Confronting sustainable development in two rural heritage valorization models

Many rural areas have reinvented their territorial development through tourism, turning to vernacular heritage to ensure their future. Various models of heritage preservation and valorization are adopted where small-scale agriculture is no longer viable. Among them, ecomuseums and place-based labelization schemes transform rural heritage into an economic resource while remaining grounded in cultural and architectural preservation and identity transmission to future generations. Both face criticisms, including being decried as fostering the museumification and mythification of the rural, effectively holding back rural areas in an imagined and romanticized past rather than providing a vision for a sustainable future. The Association of the Most Beautiful Villages of France and the Ecomusée d'Alsace illustrate the debate. This investigation analyzes how these two initiatives challenge critics. It unveils their respective understandings of the future of rurality and their approach to promoting sustainable communities through tourism. By highlighting responses to tensions between valorizing the past and forward development in the countryside, findings reveal paradigm shifts from traditional habitat preservation to future-oriented architectural pedagogy in one case, while operational exigencies and normative quality principles mitigate opportunities in the other.     

Rural tourism and gendered nuances

Research findings on rural residents’ attitudes towards tourism are often contradictory, in part due to a lack of data examining the often divergent perspectives of particular subgroups. Regional survey data from the Intermountain Western United States is used to provide an improved understanding of rural tourism attitudes as they are linked to community involvement and changes, while also exploring both intragender and intergender differences. Group differences in levels of community involvement, perceptions of tourism and various other issues are observed. While differences emerge, there is also widespread agreement on the importance of preserving local culture and the opposition to sale of agricultural land for development.     

中国县域旅游城市文化产业安全现状、实践与思考——以赤水市为例

赤水被誉为"黔北明珠""、国际最佳休闲旅游城市",是历史文化悠久、贵州省最具影响力的县级国际旅游城市。赤水在全国范围内知名度不高,旅游综合实力不强,国际影响力与"国际最佳休闲旅游城市"这一称号实难相称,文化基础转化为税收、旅游收入等硬实力的能力不足,文化软实力距丽江、平遥等一流县域旅游城市存在一定差距。本文试从文化产业安全角度进行研究,梳理历史现状、剖析问题成因,结合实践给出对策。     

天然气供应链安全战略下的库存集中控制研究

随着我国天然气需求的快速增长以及对外依存度的提高,我国天然气供应链安全问题已成为事关国家安全战略的重大问题。天然气供应链安全战略下的库存集中控制问题已成为当前研究的热点。文中在深入分析库存集中控制在天然气供应链安全战略中的作用的基础上,对其实施原则与对策进行了较为详细的论述。其结论对于我国实施天然气供应链安全战略具有较高的参考和借鉴作用。     

城乡居民收入差距现状分析与缩小路径研究

面对城乡居民收入差距有所扩大的现状,文章利用《湖南统计年鉴》内的数据测算了2004-2013年十年内城乡居民收入的泰尔指数,分析了经济发展不平衡、人力资源差别、房地产畸形发展等扩大居民收入差距的原因。通过对城乡居民收入泰尔指数变化的研究,探讨了发展城乡经济、加大财政投入、推进户籍制度改革等缩小居民收入差距的路径。     

农民旅游者出游特征、影响因素及对策——以浙江省为例

在我国大力发展乡村旅游的同时,人们往往只重视农村居民作为旅游产品的生产者,却忽视其同时也是旅游产品的消费者.目前,随着农村经济的平稳发展,尤其在沿海经济发达地区,农村居民人均可自由支配收入逐年上升,其旅游需求市场日益壮大.文章通过对浙江省11个地市进行抽样调查,在分析农民旅游者行为特征的同时,剖析其对出游的态度与动机,并对影响其出游决策的因素进行归类分析,最后提出相应对策.     

电气工程的管理措施研究

电气工程是建筑工程中重要的组成部分,随着建筑智能化的发展,技术的更新更快,要求的质量高标准,电气工程的管理工作变得越来越重要。一套具有安全保障的管理措施能够给社会带来经济效益的同时,也能让工作人员对工作保持极大的热情。本文主要是通过对目前的形式分析对电气工程管理工作作进一步的探究。     

关于深化农电体制改革的建议

总结了我国农电体制改革在构建农村供电所或营业所、促进农业经济发展等方面的成效,分析了县级供电企业存在的政企未完全分开、股份制改革困难较多、产权关系复杂等问题,提出在深化农电体制改革的过程中,应优先考虑上划方式结束对县级供电企业的代管,明晰农电资产所有权,对农电工管理采用农电业务外包方式,建立有效的农电投融资机制及合理的农村电价形成机制。     

兰州新农村建设的经验、问题与对策研究

新农村建设是农村第二次飞跃式发展的有效路径。近年来,兰州新农村建设使农村经济实现了长足、快速、稳步地发展,农民的生活水平不断提高,有许多经验值得借鉴。但同时调查也表明,制约农村经济发展的瓶颈以及影响农村稳定和持续繁荣的因素依然很多,社会主义新农村建设还有许多新的问题和情况亟待解决,新农村建设任重而道远。     

Social protection for enhanced food security in sub-Saharan Africa

This paper identifies several positive synergies between social protection programmes and enhanced entitlements to food. One function of social protection is to manage or reduce vulnerability. Several instruments are reviewed – weather-indexed insurance, public works programmes, emergency food aid and buffer stock management – which aim to stabilise income and access to food across good and bad years, or between the harvest and the hungry season. Other social protection instruments aim to raise household income and crop production, for instance agricultural input subsidies or input trade fairs, as well as public works projects that construct or maintain physical infrastructure such as rural feeder roads. This paper also argues that entitlements to food can be strengthened if social justice principles are introduced to the design and delivery of social protection programmes. Examples reviewed include rights-based approaches such as employment guarantee schemes, community-based targeting and demand-driven accountability mechanisms. The paper concludes by arguing for a comprehensive approach to social protection that will achieve sustainable food security, by combining interventions that stabilise income or food production with those that raise income or food production, and are designed and delivered in ways that enhance social justice.