促进我国企业安全投入的对策

针对目前我国企业安全投入普遍偏少的现状,从企业目标出发,分析得出了影响企业目标的主要途径,即企业内部优化决策、企业之间生产竞争和引进高素质人才。并由主要途径分析安全投入对企业经济决策的影响,得出目前我国企业不积极进行安全投入的3点要因:由于企业决策者主观判断失误而导致的降低安全投入;企业为取得同行业之间的竞争先机,愿意冒险降低安全投入;由于企业安全生产状况信息的不透明,容易导致应聘者根据企业的规模、市场占有率、员工待遇等透明信息来判断企业安全生产状况,而导致安全投入少的企业易引进高素质人才。针对分析得出的结论,提出了一系列相应的对策措施,以改善我国的安全生产投入状况。     

我国利用外商直接投资与环境保护问题

随着改革开放的深入发展，我国利用外资规模不断扩大，特别是近几年来，利用外商直接投资的额度每年都上新台阶。外商直接投资对我国经济发展起到了重要作用，但往往人们在注重经济发展时，却忽视了环境污染问题。目前我国迫切需要正确处理好利用外商直接投资与保护环境的关系，采取有效的对策，实现二者的协调发展。     

National minerals policies and stakeholder participation for broad-based development in the southern African development community (SADC)

This paper explains how the well-accepted concept of improved stakeholder participation during mineral policy development leads to a national mineral policy that accommodates the diverging views and interests that allows wide acceptance of decisions, enhancing the success of implementation and, ultimately, national benefits. This process is based on lessons learnt during the South African experience and has been successfully applied in the development of the Namibian and Malawian national minerals policies. An effective policy in the SADC will engineer the delicate balance between poverty reduction and an internationally competitive minerals sector. This balance enhances the possibility of long-term economic growth and development in the SADC region. The overriding advantage of this strategy is that it generates ‘home-grown’ policy instruments and implementation of mineral law with which stakeholders can identify. This process presents a new challenge to traditional policy formulation strategies in emerging economies and the bottom-up approach, linked to wide political support, allows the potential realisation of national objectives.     

重庆市投资环境评价指标体系的实证分析

以重庆市为研究对象，在指标体系构建的基础上，运用因子分析法和聚类分析法，对重庆市的投资环境进行了以定量分析为主的实证分析，旨在针对性的为进一步改善该市投资环境提供切实可靠的依据，并为投资环境的理论研究提供方法参考。     

INCOME AND PRICE ELASTICITIES OF DEMAND FOR WATER IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES1

ABSTRACT: The income and proce elasticity of demand for domestic water is estimated for Penang Island, Malaysia. A cross-sectional analysis of a random sample of 1400 households indicated an income-elasticity of zero for low-income families (per capita income less than US$300) and an elasticity of 0.2-0.4 for higher-income families. A time-series analysis of a subsample of individuals of varying income levels suggests a short-run price elasticity of -0.1 to -0.2. The implications of these results for demand forecasting are discussed.     

安全投入统计指标体系探讨

安全投入统计指标体系在安全生产工作中发挥着重要作用 ,笔者认为 ,建立安全投入统计指标体系之前 ,应对安全投入进行重新定义 ,并按照投入功能的不同将其分为安全工程项目投入、劳动防护与保健投入、应急救援投入、安全宣传教育投入、日常安全管理投入、保险投入和事故投入七大部分。根据安全投入的分类对安全投入统计指标体系结构和具体内容进行了重新设计 ,新的安全投入统计指标体系与安全投入内容相对应 ,分成 7个方面 ,由 34个指标构成 ,不仅对每一个指标进行了清晰定义 ,而且给出了计量单位和具体的计算方法。     

西部如何吸引环保资金

分析了西部开发中环保与技术进入西部较缓慢的原因,提出了相应的解决办法;如要拓宽西部环保的投资渠道,改变环保意识与观念的落后,改革西部经济体制等,以实现“开发西部环保先行”的发展战略。     

Plumage characteristics, reproductive investment and assortative mating in tree swallows Tachycineta bicolor

Elaborate ornamental plumage has been associated with various measures of individual quality in many species of birds. Male plumage characteristics, which have been relatively well studied, have been shown to reflect past reproductive investment, as well as the potential for reproductive investment in the current breeding attempt. In contrast, the signalling functions of female traits remain largely unexplored. In this study, we investigated the relationship between plumage attributes of breeding adult tree swallows and past reproductive investment, current reproductive investment and social mate pairing strategy. Both males and older females possess metallic green to metallic blue iridescent plumage on their dorsal surface, making this a suitable species for this type of investigation. We did not find any effects of past reproductive investment and success on the plumage attributes of returning breeders. In contrast, female plumage hue covaried with fledging success, and female plumage brightness was positively associated with mean clutch egg mass. In addition, we found that social pairs mated assortatively with respect to plumage brightness. We argue that since plumage characteristics vary with age in both male and female tree swallows, plumage attributes in this species are indicative of breeding experience and may be honest signals of quality. Positive assortative pairing could be the result of mutual mate choice or intra-sexual competition for nest sites by both males and females.     

环境保护投资制度探析

从环境保护投资本质的分析入手,对环境保护投资与经济发展的关系,环境保护投资制度的概念、及其在环境资源法中的地位、建立的意义作了初步探讨。     

Effects of threat management interactions on conservation priorities

Decisions need to be made about which biodiversity management actions are undertaken to mitigate threats and about where these actions are implemented. However, management actions can interact; that is, the cost, benefit, and feasibility of one action can change when another action is undertaken. There is little guidance on how to explicitly and efficiently prioritize management for multiple threats, including deciding where to act. Integrated management could focus on one management action to abate a dominant threat or on a strategy comprising multiple actions to abate multiple threats. Furthermore management could be undertaken at sites that are in close proximity to reduce costs. We used cost‐effectiveness analysis to prioritize investments in fire management, controlling invasive predators, and reducing grazing pressure in a bio‐diverse region of southeastern Queensland, Australia. We compared outcomes of 5 management approaches based on different assumptions about interactions and quantified how investment needed, benefits expected, and the locations prioritized for implementation differed when interactions were taken into account. Managing for interactions altered decisions about where to invest and in which actions to invest and had the potential to deliver increased investment efficiency. Differences in high priority locations and actions were greatest between the approaches when we made different assumptions about how management actions deliver benefits through threat abatement: either all threats must be managed to conserve species or only one management action may be required. Threatened species management that does not consider interactions between actions may result in misplaced investments or misguided expectations of the effort required to mitigate threats to species.