珠海市环保产业的发展现状与趋势分析

2010年9月,《国务院关于加快培育和发展战略性新兴产业的决定》正式将节能环保产业确立为国家战略性新兴产业。环保产业同时成为"十二五"期间珠海转变经济发展方式的重要支撑。本文就珠海市环保产业的发展现状进行了简要的分析,对环保产业未来的发展趋势作出了粗略的判断,并提出了促进环保产业进一步发展,提高经济发展水平的政策配套建议。     

Quality assessment in a turbulent environment: The case of the stockfish industry

Quality assessment is frequently applied in business-to-business marketing. It is usually assumed that quality assessment builds on the use of “objective” rules and criteria, but this is not always true. In a longitudinal study it was found that an institutionalized practice of quality assessment was based on both “objective” product characteristics, as well as more subjective supply/demand considerations, making quality assessment much more complex than usually assumed. Theoretical and managerial implications are highlighted.     

生态文明背景下环境管理机制的定位与创新

可持续发展是21世纪全球公认最重要的发展模式。当人类具备生态文明与绿色管理的系统理念之后,环境管理机制的科学性、长效性构建就表现出特别重要的战略性。本文以生态文明背景,以我国环境管理机制为研究对象,对生态文明背景下环境管理机制的定位与创新进行了分析和探讨。     

发展中国家面临的国际贸易所造成环境问题分析

本文主要从目前国际贸易而产生的环境问题出发,分析了现在的跨境污染问题带来的严重后果,特别是对于发展中国家造成的主要影响分析,以及现行一些解决方法的总结。期望从分析过程中找出一定的解决措施,寻求发展中国家面临现在状况的改善办法和措施,为进一步控制贸易对环境的影响并进行进一步的探究提供一点意见。     

我国生态旅游发展对策浅析

生态旅游被认为是目前能实现旅游业可持续发展的最佳选择之一。本文从生态旅游的概念、特点和功能入手,简要分析了我国生态旅游发展中存在的问题,提出了发展我国生态旅游的对策与建议。     

Preindustrial agriculture versus organic agriculture: The land cost of sustainability

The study of traditional agrarian systems can provide useful knowledge for improving the sustainability of present-day agriculture. Nonetheless, with the loss of traditional agro-ecosystems and the rationale that guides them, as has happened in Europe, an historical research approach can have a decisive role to play in recapturing this knowledge. In this article we study the evolution of a typical Mediterranean agro-ecosystem during the last 250 years, supporting the claim that high diversity and the internalization of energy flows and nutrient cycles found in traditional agriculture, are not only characteristics of the greatest sustainability of such systems, but are based in the need for additional land in production. This claim requires the dedication of land to diverse and complementary uses that leave a footprint on the landscape. Organic agriculture needs to consider this “land cost”, meanwhile trying to minimize it in order to improve its actual degree of sustainability.     

The impact of environmental variables on the efficiency of Chinese and other non-Chinese airlines

This paper explores the impact of an international focus, the proportion of cargo traffic, and the level of salaries on the operational efficiency of Chinese airlines and other non-Chinese airlines. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is employed to evaluate the operational efficiency and a bootstrapped truncated regression is applied to explore the impact of environmental variables on efficiency. The results show that an international focus has a negative impact, while the level of salaries has a positive impact. Also, we demonstrate that there is an inverted U-shaped relationship between efficiency and the proportion of cargo traffic.     

A simultaneous estimation of Environmental Kuznets Curve: Evidence from China

This paper uses Chinese provincial data from 1993 to 2002 to examine the existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) relationship between per capita income and per capita pollutant emission. Acknowledging the theoretical framework that economic growth and pollution are jointly determined, this paper starts from formulating a simultaneous equations model (SEM) to investigate the relationship between income and pollutant emission. A Hausman test is applied for income exogeneity and a two-stage least squares (2SLS) method is used to estimate the SEM. There are three main differences found between single polynomial equation estimators commonly used in EKC literatures and simultaneous equationa estimators. Since these differences tend to cause different policy implications, therefore, this paper suggests that the simultaneity between income and pollution should be considered before regressing the model in future EKC studies. In addition, this paper also investigates the determinants of income and government pollution abatement expense. Negative impact of pollution on income, and positive effects of physical and labor on income are found in income equation. Whilst positive effects of pollutant emissions, physical capital and the secondary industry share on pollution abatement expenses are also found in abatement equation.     

Dynamic trend analysis on relational effect of environmental protection industry in China

EPI （environmental protection indastry） and three industries constitute aur national economic structuse. By Grey System Theory and correlation effect analytical method for the first time, this paper analyzes the relatioaship degree between environmental protection industry and the three causes including industries involved in China in both qualitative and quantitotive aspects. Both the innate tale and the realistic reasons nf the relational degree are further analyzed by utilizing sastninoble development theory, circulating economy theol., ecological equilibrium theory, externality theory. industrial structure theory, and ecology prinrity rules. From all the analysts, this paper reveals the relationship between EPI and three industries. In addition, it offers suggestions to the feasibility of adjusting the industrial structure and developing the environmental protection industry in our country.     

Institutions and environmental governance: A reconceptualization

This article presents the conceptual revisions needed to extend the new institutional approach to environmental governance from its current local and international domains of application to all governance solutions, including national environmental and natural resource use policies and multi-level governance solutions that are increasingly used to address global environmental change. The article suggests that environmental governance is best understood as the establishment, reaffirmation or change of institutions to resolve conflicts over environmental resources. It also explains why the choice of these institutions is a matter of social justice rather than of efficiency. The article suggests a way to understand formal and state-centered governance solutions as forms of collective ownership not unlike common property. The article demonstrates how institutional analysis can gain resolution by looking at the functional and structural tiers, organization of governance functions, and formulation of key institutional rules as key aspects of the design of governance institutions.