Community sustainability and resilience: similarities,differences and indicators

Sustainability has been a core conceptual framework for community development since the approach was popularized in 1987, although in its essence it reflects a long history of environmental conservation reactions to industrialization. Resilience, as a framework for understanding and approaching community development, emerged more gradually out of ecological studies in the 1980s, but has only recently, since the mid-2000s, emerged as a focus of public interest as a way of responding and adapting to the planet's growing anthropogenic changes. For many, sustainability and resilience are slightly nuanced perspectives on the same phenomenon. For others, however, there are distinct differences between them, with sustainability's conservation goals being in opposition to the adaptation goals of resilience. Two major reasons for these confusions are (1) both concepts are defined and used in many different ways to achieve a variety of political goals that may not reflect their core definitions, and (2) both concepts share similar goals and some common approaches, such as a focus on climate change and seeking a balance between humans and nature. Returning to the core definitions of conservation and adaptation helps to clarify their similarities and differences, as well as to articulate indicators for understanding how each applies to community tourism development. Indicators from research in rural Taiwan tourism communities were therefore based on responses to the questions: What does the community want to conserve and how do they want to do it (sustainability)? What do they want to change and how do they want to do it (resilience)? Preliminary results suggest that the new ideal community is the one that is both sustainable and resilient.     

Early Carboniferous brachiopod faunas from the Baoshan block,west Yunnan,southwest China

38 brachiopod species in 27 genera and subgenera are described from the Yudong Formation in the Shidian-Baoshan area, west Yunnan, southwest China. New taxa include two new subgenera: Unispirifer (Septimispirifer) and Brachythyrina (Longathyrina), and seven new species: Eomarginifera yunnanensis, Marginatia cylindrica, Unispirifer (Unispirifer) xiangshanensis, Unispirifer (Septimispirifer) wafangjieensis, Brachythyrina (Brachythyrina) transversa, Brachythyrina (Longathyrina) baoshanensis, and Girtyella wafangjieensis. Based on the described material and constraints from associated coral and conodont faunas, the age of the brachiopod fauna from the Yudon Formation is considered late Tournaisian (Early Carboniferous), with a possibility extending into earlyViséan.     

我国宗教文物保护的特殊性初探

宗教文物作为我国文化遗产的重要组成部分和传统文化的重要载体,近年来引起了业内及社会的广泛关注和讨论.作者在文中就”宗教文物”这一对象,从其特殊性、保存现状和问题、宗教文物的有形与无形价值,等几个方面进行了分析和讨论,强调了宗教文物的独特性,以及相关保护修复工作的特殊意义.     

叙利亚与两伊战争

叙利亚为了维护国家利益和阿萨德阿拉维派复兴党统治集团的利益,基于现实矛盾、地缘政治和教派因素,在两伊战争中从军事、外交和经济方面支持伊朗,反对伊拉克,叙利亚的两伊政策因两伊战争的进程和阿以冲突的起伏而呈现出阶段性特征,并对叙利亚和伊朗及中东地缘政治产生了重要影响。     

画楼金簪锁云鬓——中国国家博物馆藏明益庄王妃万氏金簪赏析

1958年,江西南城长塘街明益庄王朱厚烨墓的发掘将许多珍稀文物呈现在世人眼前,其中最令人叹为观止的莫过于那些用纯金打造的头饰,璀璨耀眼,熠熠生辉,表现出大明王朝富足的物质生活和能工巧匠的高超技艺,充满时代气息。墓主朱厚烨,为明宪宗朱见深第四子、益端王朱祜槟的嫡长子。明代将皇子皇孙分封各地作藩王,     

满族研究的民族学新作--评《满族--辽宁新宾县腰站村调查》

中国民族村寨调查丛书已由云南大学出版社陆续出版了。这套丛书的出版为民族研究工作提供了崭新的调查资料,更有利于民族部门了解民族的社会现状和发展趋势,以便制定相应的民族政策,使中国的民族工作更上一层楼,走在世界的前列。     

延安清凉山红色旅游发展的战略思考

中国共产党在延安时期新闻传播事业所形成的纪念地、纪念物及其所承载的革命精神在红色旅游中具有重要地位。清凉山承载着中国革命战争和新闻传播事业的厚重历史,有着许许多多可歌可泣的动人故事。发展清凉山红色旅游,须建立"政府主导,各方参与、市场运作"机制,保持其核心竞争力;要以新闻传播行业及其高校为依托,开拓客源市场;活化清凉山红色旅游资源,强化游客精神体验等。     

近50年来我国的美国黑人史研究

中国学近50年来对美国黑人史的研究可分为三个时期。20世纪50—70年代,美国黑人史研究在中国成为一个研究热点,取得一批重要成果,但不可避免带有政治化的倾向。80年代,黑人史研究略显沉寂,处于承上启下阶段。90年代以来,取得很大的进展,研究的领域和深度都有所拓展和深入。但总的看来,我国的美国黑人史研究还远未成熟,尚处于起步和奠基阶段。     

王九思《碧山乐府》现存刊本考述

王九思,字敬夫,鄠(今陕西户县)人,居近漠陂,因以为号,别署紫阁山人.明宪宗成化四年(1468)生,世宗嘉靖三十年(1551)卒[1],为明代中期前七子中的重要成员.王九思的散曲创作起步较晚.其挚友康海<碧山乐府序>云:"山人旧不为此体,自罢寿州后始为之."而王九思罢官寿州同知在正德六年(1511),归至乡里在第二年,其时已四十五岁,此后再未出仕.康海称其是发愤所作:"盛年屏弃,无所发怒",不得已才寄情词曲的.