Endogenous Growth and the Possibility of Eliminating Pollution

This paper studies the effect on optimal growth of the possibility that at some moment in the future a technology is discovered that eliminates pollution. We formalize this possibility as a probability p per unit of time of discovering such a technology. We focus on steady-state behavior and show that the optimal rate of growth increases with the hope of eliminating pollution. For an economy where there is no growth in the steady state of the optimal trajectory when p = 0, a positive p may imply positive growth. The higher the value of the probability, the larger the endogenous rate of growth.     

协同创新视角下资环专业研究生科技创新能力提升途径

资源循环科学与工程专业硕士毕业生存在规模小、科技创新能力不足、能力施展受限等问题,无法满足产业对高层次人才的需求。究其原因有:(1)新兴专业,其研究生导师队伍建设不健全,人才培养质量参差不齐;(2)交叉专业,其科技创新能力培养方向尚需融合凝练;(3)综合专业,其现有科研平台还不足以支撑学科发展,科技创新能力培养模式还没有完全形成。因此,本学科研究生培养单位应树立协同创新理念,坚持行业需求导向,充分挖掘办学特色和优势,凝练培养方向、完善以科技创新能力培养核心的研究生培养方案;加强师资队伍建设,建立健全科研平台;支持鼓励科技创新实践活动,做好学科前沿追踪;加强校校交流互动,提升硕士点认可度。     

粘胶纤维行业实施清洁生产的措施思考

在粘胶纤维行业中推行的清洁生产工艺,以及我国粘胶纤维工业可以采取的清洁生产措施,同时提出了实现清洁生产的主要途径,阐明了清洁生产是以节能、降耗、战污为目标,以管理技术为手段,实施工业生产过程控制污染,使污染物产生、排放量最小的一种综合性措施.     

浅谈环境行政调解在环境污染投诉处理中的效能应用

环境污染投诉是单位和个人环境维权的一种法定形式和参与体现，其“控告”类投诉属于法律范畴的环境纠纷，可按环境行政调解处理。环境行政调解是环保主管部门依据法律、法规，应当事人请求处理污染纠纷的职能行为。环境行政调解无固定程序和时效要求，也无法律强制性质，因此在当前法律、法规有待健全、群众维权意识有待提高的情况下，通过提高环境行政调解的效能，对处理当前大量环境污染投诉的纠纷，具有重要的现实意义。     

高职高专教育环境下的大学语文课程研究

在高职高专教育环境下，大学语文课程的日益边缘化已经成为不争的事实。大学语文重不重要这一问题，原则性的答案和事实上的回答截然对立。2004年3月，内地及港澳台学者在“大学语文教学研讨会”上达成共识，他们认为：“只要不把大学办成技校，只要大学还是大学，大学语文的作用就不容忽视。”因而，现在的主要问题不是论证大学语文多么重要，而是要研究教学效果的达成。本文将通过对大学语文课程的性质定位、教学内容、教学方法和考核方式进行分析和研究，进而论证大学语文对高职学生素质和能力培养的积极意义。     

无公害农产品生产与生态农业

分析了无公害农产品生产与生态农业建设的关系 ,认为生态农业是无公害农产品生产的有效途径。此外 ,探讨了有关无公害农产品生产的技术与管理体系。     

双极膜电渗析法处理谷氨酸水溶液的过程性能研究

对利用双极膜水解离技术处理谷氨酸水溶液的各种工艺参数进行了探索。讨论了电流效率、转化率及能耗等因素对双极膜水解离技术应用的影响。根据实验研究结果 ,提出了双极膜法处理谷氨酸水溶液的最佳工艺流程     

Male mating opportunities affect sex allocation in a protrandric-simultaneous hermaphroditic shrimp

Sex allocation theory predicts phenotypic adjustments by individuals in their investments into the male and female reproductive function in response to environmental conditions. I tested for phenotypically plastic shifts in sex allocation in a protandric simultaneous hermaphrodite, in which individuals mature and reproduce as males first, and later in life, as simultaneous hermaphrodites. I predicted that initially maturing males should adjust the timing of maturation as hermaphrodites according to male mating opportunities mediated by population size of hermaphrodites. In a first experiment, males maintained with only one hermaphrodite reduced the time they spent as males in comparison to males maintained with no conspecifics, presumably because total reproductive output is maximized by two individuals being simultaneous hermaphrodites when the mating system is a pair. Conversely, males maintained in groups with two or more hermaphrodites increased the time they spent as males in comparison to single males. This delay in maturation was not an effect of resource depletion with increasing shrimp density because the growth rate of males did not differ among most of the experimental treatments. One hypothesis to explain this social mediation of sex allocation is that the smaller males are more successful in mating as males than are the larger hermaphrodites: it will pay reproductively for males to delay maturation as hermaphrodites in large but not in small groups. In agreement with this notion, a second experiment demonstrated that smaller males were four times more successful than were larger hermaphrodites in inseminating shrimps reproducing as females. The informative cue that males may use to perceive different group sizes deserves further attention.     

Cost-effective environmental policy: implications of induced technological change

Cost-effective environmental policy generally requires that all emission sources are faced with the same tax. In this paper I discuss how the existence of induced technological change may alter this result, if at least some of the effect is external to the firm. Focusing on Learning by doing (LBD) effects in abatement activities, it is shown that emission sources with external learning effects should be faced with a higher tax than emission sources with only autonomous technological change. By using simple numerical simulations, it is further investigated to what degree a cost-effective climate policy differs from a free quota market, under various assumptions about learning effects, diffusion of technology and environmental targets. The results indicate that optimal taxes may be significantly higher in the industrial world than in the developing world. Moreover, the industrial world's share of global abatement may be much higher in a cost-effective solution than in a free quota market. The global cost savings of a fully flexible implementation of the Kyoto Protocol are further questioned, as potential spillover effects of technological growth in the industrial world are not internalised in the market.     

COMPUTER ASSISTED NEGOTIATION OF MULTIOBJECTIVE WATER RESOURCES CONFLICTS1

ABSTRACT: Since the early 1970s, a large volume of literature has accumulated related to multiobjective water resources management problems. A relatively small portion of this specifically addresses the negotiation process required when there are multiple decision makers with conflicting objectives. This paper focuses on that process and describes a computer program designed to assist such negotiation processes. This interactive computer assisted negotiation support system is called ICANS. ICANS is designed for dynamic, multi-issue, multi-party negotiation problems. Based on information provided in confidence by each party via an interactive graphical interface, the program can help determine if there exist any possible alternatives that are equivalent or even preferred to each party's decision in the absence of a negotiated agreement. If such alternatives exist, through a series of iterations in which each party's input data, assumptions, and preferences may change, ICANS can assist the parties in their search for a mutually acceptable and preferred agreement. A simple example illustrates the data requirements and the use of ICANS in negotiation experiments.