公路建设项目实施“代建制”管理模式探讨

在分析公路建设项目传统管理模式不足的基础上,结合我国公路建设工程实际情况,从工程管理体制改革、与国际管理体制接轨和公路建设项目公益性属性3方面阐述公路建设项目推行"代建制"管理模式的必要性。针对"代建制"管理模式在我国公路建设中存在缺乏法律法规的保障、缺乏职能定位依据、"代建制"机制不完善以及代建方管理水平较低等问题,提出从转变观念、完善法制建设、加强代建单位自我完善3个方面采取措施,推行和完善公路建设项目"代建制"管理模式,从而实现公路建设项目"质量、费用、进度和安全"目标的有效控制。     

Patterns of paternity skew in Formica ants

Reproductive skew among cooperatively breeding animals has recently attracted considerable interest. In social insects reproductive skew has been studied in females but not in males. However, cooperative breeding of males occurs when two males mate with the same queen and father offspring. Here we present the first analysis of comparative data on paternity skew in ants. We show that, across seven species of Formica ants, the average skew in paternity among worker offspring of doubly mated queens is negatively correlated with the population-wide frequency of multiple (mostly double) mating. We also demonstrate that this trend is relatively robust in additional analyses taking phylogenetic relationships between species into account. The observed trend is opposite to the one normally found in non-social insects with second-male precedence through sperm displacement, but agrees with predictions based on queen-male conflict over sperm allocation as a consequence of facultative, worker controlled, sex allocation – an interpretation which assumes first-male precedence. However, alternative (but not mutually exclusive) explanations are possible and further studies will be needed to discriminate between these alternatives. Received: 16 May 1997 / Accepted after revision: 26 September 1997     

Reproduction by subordinates in cooperatively breeding Arabian babblers is uncommon but predictable

In a genetic analysis of the mating system of cooperatively breeding Arabian babblers (Timalidae: Turdoides squamiceps), we identified which individuals in the population are breeding, and how reproductive success was distributed among group members with respect to their dominance rank, for both males and females. The population was characterized by an asymmetrical distribution of reproductive success; behaviorally dominant males produced 176 of 186 (95%) of the offspring in 44 social groups analyzed, and alpha females produced 185 of 186 (99.5%). We evaluated models of reproductive skew by examining genetic and demographic correlates of reproduction by␣subordinates. Subordinate (beta) males that sired young were more likely to be recent dispersers from their natal groups or members of newly formed groups than betas that did not reproduce. Breeding beta males had spent smaller proportions of their lives with the current alpha male and female as alphas than had beta males that did not sire young. One consequence of the linkage of dispersal with breeding in newly formed, nonnatal groups is that beta males that sired young had significantly lower genetic similarity to the alpha males in their groups (based on band-sharing coefficients using multilocus minisatellite DNA fingerprinting) than those that did not sire young. This pattern may occur generally in species in which group membership accrues both through nondispersal of young (forming groups of relatives) as well as through dispersal involving coalitions that sometimes include nonrelatives. Received: 22 July 1997 / Accepted after revision: 5 February 1998     

Male competition in Cardiocondyla ants

The two types of males in the ant genus Cardiocondyla differ remarkably in morphology and behavior. Ergatoid males are wingless fighters whose spermatogenesis continues throughout their entire adult lives and which therefore have an “unlimited” sperm supply. They attempt to kill all eclosing ergatoid rivals and thus to increase their share in copulations with the virgin queens reared in their nests. Winged males, on the other hand, are docile and emigrate from the nests a few days after eclosion, probably to mate with queens from other colonies. By this time, their testes have fully degenerated and all sperm is stored in the seminal vesicles. Before emigration, winged males may mate with virgin queens in their maternal nests, but they are nevertheless rarely attacked by ergatoid males. In the laboratory, the life expectancy of ergatoid males is only slightly higher than that of winged males, but because of the emigration of the latter the difference is likely to be more pronounced in the field. Both male morphs are capable of inseminating more than 35 virgin queens. However, winged males older than 14 days mate less often than ergatoid males of similar age, probably due to sperm depletion in later life. The spermathecae of queens inseminated by ergatoid males contained significantly more sperm than those of queens which mated with winged males. We discuss the evolution of intranidal mating and male polymorphism in ants. Received: 8 August 1997 / Accepted after revision: 6 October 1997     

高速公路水土保持生态服务功能价值评估浅析——以陕西省不同区域三条高速公路为例

以陕西省3个典型区域的3条高速公路为例,在构建高速公路水土保持生态服务功能价值评价体系并确定各评价指标计算方法的基础上,全面分析了高速公路水土保持的生态服务功能价值。旨在相互交流的基础上,为后期同类工程水土保持投资预算设计和资金管理使用提供理论依据。     

