Quick Steps, Incremental Reform—Shenzhen Social Organization Registration Management System Reform

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-274
Author(s):  
Yushan Xu ◽  
Siying Luo
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Management System ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Trade Associations ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Policies

This case study describes the process of Shenzhen’s social organizations registration and management system reform in the past ten years. Shenzhen has taken three modest reform measures, including the disconnection of trade associations from administrative departments, direct registration of trade associations and expanded range of direct registration, which has lowered the threshold for the registration of social organizations and kindled the vigor of social organizations. In line with the reform and devolution of city-level departments of civil affairs, different districts have made efforts to experiment and innovate with new policies, issuing reform plans regarding the filing of community social organizations, the incubation of social organizations, etc.

scholarly journals An approach for comparing agricultural development to societal visions

2022 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Helfenstein ◽  
Vasco Diogo ◽  
Matthias Bürgi ◽  
Peter H. Verburg ◽  
Beatrice Schüpbach ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Aerial Photographs ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
The Past ◽  
Normative Dimension ◽  
Agroecological Movement ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Sustainability Assessments

AbstractThere is broad agreement that agriculture has to become more sustainable in order to provide enough affordable, healthy food at minimal environmental and social costs. But what is “more sustainable”? More often than not, different stakeholders have opposing opinions on what a more sustainable future should look like. This normative dimension is rarely explicitly addressed in sustainability assessments. In this study, we present an approach to assess the sustainability of agricultural development that explicitly accounts for the normative dimension by comparing observed development with various societal visions. We illustrate the approach by analyzing farm- and landscape-scale development as well as sustainability outcomes in a Swiss case study landscape. Observed changes were juxtaposed with desired changes by Avenir Suisse, a liberal think tank representing free-market interests; the Swiss Farmers Association, representing a conservative force; and Landwirtschaft mit Zukunft, an exponent of the Swiss agroecological movement. Overall, the observed developments aligned most closely with desired developments of the liberal think-tank (72%). Farmer interviews revealed that in the case study area farms increased in size (+ 57%) and became more specialized and more productive (+ 223%) over the past 20 years. In addition, interpretation of aerial photographs indicated that farming became more rationalized at the landscape level, with increasing field sizes (+ 34%) and removal of solitary field trees (− 18%). The case study example highlights the varying degrees to which current developments in agriculture align with societal visions. By using societal visions as benchmarks to track the progress of agricultural development, while explicitly addressing their narratives and respective systems of values and norms, this approach offers opportunities to inform also the wider public on the extent to which current developments are consistent with different visions. This could help identify mismatches between desired and actual development and pave the way for designing new policies.

Allocation of Land Value Increment from TDR Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 675-677 ◽  
pp. 1209-1217
Author(s):  
Yu Cao ◽  
Ci Fang Wu
Keyword(s):  
Land Development ◽  
System Reform ◽  
Land Value ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Land Use Conversion ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Farmland Conversion ◽  
Property Right System

With the rapid economic growth and expansion of urban area in the past over thirty years in China, the land value increased rapidly in the process of land use conversion, which has aroused great social conflicts. Model of land value increment allocation is established based on the concept of land development right and applied in a case study about Guangzhou. It is concluded that according with the new approach of land value increment distribution based on LDR, special consideration for the function of social security of farmland, providing an new approach for the reform of land property right system and land compensation system reform. Keywords: Land value increment; Benefit allocation; Land development right; Farmland conversion

scholarly journals Research on Countermeasures to Develop Social Organizations for Cultural and Creative Industries—Taking Shanghai Songjiang District as an Example

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 167
Author(s):  
Chao Wu
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Management System ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Social Organizations ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions ◽  
Cultural And Creative Industries

<em>Currently Shanghai Songjiang District has achieved initial success in nurturing and developing the relevant social organizations around the overall objective to accelerate the development of cultural industry. But there still exist many problems, for example, organizations are immature, function is not significant, the management system is not perfect and so on. Analyzing the basic characteristics and key points of the development of Shanghai Songjiang District’s social organizations for cultural and creative industries, we should put forward the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions, which will help to promote the construction of modern social organization system and the urban cultural soft power.</em>

A case study on use of personas in design and development of an audit management system

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pallavi Dharwada ◽  
Joel S. Greenstein ◽  
Anand K. Gramopadhye ◽  
Steve J. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Management System ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Audit Management

From hard to soft: theory and Neolithic studies in Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Kenneth Brophy
Keyword(s):  
The Past

The Scottish Theoretical Archaeology Group (STAG) conference organisers expressed some doubts about how far theory has changed, and impacted, archaeological establishment and academia in Scotland. In this paper, I will argue that Scotland is certainly not isolated in a theoretical sense, although in the past, Scottish archaeology could be accused of being theoretically conservative, or at least dependent on ideas and models developed elsewhere. A case-study looking at Neolithic studies will be used to illustrate that despite some recent critical historiographies of the study of the period in Scotland, archaeologists in Scotland and those working with Scottish material have been theoretically innovative and in step with wider paradigm changes. The study of the Neolithic in Scotland, it could be argued, has been shaped by theory more than the study of any other period; we are not isolated, but rather part of wider networks of discourse.

THE URBAN MIGRANT FUTURE DESIRE: A STUDY OF REVERSE MIGRATION IN MALAYSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
Nur Huzeima Mohd Hussain ◽  
Hugh Byrd ◽  
Nur Azfahani Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Reverse Migration ◽  
The Past ◽  
Urban Migrants ◽  
Urban Migrant ◽  
Oil Crisis

Globalisation combined with resources of oil and gas has led to an industrial society in Malaysia.  For the past 30 years, rapid urban growth has shifted from 73% rural to 73% urban population. However, the peak oil crisis and economic issues are threatening the growth of urbanisation and influencing the trends of population mobility. This paper documents the beginnings of a reverse migration (urban-to-rural) in Malaysia.  The method adopted case study that involves questionnaires with the urban migrants to establish the desires, definite intentions and reasons for future migration. Based on this data, it predicts a trend and rate of reverse migration in Malaysia. 

Conservation and Preservation of Nature Reserves, Monuments andSpecial Architectural or Historic Interest in Nigeria: Towards Promotion of Sustainable Cultural Tourism

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-218
Author(s):  
Francis Chuma Osefoh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Nature Reserves ◽  
Communication Link ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Tourist Attraction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
Developed Nations

Some of the renowned world tourism countries have special peculiarities in character in terms of their nature reserves and built environments; that made them stand out for their attractions and visits. These qualities range from conservation and preservation of nature reserves, built environments- epoch architectural supports over the years; historical heritage; political; religious; socio-economic; cultural; and  high technology that enhance culture. The virtues of multi- ethnic groups and multi- cultural nature gave Nigeria a rich cultural heritage, and she is blessed with natural wonders, unique wildlife, and a very favorable climate. More often than not less attention and importance are placed over the nature reserves and built environments to the detriment of tourism in lieu of other sectors. Summarily the country lacks the culture of conservation and preservation of her abundant resources to promote cultural tourism. Case study strategy was applied in the research tours with reports of personal experiences, documentaries and analyses of sites visited in Europe and Nigeria were highlighted with references to their attributes in terms of structures and features that made up the sites as relate to culture and attraction.The task in keeping rural, city landscapes and nature reserves alive stands out as the secret of communication link from the past to present and the future; which tourism developed nations reap as benefits for tourist attraction.

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