Factors contributing to business actions in response to climate change in Korea

Climate change is a growing problem and has been highlighted as a global issue. Empirical evidence increasingly indicates its obvious potential risks to humans and society. As members of this society, business organizations face greatly diverse climate change-related risks that they must recognize and respond to. However, gaps exist between scientific evidence and the actions of business organizations. Few empirical studies have examined the business organizations’ actions taken in response to climate change in Korea. This paper addresses this critical gap in the climate change literature by examining business organizations’ behaviors and identifying the factors influencing their actions. We employ statistical models to compare corporate climate change actions, and we explain their variations using survey data. The results indicate that despite increasing concerns about climate change, businesses have implemented very limited precautionary mitigation and adaptation actions. In addition, the concerns of the businesses about future climate change impact, organizational capacity (leadership, staff capacity, existence of a relevant division or department), and business size are significant factors with respect to the implementation of climate change actions.     

基于旅游者健康视角下的青藏高原旅游适应区开发研究——以青海高原旅游区为例

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Behavioral Adaptation of Alpine Skiers to Climate Change: Examining Activity Involvement and Place Loyalty

This study employed a visitor survey to analyze the influence that changing climatic conditions have on the substitution behaviors of alpine skiers (activity, spatial, temporal). It further focuses on the role that activity involvement plays in influencing behavioral adaptations (i.e., substitution) and also the extent to which place loyalty is affected. The Modified Involvement Scale (MIS) was used to segment respondents based on high, medium, and low levels of leisure involvement with activity. Highly involved skiers were more likely to change their skiing behavior as a result of poor snow conditions than were less involved individuals. Pritchard's Psychological Commitment Index (PCI) provided evidence that less involved skiers exhibit lower levels of commitment to particular service providers than do highly involved individuals.     

Rhetoric or action: Are South African municipalities planning for climate change?

In 2008 the South African National Disaster Management Centre commissioned a study into measures taken by local municipalities to plan for climate change. Two areas were selected for their dissimilar climatic challenges: the //Khara Hais Municipality,1 ¹The // spelling represents the click consonant in the Kxoe language that the name comes from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki///Khara_Hais_Local_Municipality * Brendon Solik is now a Consultant at Environmental Resources Management (ERM), Johannesburg, South AfricaView all notes a semi-desert area in the Northern Cape Province plagued by droughts and severe weather events, and the George Municipality, an area in the Western Cape Province plagued by droughts, the rising sea level and flash floods. It was found that despite South African laws and regulations requiring local government to take action to reduce the risk of disasters, planning for climate change is still no more than sophisticated rhetoric in the two municipalities. This lack of urgency can be ascribed to local municipalities having other more pressing developmental priorities. It would, however, be short-sighted of municipalities not to plan for climate change, as major setbacks in hard-won economic and social development follow a disaster.     

旅游环境中民族文化的生态适应性变化研究——以张家界郝坪、包谷山土家族为例

旅游开发作为民族地区政府主导的经济行为,它所造成的社会影响与移民、传媒、族际交流等因素有着本质区别。选取了分别处于旅游影响辐射地带和核心区的两个村庄,采用实证研究法,以风俗礼仪、工艺传承、宗教节庆为测量指标,观测旅游环境中民族文化的变化特征,发现民族文化持有者群体在不同程度表现出实践行为和精神认同的分裂,在旅游业起步、发展阶段的背弃和成熟阶段的回归,集中体现了民族旅游区的文化嬗变是一个通过文化元素的生态制衡和文化主体的自觉选择,最终达成生态适应的过程。     

近十年国内民间信仰的人类学研究概况——以社区研究方法为例

本文总结了近十年来民间信仰社区研究方法的三个主要特点,认为西部地区的研究尚待大规模开发。功能主义一直以来是中国民间信仰研究的重要理论范式,笔者基于这一理论梳理了民间信仰所具有的四个基本社会功能,并罗列了民间信仰研究的主要内容,及社区方法所具有的优势。     

Real (adaptation) options and the valuation of equity: some empirical evidence

Data from 1,374 firms across four broad industrial groupings are used to assess the contribution that real (adaptation) options make to overall equity values. The analysis indicates that real (adaptation) options make a significant contribution to the equity value of firms with a market to book ratio (of equity) of around unity or less. As the market to book ratio grows beyond this level, however, the contribution made by real (adaptation) options decays quickly away and equity values are mainly comprised of the present value of the dividends that firms are expected to pay. This means that for around one in every five of the firms in our sample real (adaptation) options make a significant contribution to overall equity value. Thus, while linear equity valuation models would seem to be appropriate for the substantial majority of firms on which our sample is based, there is a sizeable minority of firms where real (adaptation) options have a significant impact on equity values. For this latter group of firms there will be a non-linear relationship between equity value and its determining variables. This has important implications for the regression procedures that are applied in this area of accounting research.     

学术用语汉译严谨性研究——以Home Education/Homeschooling为例

学术用语翻译需要将严谨性作为基本要求,翻译时要深入了解其语言形式、概念内涵,使汉语术语具有适切性。     

基于生物气候条件的绿色建筑节能设计策略

文章介绍了基于生物气候图,确定不同气候地区绿色建筑节能设计策略的方法。以云南3个城市为例,探讨了云南热地区、温和地区、寒冷地区的绿色建筑节能设计策略,可为复杂气候地区绿色建筑节能的气候适应性设计提供借鉴。     

制造企业的多层次服务导向对服务创新和服务价值的影响

随着制造业服务化转型的逐渐深入,制造企业的经营理念正由产品导向转变为服务导向。将服务导向划分为战略层服务导向、组织层服务导向和员工层服务导向,分析了各层次服务导向的内涵及外延,建立了以服务导向为自变量、服务创新为中介变量、服务价值为因变量以及竞争强度为调节变量的理论模型。同时,以组织市场(B2B)作为研究背景,面向制造企业的管理者收集数据,对提出的理论模型进行了实证检验。研究结果表明:各层次的服务导向之间存在显著相关性,且对服务创新和服务价值具有积极影响,竞争强度在员工层服务导向与服务价值之间起正向调节作用。因此,构建多层次的服务导向体系是制造企业推进服务创新,创造服务价值并构建竞争优势的有效途径。