Lake Pedder's Loss and Failed Restoration: Ecological Politics Meets Liberal Democracy in Tasmania

The flooding of Lake Pedder in South West Tasmania for hydro-electricity in the early 1970s is recognised as one of the world's great ecological tragedies. The hope for its restoration, long held by some, has been given impetus by the activities of Pedder 2000, a nation-wide restoration lobby group founded in 1994. The legitimacy, feasibility and desirability of Pedder's restoration has been acknowledged, if not endorsed, by a recent federal inquiry. Restoration proponents see Pedder's recovery not only as a means of making amends for past follies, but as a new millennium project that offers hope to future generations. This paper reviews Pedder's inundation and the efforts towards its recovery, and finds little support for restoration in the absence of compelling economic and political benefit. This is cause to reflect, it is argued, upon the difficulties that ecological politics has encountered within Tasmania that saw Lake Pedder dammed in the first place.     

战后中共“和平、民主、团结”总方针的确定及其转变

抗日戗争胜利后,中共中央在“七大”方针的基础上,确定了走和平发展道路及“和平、民主、团结’’的总方针。此后,中共中央领导解放区军民,以自卫战争的形式,对国民党消灭人民军队和解放区的企图与发起的进攻进秆了坚决斗争;同时,中共中央也做了一定的妥协和让步以争取和平建国。蒋介石发动全面内战后,中共中央虽尽最大努力仍无法求得和平,遂于1946年11月最终放弃了“和平、民主、团结”总方针及对和平发展道路的选择,而改行“打倒蒋介石”方针,从而完成了共产党和解放区军民由自卫战争向人民解放战争的最终转变。     

战后中日关系研究的概况与问题--以中日两国的学术专著为中心

中国的战后中日关系研究基本上在历史学领域中展开,但实证研究仍需进一步的努力.而日本学者注意到国际政治学方法论的采用,强调了国际政治结构对中日关系的制约,但在史学研究方面还有不断把新史料纳入视野、在史学研究的基础上建构自己的国际政治学理论等方面的发展空间.相信整体性的过程研究和实证经验理论总结将使我们能够有基础和有信心尝试建立一些规范的分析概念,并通过这些概念对历史和思想演变的深层规律进行某种程度的哲学分析,即所谓理论的建构.