Worlding Water Supply: Thinking Beyond the Network in Jakarta

This article draws on scholarship in Southern theory to ‘world’ the study of water’s urbanization. This means complicating scholarship by widening the focus beyond the application of Northern norms to engage with complex and diverse practices in Southern cities. For water’s urbanization, this means focusing on what water supply is for the majority: neither the centralized piped‐water network nor its absence, but the range of practices and technologies that unite people, nature and artefacts in a complex socio‐ecological politics of water. Drawing on scholarship from Southern urbanisms, urban political ecology, and science and technology studies, we illustrate how expanding water’s urbanization to include more than networked infrastructure in Jakarta draws attention to the importance of ecological connections between piped water, groundwater, wastewater and floodwater. Thinking beyond the network requires deeper engagement with the ecological connections between the diverse flows of water in and around urban environments. These produce distinct forms of fragmentation that are missed when analysis is limited to piped‐water supply. The emphasis on ecological connections between flows of water and power seeks to draw attention back to the importance of the uneven exposure to environmental hazards in cities in which neither water nor nature are wholly contained by infrastructure.     

Are EU trade preferences really effective? An impact evaluation assessment of the Southern Mediterranean Countries’ case

This work assesses the causal impact of the EU trade preferences granted to the Southern Mediterranean Countries (SMCs) in agriculture and fishery products over the period 2004–2014. It overcomes some of the weaknesses of previous assessments and presents several methodological improvements. Firstly, it relies on a continuous treatment – i.e. preferential margins – to capture the ‘average treatment effect’ of trade preferences, rather than on a binary treatment based on dummy variables. Secondly, it uses highly disaggregated data at sectoral level in order to evaluate properly the preferential treatment. Thirdly, it applies a non-parametric matching technique for continuous treatment – specifically, a generalized propensity score matching. The results show, on the one hand, that the impact of the EU preferences is positive and significant on SMCs trade and is better evaluated using impact evaluation techniques. On the other hand, they demonstrate that the relationship between preferences and trade flows is asymmetric and warn against the risk of providing too much of a good thing. These results raise important issues for policy-making. First, they demonstrate that raising the level of preferences is not the solution to foster the SMCs trade towards EU. Second, that the policy-makers should put more emphasis on complementary factors other than trade barriers.     

论四川人文景观的开发与保护

四川位于中国西南部,由于奇特的地理和悠久的历史,人文景观种类齐全,优势明显。本文首先介绍了四川人文景观的概况,并进一步分析了人文景观开发与保护的模式和效益,在此基础上提出四川省人文景观开发与保护的建议。     

魏晋南北朝时期道教发展中的儒家特色

魏晋南北朝时期道教迅速壮大发展起来,不但其宗教形式、理论、仪规等得以完善,而且完成了向官方道教的转变。在该时期道教的改革发展过程中,道教的一些代表人物起到了关键作用。这些道教代表人物在身世背景、学宦经历、入世态度及思想理念等方面,无不深受儒家思想的浸染。这使他们在改革和发展道教的过程中,在各方面都深受儒家的影响,由此也决定了道教在该时期的发展中所带有的鲜明的儒家特色。     

中国南海发展滨海生态旅游的思考

南海，地处热带，亚热带，我国管辖的面积达200万km^2，跨广东、广西、海南三省区沿海，具有漫长曲折的海岸线，众多的港湾和岛屿，滨海旅游资源十分丰富，本文探讨了滨海生态旅游的特点，意义，分析了我国环南海的粤、桂、琼三省区发展滨海生态旅游存在的主要问题并提提出了相应的对策。     

Climate change implications for the catastrophe bonds market: An empirical analysis

Since their introduction in the mid-1990s, the return per unit of risk or multiple on catastrophe (cat) bonds has steadily declined. This paper investigates whether this pattern is consistent with the historical evolution of natural disaster risk, using average multiple figures over the period 1997–2017. Assessing the accuracy of cat bond pricing is important, since about 50% of outstanding risk capital in the cat bonds market is currently exposed to Atlantic hurricanes -a risk that global warming, among other disruptions, is found to enhance- and pension and mutual funds in European and other OECD countries currently own about 30% of the market. In this respect, while our findings suggest that falling multiples are primarily related to the Fed's expansionary monetary stance and to portfolio shift effects, we do also find evidence of significant undervaluation of global warming risk in the cat bonds market. This finding, also in light of the unfailing appetite of institutional investors for such securities, casts doubts over the sanity of the market and over cat bonds as suitable investment products for risk averse investors. Sounder investment opportunities might be found in the green bonds market, which allows for the funding of immediate investment in climate change mitigation too.     

松辽盆地南部泉头组孢粉组合

详细列出松辽盆地南部泉头组主要孢粉组合及百分含量。泉头组的孢粉组合带反映了新老交替的特点,被子植物花粉开始发展,一部分早白垩世常见分子有的绝灭,有的衰退。综合考虑泉头组的时代应为阿尔必中晚期。     

苏南地区农业与农村经济可持续发展的观念障碍

本文提出苏南农业与农村经济发展现状并剖析了苏南农业与农村经济可持续发展的六大观念障碍：①资源优越观;②优势要素替代观;③消极依赖观;④自我封闭观;⑤重工抑农观;⑥片面发展观。     

苏南高职院校开展创业教育之我见

创业的时代呼唤创业教育,而创业教育应适应区域经济文化发展。苏南作为我国经济发达地区,对创业教育提出了更高的要求。文章论述了苏南高职院校创业教育应适应"新苏南模式",应运用丰富的吴文化资源弘扬"三创"精神,应围绕高技能人才综合素质的培养目标。