回到1971的未来

战火纷飞的年代,汽车制造商们关心的是汽车的安全性能和楔形主题1971是动荡的一年。北爱尔兰动乱升级,多少无辜的平民被杀害;美国仍深陷越南战争的泥潭。第26届联合国大会以压倒性多数通过第258号决议,决定恢复中华人民共和国在联合国的一切合法权利。那时的苏联仍是西方阵营的头号敌人。     

通用大宇沉浮录·下篇·

GMDAT策略:品牌重建、弥补GM全球车型总体规划的不足和空白、增强在新兴市场知名度上篇中曾提到,为使通用大宇重新占领市场,通用面临诸多挑战。但在很短的时间内,通用就稳定了大宇的军心,重拾了客户与企业之间的信心联系,再次启动新车型开发项目,且确保对GMDAT的财政支持。以上措施尽管取得了一定的效果,但通用深知要想     

Communicating something confidential while travelling by train: the use of a telephone conversation versus silent modes

Wireless ICTs are often used in public transport. Using survey data collected amongst 98 train travellers this article aims to gain insight into important factors that affect train travellers’ intentions to communicate with distant others while travelling. More specifically, the focus is on the decision-making process that leads to the intention to choose for a confidential conversation either via ‘audible’ mobile phone or via ‘silent’ SMS/e-mail. An approach that is related to the Extended Model of Goal-directed Behaviour (EMGB) is applied. Structural equation modelling results indicate that in particular past SMS behaviour, the desire to communicate (goal desire), the perceived efficacy and controllability influence the intention to conduct a confidential phone conversation in the train. The influence of the social environment (e.g. eavesdropping) seems to be less important. Several EMGB constructs are strongly influenced by age. It seems that older respondents have more negative attitudes towards telephoning while travelling by train, and find it more difficult to call other people in such a situation. Finally, they have a lower intention than younger respondents to conduct a confidential conversation over the phone while travelling.

回到1988年的未来

1988年的概念车是跟小家碧玉毫不沾边的风格o汽车产业在第二次爱之夏时为之疯狂。1988年,乔治·布什刚当选美国总统。而在底特律,凯迪拉克Voyage也在另一场备受关注的选举中脱颖而出,成为这场秀的明星。这辆轿车外观时髦.像     

通用大宇沉浮录·上篇·

2002年通用汽车决定收购倒闭的韩国大宇汽车组建通用大宇汽车技术公司(GMDAT)时,曾引来业界一片质疑之声,甚至通用董事会中也有成员持怀疑态度。现在回头来看,通用收购大宇是一件无比明智的决定。这家以打造低制造成本、低级别车型的公司经过几年的发展。不仅实现高速增长,还成为了通用面向欧洲、亚洲甚至北美市场重要的研发中心,以及公司全球发展计划中的核心组成部分。为了更深入地了解大宇的发展,Global Insight特别就该收购案中的战略关系,以及就过去五年里改变大宇的关键因素等问题,采访了曾任通用大宇汽车和科技公司总裁兼首席执行官,现升任通用汽车亚太区总裁的Nick Reilly先生。     

Scientific research about climate change mitigation in transport: A critical review

This paper seeks to develop a deeper understanding of the research on climate change mitigation in transport. We suggest that work to date has focused on the effects of improvements in transport technologies, changes in the price of transport, physical infrastructure provision, behavioural change and alternative institutional arrangements for governing transport systems. In terms of research methodologies, positivist and quantitative analysis prevails, although there are signs of experimentation with non-positivist epistemologies and participatory methods. These particular engagements with climate change mitigation reflect mutually reinforcing tendencies within and beyond the academic transport community. We first draw on a revised version of Thomas Kuhn’s philosophy of science to explore the path dependencies within transport studies, which are at least partly responsible for the predisposition towards quantitative modelling and technology, pricing and infrastructure oriented interventions in transport systems. We then employ the governmentality perspective to examine how transport academics’ engagements with climate change mitigation depend on and align with more general understandings of climate change in UK society and beyond. The analysis makes clear that ecological modernisation and neo-liberal governmentality more generally provide the context for the current focus on and belief in technological, behaviour change, and especially market-based mitigation strategies. While current research trajectories are important and insightful, we believe that a deeper engagement with theoretical insights from the social sciences will produce richer understandings of transport mitigation in transport and briefly outline some of the contributions thinking on socio-technical transitions and practice theories can make.     

Facts,Fictions, and Failures of Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Europe

Nearly 40 years on since its first tentative steps in North America, this article considers whether Integrated Zone Coastal Management (ICZM) in Europe has grown to maturity as a form of governance. The article summarizes the findings of recent research concerning the levels of implementation of coastal management in Europe, with particular reference to the UK experience. A research framework is used to identify the different motivations behind the social actor groups involved in coastal management. The application of this framework reveals four major findings about gaps in implementation: (1) the complexity of responsibilities at the coast continues to prevent agencies from taking a “joined-up” approach; (2) a policy vacuum is constraining implementation from national to local scales; (3) informational obstacles are significant in preventing co-ordination between science and policymakers, and between different sectors; (4) a democratic deficit is preventing implementation in the working practices of coastal stakeholders, with little opportunity in decision making for public comment or local accountability, especially offshore. The article also explores different conceptualizations of the role of coastal management and planning held across Europe, providing an analysis using the Strategic Management literature and the experience of the EU Demonstration Programme on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (1996–1999). Recent arrangements, with the availability of priming funds from the European Commission and emphasis on “pilot” and “demonstration” methods, have tended to encourage a project-based approach to ICZM that may fail to realize long-term objectives. The article seeks to present an analysis of the behaviors of scientists, academics, policymakers, and practitioners, and will be of interest to all those seeking to establish ICZM within the wider system of governance, as supported by the Commission of the European Community (2000) Communication on ICZM (COM 547). Some technical solutions are also offered from the UK experience that will be of use to coastal project officers working at national and regional levels.     

全球去煤化亚洲正提速

对于煤炭,丧钟已然敲响,而石油和天然气也时日不多.中国率先做出了在2060年之前实现净零排放的承诺,随后日本和韩国也称将在2050年实现同样目标,这些表态给金融市场发出了响亮而明确的信号. 在世界其他地区开始转向自己国内更为便宜的可再生能源之后,化石燃料出口国曾寄厚望于在亚洲地区的煤炭进口,然而以上近期的转变只能让他们...