Land owners’ perception of land consolidation and their satisfaction with the results – Slovenian experiences

Land consolidation has been an important instrument of rural development for over a century throughout Europe. Nowadays, land consolidation can be an integral part of both rural and urban development projects, but the focus of our study is on land consolidation in rural areas. In addition to the efforts aimed at making agriculture and forestry more competitive through a comprehensive reallocation process, improvement of road and drainage networks, landscaping, environmental management, conservation projects, and other functions may be implemented in land consolidation. There are differences in the objectives and procedures of land consolidation among the countries. Beside the formal institutional framework of land consolidation, informal institutions can have a substantial influence on the implementation of land consolidation. In the article, the past experiences in the field of land consolidation in Slovenia are presented, which are still reflected in the limited acceptability of this instrument among land owners. Furthermore, the current institutional (legal) framework is analyzed in detail. The main objective of the research was to investigate the opinion of land consolidation participants about land consolidation. Based on the field survey conducted on a sample of private land owners involved in selected land consolidation projects we tried to define the advantages and disadvantages of the current practice. The main finding is that the active participation of land owners contributes to their comprehension of the aims and to their satisfaction with the results of the land consolidation. It has been shown that the active participation of land owners in the land consolidation is the basis for developing good practices; moreover, it affects the land owners’ perception of land consolidation. The transfer of knowledge and representation of good practices among actors are still needed, in particular because of bad experiences in the past (i.e. enforced and environmentally unfriendly projects) and the traditional emotional attachment to land among land owners. In parallel, there is a great need to provide an optimization of the land consolidation process in Slovenia.     

Management of natural resources and protection of the coastal urban area of Glyfada

This survey concerns the urban coastal environment of Glyfada. Due to its wonderful natural resources, the area has been chosen for residence, business, tourism as well as recreation and entertainment. However, these natural resources are threatened by degradation due to an increasing intensity of land uses and various policies that have been implemented.The survey focuses on the problems this area faces and the possibilities to maintain or increase the quality of natural resources. A combination of methods including personal interviews with officers of the municipality, assessment of land use plans and legislation as well as a research in situ have contributed to trace and pin down the issues. The European Union policies and directives, that aim at upgrading and regenerating urban areas in order to make them more attractive for business and provide a healthier environment for residents, also form part of this study.The survey shows that the urban area offers possibilities for the upgrading and conservation of natural resources. The implementation of policies is not sufficient on its own, and direct action on the part of local authorities and citizens is required if the quality of natural resources and entrepreneurship that have been developed in the area is to be maintained     

Systems approach to pro-poor land reforms: A concept paper

There has been renewed interest in the academic discourse on land reforms due to recent high profile works suggesting a positive correlation between reforms and poverty reduction. Land is held under different tenure regimes in different regions, countries and communities. These are often in the form of community tenure, state tenure, individual tenure or a mixture of two or three of them. However, land reformers are in constant debate as to which of the three offers the most appropriate pathway to poverty reduction. The policy outcomes of such debates have been to superimpose one tenure option over the other in differing situations. This article conceptualises a metaphorical approach to land reforms grounded on general systems theory. It advocates for contextualised methodological rigour and an approach to land reforms reliant on the influencing variables of alternative land tenure regimes as opposed to wanton superimposition of one form of tenure over the other.     

日本国土综合开发财政政策对中国主体功能区建设的启示

中国国家十二五规划纲要提出要实施主体功能区战略。日本针对经济发展过程中产生区域问题所采取的6次全国国土综合开发规划的财政政策,值得借鉴。中国在推进主体功能区建设过程中,应当运用差别化税收政策引导重点开发区域承接优化开发区域的产业转移,加大对重点开发区域基础设施的投入,发挥财政转移支付制度对地方财力的平衡作用。     

关于农村土地流转的文献综述

1978年，我国农村确立了以家庭承包经营为基础、统分结合的双层经营体制；1984年《中共中央关于一九八四年农村工作的通知》中最早提出了农村土地流转，与此同时，国内学者开始了关于土地流转的相关研究。在二十几年的发展进程中，国内学者对土地流转的成因、现状、出现的问题与对策进行了大量的研究。本文就农村土地流转相关问题作一综述，以期对我国农村土地流转问题作一些有益的总结。     

Unplanned rural living and its policy implications: Some findings from Bundaberg,Australia

Research conducted in the Bundaberg Region in north-eastern Australia sought to explain the pattern of unplanned rural living and to assess whether its impacts are adverse enough to warrant land use policy change. It found there was limited conversion of suitable sugarcane land to ‘unplanned’ rural living during the 1980–2000 period. Parcels converted to unplanned rural living during this period were, on average, much smaller, had lower agricultural production potential, and were situated in more undulating and forested landscapes further from Bundaberg than parcels that remained in sugarcane production.     

An application of DPSIR framework to identify issues of pollinator loss

This paper is an attempt to apply the Driving forces–Pressures–State–Impact–Responses (DPSIR) framework to identify the issues of pollinator loss. The linkages between the significant pressures on insect pollinators, their underlying socio-economic driving forces and responses, with the focus on Europe, are addressed in the study. A review of literature revealed the shortage of empirical studies that prove direct links between policy responses and specific pressures on the pollinators. Based on written evidence and expert judgement, land use practices and the use of agrochemicals were regarded as the most significant pressures on different functional groups of pollinators. As demonstrated in the study, agricultural and rural development policy has been the key driving force of these pressures. The application of the DPSIR framework proved to be useful in identifying the pathway of human pressures on pollinators. The study also concludes that there is further need for specific empirical research on the effects and effectiveness of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) measures (agri-environment measures in particular) to support farming practices that facilitate the protection of the environment and the prevention of pollinator loss.     

征地留用地安置模式适用范围的定量评价与实证研究

留用地安置模式是20世纪80年代以来,全国各地相继使用的土地征用的安置模式.但留用地安置模式有其特有的适用条件的,不能简单复制.论文的研究目的就是通过定量评价的方式确定留用地安置的适用范围,为各地实施留用地安置模式给出一定的参考.论文就湖南省实施情况的调研结果,采用特尔菲法,对适用条件进行了评价,井以湖南省为例,就不同区域的适宜性进行评价.结果表明留用地安置模式只在城市规划稳定、经济发展水平较高,房地产市场成熟,土地需求较为旺盛的地区实施.     

单本振二次变频方案浅析

介绍了一种新型的变频方案,采用单本振源即可实现二次变频,还能保留传统二次变频方案的优点,简化了本振源的实现,有利于小型化和集成化.对该新方案进行了理论分析,进而对这种改进二次变频方案提出了采用的频率配置关系和中频滤波器参数设计准则,并结合一个工程实例完成了相关设计.文中所讨论的方案也同样适用于其它频段.     

From spots to themed sites – the evolution of the Protestant Holy Land

Christian theme sites are the latest stage in a process of sanctification of space in which historically embodied Protestant ways of seeing inscribe Protestant understandings on the Holy Land to produce a textualized sacred landscape. After sketching the evolution of Protestant sacred spaces in the Holy Land, attention is focused on two recent Christian theme sites, Nazareth Village and the Biblical Resources Museum. The sites reflect the interaction of contemporary processes, such as the salience of mediatized images, and the increased importance of sensory experiences with Protestant values and habitus. By demonstrating how global flows of tourism are subject to the constraints of religious ways of seeing, the article seeks to broaden understandings of tourism hereto dominated by the image of the hedonist pleasure-seeker.