Designing and implementing conservation tender metrics: Twelve core considerations

In conservation tenders metrics are intended to describe the values that would result from alternate investments; they are the linkage between individual on-ground projects and tender scheme proponents. These metrics have received little attention by economists yet are the critical linchpin that defines the nature of the values that are traded in markets. In this paper we identify twelve lessons that can guide practitioners in metric design. These lessons embrace the principal biophysical changes likely to result from management change at each site and in combination, and reflect the values that society places on the outcomes from these changes. Practical application is explored through four example tenders encompassing five metrics which demonstrate substantial variation from the lessons identified. The practical consequences for cost-efficiency of investment, and for the use of conservation tenders generally, are unclear because of the practical and political difficulties in developing effective conservation tender approaches.     

西部城市商业银行竞争力评价研究

本文选取西部21家城市商业银行2012年的指标数据,运用SPSS19软件,通过因子分析的方法对西部城市商业银行竞争力水平进行测度和排序。对影响城市商业银行竞争力的指标因素进行分析,找出了阻碍西部各城市商业银行发展的关键因素,主要包括资本安全因素、结构流动性因素、盈利性因素、资产配置和资产收益因素、成长发展因素、公司治理因素,进而为提高区域城市商业银行竞争力提出合理建议。     

价值最大化下的企业社会责任与竞争力关系

本文从历史和逻辑层面出发,认为企业的本质是追求企业价值最大化,承担社会责任是获得最大化企业价值的必要条件,形成了保持——提升责任竞争力理论,为价值最大化条件下企业承担社会责任提供理论基础和分析框架。同时,在建议对策中提出了企业的责任战略、构建责任战略的过程和选取提升类责任的SPED-CAR原则,针对政府提出了构建积极健康的责任环境等几点建议。     

Logarithmic quasi-homothetic preferences

We study a class of quasi-homothetic preferences, which result in demands that are logarithmic in own prices when these have a negligible impact on aggregate prices (as in monopolistic competition models). Thus marginal revenues are computationally friendly and well behaved.     

长株潭国家级烟草物流园竞争力研究

长株潭烟草物流园区作为国民经济的重要基础设施,对振兴湖南烟草行业具有重要的现实意义。文中分析了物流园区的竞争力,进而从技术、制度、规模、人才、交通、经济、低碳等方面对长株潭国家级烟草物流园的竞争力进行了研究。     

Comparing two territory partitions in districting problems: Indices and practical issues

Planning as part of public sector decision-making situations is an activity of critical importance, with direct relevance for urban planners. The ramifications of such decisions generally have significant effect on peoples’ lives. The current paper deals with the comparison between territorial maps in the context of districting problems with a strong socio-economic component. The theoretical problem involves the comparison of two partitions in a connected, undirected, and planar graph. In considering this problem, we introduce three new indices to compare territory partitions: compatibility, inclusion, and distance, all of which have importance for real-world planning situations. Numerical experiments of these indices were carried out for the communes network in (Iˆle de France), France.     

Measuring the immeasurable — A survey of sustainability indices

Sustainability indices for countries provide a one-dimensional metric to valuate country-specific information on the three dimensions of sustainable development: economic, environmental, and social conditions. At the policy level, they suggest an unambiguous yardstick against which a country's development can be measured and even a cross-country comparison can be performed. This article reviews the explanatory power of various sustainability indices applied in policy practice. We show that these indices fail to fulfill fundamental scientific requirements making them rather useless if not misleading with respect to policy advice.     

基于生态位理论的山东半岛蓝色经济区旅游业竞争力

运用生态位理论构建业绩维、潜力维、环境维三维指标体系对山东半岛蓝色经济区七个城市的旅游业竞争力进行了评价,并结合聚类分析法,将旅游业竞争力综合生态位划分为三种类型,按照核心边缘理论将青岛定为核心城市,烟台、潍坊为节点城市,威海、日照、东营、滨州为网络城市,并根据山东半岛蓝色经济区旅游业竞争力生态位空间格局进行了旅游业竞争力格局空间意象分析,提出了相应的旅游业竞争力提升策略。     

浅谈绍兴市调整产业结构和提高出口竞争力对策

绍兴市的纺织原料及纺织制品出口是其出口的传统行业,占绍兴市总出口比重从2003年以来一直处于60%～70%之间,是绍兴市出口的重中之重,保持了比较快的发展速度,但增长方式的落后,严重影响了其发展速度的进一步提高,增长方式亟待转变。高附加值、高科技含量行业的出口发展,促进了绍兴市的出口发展,也为今后更好地进行绍兴市出口能力提升提供了资源和保证。但是,由于绍兴市的经济结构和出口产品存在着诸多制约因素和问题,它还不能适应地区与国家经济发展的需要,所以,在对近些年来绍兴市经济结构和产品出口现状和问题的分析基础上,对绍兴市如何进行产业调整和提高出口产品竞争力提出了相应措施。