环境税的企业绿色投资效应研究——基于面板分位数回归的实证研究

企业绿色投资有助于我国企业建立良好的社会声誉,实现企业的可持续发展。本文试图从环境税的角度,探讨环境税对企业绿色投资的边际效应是正向还是负向?环境税对企业绿色投资效应是否具有异质性?本文运用我国重污染行业上市公司的2008-2013年的经验数据,用分位数回归的研究方法对环境税的企业绿色投资效应进行了研究。分位数回归方法相比普通最小二乘法回归,分位数能够更全面的描述自变量对于因变量的变化范围以及条件分布形状的影响;分位数回归方法与最小二乘法使用残差平方和为最小化的目标函数相比,不易受到极端值的影响,估计结果更为稳健。研究发现:环境税对企业绿色投资的边际效应为正向并具有异质性,表现在:1从平衡面板的固定效应模型估计结果来看,环境税对企业绿色投资投资额的影响是正向的,换句话说,在其他因素不变的情况下,随着环境税额的不断提高,企业绿色投资额也会随之提高;2从面板分位数回归的估计结果来看,环境税对企业绿色投资的边际效应为正向并具有异质性,即低分位企业的环境税绿色投资效应为正,但并不显著;高分位企业的环境税绿色投资效应为正,但呈递减趋势;中间分位企业的环境税绿色投资效应为正,并呈递增趋势。本文研究结果的启示是:1环境税的出台具有积极的意义;2环境税的相关法律制定要注意因企业制宜,考虑企业承担能力的同时兼顾效率和公平。本文研究结果为环境税的出台提供了证据支持、为完善环境税的设计提供了经验证据。     

Effects of investment on energy intensity: evidence from China

This article explores the effects of investment upon energy intensity by applying a unique panel data of China’s 27 provinces between 2004 and 2013. In addition, it also particularly studies other factors, such as energy price, economic structure, and urbanization. The results, based on four econometric regression model results, suggest that in general, the indigenous investment on research and development is a more powerful tool to decrease China’s energy intensity regardless of region disparity. The foreign direct investment (FDI) has a prominent but not persistent effect on energy intensity. However, the outward direct investment has not shown its significant impact on energy intensity. At the level of an aggregate economy and China’s eastern region, the results demonstrate that FDI improves energy efficiency significantly. For the central and western provinces, FDI does not support the similar conclusion. Based on these analyses, we present the corresponding regional policies for policymakers.     

中国环境治理投资对环境质量冲击的计量分析——基于VEC模型与脉冲响应函数

在低碳经济的发展如日中天的形势下,经济快速发展所诱发的环境问题引起了各界人士的广泛关注.加大对环境治理的投资已是大势所趋.“清洁发展机制”(CDM)以及“绿色信贷”(Green Credit)等新措施,为环境治理投资开辟了新路径.本文在前人研究的基础之上,基于中国统计年鉴公布的1998 - 2008年工业GDP、工业废气排放量以及工业废气治理投资额,使用单位根检验、Johansen协整检验等方法对数据进行处理,使用误差修正模型(VEC)和脉冲响应函数(IRF)对环境治理投资对环境质量的冲击路径进行模拟.得到的结论是,我国目前环境治理投资与环境质量之间存在长期的均衡关系,环境治理投资对环境质量有正向的冲击,但冲击持续的时间较短.与此同时,环境质量的变化会给环境治理投资带来长达10期的较大幅度的冲击,并且随着环境治理投资的效应逐渐显现即环境质量的改善,环境治理的投资额逐步下降.鉴于这种情形,我国政府、商业银行和企业应该加强对环境的关注,建立环境治理投资的长效机制,调整投资结构,通过各种途径加大对环境治理的投资.     

中国的节能减排困境和财税政策选择

节能减排不仅是推进我国国民经济又好又快发展的核心要义,也是应对全球气候变化的迫切需要.在我国,要实现到2020年单位国内生产总值的二氧化碳排放比2005年下降40%-45%的约束性目标,需要进行艰难的产业结构调整、能源消费结构调整和经济发展阶段跨越,并应采取体制、政策、技术和管理等综合推进措施.包括政府投资、税收、政府采购和财政贴息在内的财税政策措施对于推进我国节能减排至关重要.本文认为,政府投资政策应重在支持高新技术产业研发应用,经由产业结构调整促进节能减排;税收政策应立足于综合采取增设环境污染税、低技术污染税以及税收优惠和减免等激励和惩罚并重措施;政府采购应通过扩大高效节能减排产品市场需求,引导企业生产行为;财政贴息则应侧重于解决企业节能减排投资以及技术改造过程中的资金约束.     

论公共文化环境建设的资源管理机制

通过对相关文献资料的梳理和分析,以安徽省财政支持公共文化服务体系建设为例,运用定量和定性研究相结合的方法,在充分的问卷调查及实地调研的基础上,总结了我国公共文化建设资源投入机制的实践与制度经验,指出了公共文化建设在资源投入及管理方面所存在的主要问题:财政投入的实际效益低下、资源保障机制不科学、公共文化服务软件投入不足、公共文化服务资源管理体制的结构性矛盾等.有鉴于此,文章分别从宏观与微观层面探讨了如何构建公共文化服务良性运行的资源管理机制,基于宏观政策与制度设计层面提出:创新公共文化建设资源管理的政策支持方式,建立基层公共文化服务的长效机制,构筑公共文化环境建设的资源分级保障机制,完善公共文化建设的人才环境,创设公共文化环境建设的资源整合机制,实施公共文化服务的运行评估与绩效评价机制.基于微观对策与措施层面提出:科学地确定现阶段公共文化建设的资源保障重点并明确各级财政的投入范围和基本保障的支出责任,转变公共文化财政资金的投入方式,改变公共文化环境建设的资源投入结构,完善公共文化建设的资金管理方式,等等.