scholarly journals The gyroscope-like economy: hypermobility, structural imbalance and pandemic governance in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-532
Author(s):  
Biao Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Structural Imbalance

scholarly journals Cultivated Land Use Layout Adjustment Based on Crop Planting Suitability: A Case Study of Typical Counties in Northeast China

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Ge Song ◽  
Hongmei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Northeast China ◽  
Utilization Efficiency ◽  
Food Crops ◽  
Cultivated Land ◽  
Gis Technology ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Production Area ◽  
Structural Imbalance ◽  
Crop Planting

Cultivated land use layout adjustment (CLULA) based on crop planting suitability is the refinement and deepening of land use transformation, which is of great significance for optimizing the allocation of cultivated land resources and ensuring food security. At present, people rarely consider the land suitability of crops when using cultivated land, resulting in an imbalance between crop distribution and resource conditions such as water, heat, and soil, and adversely affects the ecological security and utilization efficiency of cultivated land. To alleviate China’s grain planting structural imbalance and efficiency loss, this paper based on the planting suitability of main food crops (rice, soybean, and maize) to adjust and optimize the cultivated land use layout (CLUL) in the typical counties of the main grain production area in Northeast China, using the agent-based model for optimal land allocation (AgentLA) and GIS technology. Findings from the study show that: (1) The planting suitability of rice, soybean, and maize in the region is obviously different. Among them, the suitability level of soybean and maize is high, and that of rice is low. The current CLUL of the food crops needs to be further optimized and adjusted. (2) By optimizing the layout of rice, soybean, and maize, the planting suitability level of the food crops and the concentration level of the CLUL spatial pattern have been improved. (3) The plan for CLULA is formulated: The study area is divided into rice stable production area, maize-soybean rotation area, maize dominant area, and soybean dominant area, and town or village is identified as the implementation unit of CLULA. The plan for CLULA will be conducive to the concentrated farming of food crops according to the suitable natural conditions and management level. The research realized the optimization of spatial structure and cultivated land use patterns of different food crops integrating farming with protecting land. The significance of the study is that it provides a scientific basis and guidance for adjusting the regional planting structure and solving the problem of food structural imbalance.

scholarly journals Global Corporate Accountability

2020 ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Jean-Jacques Lambin
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Corporate Accountability ◽  
Publicly Traded ◽  
Accountability System ◽  
Civil Regulation ◽  
Structural Imbalance

Global corporate accountability refers to the performance of a publicly traded company in non-financial areas such as social responsibility, sustainability and environmental performance. The emergence of global civil regulation is rooted in the perception that economic globalization has created a structural imbalance between the size and power of global firms and markets and the capacity and/or willingness of governments to adequately regulate their corporate conduct. The objective of economic sustainability implies the development within the firm of a societal corporate accountability system, which will help the firm to manage its economic and societal responsibilities and to periodically report to its different stakeholders.

scholarly journals Subjecting pandemic sport to a sociological procedure

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 704-713
Author(s):  
David Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Social Institution ◽  
Cultural Citizenship ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Early Modernity ◽  
Commercial Media ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Structural Imbalance ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
The Many

The Covid-19 global pandemic posed a particularly acute problem for sport. Although there was massive sectoral disruption in areas like higher education, music, and tourism, sport is unusually dependent on commercial media-financed, impossible-to-repeat live events performed before large co-present crowds that form a key part of the spectacle for the many times larger, distant audiences using an expanding range of screens. Covid-19 exposed the inner workings of sport as a machine that could be disabled by its own global interdependency. The compulsive generation of inequalities of class, ‘race’/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, age, ability, space, and so on resulting from the advanced commoditisation and consequent hierarchisation of contemporary global sport, created the structural imbalance and vulnerability that Covid-19 has mercilessly punished. This article applies a sociological analysis to sport before, during and after the pandemic, arguing that an emphasis on the relationships between human rights and cultural citizenship is required to improve the social institution of sport. It argues that if sociology does not play a key role in reforming sport after Covid-19, then it will have lost the moral compass that first guided the discipline in early modernity when the institution of sport emerged.

A central dilemma in the mental health sector: Structural imbalance

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darrel P. Doessel ◽  
Ruth F. G. Williams ◽  
Patricia Nolan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Structural Imbalance

scholarly journals Modern trends of informatization of financial marketing

2017 ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
I. V. Rozhkov
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
External Environment ◽  
Industrial Clusters ◽  
Industry Cluster ◽  
Cluster Management ◽  
Typical Structure ◽  
Structural Imbalance ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
Centralized System

Significant institutional weaknesses of the formation of the management structure of an industry cluster are revealed, the possibility of engineering new structures of governance based on the principles of innovative management is identified. Feature of industrial clusters is the need and necessity of innovation that permeates all structures of the cluster management and all the processes of cluster management and, in turn, creates the preconditions for the formation of business entities the ability to successfully overcome a crisis situation. The purpose of the work is to develop the improved construction of innovational sectorial clustering with the use of effective centralized system of management of cluster business processes, based on diffusion of innovational technologies and their production embodiment. A typical structure of sectorial cluster management does not allow determining goals, tasks, tools, and mechanisms of innovational development of sectorial cluster’s enterprises. Drawbacks of the typical structure of sectorial cluster management are as follows: lack of representation of the scheme of cooperation between cluster members and external environment, format of development of interrelations between cluster’s elements in the sphere of information exchange, movement of material flows and financial resources, lack of formed areas of responsibility and matrices of competences of cluster members in various scenarios of development of external environment. The “structural imbalance” in the system of management of sectorial cluster is determined, which consists in elaboration of production and functional structure and “fuzziness” of responsibility for cluster activities efficiency. The use of the improved innovational construction of sectorial cluster management will eliminate structural imbalance in the process of management of sectorial clusters and increase effectiveness of their activities under the conditions of turbulent development of external environment.

scholarly journals Identity politics and national integration in Nigeria

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Ikechi Wonah
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Integration ◽  
Democratic Culture ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Structural Imbalance ◽  
The Impact

The aim of the paper is to examine the impact of identity politics on national integration in Nigeria. This paper relies on secondary sources of data, and contends that identity politics can create the necessary awareness and actions needed to redress the inequities promoted by the structural imbalance of the Nigerian State. The redress of the inequities can be a stabilizing force necessary for the actualization of national integration in Nigeria. On the other hand, it argues that identity politics can also be a divisive factor which can seriously threaten the corporate existence of Nigeria and make our quest for integration illusory. Also, the paper is  of the view that national integration can be achieved when identity politics is guided by certain objective conditions expressed in democracy. Therefore, it recommends that there should be an internalization and demonstration of the democratic culture in everyday life of Nigerians. 

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