生态城市建设的观念创新

生态城市指的是城市发展与生态平衡相得益彰,城市、社会和环境协调发展,人与自然和谐相处、良性互支的城市发展模式和目标,近年来,我国许多大中城市都提出要把生态城市作为城市发展目标,并进行了长远规划和实实在在的行动。     

绿色与蓝色交汇：在TOD中融合生态保护与城市发展的新策略

TOD(Transit-Oriented Development,TOD)模式是指以公共交通为导向的发展模式,融合生态环保与城市发展的新型城市规划建设模式。建筑实体作为城市规划建设中非常重要的组成部分,基于TOD模式的宏观要求开展规划建设工作,是践行生态环境保护要求,促进城市发展的重要手段。基于TOD中融合生态保护与城市发展的要求,实现绿色与蓝色交汇,城市建筑规划工作的开展应当做到坚持生态优先原则、强化TOD模式下的综合交通规划、注重对城市空间的全面利用、加大政策引导与公众参与力度,落实好城市建筑规划设计,为促进城市发展提供支持。     

秦皇岛建设生态城市战略及可操作措施探析

本文对生态城市的内涵进行阐述的基础上,指出秦皇岛市建设生态城市的区位优势、生态优势、资源优势和历史文化优势,并结合秦皇岛建设生态城市的功能定位和战略规划,针对秦皇岛生态城市建设中存在的平衡发展问题、产业结构问题、水资源问题、城市交通问题,从加强综合治理保护环境、发展绿色建筑建设低碳生态城市、坚持产业兴市优化产业布局、强化治理综合利用水资源、规划多中心城市布局完善基础设施方面进行了探讨,力图为实现秦皇岛市的可持续发展提供解决思路。     

关于我国建设生态城市的探索

本文探讨了生态城市的内涵,分析说明我国城市生态存在的问题,并提出了怎样建设生态城市.以期推动我国城市生态化和生态城市建设工作的开展。     

郑州生态型国家区域中心城市建设研究

生态城市化,是与新兴工业化相适应的新型城市化,是新常态下转变城市发展方式的必然选择。建设郑州生态型国家区域中心城市,要坚持以人为本,以科学规划为指导,以强化环境保护为手段,以振兴生态产业为核心,以发展循环经济为突破口,通过完善立法执法、持续投入生态建设、提高生态环境意识、倡导绿色文明生活方式,实现城市经济增长和城市生态建设同步、城市现代化和城市生态化并进。     

论我国城市规划所遇到的问题及其解决措施

在我国的经济出现快速增长以后,我国的城镇化程度越来越快,但是在进行城镇化设计的过程中会遇到许多的问题,尤其是党的十七大报告首次提出要"建设生态文明"的现代化城市,这就要求我们在思想意识上要以"科学发展观"为指导,在现代城市规划中,必须坚持以建设生态文明理念为指导,以建设生态城市为发展方向,努力提升城市的整体素质和形象,增强城市综合实力,促进城市经济的跨越式发展和城市经济与生态环境的良性互动.     

城市建设如何适应外向型经济的发展

综观世界发达国家的城市建设,不难看出,外向型经济城市建设的特征大致有:(1)是国际性的商业.金融和贸易中心;(2)是立体型的大交通枢纽;(3)邮件发达,通讯技术先进,信息反馈灵敏;(4)科技交流活跃,有良好的科技基地;(5)有良好的生态、生活环境.我省的城市建设,特别是城市基础设施的建设长期落后,远远适应不了外向型经济发展的需要.为此,如何进行外向型经济的城市建设,就成为当前急待解决的问题了.     

论园林城市与城市设计

创建园林城市是我国近几年开展的一项有关提高城市总体景观和生态水平的活动，这项活动就是要把各个城市建设成为风景优美、品味高尚、生态健全的现代化城市。而这个目标的实现，离不开城市设计（urbandesign）的进行。本文试图对园林城市和城市设计的含义以及二者之间的相互关系进行初步探讨。     

我国城市建设中生态城市规划设计思路构建

生态城市规划设计要将生态与城市设计联系在一起,运用自然环境保证生态的可持续发展,本文从我国城市建设与生态环境现状出发,对生态城市规划设计内容及规划指标体系进行了探讨,具体说明如下。     

