Warehouse location problems for air freight forwarders: a challenge created by the airport relocation

The move of Hong Kong International Airport from the city centre to a suburban area in July 1998 provided sufficient capacity to meet the increasing demand of passenger and air-cargo flows in Hong Kong in the foreseeable future. However, the move has adverse side effects such as causing the readjustment of many existing systems and creating many imminent strategic problems. One of such problems is the warehouse location of freight forwarders: they have to decide whether they should locate their warehouses in the new airport, in current locations, or in new locations somewhere in the city. This paper delineates the results of a survey conducted in the summer of 1997 before the airport was relocated. The survey asked what decisions the freight forwarders had made and how they evaluated some potential warehouse locations. The paper also considers two mathematical models, which explain and predict, respectively, the location pattern of freight forwarder warehouses before and after the relocation of the airport.     

地下水污染防治区划研究

地下水在我国水资源体系中占有重要地位,可以直接对我国民众日常生产生活造成影响,在我国社会发展过程中,水资源污染问题日益严重,地下水污染问题成为了社会热门话题之一。基于此,从业人员应加大研究力度,不断对传统治理办法进行创新,以解决地下水污染问题。通过实际工作证明,在现有地下水污染治理策略中,防治区划手段治理效果最好,可以对地下水污染问题进行有效控制,避免地下水污染进一步扩大。     

珠三角区域跨界环境问题的经济分析

由于忽视了环境外部性的存在,目前珠江三角洲地区的跨界污染问题很严重;通过空间计量经济模型实证,发现某地区的污染排放量不止和本地区的经济增长有关系,也受邻近城市经济发展水平的影响,珠三角的环境质量与经济增长在空间上表现出相互作用;最后给出了解决跨界环境问题的对策建议。     

浅析我国环境污染责任保险面临的问题与对策

环境污染责任保险在我国推广的过程中取得了一定的成就,但同时也暴露出一些问题。本文在对存在的问题进行分析的基础上,提出了完善我国环境污染责任保险的对策,以期对我国环境污染责任保险的推广有所裨益。     

改良剂修复重金属污染土壤及环境风险评价

采用改良剂修复技术治理重金属污染土壤是一种有效的技术,土壤改良后的风险评估是一项重要内容。综述了改良剂修复重金属污染土壤后的环境风险评估方法和分析方法,并对今后的研究进行了展望。     

生活垃圾焚烧炉渣湿法与干法处理工艺比较

通过对生活垃圾焚烧炉渣的湿法和干法处理的工艺路线、金属提取程度、环境影响和经济指标等方面的对比分析,得出湿法工艺的金属回收率及整体收益较高,但存在较为严重的污水与沉淀污泥污染问题,如需妥善解决,将大幅度提升炉渣的处理成本。目前国内干法工艺的收益低于湿法,却有效的避免了对环境的二次污染,成为炉渣处理的主要发展趋势。     

The impact of Air Service Agreement liberalisation: The case of Nigeria

The positive impact of air transport liberalisation as suggested by economic theories and empirical studies has inspired many developing countries like Nigeria to liberalise some of its Air Service Agreements (ASAs). This paper seeks to examine the extent to which international air service liberalisation has impacted upon Nigeria ten years after it was introduced. The research developed a cross-sectional model with passenger traffic as the dependent variable, while macroeconomic factors (trade and GDP), historical links, distance and ASAs (a proxy for liberalisation) served as independent or predictor variables. The analysis revealed a set of ASA stages in the country's policy-making process (restricted Bilateral Air Service Agreement, Open Skies Agreement and Yamoussoukro Declaration). Further analysis showed that the predictor variables were all significant in explaining passenger demand. The model demonstrated that the liberalisation of market access to the Open Skies Agreement level could stimulate traffic growth by at least 65 percent. The findings can assist in guiding policy and industry stakeholders in future decisions relating to liberalisation and ASAs.     

Dynamic routing of time-sensitive air cargo using real-time information

The route planning of time-sensitive air-cargo is becoming more important with the growing air-network congestion and delays. We consider a freight forwarder’s routing of a time-sensitive air-cargo in the presence of real-time and historical information regarding flight availability, departure delays and travel times. A departure delay estimation model is developed to account for real-time information inaccuracy. A novel Markov decision model is formulated and solved with online backward induction. Through synthetic experiments and case studies, we demonstrate that dynamic routing with real-time information can improve delivery reliability and reduce expected cost.     

Motivations and Barriers to Corporate Environmental Management

This paper integrates two conceptual frameworks, utility maximization and institutional theory, to analyze voluntary corporate environmental management. The utility maximization or economic approach centers on motivations to decrease cost, increase revenue and improve manager utility. Institutional theory emphasizes how external pressures from market and non‐market constituents shape the firm's environmental efforts. We view the two frameworks as complementary and postulate a model that includes both types of influences. Survey data from six major industries consisting of a diverse set of facilities are used to estimate the effects of economic and institutional factors on a facility's use of environmental practices and pollution‐prevention activities. Our results support the hypothesized model, and show that cost barriers, management attitudes toward environmental stewardship, company ownership and external institutional forces, including competitiveness, investor and regulatory pressures, all affect a facility's environmental practices and pollution prevention activities. Findings suggest that a multifaceted policy strategy is needed to advance corporate environmental management across diverse firms. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment     

经济增长与环境

在政府不参与环境控制时,经济增长率最高,但污染也最严重,社会福利要比政府采取补贴情形时低.通过建立模型推导出了在放任政策下的经济增长率是最快的,但污染比较严重。