Damming Knowledge Flows: POWER as a Constraint on Knowledge Pluralism in River Flow Decision-making in the Saskatchewan River Delta

Rivers and dams are increasingly contested venues where knowledge pluralism is critical for effective governance. To navigate change, decision-makers can adopt culturally-sensitive interventions to address the needs of diverse stakeholders and rights holders. Calls for Indigenous flows have become important as dam operators seek to renew their legal and social licenses to operate. Knowledge pluralism is needed to enhance decision-making about flows that better address complexity and change to Indigenous livelihoods and cultural practices. However, leveraging diverse knowledge types to inform these interventions is not simply a matter of changing management practice. Power relations can constrain knowledge pluralism. We contribute an empirical example that links power in a decision-making process about a dam in Saskatchewan, Canada, to the losses experienced by downstream Indigenous communities. This paper operationalizes power to illustrate its methodological utility and documents the interconnected losses, experienced by resources users, resultant from the marginalization of Indigenous knowledge.     

A 5,600-year-old wooden well in Zhejiang Province,China

In 1973, traces of China’s early Neolithic Hemudu culture (7,000–5,000 BP) were discovered in the village of Hemudu in Yuyao County, Zhejiang Province, in the lower Yangtze River coastal plain. The site has yielded animal and plant remains in large quantities and large numbers of logs secured with tenon and mortise joints, commonly used in wooden buildings and other wooden structures. For hydrogeologists, the most interesting structure is an ancient wooden well. The well is believed to be about 5,600 years old, which makes it the oldest wooden well yet found in China. The well site contains over 200 wooden components and can be divided into inner and outer parts. The outer part consists of 28 piles around a pond. The inner part, the wooden well itself, lies in the middle of the pond. The walls of the well were lined with close-set timber piles reinforced by a square wooden frame. The 28 piles in the outer part of the site may have been part of a shelter for the well, suggesting that the people of the Hemudu culture were already concerned with water hygiene and protection of their water source.     

Creative industries agglomeration,regional innovation and productivity growth in China

This paper falls into the broad area of economic geography and economics of creativity,and it presents an alternative approach to explain why total factor productivity(TFP)growth is different across China′s regions.It establishes an empirical model to estimate the spatial agglomeration effects of creative industries on regional TFP growth,using China′s provincial panel data during the period of 2003 to 2010.We found that the creative industries agglomeration(CIA)has significant and positive impact on regional TFP growth.The result also implies that the CIA can facilitate regional TFP growth through promoting regional innovation instead of improving regional efficiency.Therefore,we argue that policy makers should take some measures to retain and establish more creative zones.     

雷州半岛历史廉政文化资源的发掘利用

历史廉政文化资源形态绚丽多彩,内涵丰富,是建设社会主义廉政文化的重要元素。利用历史廉政文化资源进行廉政文化建设,具有独特的意义和效果。雷州文化发源于雷州半岛,以其历史悠久、底蕴深厚而跻身于广东四大区域文化之一,也孕育着深厚的历史廉政文化,这是湛江人民历来用以传承传统、进行廉政教育的宝贵精神财富和德育资源。湛江人民在利用历史廉政文化资源深化廉政文化建设的实践中所创立的经验和理论值得人们思考和借鉴。     

GIS三维可视化在数字文化遗产中的应用

通过对数字文化遗产的分析,本文运用三维可视化技术,提出基于微机平台建立文化遗产GIS三维可视化系统的设计方案;并通过一个典型仿唐木构建筑群的虚拟展示为例,介绍了实用的多种类型数据库管理及基于数据库的实时应用方法,包括若干关键技术:LOD数据集成、多模态可视化、室内外三维一体化显示与漫游和多媒体属性查询。通过此应用实例,证明该方案投资少,开发方便,具有一定现实意义。     

Mapping ecosystem services for marine spatial planning: Recreation opportunities in Sub-Antarctic Chile

The ecosystem services approach has increasingly emerged as a core requirement of ecosystem-based management of the marine space. In this context, explicit quantification and mapping of ecosystem services is considered key. This research proposes a methodological framework that combines Geographic Information Systems and participatory techniques to map the ecosystem service of recreation opportunities, provided by coastal and marine ecosystems. Attributes selected to represent the ecosystem service were scenic beauty, unique natural resources, accessibility, cultural sites and tourism use aptitude. High values of the indicator concentrated on areas that combined the presence of unique marine fauna (e.g. Southern Elephant Seal, Mirounga leonina), terrestrial and marine routs, and areas of high scenic beauty, associated to the presence of glaciers. These areas corresponded to the southern part of Almirantazgo Sound, the northern part of Navarino Island on the coast of the Beagle Channel, and to areas surrounding Wulaia fishermen's cove. Zones showing highest values of the indicator 81–100) comprised 0.89% of the study area and a small proportion of them coincided with areas of aptitude for aquaculture, which represents potential use conflicts, as long as aquaculture concessions remain operative. In turn, the areas of lowest values 0–20) were located offshore in open sea, and comprised 0.49% of the study area. Overall, the methodology demonstrated the capacity to identify potential recreation areas to inform regional decision making regarding marine use planning.     

国内外生产性服务业与制造业互动发展的研究进展

20世纪70年代以来,生产性服务业对经济发展推动作用的凸现引起了学术界的广泛关注。生产性服务业与制造业的互动发展是其研究热点之一。本文从生产性服务业与制造业的互动关系、区位特点和研究方法三个方面,对国内外相关研究进展进行文献综述,提出新背景下我国生产性服务业与制造业互动发展的地理学研究方向。     

高耗能产业和低耗能产业对我国城市化影响的对比分析

我国在进入以高耗能产业快速发展为标志的重化工业时代的同时,城市化进程也呈现加速发展态势。二者协同作用,对资源环境造成了较大压力。该文通过5个典型高耗能行业和5个低耗能行业的对比,分析了二者在就业吸纳能力、经济增长贡献、未来发展潜力和环境影响等方面的差别,定量揭示了高耗能产业对区域城市化的影响机理,并提出了协调工业化和城市化发展的对策。     

城市规划中文化因素刍议

不同地区甚至同一地区的不同城市间都存在着风格差异。这种风格差异正是其不同文化底蕴和地域文化内质的外在表现。文中论述了城市规划与地域文化的关系,城市规划中的反文化现象,以及体现城市规划文化特色的形式和领域等问题,并指出,只有在城市规划时注重城市的规划建设风格与城市所在地的自然条件及其历史文化传统的完美结合,解决好规划时的创新与继承,融旧与合新,才能够使城市各具特色,越建越美。