Service industries in the global economy

This article discusses services as a research theme by reviewing the anthology Service Industries in the Global Economy, a collection of articles published in 1998, in two volumes in the series The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics (series editor Mark Blaug). The articles are reprints from journals in economics, economic geography and sociology, and they span the period from 1939 to 1997. Of the total of 70 articles, this review can give only some samples.     

气候变化对东北地区玉米生产的影响

利用气象观测数据、玉米产量及面积资料,分析了东北地区气候变化事实及对玉米生产的影响。研究表明:1971年以来,东北地区≥10℃积温增加了262.8℃,≥10℃积温带(以2700℃为例)平原区向北推进了约200～300km左右,向东扩展50～150km。1991年开始玉米生长季(4～9月)降水量持续减少,年平均水分亏缺量达391.5mm,湿润区缩小,有变干趋势。初霜日推后7～9天,无霜期延长了14～21天,霜冻灾害几率降低。20世纪90年代后,玉米延迟型冷害进入低发期。随着热量资源的增加,玉米可种植区范围不断扩大,种植北界北移东扩,玉米适播起始时间提前。玉米总产、播种面积增加趋势分别为967万t/10a、72万hm2/10a。未来40年东北地区玉米产量以减产为主,与过去30年(1961～1990年)相比平均减产9.5%左右。调整玉米种植布局和品种搭配,依靠水利工程和推广旱作农业技术,选种耐旱、抗病、抗逆性强的玉米品种,是实现东北玉米生产可持续发展的主要措施。     

城市功能复合:模式与策略

城市一直都是多样性集聚的场所,且在全球化、信息化时代背景下日益开放和融合发展,进而呈现出多元化和差异化增强的趋势,功能复合开发是应对上述趋势并提高城市化发展水平的一种普遍选择。本文从中外城市功能复合发展的路径出发,从城市、社区、建筑等多个尺度探讨了城市功能复合的模式与相关规划策略,同时,结合广东省新型城市化发展实践,提出了促进人口多元化、在新区开发中预留白地、旧城改造中引荐棕地、填充式开发理念以及"TOD+SOD+EOD"的综合开发策略,以期为未来进一步优化城市土地利用布局、提高城市空间活力、推进社会多元包容发展探索可能的途径。     

区域战略视角下中国地区差异时空演化特征研究

利用泰尔指数、全局空间自相关指数和局部空间自相关指数等指标,在Eviews和ArcGIS等软件支持下,从时间、空间和空间关联性三方面分析中国在不同区域发展战略时期地区经济差异演化规律。结果表明:在平衡发展战略时期,中国地区经济相对差异较小,主要表现为南北间差异和东西间差异并存的格局,且全局空间分布呈随机状态;在非均衡发展战略时期,相对差异较大,呈现经济发达地区向东部集聚而欠发达地区向中西部集聚的分异状态;在协调发展战略时期,东西间相对差异开始收敛,但集聚和分异的趋势依然显著。     

MRICES:一个新的减排方案评价模型及其应用(英文)

Many global emission reduction strategies have been proposed, but few have been assessed quantitatively from the view of equality, efficiency and effectiveness. Integrated assessment models (IAM) is one of the effective ways to make climate policy modeling. So in this paper we developed the MRICES (Multi-regional integrated model of climate and economy with GDP spillovers) model, which is an IAM but extends to include GDP spillover mechanism, to make assessment on several strategies for global emission reduction, including the egalitarianism strategy, the UNDP strategy and the Copenhagen Accord. Using 1990 as a baseline for historical emission levels, the egalitarian strategy argues that developed countries should implement urgent emission reductions, whereas developing countries are allowed relatively higher future emission quotas. The UNDP strategy addresses the issue of substantial changes in global temperature but acknowledges that developing countries are not able to afford more costs for mitigation measures, which is inequitable from the perspective of a country’s right to develop. We also simulated the Copenhagen Accord to determine the consequences by the year 2100 if each country continues their current emission mitigation actions, and results indicated that the increase in global temperature will be 2.8 ℃by 2100; consequently, much stronger emission reduction efforts must be implemented after 2020. Based on analysis on mitigation strategies, it is recognized that the common but differentiated responsibility principle must be insisted when making global mitigation strategy. To comply with this principle, the emission reduction baseline of developed and developing countries should be discriminated, so 1990 and 2005 can be taken as the base year for developed and developing countries respectively.     

