scholarly journals The Significant Role of Oman in China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mordechai Chaziza
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Bilateral Trade ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
First Century ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Maritime Silk Road ◽  
Physical Infrastructure

In recent years, China has been seeking to deepen its global centrality by connecting to Asia, Europe, and Africa through investments in physical infrastructure, that is, ports and pipelines, high-speed rail, and other utilities, with associated bilateral trade and investments in critical states along the land- and sea-based Silk Road. Oman is positioned to play a critical role in China’s expanding footprint in the Middle East. Its advantageous maritime location, influence in energy markets, and independent foreign policy make Oman an attractive partner for China and of vital strategic significance in the construction and realization of the twenty-first-century Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI). Oman has enthusiastically embraced China’s MSRI and expressed an eagerness to leverage China’s growing influence in the Middle East to transform itself into a center of global trade and manufacturing.

Friends of Rose Canyon

2018 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 2-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Wiese
Keyword(s):  
Open Space ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
First Century ◽  
Grassroots Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
University City ◽  
Participant Observer ◽  
The Rose

Place-based activism has played a critical role in the history of urban and environmental politics in California. This article explores the continuing significance of environmental place making to grassroots politics through a case study of Friends of Rose Canyon, an environmental group in San Diego. Based in the fast-growing University City neighborhood, Friends of Rose Canyon waged a long, successful campaign between 2002 and 2018 to prevent construction of a bridge in the Rose Canyon Open Space Park in their community. Using historical and participant observer methodologies, this study reveals how twenty-first-century California urbanites claimed and created meaningful local places and mobilized effective politics around them. It illuminates the critical role of individual activists; suggests practical, replicable strategies for community mobilization; and demonstrates the significant impact of local activism at the urban and metropolitan scales.

Role of high-speed rail on social fixed assets investments in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-244 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Feng Wang ◽  
Jinghua Ou ◽  
Shujie Yao
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Fixed Assets

Struttura competitiva dopo la crisi Alitalia: il caso dela tratta Milano-Roma

2009 ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
Giovanna Campopiano ◽  
Josip Kotlar ◽  
Andrea Salanti
Keyword(s):  
Price Competition ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Substantial Reduction ◽  
Air Travel ◽  
Air Transport ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
Transport Services ◽  
Real Price

Air travel routes and high speed rail connection between Milan and Rome after the Alitalia crisis This paper analyses the first available data about changes in passenger traffic and air/rail fares after the Alitalia crisis and the substantial reduction of the travel time between Milan and Rome, due to the improvement of high speed rail on this connection. As recently happened in similar cases within Europe, the rail has gained a significant share of traffic previously attracted by air transport services. Apart from that, a real price competition is prevented by a number of inefficiencies which are mainly due to the monopolistic position of the new Alitalia on the route Milan Linate-Rome Fiumicino and problems of accessibility affecting our airports, and partly our rail stations too. The role of the various authorities potentially involved is burdened, in the last instance, by infrastructural deficiencies.

Open Innovation with Chinese Characteristics

2019 ◽  
pp. 152-166
Author(s):  
Henry Chesbrough
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Chinese Characteristics ◽  
World Class ◽  
Rival Firms

Open Innovation in China is greatly affected by the powerful role of the Chinese Communist Party. Xi Jinping thought introduces a tension between the ‘decisive role of the markets’ to allocate resources and stimulate innovation across the economy and ‘the leading role of the Party’ to guide the development of innovation in the most important industries. This tension plays out differently in different industries in China. In high-speed rail, the tension has been adroitly managed, creating an organization with world class innovation capabilities that is a peer with the best of the rival firms in the world. In automotive and semiconductors, however, the tension has been more problematic. The state-owned enterprises are well aligned with the Party, while it is the privately owned companies and foreign companies that are driving innovation.

Regional economic growth and the role of high-speed rail in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 51 (32) ◽  
pp. 3465-3479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shujie Yao ◽  
Fan Zhang ◽  
Feng Wang ◽  
Jinghua Ou
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Regional Economic Growth ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Regional Economic

scholarly journals Food Production: The Critical Role of Irrigation Water

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 35-37
Author(s):  
Khem Raj Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Conjunctive Use ◽  
Irrigated Agriculture ◽  
Energy And Environment ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
Agriculture Intensification

As food need rises, Nepal's reliance on irrigated agriculture does increase. Increased production to satisfy the food demand of the future must essentially come from intensification, not from expansion of agriculture. Intensification potential of irrigated agriculture is much higher than rainfed system. Technologies, professionals and farmers should go together to achieve greater impacts and ensure the country's food security. Key words: Irrigated agriculture, food security, farmer participation, conjunctive use, physical infrastructure, integrated water resource management, Nepal  doi: 10.3126/hn.v3i0.1918 Hydro Nepal Journal of Water, Energy and Environment Issue No. 3, July 2008. Page 35-37

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