An iconic approach for representing climate change

International and national greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals implicitly rely in part on individuals undertaking voluntary emissions reductions through lifestyle decisions. Whilst there is widespread public recognition of climate change as an issue, there are many barriers – cognitive, psychological and social – preventing individuals from enacting lifestyle decarbonisation. More effective climate change communication approaches are needed which allow individuals to engage meaningfully with climate change, thus opening new prospects for lifestyle decarbonisation. This study presents an iconic approach to engagement, tested in the UK context, which allows individuals to approach climate change through their own personal values and experiences. The iconic approach harnesses the emotive and visual power of climate icons with a rigorous scientific analysis of climate impacts under a different climate future. Although some climate icons already exist – for example the Thermohaline Circulation shutdown – these ‘expert-led’ icons fail to effectively engage ‘non-experts’. We demonstrate that the non-expert-led iconic approach helps overcome some of the cognitive and affective barriers that impede action towards lifestyle decarbonisation.     

Public-space planning in four Nordic cities: Symbolic values in tension

This article takes its point of departure in the assumption that values shape planning practices and that alternatively one can reconstruct such values from the way planning interventions are argued and evaluated. We contend that planners’ discourses involve implicit value commitments that are observable in their representations of public space and implicated in the results of public-space planning. The paper builds an empirical case from representations of public space elaborated in planning documents developed by planners in four medium-sized Nordic cities. We show how these planning representations form four thematic value clusters concerning urban public space, namely leisure-play, identity-unity, power-organization and unruliness-change. Together these clusters constitute a value framework which reveals a number of central tensions relating to the way that planners seek to balance order and spontaneity in public space. The paper concludes by outlining and discussing these values and the tensions they represent.     

Perspectives on Quaternary outreach and aspirations for the future

Outreach arising from the study of the British Quaternary offers many benefits for society, especially because of its relevance for understanding contemporary environmental issues and environmental change. Outreach is also important for the long-term health of the academic discipline and research agenda. Through engaging with the formal education system, institutions, policy makers, planners and with the public at large, Quaternary specialists can do much to advance interest in and appreciation of the British landscape and its Quaternary record. This opinion and review article considers the importance and benefits of outreach in its many forms, makes the case for practitioners to continue and increase their involvement, offers examples of good practice, and sets out aspirations for the future.     

乡村旅游开发与老年人环境感知的关系

在浙江省余姚市大岚镇柿林村国家4A级景区对29位老人与43位非老人进行分组问卷调查，对老年组与非老年组的自然环境感知、经济环境感知、社会关系感知、旅游及游客感知差异进行卡方检验（X^2）．结果表明，两组人群对环境感知存在着明显差异．乡村旅游地老年人环境感知具有较强烈的乡土意识、对游客与旅游开发普遍持积极的支持态度、希望承担旅游地主人的角色、希望更多分享旅游带来的经济利益等特点．从旅游地老年人这一特殊人群的角度证实了旅游地居民支持旅游发展9个要素的结论，同时发现了中国老人的一些不同之处，提出了期待期的概念，提出从物质和精神两个层面入手，实现乡村旅游可持续发展的建议．     

勘察设计招投标中存在的问题分析及建议

本文分析了现行的勘察设计招投标中存在的亟待解决的问题，并提出了相应的对策和建议。     

城市居民对大型活动影响的感知与态度模式——以首届中国国际进口博览会为例

大型活动是城市更新和区域经济发展的重要动力,对城市形象和城市经济具有极大的提升和促进作用。以2018年举办的首届中国国际进口博览会为案例,从居民感知的视角分析首届中国国际进口博览会举办过程中居民的社会交换关系,构建“对政府的信任”“未来结果考虑”“积极影响感知”“消极影响感知”“生活质量”和“支持态度”6个变量的关系模型,采用结构方程模型分析模型构建的合理性,验证了上海居民对首届中国国际进口博览会影响的感知及支持态度的影响因素,并探讨了生活质量在居民感知与支持态度之间的中介效应。结果表明：① 对政府的信任与未来结果考虑对居民感知与支持态度具有重要影响,即居民对政府的信任正向影响其对积极影响的感知及支持态度,负向影响居民的消极影响感知;居民的未来结果考虑也正向影响居民的积极影响感知与支持态度,负向影响居民的消极影响感知。② 居民的积极影响感知对生活质量感知和支持态度具有正向影响,居民的消极影响感知对支持态度具有负向影响,但未影响到居民的生活质量感知。③ 居民的生活质量感知在居民感知与支持态度间的中介效应未获得支持。本文对中国国际进口博览会持续健康发展、上海建设国际会展之都等具有一定的启示意义和参考价值。     

数字图书馆的公共性反思

本文在把握数字图书馆的基本特征前提下,运用公共性理论分析研究数字图书馆的公共性,通过分析数字图书馆的公共性特征及影响因素,发现许多非技术性的因素影响数字图书馆的进程,甚至违背了数字图书馆的服务宗旨,理想与现实之间存在着很大差距。     

深圳市公安地理信息系统数据库建设

根据深圳市公安局警用地理信息系统数据库建设的实际经验,阐述了系统后台的数据组织和库体设计,并就数据库的安全与维护进行探讨。     

舟山海洋微塑料污染源头治理机制建设初探

海洋微塑料污染2004年才被英国科学家发现并提出,至今已经成为世界最受关注的生态环境问题之一。课题组认为公众是海洋微塑料污染的最主要源头。因此课题组立足舟山海域微塑料污染情况,包括塑料垃圾(资源)处理等情况,基于对公众认知的调查问卷,尝试描述以公众为核心、联合各行为主体的海洋微塑料污染源头治理机制,同时提出机制建立条件、困境与未来。此外,课题组关注社区、公益组织和市场的相应行为,力求在未来更为关注政府行为。     

影响公众地震应急准备因素分析

汶川地震发生后,受桑枣中学案例启发,在中小学开展应急演练受到重视。提高公众地震应急准备能力是提高我国防震减灾能力的重要环节,本研究通过问卷数据分析,描述我国公众地震应急准备现状,分析影响中国公众地震应急准备的因素。研究结果表明,收入、学历、风险感知和政府责任影响公众地震应急准备,并提出做好相关工作的政策建议。