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Despite a highly visible presence, policy-maker knowledge of the drivers and participants in the informal economy of wild-harvested medicinal plants in Cape Town remains limited. To illuminate the workings of this local cultural business activity, the researchers adopted value chain analysis (VCA) for dissecting harvesting, trading and consumer demand in the trade. The study included qualitative, open-ended interviews with 58 traditional healers and a quantitative consumer study of 235 township households. Cape Town's traditional healers are numerous and potentially more uniquely culturally diverse than elsewhere, serving various community health needs. Healer groups enhance their healing reputation by utilising wild-sourced medicines – much of which is harvested locally. Their services remain culturally important and utilised by at least 50% of all consumer respondents. The VCA revealed a universal healer and consumer requirement for wild medicine stocks which has considerable implications for policy-making, protected area management and traditional medicine-oriented conservation projects. 相似文献
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This article examines the potential contribution of household scale off-grid renewable energy generation to the post-carbon economy. The large-scale focus of the green jobs agenda in high-income countries obscures how small-scale technologies can be a transformative source of employment in developing economies. Debates about what constitutes a green job and their value leaves out the everyday practice of green livelihoods carried out by the urban poor across the African continent in unfavourable institutional contexts where nonrenewable fuel is subsidised and renewable energy inputs are heavily taxed. The article presents experiences from field work in several countries, including Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya to provide practical examples of communities pursuing strategies of income generation, community empowerment and environmental preservation. We argue that scholars and practitioners concerned with both social justice and environmental preservation should embrace a definition of green jobs that is bottom-up or people-centred. The grassroots experiences highlighted illustrate the important role of non-governmental organisations in supporting transformative, locally sustainable green employment and livelihoods by piloting demonstration projects, fostering innovation, conducting research, forming coalitions and engaging in advocacy when local institutions and market conditions make both consumers and providers risk averse to off-grid renewable energy adoption. 相似文献
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加强城市生态建设促进城市经济发展 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
胶州市结合自身实际,提出“生态立市”的发展战略,重点实施了生态农业、生态水利、生态林业、城市园林绿化、生态能源和生态工业六大生态建设工程。在态建设过程中存在的理念与意识欠缺,传统管理体制僵化,城市生态环境管理效能较低,缺乏有效的约束激励机制等问题的基础上,提出了高标准编制生态城市建设规划,加速产业生态化和环保行业产业化进程,建立健全政府管理体制及积极营造生态文化氛围等合理化建议。 相似文献
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Ceyhun Elgin; 《Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management》2024,31(2):776-783
In this article, using both cross-country data including 73 countries, as well as a novel data from a firm level survey covering 1000 firms in Turkey, I investigate the relationship between informality and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Using the firm-level data, I ask whether corporate social responsibility scores (CSR) and its relationship with firm's expected performance and profitability are different for firms mainly operating in the formal and informal sector. Cross-country data reveals a significant negative correlation between CSR and informal sector size. On the other hand, using the firm-level data, I find that firms that tend to engage in informal economic activities have significantly lower CSR scores. Moreover, CSR scores and firms' expected performance are generally positively correlated and this correlation is much less (and even not significantly different from zero in some cases) for informal firms. I also find some evidence that the main reason behind these results might be that firms mainly operating in the informal sector are spending significantly less to R&D and advertising as the relationship between these variables and the firm's performance and profitability is less pronounced for these firms. 相似文献
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蚌埠市发展低碳经济的对策与建议 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
在全球气候变暖的大背景下,切实改变经济发展方式,积极推进低碳经济是遏制气候变暖、实现经济社会发展与生态环境保护双赢的一种经济发展模式。在重点分析蚌埠市工农业发展的碳源消耗、区域经济发展现状及存在的问题的基础上,结合蚌埠市经济发展与产业结构调整计划,从观念创新、优化结构、科技先导、碳汇农林、园区平台等不同层面提出适合蚌埠市低碳经济发展的对策与建议。 相似文献
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中型城市发展循环经济研究初探 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
