基于成本调查的西安市中小物流企业运行效率分析与思考

通过对西安市中小物流企业实地调查,从成本的角度出发分析中小物流企业成本构成,通过探析导致各项成本发生的原因分析中小物流企业运行效率和引致成本升高的原因,并提出提高西安市中小物流企业运行效率、降低成本的具体实施措施。     

福建省陆地港发展初探

文中介绍了福建省建设陆地港的背景,并概括了各个陆地港的发展现状与优势所在。在此基础上,分析现阶段福建省陆地港存在的问题,提出相关发展对策,为促进福建省陆地港的发展提供建议。     

双桨叶加盘式组合干燥在沉淀硫酸钡生产中的应用

介绍了双桨叶加盘式干燥机系统的组合干燥的流程、设备结构和工作原理,对其能源的消耗利用及环境良好性进行了分析和比较,肯定了这种组合干燥系统相对于传统的闪蒸对流干燥组合在工业钡盐生产中的合理性及明显的节能效果。     

干法烟气脱硫渣在建材行业中高技术附加值利用的探讨

文章阐述了目前国内外对干法脱硫渣综合利用的现状,以胶凝材料学以及水泥化学为理论基础,将干法脱硫渣中的物质划分为三类,并提出在充分激发其活性的基础上,对干法脱硫渣进行高技术附加值的利用,并详细阐述了其原理和途径。     

基于GIS的东北地区后备农用地资源评价

在GIS的支持下,选定东北后备农用地资源利用的影响因子,通过GIS的权重叠加模型运算,对东北地区后备农用地资源进行耕地适宜性评价,对于开发、利用和保护东北地区土地资源具有一定的实际意义。     

Reterritorialization practices and strategies of campesinos in the urban frontier of Bogotá, Colombia

Much of the research on urbanization has focused on how rural populations move to cities for work opportunities. This paper takes a different perspective on the relations between rural populations and urbanization. The livelihoods of rural dwellers on the outskirts of the city of Bogotá in Colombia are increasingly affected by the expansion of urban activities and infrastructure. Therefore, urbanization takes place in the areas of residence of the rural populations; these people do not migrate to the city but, rather, the city migrates to them. Consequently, rural ways of life face growing competition from the production of commodities and services on the urban-rural fringe, including quarrying and landfills serving the needs of industries and urban populations. We explore how rural populations and their livelihoods have transformed as a response to these urban dynamics and the expansion of the city. We focus on the strategies that the rural populations employ to deal with the physical and socio-ecological impacts of this change. The defense of peri-urban livelihoods through these strategies is simultaneously social and spatial and has been partially successful. However, increasing social and environmental inequality, including worsening access to land, water and vital ecological functions, tends to lead to a general reduction in the quality of life in the urban frontier.     

EU quality labels in the Italian olive oil market: How much overlap is there between geographical indication and organic production?

In the early 1990s, the European Union established two main quality schemes: geographical indications (GIs) and organic production (OP). Despite the abundant literature on the EU quality schemes applied to many food categories, including extra virgin olive oil, in most studies, GIs and OP are analysed separately, under the assumption that they are independent. This study aims to prove that synergies exist between GIs and OP labels. We analysed EU labelling on GIs and organic attributes simultaneously using bivariate probit models, and also assessed the level of independence from each other. A survey was administered to Italian consumers to elicit their purchasing behaviour of olive oil. The results found a correlation between the two certifications, highlighting the promising use of both certifications for olive oil products.     

The value components of contract farming in contemporary capitalism

Contract farming (CF) has generally been understood as, essentially, a market institution—by both (approving) “mainstream” and (critical) “radical” perspectives. Analyses of relations of production have, meanwhile, tended towards a problematic “peasantist” frame, where contracts undermine farmer “autonomy” in processes of “flexible” corporate agro‐industrial restructuring. This paper argues that a materialist analysis of CF from within capital–labour relations offers a stronger conceptual foundation for re‐synthesizing questions of market‐power. It first argues that radical notions of “peasant subsumation” conceptually mirror Marx's “formal subsumption of capital” but underplay dynamics of “real subsumption” accompanying capitalism's wider development. Drawing on the “petty commodity production” concept, it then argues that CF's “flexibility” rests in its differential content. CF's fungibility to contradictory movements of “integration” and “dispersion” enables it to emphasize different methods of surplus appropriation under shifting conditions; each corresponding to a different dominant social tendency. On the one hand, conditions of market expansion inspire integration for relative surplus appropriation through raised productivity, and CF tends to act as a “tool of proletarianization” in the wider centralization of capital. On the other, conditions of contraction motivate the dispersal of unvalorized capital, prompting efforts to raise absolute surplus appropriation, and CF tends to act as a “tool of differentiation” to concentrate agricultural capital.     

Appearance-related consumption among dating,cohabiting and married consumers: a comparison between men and women

This paper explores press releases, a neglected area of retail and marketing research, from leading British supermarket retailers over a two-year period to December 2002. Major themes for press releases are found to be products and services, corporate social responsibility, and corporate affairs and performance, although individual retailers show different emphases. A stakeholder engagement approach demonstrates how the releases seek to build networks of common interest, which is particularly demonstrable in relation to support for British farming and charitable activities. However it is noted that both these could be considered “easy targets”, grateful for any support they can obtain.