The Ecology of Empire: Wal-Mart's Rhetoric of Environmental Stewardship and the Constitutive Power of the Multitude

This essay provides a critical account of Wal-Mart's rhetoric of environmental stewardship. By situating this discourse within a new political economy of production and governance that Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri have termed empire, I argue that environmental communication scholars should limit the rush to deploy ideological criticism when explaining the corporation's rhetorical motives. Instead, I advocate reading Wal-Mart's rhetoric as a problem of historical conjunctures, a critical move that seeks to highlight, not only the structural interests of capital, but also the centrality of social antagonism. In the case of Wal-Mart, this means accounting for the increased significance of demand to economic production, changes in the composition of sovereignty, and the transgressive function of environmentalism at the beginning of the twenty-first century.     

废弃活性炭在烧结矿中循环利用的研究

研究不同的废弃活性炭配比对烧结矿的成品率、垂直烧结速度、转鼓指数的影响。试验结果表明,在保证烧结矿质量的前提下,废弃活性炭的配入比应不大于0.5%,同时检测烧结矿尾气,配入0.5%的废弃活性炭并未造成尾气中氮氧化物和硫氧化物含量的增加,实现了废弃活性炭无害化、资源化利用。     

Analysis on the Evolution of Regional Economic Disparity in the West Coast of the Strait

With the implementation of reform and opening-up, the overall economy of China has made brilliant achievements; meanwhile, however, the economic disparity has been enlarging among some regions, and between the city and the countryside. The existence and evolution of this kind of economic disparity is concerned with social stability, sustainable development and the construction of harmonious society, which has gradually become the hotspot in social economic development. The West Coast of the Strait （WCS） located in southeast littoral areas is adjacent to the Pearl and Yangtze River Delta in the south and north and faces Taiwan Province in the east. The stability and development of this region has vital political and economic meaning in the social economic development of our country. It has important theoretical meaning and practical value to research the form, characteristics and evolution of regional economic disparity in the WCS. Based on insightful analysis on existing study results on the WCS, the paper defines the connotation and extension. By a series of absolute and comparative relative evaluation indexes and taking the WCS since 1992 as the study object, the paper makes analysis on different scales including three regions, four regions, 20 cities and 152 counties, quantitatively evaluates the level, characteristics and evolution of the regional economic disparity and compares the regional economic disparity on different scales. The main conclusions are as follows： the variation trend of the absolute disparity of the whole region is obvious and stable, which has presented an inflating trend; the comparative variation trend on a large scale has waved, The comparative disparity of the three regions increased annually from 1992 to around 2000, which had a decreasing trend from around 2000 to 2005; the comparative variation trend on a small scale was not stable, which showed an annual increase of four regions, 20 cities and 152 counties from 1992 to around 2003 and a decrease from around 2003 to 2005; the     

知识经济条件下传统资源学面临的选择

传统的资源学目前正面临着知识经济的挑战。为适应知识经济的要求，传统的资源学应在研究内容、研究方法及学科观念上进行创新     

非正规就业部门的形成机理研究:理论、实证与政策框架

包括农民工在内的庞大非正规就业部门日益引起关注,传统发展经济学的二元结构理论,已经不能完全解释转型中国的现实。本文运用比较研究、计量经济等方法,对中国独特的四元就业结构进行了分析,梳理了非正规就业理论体系,在此基础上,讨论了中国非正规就业部门的形成机理与主要驱动因素,并提出了消解非正规就业部门就业压力的政策框架。研究表明:中国的非正规就业部门有其独特的形成机理,是多项公共政策综合作用和主动选择的结果。城乡人均收入落差、伪城镇化、经济垄断程度等则是其主要驱动因素。因此,在坚持小城镇化与农业现代化、精细化同时推进的同时,要践行去管制政策以释放自由市场力量,建立统一且平权的劳动力市场以推进非正规就业部门与正规就业部门的融合进程。     

Mileage-based pricing insurance and its impact on China

Mileage-based pricing insurance,such as PAYD,is known as the"green insurance"because it is low-carbon and environmentally effective,which is the biggest innovation in the global auto insurance industry seen in the past decade.Starting from the perspective of economic externalities,vehicle negative externalities in China are described.In order to introduce mileage-based pricing insurance to the Chinese insurance industry,this paper reviews the current practice of PAYD insurance and its impacts on transport externalities,including air pollution,climate change,energy dependency,congestion,accidents,and others.Finally,enlightenment and policy suggestions are proposed,in the hope of better promoting the low-carbon economy development over the whole of China.     

Value reclamation from informal municipal solid waste management: green neoliberalism and inclusive development in Lagos,Nigeria

ABSTRACT

Lagos 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.     

中国循环经济建设中的废旧物资再生模式研究

在循环经济建设中,发展废旧物资再生产业是实现区域"大循环"、连接消费与生产领域之间的关键环节,是目前许多国家发展循环经济的重点领域.本文以产品生命周期评价、工业代谢、再利用和再循环原则等理论方法为指导,通过分析各种废旧物资的产生、利用特征,系统构建出中国废旧物资的循环再生模式,为提高中国废旧物资回收利用率、提升资源利用价值和减小环境污染危害提供科学发展方向.     

钢材盐酸酸洗废液资源化处理的研究

用盐酸作为钢材酸洗介质,会产生相当多的盐酸酸洗废液,废液如果直接排放会严重污染环境,而且浪费资源。以宝鸡瑞星化工机械厂和宝鸡铁塔厂的酸洗废液为原料,通过实验室小试,探索出了通过蒸馏浓缩以及浓缩液酸化制备盐酸的工艺条件;在此基础上设计了相关的工艺路线并进行中试,制得了浓度高达34%的盐酸,同时副产氧化铁红和磷肥;探讨了中试时所遇到问题的解决办法,并对中试结果进行了讨论。实践证明,该工艺不仅可消除酸洗废液对环境的污染,且有良好的经济效益,为钢材盐酸酸洗废液资源化处理综合利用提供了实用技术,是循环经济的很好实例。     

包头铝业生态工业园区产品代谢研究

在生态工业建设理论方法研究上进行一次有益的尝试,首先从产品代谢的角度比较分析了包头(铝业)生态工业园规划前后的产业链组织形式,然后在此基础上分析了规划后的工业共生机制和生态工业网络,并对包头(铝业)生态工业园的特点进行了总结。