全球对流层天顶延迟特征研究

基于IGS提供的对流层天顶延迟数据,分析单站对流层天顶延迟特征,据此构建单站对流层天顶延迟模型,并对其进行拟合得到相关模型参数;比较模型参数与地理位置的关系,得出对流层天顶延迟与测量时间及测站地理位置的相关性,并分析其在全球范围内的连续分布情况:全球对流层天顶延迟变化具有周年性,且与测站位置和高程密切相关;其较高值多集中在赤道附近,并以赤道为中心向两侧递减。该研究为利用全球IGS站的对流层天顶延迟数据建立无需气象参数的全球对流层天顶延迟模型提供了可靠依据。     

知识产权视野的气象标准战略探析

标准自身的公平性、科学性和公共物品特性,决定了它即区别于知识产权,又与知识产权有着密切的相关联系.应用公共管理理论,分析了标准与标准化的内涵,提出了实施气象标准战略的重要举措是"技术专利化、专利标准化、标准许可化",实现气象标准与知识产权的有机结合,借助气象标准使更多的人了解并有偿使用气象知识产权.     

国外前寒武纪铁建造的研究进展与有待深入探讨的问题

形成于早前寒武纪的铁建造,是一种富铁〔w(TFe)>15%〕的硅质化学沉积岩,其主要矿物组成是铁氧化物(磁铁矿和赤铁矿)及石英。根据铁建造的岩相学特征,将其划分为条带状铁建造和粒状铁建造;根据铁建造的沉积环境,将条带状铁建造划分为与火山岩有关的Algoma型和与细碎屑-碳酸盐岩有关的Superior型2种类型。铁建造的出现,起始于38亿年前,主要集中于28～18亿年,在18亿年之后有一个连续的缺失,但在8亿年左右因雪球事件而重新少量出现。Algoma型铁建造主要发育于中-新太古代,而Superior型则集中出现于古元古代;前者多形成于前寒武纪克拉通化之前,与海相火山活动和陆壳巨量增生密切相关,而后者多形成于克拉通化之后,与稳定发育的克拉通盆地和大气氧含量增加有关。Algoma型铁矿具有单个矿体规模较小、品位较低和多层发育等特征,而Superior型铁矿则具有单个矿体规模较大、品位较高、层位稳定等特征。由于铁建造在地质历史上大规模发育且不重复出现,所以,开展铁建造的研究不仅具有经济价值,而且具有重要的科学意义。铁建造的研究趋势是,在世界范围内进一步深化地球早期构造(地幔柱与早期板块构造)演化、水圈及大气圈组成与演化、地球早期生物活动,以及铁建造成因和时空分布规律等方面的研究。     

地电化学法在南澳大利亚寻找隐伏金矿的研究

地电化学法是一种借外加电场作用,将呈活动态的金属离子迁移到特制接收装置,收集并分析接收器上的电解物,可发现与矿有关的金属离子异常,从而达到找矿和评价目的的一种找矿方法。利用地电化学法在澳大利亚干燥近沙漠化钙质层覆盖区的Challenger金矿和Kalkaroo铜金矿进行可行性试验结果显示:在上述已知矿体的剖面上均测出了清晰的地电化学异常,而同时开展的土壤地球化学测量无异常显示。表明利用地电化学法在南澳大利亚干燥近沙漠化覆盖区寻找隐伏金属矿床是有效的。在此基础上,利用该方法在Challenger金矿区外围及深部进行了找矿预测,发现了3个有利的成矿靶区,并经工程验证发现1个金矿体,获得了相应的金储量,取得了良好的社会经济效益。     

Feeling Slow Food: Visceral fieldwork and empathetic research relations in the alternative food movement

This paper details the author’s experiments with accessing the visceral realm in research on the food-based social movement, Slow Food (SF). “Visceral” is defined as the bodily realm where feelings, sensations, moods and so on are experienced. Fieldwork methods aimed at participatory co-creation of data through verbal communications in the form of in-depth conversations and group discussions, as well as non-verbal communications in the form of “intentionally designed experiences” and other forms of sensory involvement. Communications centered on understanding how foods and food-based settings elicit feelings and sensations that move and power bodies differently, and specifically how SF guides bodies to be affected by specific foods and environments. The paper details how data were created and recorded, specifically exploring how sensory-based research events were translated to data through the creation of imagined bodily empathies. The paper also discusses the emergence of change-oriented communications that pushed for transformation in SF’s (in)attention to visceral differences, thus demonstrating how visceral research can challenge researchers and participants to critically reflect upon, and perhaps transform, how their own bodies feel (and respond to) the world.