Pluralising Political Forests: Unpacking “the State” by Tracing Virunga's Charcoal Chain

Peering through the lens of illegal charcoal production in the forested areas of Virunga National Park in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, this paper makes a case for disaggregating the notion of “the state” to better capture “the political” in contemporary political forests. It argues that to identify the fluctuating importance of different dimensions of “stateness”, it is crucial to acknowledge the polymorphous socio-spatial relations that produce political forests. Thus, we draw on the notions of territory, place, scale and network (TPSN) to examine how “stateness” in Virunga has transformed under the particularisation, transnationalisation, and regionalisation of authority. This approach allows us to show how these processes do not only stem from neoliberalisation, but are also driven by, inter alia, regional warfare and non-state militarisation. The resulting complexity of the regulatory landscape turns Virunga into a space marked by a plurality of partly overlapping and partly conflicting political forests.     

消费与可持续发展

在过去的十年里,可持续发展已成为社会经济发展领域里最基本的概念,然而现代消费的方式给社会经济的可持续发展带来了严重危机。改变不合理的消费方式,发挥科学和政策对消费的指导作用,实现文明、科学的可持续性消费对社会经济的可持续发展具有重要意义。     

洞庭湖区湿地生态旅游资源开发模式研究

洞庭湖区湿地是我国最大的淡水湖泊湿地生态系统之一,湿地资源特别丰富,开展湿地生态旅游资源条件十分优越;本文根据洞庭湖区湿地呈同心环带状分布的特征,对洞庭湖区湿地资源进行了景观分类:即洞庭湖湖泊河汊区、洞庭湖湿地平原区、洞庭湖环湖低丘岗地区;分析了洞庭湖区湿地旅游资源的特征和开发利用现状,按照洞庭湖湿地各环带生态旅游资源的特点,提出了洞庭湖湿地生态旅游资源开发模式:即洞庭湖湖泊河汊区生态旅游资源开发模式,洞庭湖湿地平原区生态旅游资源开发模式,洞庭湖环湖低丘岗地区生态旅游资源开发模式;并就湿地生态旅游资源开发中应注意的问题作了说明,以期达到保护湿地生态环境,合理开发湿地生态旅游资源,实现洞庭湖区湿地旅游资源可持续发展的目的。     

山西省农业土地资源可持续利用研究

农业土地资源的可持续利用是实现农业可持续发展的基础和保证。本文通过分析山西农业土地资源的特点,开发利用现状及存在的主要问题,提出了山西农业土地资源可持续利用的主要措施:加快退耕还林步伐,调整农业用地结构,优化农业生态环境;加强生态农业建设,合理利用土地资源,提高土地生产率;加大农业生态环境整治力度,防止土地退化,减轻自然灾害;强化土地管理,规范土地市场,保护农业土地资源。     

旅游地游憩价值评估研究进展

近50年来,旅游地游憩价值评估成为一个热点研究领域,为相关自然保护区、景区的管理与决策起到重大作用。我国从20世纪80年代也出现了游憩价值评估的探索。综合分析国外的相关资料,旅游地游憩价值评估主要集中于旅游地环境资源总经济价值评估、生态旅游发展与政策评估、游憩项目评估和评估方法的研究,主要使用费用支出法、旅行费用法和条件估值法等方面。我国的游憩价值评估主要集中在森林游憩价值领域,方法应用和研究规范上与国外尚有差距。此外,针对我国部分研究将出现将游憩价值评估与经营资产价值评估糅合,认为游憩价值评估与经营资产价值评估是两条独立的主线,不应互相混淆。     

语言资源：一种可以开发利用的旅游资源

语言资源是一种可以开发利用的重要旅游资源。方言、古歌谣等语言类资源是人文旅游资源,同时,这类语言资源本身也有可能成为消费性旅游产品。应加大语言资源在旅游资源开发中的权重,充分利用作为文化代码的语言资源来开发旅游产品。     

市场需求为导向的城市旅游资源开发评价体系研究

本从分析城市旅游资源开发的原则出发,探讨在以市场需求为导向的城市旅游资源开发模式,在此基础上,建立城市旅游资源模糊多级综合评价模型。     

Correspondence

Abstract

One root of the resurgence of interest in the place of religion in human affairs lies in the postmodernist critique of materialist explanations, combined with the heightened sense of living in a new, possibly ‘post-secular’, age distinct from classical modernity. Secular ideologies such as Marxism have lost ground since the end of the cold war saw the resurgence of ethnic and religious violence in some of the successor states to Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. The theocratic character of the Iranian revolution and the rise of the religious right in the United States also help to explain why religion is the defining characteristic of the new order which Samuel Huntington portrays as the ‘clash of civilizations’. The events following 11 September 2001 have done little to distract from the preoccupation with religious fundamentalism.     

Securing the Sinews of Sea Power: British Intervention in the Baltic 1780–1815

This article argues that Britain's standing as a maritime nation must be considered if we are to fully understand the objectives behind British foreign policy in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It focuses on one of the most important challenges successive British governments faced during this period; the need to secure shipbuilding resources. Both British economic prosperity and national security depended upon the continued supply of naval stores. These resources could only be procured from the Baltic region, which meant the region took on a crucial strategic importance for policy-makers. This article will focus on Britain's relationship with the Baltic between 1780 and 1815 tracing Britain's sensitivity to the changing political environment in Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, and particularly Russia, and outlining how this came to dictate foreign policy. Britain hoped to rely on diplomacy and economic interdependence to maintain the movement of naval stores from the Baltic; however intransigence from the Baltic powers forced Britain to resort to military measures on three occasions between 1800 and 1815, such was the importance of these shipbuilding resources.     

Hydrology and water resources in Canadian geography

Academic research on water by Canadian geographers encompasses both the physical and the social sciences. While this may provide for an integrated approach to water, there is limited engagement between the hydrologists who study the details of the hydrological cycle and those who study water resources and governance. This paper reviews the current state of water research in Canadian geography departments and possible emergent areas of research in the coming decade. As an overview, interjected with points of contention, future discourses on the subject may be encouraged.