Returning home: migrant connections and visions for local development in rural Nepal

Migration to domestic and international destinations has become an emblematic feature of Nepal’s societal changes. Part of this development is education migration from rural to urban areas within the borders of Nepal, an often overlooked but increasingly important aspect of contemporary migration flows. By focusing on these educational migrants, this paper explores how they connect to their rural homes. Guided by a critical reading of the migration-development scholarship, the paper examines how migrants and their relatives make sense of educational migrants’ remitting and returning practices, and by comparing three groups of educational migrants, the migrants’ reasons for staying connected and sending remittances are scrutinized. The paper finds that although educational migrants do not generate extensive economic remittances for local development in Nepal, they stay connected to their rural homes and partake in important social remittance practices that represent a vision for impacting local development.     

上海三维城市地质信息系统优化

本文在简要论述上海三维地质系统建设现状的基础上,对系统存在的主要问题进行了分析,提出了系统升级的目标、升级的主要功能。重点对系统升级过程中涉及的海量数据管理、三维建模技术、地上与地下一体化集成、4D模拟、三维模型的发布等关键技术进行了剖析,并提出了相应的解决方案。     

海南岛山区土地的持续利用评价——以琼中、通什为例

土地持续利用就是要达到生态合理性、经济有效性和社会可接受性。本文以琼中县和通什市为例，通过土地利用现状分析、土地持续利用评价，提出了实现其土地持续利用的对策措施。     

战后世界各国社会发展与人口寿命变化研究

探讨世界人口寿命与各国社会发展的内在联系，提出人口寿命是社会发展的最佳衡量方式。分析战后不同类型国家人口寿命变化的特征，从中得出影响人口寿命的几大政治、社会与经济因素。其中经济发展水平具有最终决定作用。     

Using historical source data to understand urban flood risk: a socio-hydrological modelling application at Gregório Creek,Brazil

ABSTRACT

The city of São Carlos, state of São Paulo, Brazil, has a historical coexistence between society and floods. Unplanned urbanization in this area is a representative feature of how Brazilian cities have developed, undermining the impact of natural hazards. The Gregório Creek catchment is an enigma of complex dynamics concerning the relationship between humans and water in Brazilian cities. Our hypothesis is that social memory of floods can improve future resilience. In this paper we analyse flood risk dynamics in a small urban catchment, identify the impacts of social memory on building resilience and propose measures to reduce the risk of floods. We applied a socio-hydrological model using data collected from newspapers from 1940 to 2018. The model was able to elucidate human–water processes in the catchment and the historical source data proved to be a useful tool to fill gaps in the data in small urban basins.     

震情泄露的社会效应对策及其反思

地震震情是社会公众敏感的问题。1991年1月中旬,江苏盐城、镇江、无锡等地因震情泄露而引起强烈的社会反响。本文以镇江为例,概述了以电话潮、抢购热、防震风、保险热、谣言惑众、异常骤增为表现形式的社会效应;介绍了地方政府发挥领导指挥机能,采取富有成效的应急对策,市县地震办公室发挥政府职能作用,积极配合,迅速平息地震风波,取得显著成效;最后从行为评估、得失评估、预测预报、震情保密、社会宣传诸方面进行反思,总结经验教训,以便进一步发挥政府减灾职能作用,做好地震工作。     

“A world in a grain of sand”: towards a reconceptualisation of geographical scale

Difficulties in relating local scale change to broader dynamics of social and economic restructuring continue to be reflected in much geographical research. This paper argues that inadequate conceptualisations of geographical scale restrict the relevance of much research to the agenda of an applied peoples' geography. A framework which conceptualises geographical scale as dialectically and internally related to the totality of social relations, is proposed and discussed with examples from remote mining regions in Australia.     

地震社会心理初探与政府的疏导防治对策

针对我国当前较具典型的几种地震社会心理，指出职能部门疏导、防治的工作重点，并从顺应国情、民情及国家经济体制改革的方向出发，提出相应的对策建议。     

Social transformation and participatory planning in St Lucia

In this paper I seek to highlight some differences between elite systems of participatory planning, on the one hand, and class-driven social transformation in St Lucia, on the other. In doing so, I refer to two periods in time in St Lucia's history. The first is between 1840 and 1957, when the agricultural system of metayage dominated. This example will be used to illustrate a period of time when social transformation was driven by the peasant classes, acting against the power of the plantocracy, giving the peasant class greater control over the means of agricultural production and land. The second period of time I focus upon is the post-independence period, after 1979, when participatory planning techniques are used by a narrow group of environmentalist elites in order to attempt to implement their vision for sustainable development. The difference illustrates the substantial material and social aspirations within the population, on the one hand, and the narrow concerns of a group of elites on the other.