An Ecofeminist Narrative of Urban Nature Connection

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to explore meanings, experiences, and perceived impacts associated with an urban nature connection program as narrated by mothers of program participants. “Project Connect”, a charity organization established in 2008, delivers the program investigated in urban parks and green spaces in Toronto, Canada. Drawing on ecofeminism and narrative inquiry, the study reveals a community narrative that depicts how Project Connect serves a group of mothers as an incubator of relationships spanning social and environmental domains, and which enable resistance of status quo forces that shape contemporary cityscapes. Nature connection in this sense is very much a political and cultural process that opens opportunities to challenge but also reproduce aspects of the dominant nature-related discourses. Accordingly, this study prompts consideration of the power of mothers and an ethics of care to transform human-nature relationships, and weaves critical consciousness and cautious re-valuing around the nature narratives we tell.     

自组织条件下的保护区生态旅游发展途径

自组织理论是20世纪70年代以来发展起来的,以复杂巨系统为研究对象的非线性科学。生态旅游主要是以自然保护区为资源依托的特种旅游形式,人类活动的介入给原本存在一定水平自组织状态的自然生态系统带来了更多的复杂性、脆弱性和发展的不确定性。运用系统自组织原理和生态原则,把人类活动看作是保护区人文生态系统的一个自组织单元,自觉规范人类的生态旅游行为,是生态旅游产业走可持续发展道路的必然选择。     

断面法储量计算在某金矿的应用分析

文章以断面法在胶东某金矿的应用为例,对断面法计算储量进行了详细的介绍。实例说明断面法是一种应用比较方便的储量计算方法,也能保证计算精度。分析总结断面法的优缺点,并从理论上分析了储量计算误差来源及储量计算的精度。     

信用评级高估与融资的所有制歧视——基于中国公司债的数据

为了分析发债主体所有制性质对公司债发行定价影响的作用机理,从信用评级高估的假设出发,将所有制性质的定价作用区分为直接效应和间接效应,基于贝叶斯法则得出两个推断：评级高估会导致发债主体所有制性质对公司债发行定价的直接效应;高信用等级公司债发行定价会受到发债主体所有制性质的直接影响,低信用等级公司债则不然。通过对2007—2013年沪深两市公开发行的公司债进行实证分析,推断得到了验证。这些分析有利于剖析民营企业融资歧视的形成机制。     

论企业与自然关系协调中的技术选择

人们在检讨工业文明带给人类的后果时,对工业文明的技术的缺陷进行深刻认知。并非是所有的基于当代科学而产生的技术都可以满足可持续发展的需要。为实现人类社会的可持续发展,在实践中,必须对不断涌现的技术进行有标准的选择。我们把经过选择的技术称为“恰当技术”,“恰当技术”的采用展示了可持续发展的美好前景。     

南派筝曲音乐风格的形成与其地域音乐文化的关系

对南派筝曲的音调来源、音阶结构、旋律发展手法和音乐结构四个方面进行形态学分析,揭示南派筝曲与南方地域音乐文化的密切关系,比较南派筝曲音乐风格的差异,探寻南方民间音乐对南派筝曲在音乐风格上的影响,挖掘南派筝曲地域性音乐风格形成的文化属性,并从文化地理学的视角追究这种地域性艺术风格的成因,以期演奏者能从理论上把握南派筝曲所蕴含的文化内涵。     

Institutional Usury and the Banks

Although usury is no longer widely discussed in economic discourse, the concept of usury is useful in explaining financial upheavals such as the recent and on-going crisis. The Scholastics began the study of interest with their teachings on usury, and Keynes brought the usury debate back into the discussions during the period around the Great Depression. Bernard Dempsey, a Jesuit economist, wrote a definitive assessment of scholastic theory in the early 1940s under the direction of Schumpeter. Dempsey developed his own theory of financial crises which he attributed to the presence of what he termed “institutional usury.” The recently implemented policy by the Federal Reserve of paying banks interest on reserves is examined in light of Dempsey's concept of institutional usury. The scholastic concept of the just price is used to analyze market power wielded by large financial institutions in the modern economy.     

论天人合一与生态环境──台湾八八水灾的省思

人类向来就不是自然大千世界的主宰者。2009年,八八水灾重创台湾,省思缘由,是天灾也是人祸。如果无法从灾难中记取教训,灾难永远无法停止。古代人智慧结晶＂天人合一＂,是人类与大地永续经营的天然法则。从＂心＂做起,净化人心,建立人类的环保心灵,方是终止灾难的关键。万物是人类生存的主体,懂得疼惜,才能久远。处处留心皆学问,花开花落尽禅机,万物静观皆自得,一切莫名的感动与行动都是生命的活泉。     

Growth of China's foreign exchange reserve

China's growing foreign exchange reserve is estimated to exceed $2 trillion by 2010. The purpose of its paper is to examine its impact on the balance sheet of the Chinese central bank, the money supply and the bond market. The paper will then move on to discuss its social welfare effect by comparing the estimated future return of the foreign exchange reserves with its opportunity costs measured by the potential return of domestic investments.     

The new exchange rate policy in the Asian emerging economies – goodbye trouble,hello comfort?

In this paper, we discuss new aspects of exchange rate policy that can be observed in the Asian emerging economies. In the first place, we show the alternative regimes they may choose and their respective pros and cons. Secondly, we concentrate on the recent strategy of systematic undervaluation of one's currency – figuring prominently among ‘big’ Asian players such as China and India – and the most likely implications of such a strategy for domestic allocation, distribution and stabilization goals. With the background of Germany's experiences in 1969, almost on the eve of the Bretton Woods' system collapse, we model a speculative attack on an undervalued currency in the vein of the Flood–Garber seminal paper from 1984. Now, however, the country in concern (just like India and China) possesses strong rather than weak fundamentals. The continuous accumulation of international reserves, in addition, leads to the question of an ‘optimal management’ of foreign exchange reserves in Asian emerging economies with regard to size and composition. We finally propose a sequence of reforms/policies that should be implemented in those Asian emerging economies on their still long journey to a regime featured by autonomous monetary policy, flexible exchange rate and capital mobility. A brief summary and an outlook for future research close the paper.