Strategic regeneration: A policy coupling approach to managing a coastal resort in South Wales

This review paper takes a case study approach to critically discuss how regeneration in the coastal resort of Porthcawl, South Wales has integrated flood defences as part of a strategic spatial planning and integrated policy coupling approach to the redesign of the town's seaside, promenade and harbour quarter. This planned initiative is part of a concerted effort to upgrade the town's waterfront and enable regeneration of a small seaside resort. From a resort cycle perspective, Porthcawl's perceived vulnerability to changing economic fortunes has prompted a master planning approach which is intended to bring together a mixed-use development programme with particular attention to urban design, strategic environmental assessment and public consultation. In different ways, this process has sought to raise public awareness of the issues and risks associated with the town's coastal location and to integrate flood defence aspects within the strategic regeneration plan as part of a greater sensitivity to climatic risks and potential flooding. This paper examines the adaptive capacity of coastal communities and the complex of socio-economic and spatio-temporal perspectives that shape policy developments in the planning, development and proactive management of coastal environments. The paper identifies the need to accommodate a new civic awareness of potential environmental hazards in articulating the public interest and balancing the trade-offs involved.     

Strategic planning for sustainable tourism development in Poland

The aim of this article is to evaluate selected tourism development strategies in Poland, in the context of strategic planning, stakeholders’ participation, and sustainable development principles. A questionnaire evaluation of strategy (44 questions) was established and based on measurement scales developed and validated by other authors in earlier studies. The five authors of the study rated 37 tourism development strategies in 13 provinces, 11 cities, 5 counties, 6 municipalities, and 2 other areas. Analysis revealed that they implement paradigms of sustainable development of tourism to only a small extent. Definitely higher quality is documented for higher levels of administrative division. The highest rated domains of the tourism development strategy in the examined documents are Strategic Planning Indicators and Implementation, Monitoring, and Evaluation.     

2035年美丽中国建设目标及路径机制研究

建设美丽中国,建设人与自然和谐共生的现代化,是中国特色社会主义现代化建设的重要基础与主要内容。本文通过文献分析、对标分析、模型预测等方法,识别了美丽中国建设的科学内涵及特征要求,分析美丽中国建设中长期面临的形势,基于到2035年达到中等发达国家水平、人均GDP翻一番的目标,对标发达国家以及浙江、广东等国内先进地区,构建了美丽中国建设的目标指标体系框架,并从绿色发展、气候变化、生态环境质量、环境治理体系与治理能力等方面,设计美丽中国建设生态环境保护的总体框架与主要路径,提出美丽中国建设的规划建议。     

战略环境影响识别研究

环境影响因子识别是战略环境评价的基础内容之一.本文通过分析战略环境影响发生的2个战略根源和3类环境影响受体,提出战略环境影响发生机理.2个战略根源分别是战略缺陷和战略的"超域效应和外部性";3类环境影响受体包括全球可持续性因子、自然资源因子和当地环境质量因子.对环境影响因子识别、影响范围识别和时间跨度识别等3个方面的战略环境影响识别内容进行了研究,并对战略环境影响识别依据进行了分析,给出了可应用于战略环境评价的识别方法.同时,以上海市能源专项规划为例,进行战略环境影响因子与影响范围的识别,建立了能源专项规划的战略环境评价指标体系.     

生态城市建设研究--以衢州市为例

本文以浙江省欠发达地区衢州市为例，对其生态城市建设进行研究，指出其建设生态城市的必要性、可行性，并对衢州市域土地利用的分区管治提出构想，最后提出了建设衢州生态城市相应的对策措施。     

我国矿产资源的合理开发利用

我国是世界上矿产资源总量丰富、种类较齐全的国家之一。由于人口众多,矿产资源人均占有量不到世界人均占有量的1/2。作者根据中国的矿情提出立足国内,合理利用国内、国外两种资源;增产与节约并重,提高矿产品深加工,加强综合利用,重视二次资源的回收,增加地勘投资,加强地勘工作。     

Integrity and Cynicism: Possibilities and Constraints of Moral Communication

Paying thorough attention to cynical action and integrity could result in a less naive approach to ethics and moral communication. This article discusses the issues of integrity and cynicism on a theoretical and on a more practical level. The first part confronts Habermas’s approach of communicative action with Sloterdijk’s concept of cynical reason. In the second part, the focus will be on the constraints and possibilities of moral communication within a business context. Discussing the corporate integrity approach of Kaptein and Wempe will provide this focus. Their approach can be considered as a valuable contribution to the question of how to deal with (dilemmas of) conflicting interests, open discussion, fairness, and strategic decision-making in the context of stakeholder dialog. However, it is concluded that Kaptein and Wempe seem to overstretch the concept of corporate integrity by their inclination to make it an all-purpose remedy for corporate dilemmas.     

3s技术在环境影响评价中的应用研究

从项目环境影响评价的局限性出发,简述了目前环境影响评价的研究现状。对“3s”技术的基本组成进行了简要地介绍,指出“3s”技术是地理信息技术的综合应用,论述了“3s”技术在环境质量评价中的优势;从项目环评和战略环评等角度论述了“3s”技术的应用;从主客观两个方面指出目前“3s”技术的不足的同时,明确了今后基于“3s”技术与其他技术的综合应用是环境质量评价研究的发展方向和研究领域。     

不确定性下区域规划环评方案优化方法框架研究

为了弥补以往规划环评方案中存在的两个缺陷,构建了不确定性条件下融合型和调整型区域规划环评方案优化方法框架,从而消除规划方案本身潜在的环境影响,且实现了规划方案和环境保护补救措施的系统优化及其不确定性风险决策.同时,从方法学上,基于强化区间优化模型建立了不确定性条件下规划方案和补救措施的双层优化方法.最后,针对郑州市土地利用总体规划(1997～2010年)的规划环评,以生态系统服务功能价值的最大化为目标,以郑州市土地资源、经济发展(GDP)和环境指标(土地承载COD排放总量)为约束条件,得到不同风险水平下土地利用规划优化方案.结果表明:①优化后的规划方案的生态系统服务功能价值高于原规划方案,约为原规划方案的1.45～1.52倍,且完全能满足郑州市2010年GDP目标;②有必要在未来融合型或调整型规划环评融入不确定性优化思想,且需要为决策者提供不同环境风险水平下的决策方案.     

旅游发展总体规划环境影响评价指标体系研究

评价指标体系在规划环评中起着评价框架的作用,可以借助于指标体系全面地研究旅游发展总体规划环评.由于规划方案与各种环境影响之间的因果关系、数量关系不明确,旅游发展总体规划环评在收集定量数据、进行定量预测时可能会遇到极大的困难,所以不适合采用＂以本底为导向＂SEA体系.受到定位学派战略形成理论的较大影响,旅游发展总体规划制定者通常的思考程序是先确立规划目标后再确定规划方案.如果从构建可持续发展目标入手,能够更容易让战略制定者从环境、社会方面去考虑战略方案.根据旅游发展总体规划主观性较强的特点,文章认为适宜采用＂以目标为导向＂SEA体系进行规划环评。