以山东沿海城市日照为例,从转变发展思路、实践科学发展观,破解发展瓶颈、促进经济社会可持续发展,保持资源环境优势、增强区域持续竞争力三个方面分析了日照市发展循环经济的必要性和重要性。提出抓好“小循环”,构筑循环经济微观基础;搞好“中循环”,构筑循环经济示范基地;推进“大循环”,努力建设循环型社会是在当前中小城市经济欠发达、面临环境保护和发展经济双重压力下,实现经济社会又快又好发展的一条好路。 相似文献
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当前,北京、上海等超大城市已经提出未来要建设全球城市或世界城市,把环境作为城市核心竞争力的主要指标。本文通过研究东京第二次世界大战后环境战略的演变,寻求不同环境战略阶段中,环境目标、管理及政策与经济、人口、能源和城市规划的关系,认为东京环境战略演变历程共分为六个阶段,总结了东京环境战略的成功经验,即科技创新中心是环境领域战略转型中心先天优势、全球环境治理网络枢纽建设促进环境战略转型、能源清洁是东京环境战略转型的关键、重大活动是东京城市环境问题解决的绝佳契机、公众参与为环境战略转型提供了强大的推动力,而城市空间优化与产业转移是东京环境战略转型的核心。 相似文献
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本文以从化市为例,讨论了该市环境质量现状与经济发展水平,研究了如何兼顾经济发展和环境保护的问题,最后探讨了促进二者协调发展的对策。 相似文献
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耿毅刚 《中国环境管理干部学院学报》2010,20(2):42-47
围绕\"构建现代产业体系\",迁安市依据循环经济理念,加快转变发展方式,实现资源型城市的转型。迁安市钢铁工业发展循环经济的潜力较大,采取钢铁工业重点项目建设,工业副产品、工业固体废物、余压、余热综合利用等节能减排措施后,取得了可观的经济效益。 相似文献
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港口是城市经济发展的核心资源,城市为港口经济发展提供支撑.以营口市为研究对象,应用灰色关联度模型,对营口市1995-2009年以来城市相关产业与港口吞吐量进行关联度分析,其结论为:港口经济与城市工业、建筑业关联度较高,批发零售业、金融保险业关联度相对较低;在城市经济的促进下,港口临港工业正在形成,但是港口经济对城市服务业带动较小. 相似文献
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Peter Oluchukwu Mbah Christian Chukwuebuka Ezeibe Gerald Ekenedirichukwu Ezirim Chinedu Josephine Onyishi 《Local Environment》2013,18(10):949-967
ABSTRACTLagos is undoubtedly the cultural capital and economic hub of the West African sub-region. The challenge of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in the megacity has remained intractable due partly to the increasing rate of population growth. While solid waste policy reforms, investments, and management practices in Lagos are in the upswing in the formal economy, the role of the informal economy in engendering sub-regional material linkages and livelihoods remain unexplored. Adopting a multi-stakeholder approach and data from interviews, this study critically examines how value reclamation from informal MSWM advances green neoliberalism and inclusive development. It shows that while informal transboundary trade of recyclable materials in the West African sub-region have previously been left out of analyses of MSWM in Lagos, the informal economy of waste and new investments in MSWM have neoliberal underpinnings beyond the megacity scale. The paper concludes that integrating the informal economy in framing MSWM policy in the megacity offers scope for evolving an inclusive development strategy while also enabling sustainable MSWM in the post-2015 era. 相似文献
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Gerardo Francisco Sandoval 《Local Environment》2015,20(6):683-705
Immigrant integration models in rural communities are limited because they do not acknowledge the context of illegality that exists within communities that have a high concentration of unauthorised immigrants. In this in-depth case study of Postville, Iowa (the site of an infamous US immigration raid), I examine current rural immigrant community integration strategies under a shadow context of illegality and unauthorised immigrant labour. I find that underground and informal relationships within the towns' employers, immigrants, civic leaders, and native townspeople sustain a shadow context of exploitation and community instability. My research demonstrates that communities with large unauthorised immigrant populations rely on both formal and informal immigrant integration strategies to create “welcoming” immigrant communities. The formal strategies are multicultural approaches that rely on “diversity champions” to instil a climate of inclusion but do not tackle structural issues that place unauthorised communities at risk. The informal strategies rely on tacit understandings of community behaviour that just perpetuate the structural conditions of exploitation present in rural towns. These two forms of immigrant integration strategies support a shadow context that breeds vulnerability and risk for unauthorised immigrants, even in an immigrant “welcoming” environment. 相似文献
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资源型城市在我国经济发展大局中地位重要而特殊、历史贡献突出,城市发展的生命周期特征和物质代谢的\"大进大出\"特征明显,固体废物(以下简称固废)治理问题积弊已久、复杂多变。如何建设\"无废城市\"模式的资源型城市,是当前城市可持续发展和\"无废城市\"实践亟待破解的难题。本文研究分析了2017年我国资源型城市固废产生、贮存、综合利用、处置环节及管理制度体系建设的主要问题,并从制度设计、产业转型、分类利用、标准建立四个方面提出了\"无废\"资源型城市建设的政策建议。根据资源型城市所处生命周期发展阶段的不同,提出了基于固废\"产、存、用、置、销\"的存量、流量挂钩约束的发展模式。同时提出以下建议:快速成长期城市应从产业体系构建、空间布局及准入条件着手控制固废增量;平稳成熟期城市应发展完善高值化资源综合利用产业体系和制度体系;枯竭衰退期城市应注重挖掘和开发存量固废的资源价值;再生发展期城市应加强多源废物协同处置利用产业体系建设。本研究可为资源型城市的\"无废城市\"建设提供模式参考和政策建议。 相似文献
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针对莱阳市生态市建设过程中出现的水环境、地表环境及农业环境问题,通过分析莱阳市生态建设规划到具体实施过程中针对性开展的水土保持及水利建设、发展生态农业及产业结构调整、现有污染源治理等一系列工作,指出发展生态经济是莱阳市建设生态市的必由之路. 相似文献
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张厚美 《中国环境管理干部学院学报》2011,21(4):26-28,52
在对广元市循环经济发展进行实地调查的基础上,对广元市发展循环经济的成效、经验进行分析研究,提出要发挥企业的主体作用,突出重点领域,从认识上、政策上、技术上推动广元市循环经济健康发展。 相似文献
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围绕低碳城市问题对低碳城市的内涵概念、评价指标体系以及发展模式等热点进行了研究,发现其侧重范围、统计时序及计量手段等问题尚未达成统一标准。结合当前我国低碳城市实践,提出建设低碳城市是中国可持续发展的必然选择,是一个长期系统的工程,建设低碳城市应坚持因地制宜、协调发展。 相似文献