欧盟“生态城市(ECOCITY)”研究项目评析与启示

介绍了欧盟自2002年开始实施的生态城市(ECOCITY)项目,简要总结了该项目的背景、目标体系、规划进程等多个方面特点,并在此基础上讨论了对我国生态城市建设的借鉴和启示。     

低碳生态城市信息监管体系构建及发展研究

低碳生态城市是以低能耗、低污染、低排放为标志的节能、环保型城市,是一种在生态环境综合平衡制约下的全新城市发展模式.本文在低碳生态城市信息监管现状和原因分析的基础上,依据低碳生态城市监管系统的监管功能,构建“三合一”的低碳生态城市信息监管平台,并提出相应的管理与发展对策推进低碳生态城市发展.     

Development in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Statistics at the Australian Bureau of Statistics

This paper outlines the ICT statistical developments that the ABS has undertaken over recent years. These developments have been on both the supply side (ICT industry) and the demand side (use of IT by sector). The content of ABS ICT surveys has changed significantly over the last few years and are expected to develop further in line with industry changes and emerging policy needs.
Recent developments in household collections have been the inclusion of IT use questions in the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and in various ABS social surveys such as Children's Participation in Culture and Leisure Activities. Annual business IT use surveys are now conducted and include topics such as Internet commerce and IT security. Biennial ICT industry surveys are conducted to provide data on ICT production, imports and exports, ICT industry employment, performance and structure information. An Internet activity survey is run every six months and provides regional Internet access details and infrastructure details on Internet service providers.
A major development for 2002–03 will be the compilation of an ICT satellite account. ABS intends to produce an ICT Information Development Plan to guide its future statistical development work in the ICT field.     

Incumplimiento del salario mínimo en Europa central y oriental

En este estudio se analiza el incumplimiento del salario mínimo durante el periodo 2003–2012 en diez países de Europa central y oriental con salario mínimo obligatorio nacional. A partir de los datos de EU‐SILC y la metodología propuesta por Bhorat, Kanbur y Mayet (2013), se cuantifica la incidencia y magnitud del incumplimiento. Se realizan análisis de regresión sobre determinantes individuales, laborales y macroeconómicos. Aunque la incidencia permanece relativamente baja, los trabajadores a los que se dirigen las políticas de salario mínimo parecen los más expuestos a su incumplimiento. Con el tiempo, una mayor incidencia se asocia a una razón más alta entre salario mínimo y salario medio.     

Value at Risk in the Suburbs: Eminent Domain and the Geographical Politics of the US Foreclosure Crisis

Several US counties and local governments have recently considered a novel solution to the foreclosure crisis. They plan to use eminent domain to compel the owners of mortgage debt—and specifically of private‐label mortgage‐backed securities—to sell the debt to the government at a price reflecting the loan's market value. The government would then restructure the debt and resell it to new investors. The plans are striking because—in contrast to both development‐driven eminent domain and the federal subprime bank bailout—they would force investors to assume asset devaluation and increased long‐term risk. Notably, the plans have emerged as an instance of financialization‐focused politics in suburbs and suburban cities of color, specifically majority‐black and ‐Latino/a suburbs. Local support for the plans, we argue, is rooted in the long‐term disinvestment of these ‘suburbs of exception', which became targets of subprime lending and eventually sites where the ‘financial exception' has been localized. But these demographic shifts, fragmentation and fiscal pressures have at the same time created a suburban political terrain in which the plans have gained their strongest political support.     

Towards a Theory of Serendipity: A Systematic Review and Conceptualization

Serendipity – the notion of making surprising and valuable discoveries – plays a major role in the success of individuals and organizations alike. Previous research has established the importance of serendipity and identified important individual- and organizational-level antecedents. However, the literature has been dispersed and the boundaries of the concept have been blurry, leading to a lack of conceptual clarity and structure, and thus limiting validity and managerial actionability. Based on a systematic literature review, I synthesize existing management-related research on serendipity and explicate the emergence and composition of serendipity in the organizational context. I first identify three necessary conditions that differentiate serendipity from related concepts such as luck or targeted innovation: agency, surprise, and value. Then, I draw from the literature on sensemaking, event-based theorizing, and quantum-based approaches to management to conceptualize the process of cultivating serendipity in the organizational context as a process of enabling potentiality and materialization, and develop a multi-level theory of (cultivating) serendipity. This conceptualization contributes to our collective understanding of how, why, and when (i.e., under what conditions) organizations can leverage the value in the unexpected, which opens up fruitful avenues for further research.     

