The relationship between children's perceptions of the natural environment and their subjective well-being

The overarching aim of the study was to ascertain the relationship between children's perceptions of the natural environment and their subjective well-being. More specifically the study aimed to fit a structural model depicting the nature of the relationship between children's environmental views and their global, and domain-specific life satisfaction. The sample included 1004 twelve-year-old participants randomly selected from 15 primary schools in Cape Town, South Africa. The measuring instrument included the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) Scale for children, the Students' Life Satisfaction Scale and the Personal Well-Being Index-School Children. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the validity of the NEP Scale which showed appropriate fit structure. A good fit structure was also found for the overall structural equation model. However, the overall model showed that children's environmental views were not related to their global life and domain-specific life satisfaction. At a foundational level, more research is required to allow for a better understanding of how children in differing circumstances construct and assign meaning to nature, and what their perceptions of nature are before we can begin to ask them when, how or why they engage in nature.     

Colonowhen, Colonowho, Colonowhere, Colonowhy: Exploring the Meaning behind the Use of Colonoware Ceramics in Nineteenth-Century Manassas, Virginia

This paper explores the meaning and use of colonoware ceramics recovered from six archaeological sites dating from the nineteenth-century at Manassas, Virginia. Americans, both free and enslaved, occupied this landscape. Archaeological investigations have recovered colonoware at some nineteenth-century domestic sites but not others. The occurrence of colonoware at these sites is patterned: colonoware in nineteenth-century Manassas was not an “ethnic” marker denoting peoples of African descent, but rather a social marker that distinguished enslaved people from free. People of free and enslaved status attributed negative connotations to colonoware. Enslaved servants employed colonoware out of economic necessity, not as a way to express ethnicity.     

Cultural policy and evaluation of quality

Based on Danish experiences the article discusses the increasing role that the discourse of “quality” is playing in cultural policy. Throughout the 1990s, from the general cultural debate, this discourse has spread to more instrumental considerations and practices in the field of cultural policy. The article presents this process in a historical perspective and characterises the present tendency towards a technocratisation of the discourse of quality under the auspices of New Public Management and the general trend in modern state policy towards instrumentalising all societal resources in the global economic competition. Opposing this line of development, it is argued that “quality” could serve as a progressive, non‐instrumentalist discourse if it is defined in relation to a modernised understanding of the “rational core” of the cultural policy tradition of the Nordic countries. In this perspective, the article suggests a contextualisation of the concept of quality and possible ways of implementing the discourse in practical cultural policy.     

北京旅游价格指数与居民消费价格指数关系研究

旅游价格指数（TPI）是反映旅游者在旅游过程中消费的一篮子商品和服务项目价格水平随时间而变动的相对数。TPI的编制对于研究旅游目的地的旅游产业运行机制和目的地竞争力方面具有重要的理论意义,对于旅游目的地经营和营销也具有一定的指导和参考价值。本文分别利用拉氏指数、链式拉氏指数方法编制了2005～2010年的北京旅游价格指数。北京旅游价格指数构成中,餐饮和住宿分别占到了33．7％和30．9％,而景区游览仅占18．9％。经与北京同期的消费者价格指数比较得出,北京历年的TPI指数都高于同期的CPI,两者之比在1．0—1．5之间。旅游需求呈现较强的价格粘性特征,即TPI升降对于旅游需求量的增减影响不大。     

Contestability ‘theory’, its links with Australia’s competition policy,and recent international trade and investment agreements

This article examines how contestable market theory (contestability) has come to reconfigure the economic and regulatory concept of competition in order to enhance the compatibility of Australia’s economy with international trade and investment agreements. Australia has recently negotiated and signed a raft of bilateral, plurilateral and regional agreements, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the Australia–China Free Trade Agreement. In order to ensure that Australia meets its obligations and commitments to these agreements, two key advisory bodies—the Harper Panel on Competition Policy Review and the Financial System Inquiry—made recommendations, the majority of which were accepted by the government, to ready Australia’s competition governance and economic policy for greater global integration. Such impact is dependent on, among other things, how domestic competition policy meshes with the free market ideology underpinning such international agreements, which favours the breakdown of barriers to markets. Less well known is the role of contestability in radicalising ideology as it countenances monopolisation and privatisation in the guise of market access by justifying the substitution of actual competition with the mere threat of competition. The article concludes that the monopoly power of transnational corporations will be enhanced through the acquiescence of governments to the new governance regime of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, which, supported by domestic policy, is set to redraw competition policy in the light of contestability theory.     

旅游者权力对旅游者满意影响的实证研究——感知控制的中介作用及消费经验的调节作用

近年来,由于旅游信息可获得性不断提高等因素,旅游者的消费者权力日益增加,并被研究者所关注。本文从旅游者自身的角度探索了其权力行使对满意的影响及作用机制。研究结果显示：权力不仅能够有效地减少旅游者权益受损经历,而且能显著地提升其对消费经历的控制感和满意度。进一步研究发现,在这个过程中感知控制起到了部分中介作用,旅游者的消费经验正向调节权力与感知控制及权力与满意之间的关系。本文实证检验了以往消费者权力和增权研究的基础假设,为其理论体系提供了数据支持,并且为旅游者提供了法律以外的、维护自身权益和获取消费满意的主动性手段。     

水上旅游满意度指标体系建构初探——以黄浦江游览为例

本文试图作水上旅游者满意度测量的初步研究,以期从游客感知角度评判城市水上旅游的服务质量和瓶颈问题。论文基于期望差异理论并参考满意度测评的通用方法SERVUAL量表,提出由"水上旅游满意度指标分类系统"和"水上旅游满意度指标评价系统"两部分构成的满意度指标体系。论文以黄浦江游览为例,采用结构化问卷随机调查法,得出量化的黄浦江游览满意度及其指标。论文认为游客对黄浦江游览的现状总体上说已经达到基本满意的状态,论文进而分析了9个强优势细分指标、11个劣势细分指标、2个潜力细分指标和1个问题细分指标。     

Consumption,exclusion and emotion: The social geographies of shopping

In recent years, a productive dialogue has developed between retail geographers and those social geographers concerned with the spatiality of consumption. This has resulted in a series of accounts of shopping that emphasize notions of consumer creativity. Nonetheless, this paper argues that many of these have struggled to reconcile the meaning of shopping with an understanding of the material parameters within which consumers operate. Recognizing that this tendency has distracted from the socio-spatial inequalities evident in retailing, the paper examines how shopping rituals are embedded in social relations that discourage particular shoppers from visiting certain retail locations. Drawing on extensive and intensive data derived in Coventry (UK), the paper questions the extent to which this geography of exclusion is the product of constraint, arguing that shopping is shaped by a more complex spatiality of inclusion and (self-) exclusion. Accordingly, the paper makes the case for a social geography of shopping that pays careful attention to the emotionally laden transactions played out in particular settings.     

农村市场参与者的特征和行为感应分析

将行为方法引入到农村市场的研究中来是十分必要的。作者以行为理论为基础,通过详细的调查研究,揭示了区域性农村市场上消费者和商人的行为特征及其感应和偏好。     

零售商业空间组织的市场分析

本文从市场地理学的角度上,对零售空间组织的决策过程--市场分析过程进行了研究。指出该过程应包括区域社会经济分析,即提供发展背景;贸易区分析,即确定区位发展可行性;消费者研究,即确定组织经营形式。