Tourism and rural settlements Nepal’s Annapurna region

Functional and humanist perspectives relevant to counterurbanization studies are applied to examine the processes of growth and development of rural settlements affected by tourism. Based on a survey of tourism lodges located in several settlements in the Annapurna region of Nepal, this paper analyzes tourism-induced growth in such accommodations and its implications on changing characteristics. Results suggest the emergence of a hierarchical structure of rural settlements with core and peripheral traits. A normative classification of induced patterns defined by their development stage, size, and function is proposed. Historical, social, and economic influences on the transformation of rural settlements are discussed.     

特区扩容:破解深圳市"一市两法"困局的路径选择

近年来,深圳市一直在被"特别的优势"和"特殊的局限"这两个问题所困扰,即如何用好较大市立法权以及如何用好特区立法权.特区扩容提供了一种有效的解决方案,并对促进特区内外一体化进程、平衡深圳市社会和经济发展以及提高城市的竞争力和辐射力等都有着深刻而长远的意义.     

转变招商引资方式 加快农垦园区建设发展

本文通过考察介绍先进地区发展园区的好经验、好做法,提出了如何转变招商引资方式、加快推进广西农垦园区建设发展的一些思考和建议。     

高新区主导产业品牌战略建设——以南宁高新区为例

文章结合南宁高新区的实际分析了高新区的主导产业品牌战略建设。文章认为,在南宁高新区的主导产业品牌战略建设中,政府方面要做好高新区企业的调查摸底和分类培训指导工作,实行专门化管理、定向帮扶,完善品牌的创建、管理和保护体系;企业方面要增强品牌意识、提高产品质量、培育企业文化、激励企业员工和健全品牌管理体系并持之以恒推进品牌建设。     

Development of zone system for macro-level traffic safety analysis

Various geographic units have been used in macro-level modeling. Amongst these units, traffic analysis zones (TAZs) have been broadly employed in many macroscopic safety studies. Nevertheless, no studies questioned the validity of TAZs for crash analysis at the macro-level crash modeling. In this study, we point out several possible problems of TAZs as spatial units for macroscopic safety studies. Current TAZs with homogenous crash rates were combined into new single zones. Then we created ten new zonal systems by different zone aggregation levels. The optimal zonal scale for traffic safety analysis zones (TSAZ) was determined using the Brown-Forsythe test. It was found that the zone system with about 1:2 aggregation was the optimal zone system for macroscopic safety modeling. Thus we develop what we call traffic safety analysis zones (TSAZs) that has the potential of reducing several possible problems of TAZs. Also it was shown that TSAZ based models had better fit compared to TAZ based models.     

Longitude matters: Time zones and the location of foreign direct investment

Using bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) data, we find that differences in time zones have a negative and significant effect on the location of FDI. We show that this finding is robust across different specifications, estimation methods and proxies for time zone differences. Time zones also have a negative effect on trade, but this effect is smaller than that on FDI. Finally, the impact of the time zone effect has increased over time, suggesting that it is not likely to vanish with the introduction of new information technologies.     

地方政府竞争：理解中国旅游经济现象的重要视角

中国旅游经济发展中旅游资源争夺战、遗产申报热、产品同质化、景区门票无序涨价、区域旅游合作失灵等现象存在的深层次原因在于地方政府之间的过度竞争。在现行体制下,旅游地政府竞争的根源在于中央与地方之间的行政性分权、资源配置的市场化转轨、政绩考核制度的经济化导向,监督与约束机制的实质性弱化加剧了竞争。消解地方政府过度竞争对旅游发展的负面影响需要明确中央与地方政府之间关系、改革政绩考核制度、强化约束机制,将是一个循序渐进的长期过程。     

构建安微"三沿"城市经济圈优化主体功能区布局——安徽城市经济圈发展的战略思考

按照区位相近原则规划的城市经济圈(带、群),如果缺乏强势的经济集聚中心和优势产业的支撑,这样的城市经济圈(带、群)则较多的具有地理空间的属性,而缺乏经济学意义的属性。构建城市经济圈,要致力于形成和强化投资热点效应,以热点效应集聚优质资源。城市经济圈是国土生产力布局的核心,必须与国土主体功能规划相结合。安徽应该按照一主、多次、立体型布局的战略思路,构建以沿(巢)湖经济圈为核心、沿江和沿淮城市经济带为两翼的"一个核心,两翼支撑"的"三沿"城市经济圈,形成多层次、跨越型、现代化的主体功能区布局,对外主打"三沿"城市经济圈一张牌,强化安徽城市经济圈在区域经济中的整体竞争、规模竞争、创新竞争和体制竞争的优势。     

中小型经济开发区:专业化还是综合化战略?——以临安经济开发区为例

本文主要探讨中小型经济开发区两种战略模式:专业化和综合化战略。本文指出了我国目前经济开发区存在的问题,分析了两种战略模式,并指出专业化战略是我国应选择的战略,最后,作者以浙江临安经济开发区为例,指出临安经济开发区应由综合化战略转向专业化战略。