安徽省旅游资源与旅游经济的空间错位研究

在构建旅游资源与旅游经济多指标评价体系的基础上,运用SPSS 19.0主成分分析法对安徽省16个地市旅游资源与旅游经济进行综合评价。在此基础上,进一步通过空间错位指数模型计算出各地市的空间错位指数,对安徽16个地市空间错位状况进行定量分析。安徽16个地市旅游经济与旅游资源的空间错位可分为4种类型,即低度正向偏离型城市、低度反向偏离型城市、高度正向偏离型城市和高度反向偏离型城市。安徽省整体上以旅游经济反向偏离旅游资源为主,且偏离程度多为轻度。     

基于耦合协调视角的河北省旅游产业与区域经济一体化发展研究

在定性分析河北省旅游产业与区域经济发展现状的基础上,以耦合函数为基础,构建旅游产业与区域经济发展水平的耦合协调度模型,通过对相关指标数据的实证分析得出:11个地级市中仅秦皇岛的旅游产业与区域经济处于勉强协调,其他地级市则处于濒临失调状态中,故河北省整体耦合协调水平很低,区域经济尚未对旅游产业发展提供有力反哺。在此结论基础上,就如何深化一体化发展提出4个发展路径,以期为河北省旅游产业的快速发展提供有效指导。     

Turning hustlers into entrepreneurs,and social needs into market demands: Corporate–community encounters in Nairobi,Kenya

This article contributes an empirically rich account of a social enterprise project embedded in local urban economies of Nairobi, Kenya. The confluence of rapid, unplanned urbanisation and economic liberalisation has led to growing formations of informal settlements and a vibrant informal sector across post-colonial cities. These “slum” neighbourhoods, housing the majority of the urban population on a fraction of the city’s land, are often ignored and marginalized by the state and municipal authorities, particularly with regards to basic service provision. At the same time, slum economies provide entry-points for various enterprise-led development schemes seeking to commercially engage both entrepreneurial individuals and their existing customer base in order to scale access to unmet needs. The discussion is based on an ethnographic study in one of Nairobi’s largest informal settlements, which focused on the everyday practices of a local micro-franchise called “Community Cleaning Services”. The article illustrates how waste workers and self-proclaimed “hustlers” were turned into micro-franchisee entrepreneurs providing a sanitation service to residential customers, through their engagement with Community Cleaning Services. This ethnographic account raises two potentially contradictory but inter-related debates that are rarely considered alongside one another in the existing literature on corporate involvement in low-income markets. First, it reframes the critiques of enterprise-led initiatives to “poverty alleviation” by focusing on the implications of commercialising “basic” services and on the logistical and cultural challenges of turning social needs into market demands. Second, it emphasises the often-invisible role of grassroots informal economies in enabling access to vital services in the absence of an adequately resourced and responsive municipality. The article concludes with a broader reflection on the effects and limitations of corporate-led development schemes targeting the urban poor and points to the contrasting logics of grassroots entrepreneurial urbanism and corporate—albeit “socially responsible”—parameters of success.     

The evolving role of finance in South Africa’s renewable energy sector

In the last four years, carbon-intensive, coal-dependent South Africa has become one of the leading global destinations for renewable energy investment. This investment can be attributed to the unprecedented take off of the country’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers’ Programme (RE IPPPP), a bidding process for the procurement of privately generated, utility scale renewable energy, launched in August 2011. Asserting that energy must be studied within the broader economic, political and social forces in which it is embedded, I explore the fundamental role that different modes of finance have played in shaping South Africa’s emerging renewable energy sector within the context of the country’s unique system of accumulation characterised by its minerals-energy complex (MEC) (Fine and Rustomjee, 1996). I focus on finance and financialisation as growing features within the MEC. I further examine the tension or incompatibility between commercial demands for ‘bankability’, short-term shareholder value and impatient finance and RE IPPPP’s unique requirements for community ownership of projects and the realisation of economic development criteria. I find that a reconfiguration of long-standing MEC actors, particularly in the realms of finance is taking place as they merge with new sources of foreign capital.     

Déjà vu or something new? The adaptation concept in the climate change literature

This paper reflects on the resurgence and meaning of the adaptation concept in the current climate change literature. We explore the extent to which the early political economic critique of the adaptation concept has influenced how it is used in this literature. That is, has the current conceptualization been enriched by the political economic critique of the 1970s and 1980s and thus represent something new? Or is the concept used in a way today that echoes previous debates; that is, is this a déjà vu experience? To answer this question, we review the early political economic critique of the natural hazards school’s interpretations of vulnerability and adaptation. We then examine the revival of the adaptation concept in the climate change literature and discuss its main interpretations. For the purposes of this paper, the climate change literature encompasses the four IPCC reports and adaptation-focused articles in four scholarly journals: Global Environmental Change, Climatic Change, Climate and Development, and Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. Our content analysis shows the dominance (70%) of “adjustment adaptation” approaches, which view climate impacts as the main source of vulnerability. A much smaller percentage (3%) of articles focus on the social roots of vulnerability and the necessity for political–economic change to achieve “transformative adaptation.” A larger share (27%) locates risk in both society and the biophysical hazard. It promotes “reformist adaptation,” typically through “development,” to reduce vulnerability within the prevailing system. We conclude with a discussion of continuity and change in the conceptualization of adaptation, and point to new research directions.     

