Establishment of Community Managed Fisheries’ Closures in Kenya: Early Evolution of the Tengefu Movement

Community-based management (CBM) could be an essential tool to prevent the depletion of marine resources in the Western Indian Ocean region. In Kenya, political pressure to strengthen local governance, has led to adoption of CBM as a way of reducing over-exploitation and managing the competing uses and impacts on the marine environment. Several communities in Kenya have embraced CBM and have set aside or closed previously fished areas to enhance recovery of fisheries and biodiversity. These community fisheries closures (locally called tengefu), despite being degraded, may recover to finfish abundances and biodiversity levels similar to established MPAs or above thresholds for maintaining some ecological services. Communities see their direct involvement and control of these tengefu as more likely to result in benefits flowing directly to them. Community closures are also important for articulating and resolving community values and strengthening their management capacity. Here, we describe the evolution of the tengefu movement in Kenya and combine information from focus group discussions, interviews, underwater surveys and boundary marking to evaluate the current status, opportunities and challenges facing these tengefu. We show that in some cases community closures suffer from slow and incomplete national and local legislative processes, challenges to compliance, and weak management.     

Socially optimal electric driving range of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles

This study determines the optimal electric driving range of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) that minimizes the daily cost borne by the society when using this technology. An optimization framework is developed and applied to datasets representing the US market. Results indicate that the optimal range is 16 miles with an average social cost of $3.19 per day when exclusively charging at home, compared to $3.27 per day of driving a conventional vehicle. The optimal range is found to be sensitive to the cost of battery packs and the price of gasoline. When workplace charging is available, the optimal electric driving range surprisingly increases from 16 to 22 miles, as larger batteries would allow drivers to better take advantage of the charging opportunities to achieve longer electrified travel distances, yielding social cost savings. If workplace charging is available, the optimal density is to deploy a workplace charger for every 3.66 vehicles. Moreover, the diversification of the battery size, i.e., introducing a pair and triple of electric driving ranges to the market, could further decrease the average societal cost per PHEV by 7.45% and 11.5% respectively.     

大城市中小学周边地区交通拥堵问题分析与解决策略

交通拥堵已经成为我国大城市的一种社会问题,它与每一个人都息息相关,如何更好地处理这种问题,使其减少对人们出行的影响,成为值得每一个人思考的问题。针对大中型城市中的交通拥堵其中的一种现象进行深入的剖析,系统介绍交通拥堵的成因,有针对性地提出如何改善中小学周边地区交通拥堵现象的一些观点和做法。     

Investigating Causal Pathways Linking Site-Level Characteristics,Compliance, and Ecological Performance in Caribbean MPAs

A rapidly growing body of empirical evidence has linked improved ecological performance of social–ecological systems (SES) with better compliance with rules governing human activities. Researchers have proposed several key factors that motivate an individual to comply with resource use rules, including deterrence, social pressures, moral inclinations, and perceived legitimacy of rules and responsible authorities. Much of the research on compliance proposes causal mechanisms at the individual human level, but few studies test causal paths with empirical data particularly at the site level. This study tested a proposed pathway for explaining overall compliance rates and ecological performance in SES using data from structured surveys of community members, key informant interviews, policy documents, and coral reef surveys at marine protected areas (MPAs) and their associated human communities in the wider Caribbean. Findings indicate that compliance and other active MPA management interventions positively affect ecological performance, and site-level contextual factors (level of community development and being part of a political network) positively influence significant predictors of overall compliance rates, which include active MPA management and enforced punishments.     

基于社交网络的民航旅客偏好建模

从社会网络的视角，提出了一种旅客个体偏好与关系偏好相结合的建模方法．首先，从旅客的历史出行记录中，构建基于共同出行关系的旅客社会网络；然后，构建旅客个体偏好模型和旅客关系偏好模型；最后，基于旅客偏好模型给旅客推荐座位．在民航领域的一个真实的数据集上进行了实验，证明本文提出的偏好模型能够有机地将旅客个体偏好与关系偏好结合起来，较好地描述旅客对航班座位的偏好．     

农村公路建设的社会经济效益分析

农村公路的社会经济效益是评价项目实施效果的重要依据。在分析了农村公路社会经济效益的产生机理的基础上,建立了一套较完善的农村公路社会经济效益评价指标体系。以浙江省"乡村康庄工程"项目为例,对本文建立的体系进行了检验,取得了较好的使用效果。     

民生警务背景下电动自行车治理困境与应对策略

大量的电动自行车违法行为给交通管理增加了繁重的压力的同时,也给民生警务改革、构建和谐警民关系带来了难题。在此背景下,文章首先阐述了新修订的《浙江省电动自行车管理条例》主要内容,接着分析了目前电动自行车治理存在民众对新《条例》认知不足、违法者不认同执法、电动自行车驾驶员安全意识不高和违规电动自行车生产销售等问题,最后有针对性地从宣传引导、加强执法协作和强化监管等方面提出了相应的对策建议。     

预防和减少建筑墙面几种裂缝的技术措施

通过对大量砖混结构的民用住宅、框架结构的办公楼等多种建筑的调查发现,多数建筑都存在着不同形式的裂缝,这些裂缝一旦出现便很难弥补,但许多裂缝是有规律可循的,对这些裂缝进行了总结。     

一个互动式“I—A—R”激励模型

社会转型导致人的存在状态的变化，经济利益成为人们活动的基本驱动力。通过对两种利益矛盾冲突的内在心理，和“奉献-索取”两种外显行为的矛盾的分析，构造了由“利益关系取向”、“奉献-索取取向”和“激励方式取向”组合成的互动式激励模型，即“I—A—R”模型。分析了模型的运作，即如何灵活权变地运用合适的激励方式的问题。运用实证分析和问卷调查，证明了个体的心理和行为倾向具有动态性。     

高职学生社会公德意识调查与分析

本文通过对高职学生社会公德意识现状的调查及数据分析,提出了优化高职学生公德意识的途径.