De Wet auf Blässkranz,Strey und HerrnLilleike auf Büllsport, alle in der Naukluft, Ebrecht auf Ameib am Erongo.     

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六氟化硫法测量~(33)S/~(32)S、~(34)S/~(32)S和~(36)S/~(32)S的方法研究

六氟化硫法是测量硫同位素组成的新方法。与传统的二氧化硫法相比,六氯化硫法有灵敏度高,准确度高,能同时测定δ~(33)S、δ~(34)S和δ~(36)S的的优越性。本文介绍了国内第一台同位素分析用的六氟化硫制样装置,并报导了对硫化银、黄铁矿、黄铜矿、陨硫铁、方铅矿和闪锌矿等天然硫化物用六氟化硫法进行硫同位素测定的结果。结果表明,我们的装置和方法达到了国际上现有的水平,并在操作的方便性、可靠性及样品适用范围方面有所改进。