Accountability of NGOs in Bangladesh A critical overview

NGOs in Bangladesh have been recognized as effective change agents in the socio-economic arena throughout the world. Their contributions in micro credit, non-formal education and primary health care are widely known. NGOs play a significant role in society. NGO accountability, as a result, has become a critical issue. NGO accountability in Bangladesh has been examined here in relation to patrons, clients and themselves. Of the three relationships only accountability to patrons is in a near satisfactory state. Accountability to clients is handicapped by lack of opportunities of beneficiaries to participate meaningfully in NGO policy making. Accountability to themselves is adversely affected due to the adherence to a strictly hierarchical system and the influence of founding and charismatic NGO leaders.     

Cultural Economy Planning in Creative Cities: Discourse and Practice

While a growing body of research analyses the functional mechanisms of the cultural or creative economy, there has been little attention devoted to understanding how local governments translate this work into policy. Moreover, research in this vein focuses predominately on Richard Florida's creative class thesis rather than considering the wider body of work that may influence policy. This article seeks to develop a deeper understanding of how municipalities conceptualize and plan for the cultural economy through the lens of two cities held up as model ‘creative cities’ — Austin, Texas and Toronto, Ontario. The work pays particular attention to how the cities adopt and adapt leading theories, strategies and discourses of the cultural economy. While policy documents indicate that the cities embrace the creative city model, in practice agencies tend to adapt conventional economic development strategies for cultural economy activity and appropriate the language of the creative city for multiple purposes.     

Input/output ranges and performance: an examination of US machine tool producers

Despite the establishment of high-tech multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Ireland since the late 1950s, the country did not succeed in closing the technological gap with most of its EU counterparts. The weak National System of Innovation (NSI), and in particular low business and government R&D levels, combined with a lack of research and technology linkages between MNEs and indigenous firms, explain these poor results. However, the Shannon region in the West of the country presents some specific institutional characteristics that could theoretically make the region a strong technological enclave. The various actors in the region - i.e. the administrative, financial, political and research institutions, as well as the business organizations - have indeed infused a new type of economic development. After a brief review of the available concepts and models articulated around these actors and their interrelationships, the paper analyses whether the Shannon region, taken as an illustrative example, mirrors a specific economic and technological localized setting. The study is based on a survey of indigenous and foreign firms.     

Sixty years of discrimination and diversity research in human resource management: A review with suggestions for future research directions

This article reviews discrimination and diversity research published in Human Resource Management (HRM) over the past 60 years. While discrimination and diversity are very different constructs, it is often informative to study them together, because when people recognize each other's diversity, this can result in bias, stereotyping, and discrimination. We conducted bibliographic searches for terms related to discrimination and diversity as well as a manual search through every title and abstract published in HRM over the last 60 years to assess article relevance. The search resulted in 135 research articles with 136 unique studies (i.e., samples) which are reviewed in this article. Sex and race are the demographics that have been examined the most in HRM, while religion has been examined the least. Moreover, the number of studies examining lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) employees in the workplace in HRM has grown quickly within the past 10 years, culminating in a recent meta‐analysis. Our review looks at some of the earliest research published, the most recent research published, and the overall trends we identified in the research over the years for both discrimination and diversity articles. We then make future research suggestions and recommendations to advance the study of discrimination and diversity in the coming years.     

Towards an Asian model of human resource management? A comparative analysis of China,Japan and South Korea

There has been much discussion regarding the possible decline and weakening of national systems of human resource management (HRM). Yet, culture and institutions are often cited as the major stumbling blocks to this outcome. Such constraints may dissipate in the analysis, particularly if ‘regional clusters’ are considered where geographic and cultural closeness and ‘openness’ to similar economic pressures exist. In such cases, it might be postulated that convergence in HRM will occur. We argue that China, Japan and South Korea represent such a cluster. This article examines these countries, to see if a degree of convergence is taking place and if it is towards an identifiable ‘Asian’ model of HRM. A model of change is presented that distinguishes between levels of occurrence and acceptance. Details of the development and practice of HRM in each country are then set out. The article ends with a discussion and implications section and a brief conclusion.