Determinants of households’ resistance against land acquisition for mining: Experiences at Talcher coalfields in India

In the context of people's protests against land acquisition for mining in the Indian state of Odisha, the present paper attempts to identify the underlying household level factors. The paper uses primary data collected from the Talcher coalfield region of the state and estimates limited dependent variable models. It is found that the households belonging to the scheduled tribe category or having larger per capita income or with greater access to basic amenities are more inclined to give up their land for mining. However, such inclination is lower when they have more land or better education or are concerned about deforestation and pollution. As regards the amount, the paper finds that households with higher per capita income or larger per capita asset base or greater access to basic amenities desire to give up more land. On the other hand, willingness to give up land is less either when households possess more land holding or when there is a larger male workforce in the family.     

入世对我国矿业经济发展的影响及对策

文章从分析加入世贸组织后中国矿业经济面临的机遇和挑战入手 ,指出了中国矿业经济在跨国经营、企业规模、后备资源、资金和税赋、矿管秩序和矿业法律、资源开发和环境保护等方面存在的问题。并针对这些问题 ,提出了制定矿业经济发展战略、促进矿业企业上市融资、减免矿业企业税赋、利用国外资金资源 ,合理开发利用矿产资源、实行矿产品出口配额制度和许可证制度等项措施建议。     

微软数据挖掘结果可视化研究

介绍了数据挖掘可视化的分类,讨论了微软数据挖掘结果可视化的几种技术和方法,将数据挖掘后得到的知识和结果用直观的形式表现出来,便于发现其中隐藏的特征、关系、模式和趋势等,使用户参与到决策分析的过程中。     

Disclosure responses to mining accidents: South African evidence

Mining activities generate significant social concerns in terms of employee safety and stakeholder scrutiny has increased considerably in recent years. Social and environmental accounting research is largely dedicated to environmental issues and the study of other components of social accounting is limited. This study examines safety disclosures in the annual reports, sustainability reports, and reactive corporate press releases of South African mining organisations following two major mining accidents occurring at Harmony Gold and Gold Fields’ mines. Results show that organisations react to perceived legitimacy threats through increased safety disclosures. The entire mining industry evidences an increase in disclosure levels after the incidents, suggesting that organisations do respond to increased stakeholder scrutiny threatening their legitimacy. Furthermore, our results provide evidence of an association between safety disclosure levels and firm size, social performance, risk, and number of fatalities, while the media attention devoted to mining accidents appears to be unrelated to safety disclosure levels. It is possible that stakeholder pressure, which motivates corporate social disclosures according to legitimacy and stakeholder theories, consists of various factors, which combined form the motivation to report. Media attention, therefore, cannot be considered in isolation as a driver of disclosure. Rather, a combination of variables such as size, social responsibility performance, number of fatalities, risk, and media attention could serve as a proxy for social pressure.     

强化资金管控 确保国际化企业集团资金安全——以兖矿集团资金管控实践为例

通过阐述兖矿集团加强国际化企业集团资金管理,提升集团资金管控水平,增强集团资金资源的配置效能和财务管控能力,提高资金使用效率,确保企业资金安全、稳定、高效运转的具体实践,认为在后金融危机时期,应该强化资金管控,确保企业资金安全。     

Regional economic transformation: Changing land and resource access on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island

The West Coast region of New Zealand has experienced significant structural economic changes since the 1980s. These changes have been a result of state imposed land use restrictions that limited productivist activities such as logging and mining, which in turn have been overlain by the effects of changes in national and global resource demand. This has led to both job loss and local resentment to what is seen to be external political and environmental interference in the region. Such changes overlay on-going boom-and-bust cycles experienced in the region’s resource dependent communities and the state’s pursuit of neo-liberalism from the 1980s, leading to the loss of state support and employment in the region. Regional path-dependence and ‘lock-in’ centred on productivist activities and the slow realisation of the need to diversify the economy have not helped. The region has under-performed in comparison with national trends economically and demographically reflecting and reinforcing local path dependence. The gradual growth of the service and tourism economies marks a new use for land resources and slow structural economic change. However, in the absence of governance processes that allow for collaborative planning to resolve conflicts over future trajectories for the region, conflicts over land uses, resources and access are likely to persist.     

A model of suitability evaluation of tourism development for the suburban mining wasteland and its empirical research

The model of suitability evaluation of tourism development for suburban mining wasteland was established in Fengquan District of Xinxiang City, with measurable methods to provide the basis for its tourism development and landscape planning. The construction and evaluation of the model was conducted with AHP method.from the follow. ing four aspects： ecological importance, landscape importance, economic importance and social importance, vail. dated with the case. In the established evaluation system, weight values of six indexes are higher than 0.05, among which the weight of industrial characteristics is the highest, and the weight of area, pollution conditions, air quality conditions, landscape diversity and topography were also higher There are still seven indicators with weight values of higher than 0.02. including land price, transportation accessibility, geological conditions, water conditions, finan, cial security, distance to cities and similar competition. Weight values of five indexes are lower than 0.02, including government function, vegetation conditions, soil conditions, urban economic level and major tourism environment. We have tried to set a weighting set by AHP to avoid the shortcomings in ordinary weighting process, to perform the tourism evaluation with a maturely-developed method and solve the multi-indicator evaluation problems which involve the fuzziness and variability of scaling effectively. Our calendaring method is a simple, reasonable, quantitative and feasible one. with general significance to non-structuralized project as development of wasteland.     

以数据挖掘提升SRM决策分析能力

传统供应商关管理(SRM)在供应商分类评价方面存在不足,将数据挖掘技术引入其中,以从大量的数据信息中发现影响供应商合作价值的潜在规律,从而提升SRM的决策分析能力。设计中综合使用了数据仓库、聚类分析、决策树方法,并在国内一大型制药企业运用实践,为SRM的深入开发和应用提供了有价值的参考。     

Text mining a decade of progress in hospitality human resource management research: Identifying emerging thematic development

The authors identified the emerging research streams based on the published research literature in human resource management (HRM) from 1994 to 2003 in the International Journal of Hospitality Management. Textual data were collected and content-analyzed by a text-mining program aided by human judgments. The results from the content analysis of both the computer-aided and human judgmental methods were then integrated and conceptually graphed to map meaningful findings that were logically precise, humanly readable, and computationally tractable. Through this unique approach, nine major HRM research themes emerged and each thematic development based on time and country was interpreted and discussed.