Spatial dimensions of New Zealand's environmental management

New Zealand's regional council boundaries drawn as part of the 1989 local government reforms privilege integrated catchment management. This privilege is now challenged by calls to both fragment and amalgamate councils and centralise decision‐making but with little analytic assessment of the spatial differentiation to support them. The spatial underpinnings of these calls were explored using a case study that assessed the spatial dimensions of environment management. Analysis of the Land Environments and River Environment Classification databases and councils' planning documents highlights challenges local governments face in applying integrated natural resource management within single purpose jurisdictions and implications for wider sustainable development policy.     

Growing Apples and the 'Growing Pains' of Restructuring for New Zealand's Pipfruit Industry

Numerous urgent issues face New Zealand's pipfruit industry at the close of the decade. Oversupplied and competitive global markets, shifting policy environments, and industry ‘clawback’ place increasing pressures on pipfruit's single desk marketing system. This paper identifies the importance of interregional production dynamics and some policy challenges surrounding discourses of globalisation, sustainability and restructuring.     

Changes in the Age of Farmers in New Zealand, 1971–1991

Analysis of census data from 1971 to 1991 shows changes in the average age of farmer and changes in the age distribution for the main categories of farmers in New Zealand.     

A diagnostic study of the Arctic Ocean winter density-driven circulation in 1973–79

Diagnostic computations of density-driven circulation for seven winters from 1973 through 1979 were carried out. The only forcing was provided by observed temperature and salinity data collected during onsite Russian winter surveys in 1973–79. Computed circulations from 1973 through 1978 were close to the mean circulation obtained earlier by averaging observed 1973–79 temperature and salinity (Polyakov & Timokhov 1994). The computed 1979 density-driven circulation flowed counter-clockwise to the north of the Laptev Sea. This circulation pattern was caused by an anomalous salinity distribution associated with changes in the atmospheric circulation regime in 1979. Prevailing offshore winds blew fresh water from the Laptev and East Siberian shelves toward Fram Strait. Fresh water was exchanged for saltier intermediate water that upwelled to the surface along the slope. The observed surface salinity anomalies at the continental slope of the Laptev Sea in 1979 increased by several salinity units. One may speculate that the same process may have caused the observed salinification of the Eurasian Basin in the 1990s.     

京津冀城市群制造业结构变迁与空间集聚影响因素分析

运用修正的地理集聚指数(EG),并通过构建空间滞后模型(SLM)和空间误差模型(SEM)等空间计量方法,综合分析京津冀城市群制造业空间变化趋势与集聚影响因素。研究发现:①"京津双城"技术密集型制造业转移扩散特征明显;②资本要素对京津冀城市群制造业集聚有显著促进作用,知识密集度的影响不显著,劳动要素密集度的影响为负;③金融利率高低与制造业集聚呈显著负相关关系;政府干预度和宏观税负对制造业集聚有正向影响效应;④交通基础设施与市场规模与京津冀城市群制造业集聚有正相关性,而外商直接投资(FDI)与京津冀城市群制造业集聚呈现负相关关系。     

Border geostrategies: Imagining and administering New Zealand's post‐World War One borders

Abstract: This paper examines the emergence of an administrative apparatus designed to filter, and in some cases, exclude certain classes of international traveller at the New Zealand border following the end of World War One (WWI). Drawing on Walters’ (2004) ideas of ‘geostrategies’, and specifically focusing on the abolishment of permits for movement across the Tasman Sea, the Undesirable Immigrants Exclusion Act 1919 and the Immigration Restriction Amendment Act 1920, the paper argues that this apparatus was characterized by shifting calculations of risk that shaped international mobility through New Zealand in profoundly uneven ways.     

纽约时尚产业的空间组织演化及其动力机制

时尚产业作为后工业时代城市发展的新方向而备受瞩目。纽约是公认的全球时尚之都之一,在多方力量的共同推动下,从最初的"血汗工厂"发展至今,其中的经验值得借鉴和学习。产业的发展伴随其空间组织的演化,最终影响城市结构形态。本文对纽约时尚产业经历的四个发展阶段:成衣兴起阶段、产业集聚阶段、设计显露阶段、时尚进化阶段的产业形态和空间组织进行了归纳,并从政府、行业协会、企业和个人四个行为主体出发,探讨了这一过程的动力机制。最后还对中国城市的时尚产业发展提供了政策建议。     

1984 年以来北京零售业空间发展趋势与特征

在采用虚拟变量对密度函数进行调整的基础上, 借助扩展方法引入时间变量构建计量经济模型测度北京零售业空间发展的分异与趋势, 并利用GIS技术研究了新型零售业的空间布局特征。结果表明:① 1984-2010 年, 近郊区零售业保持着强劲的增长势头, 增速是远郊区的近两倍, 而远郊区快于中心区, 说明中心区零售业地位的相对下降, 类似于20 世纪中期美国大都市区的发展特征。② 2000 年以来, 远郊区零售业增速下降, 近郊区小幅提升, 而中心区发展速度明显回升, 说明部分学者提出的20 世纪90 年代末期旧城区零售业“空洞化”、“边缘化”的发展趋势并未延续。③ 紧随人口的郊区化, 90 年代中期兴起的连锁超市以三环路为基础外向发展, 三、四环路和五、六环路之间数量较多, 而传统百货商店则主要布局在三环路以内。④ 以超市为代表的新型零售业空间布局呈现大分散、小集聚的特征, 没有表现出明显的等级性, 集聚区域既包括近郊人口密集区, 也包括远郊新城和城郊大型居住区。零售业的空间发展趋势与超市的空间特征共同显示, 北京应进一步提升远郊零售业的连锁化水平, 提高服务水平和质量, 促进居住与消费的空间平衡。     

Agricultural Restructuring and Response: Inter-relationships Between Farm Adjustment Strategies in Waihemo, 1984–1997

Farm households in New Zealand have responded to the changing political and economic environment since the mid-1980s in a variety of ways. This paper explores the various farm adjustment strategies adopted by farm households in Waihemo (East Otago) and ways in which these influence both the household and enterprise domains of the family farm unit. It examines the complex interrelationships between specific farm adjustments, drawing attention to the ways in which these are redefining the nature of family farming in the area.