Emissions cap or emissions tax? A multi-sector business cycle analysis

We develop a multi-sector business cycle model to analyze stochastic implications of reducing CO₂ emissions with carbon permits or with carbon taxes in the presence of multiple sources of macroeconomic uncertainty. The model is calibrated to reflect the U.S. experience. As in previous studies, using a single-sector version of our model, we find that the cap regime generates lower volatility of real variables than the tax regime, but the latter may be preferable from the welfare perspective. Still, our multi-sector analysis points to the importance of the origin of the shocks in the ranking of the two instruments and to the desirability of going beyond a single-sector analysis in evaluating their merits. We find no significant difference between the cap and the tax regimes when shocks come from non-energy sectors. In contrast, the cap has lower volatility but higher welfare costs than the tax for the shocks to energy production.     

沈阳市商业性污染防治对策

本文在论述沈阳市城市景观空间格局的基础上,从商业景观的布局和产业组成等方面探讨了商业性污染产生的原因及其基本规律,最后提出了加强沈阳市商业景观建设及商业性污染防治的对策。     

Towards a SOLAP-based public participation GIS

In this paper, we describe how spatial on-line analytical processing (SOLAP), a specific category of business intelligence technology especially adapted to geospatial data, can help to improve the technological side of public participation GIS applications. Based on two simulated cases of realistic scenarios of a public audience, this paper aims at demonstrating the relevance of this SOLAP technology to support and improve the interactive access and analysis of multi-scale, multi-epoch geospatial information (and indirectly public involvement) for an environmental management PPGIS application.     

高职商务英语专业内容依托型教学模式初探

内容依托教学(CBI)是融语言学习与内容学习为一体的教学方式。在高职商务英语专业采用CBI教学模式,以真实的商务活动为背景,使语言学习和专业技能的培养与商务实践相结合,有助于形成"懂商务、会英语"的复合型应用人才培养模式。但目前CBI的实施还面临着教师素质、教学效果以及评估体系等方面的问题,可通过培养专业师资、制定合理教学进度等方法逐步完善。     

Manufacturing SMEs doing it for themselves: developing,testing and piloting an online sustainability and eco-innovation toolkit for SMEs

ABSTRACT

Public discourse frequently cites the damaging activities of large organisations on global environmental issues, but smaller organisations are rarely, if ever, featured. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) make up 99% of all businesses in the EU, cumulatively causing more industrial pollution and producing more waste than larger businesses. However, large companies are more likely to address sustainability issues than smaller ones. SMEs need help to change. In a collaborative approach, an online sustainability framework was developed to overcome the barriers contributing to the slow uptake in environmental management in SMEs. The views of owner-managers were incorporated throughout the development process. Best practice environmental tools and training were identified, which were designed in an SME-friendly way and made available online. This paper describes the development of the pilot Sustainability and Eco-Innovation (SEco) toolkit, followed by an analysis of its use. This research finds that a self-led toolkit was not enough to nudge SMEs to address environmental issues, despite being approved by owner-managers at each step.     

高职商务英语专业内容依托教学的实证研究

内容依托教学是内容学习和语言学习为一体的教学方式,此种教学方法在高职商务英语专业教学中的应用效果卓著。通过观察和访谈收集相关数据,采用定性的研究范式,发现在内容依托教学的初步实施阶段还存在学生的认识态度、相关课程的教学内容以及测试和评估等方面的问题。     

规范发展 注重内涵：关于环保投资公司经营对策思考

在调查研究的基础上，针对目前胸国各地环境保护投资公司这一新生金融组织，在组建、经营和管理中存在的主要问题，结合我国环保法律法律和现行经济金融方针、政策、从环保投资的机构形式、资金来源，经济方略和发展方向等方面提出一些对策与建议。     

Business value of toxics reduction and pollution prevention planning

As part of Ontario's Toxics Reduction Strategy, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment provided funding for two years to a partnership of the Ontario Centre for Environmental Technology Advancement (OCETA) and the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) to deliver a Cleaner and Greener Manufacturing Program, which will include the development and delivery of training and technical assistance programs on toxics reduction and pollution prevention (P2). Over the next two years, OCETA and CME will be working with small-to-medium sized manufacturers to demonstrate the business value of toxics reduction and pollution prevention planning to help motivate businesses to move into a greener economy.     

全社会资金波动的安全预警模型及实证分析

利用聚类分析、时差相关分析、K -L信息量等方法 ,以国内生产总值发展速度的波动曲线为基准循环曲线 ,对各种经济指标进行分类和筛选 ,从而选定先行、一致、滞后三类指标组 ,运用主成分分析方法编制景气指数 ,以对社会资金的运动安全预警。在此基础上 ,笔者结合我国改革开放以来经济周期波动的实际情况 ,利用所编制的景气指数进行实证仿真分析 ,得到令人满意的结果