The second law of geography for a spatially enabled economy

ABSTRACT

Location has proven axiomatic as an economic variable throughout human history. Tobler’s first law of geography introduced the importance of location; in that, near things are more related than far things. In an age of digital economies, a new research frontier exists where everything is more related to everything else and has an increased economic value from spatially enabled technology. The accessibility of digital-spatial information has brought economic geographers to a new understanding of markets within a Digital Earth framework. The importance of location to economic value can be expected to grow as the Internet of Things develops in sophistication. New business models enter and disrupt established markets with innovative spatially enabled approaches. A successful penetration of established markets suggests a new business model for financial and functional utility by engaging spatially enabled assets. The second law of geography is introduced as a conceptual framework to comprehend the economic potential of spatially enabled information. A comparative analysis of non-spatial versus spatial web agents provides a quantitative framework to demonstrate the benefits of the Digital Earth economy.     

新疆阿合奇县旅游资源的SWOT分析简

新疆阿合奇县旅游资源丰富,民族文化独特,开发潜力较大。利用SWOT分析法,分析了该区托什干河谷风光、千年古树、吉鲁苏温泉地质景观、历史古迹等自然资源旅游优势和玛纳斯文化、猎鹰文化、库母兹文化、民族节日、民族美食等人文资源优势。阿合奇县存在经济欠发达、旅游产业未形成、旅游宣传力度不够等资源劣势。旅游面临政策优势、政策引导、西部大开发等机遇,行业竞争激烈、旅游品牌还未形成等挑战。从旅游开发理念、旅游营销策划、人才培养等方面提出了对策建议,为该地区发展旅游提供理论支持。     

贵州习水县仙源煤矿煤层气赋存与开发前景

根据仙源煤矿煤炭地质勘查、矿井地质及煤层气参数井资料,对仙源煤矿煤层气赋存特征进行分析,认为区内龙潭组4层目的煤层厚度较大,煤层间距较小,煤层埋藏深度适中,煤层含气量较高,煤层气富集和赋存条件较好。计算获得矿区煤层气推断资源量达27亿m3,煤层气资源潜力较大,具有较好的勘探开发前景。     

基于GIS的汶川县地质环境安全综合评价

汶川县内地质构造复杂,新构造运动强烈,地震活动频繁,主要地质环境问题以地质灾害为主,有崩塌、滑坡、泥石流等。在分析区内主要地质环境问题及分布特征的基础上,运用层次分析法（AHP）确定权重,采用模糊综合评判模型、综合指数模型两种方法,对汶川县地质环境安全进行综合评价。详细介绍基于GIS的评价计算流程及评价因子的提取过程。评价结果表明,地质环境对居民生产生活影响的危险等级占比为：危险性低的约占25%,危险性较低的约占20%,危险性较高的约占39%,危险性高的约占16%。对两组权重系数、两个模型下的四个评价结果进行对比分析,结果发现：1两组不同权重系数下,模糊评价法和综合指数法评价结果的双侧检验相关系数依次是0.97、0.98,属于高度显著相关,表示可以忽略人为赋权重对评价结果的主观影响;2两种不同模型下,评价结果的双侧检验相关系数依次是0.895、0.84、0.92、0.914,属于显著相关,表示不同的计算模型一定程度上影响了评价结果的准确性,在评价时要认真研究选择恰当的计算模型。     

沿海城市竞争力评价及资源环境约束分析

在借鉴国内外研究的基础上,建立了城市竞争力评价指标体系。通过熵值法和均方差决策法确定各指标权重,对我国14个沿海开放城市竞争力进行了评价。分析发现,各城市综合竞争力具有内部差异大、极化现象突出等特点。从城市竞争力要素层得分及其状况来看,各城市之间差异显著,而生态环境竞争力普遍偏低。从空间角度看,各城市竞争力水平大致形成了以中部上海为核心,南部广州、北部天津为两翼,连接各城市构成了一条倒"V"字型向东突出的城市竞争力发展格局。根据评价结果由高到低可将14个城市分为强竞争力、较强竞争力、一般竞争力、弱竞争力四大类。