Protecting Oroqen folk songs is not only the only way to reproduce Chinese traditional music culture, but also the only way to rebuild its national spirit and enhance national cultural confidence. In ...view of the modernity problems of Oroqen folk songs in the current process of inheritance and protection, this paper puts forward the management and optimization methods of music audio-visual archives resources under the background of big data. This paper analyzes and discusses the resource management path of folk music audio-visual archives in Oroqen in the era of big data and designs a set of perfect digital music audio-visual archives resource management platform, which can not only facilitate the collection, storage, management, and utilization of paper files and electronic files in archives, but also optimize the retrieval algorithm of archives. The resource allocation algorithm based on Nash equilibrium solution is used to optimize it. The simulation results show that the proposed method reduces the information resource allocation time and improves the demand satisfaction.
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► Stakeholders actively frame environmental conflicts. ► Social representations theory enhances explanatory power of framing theory. ► The effectiveness of frames is related to the ...cultural resonance of their content. ► Cultural resonance in nature management relates to representations of nature. ► Protest group is better attuned to local representations then management agency.
Frame analysis has been widely employed to understand environmental conflicts. Such studies emphasize the internal dynamics of conflict and focus on how actors discursively struggle with each other in order to gain hegemony over the dominant discourse on the issue. In this paper, we argue that the explanatory power of framing theory could be enhanced by relating issue specific frames to the broader cultural context in which framing efforts are situated. In order to investigate the link between the success of framing strategies and the cultural background of such strategies, we suggest rethinking the concept of
cultural resonance. We propose social representations theory as a novel way of understanding this cultural resonance of spatial and environmental frames. Based on a dispute over the management of a national park in the Netherlands, we empirically illustrate how contending stakeholders refer to different social representations of nature in the framing of local conflicts. A local protest group proves to be much more in touch with the views of the local community and is thus more successful in its framing of the dispute than the nature conservation agency involved. While the protest group uses a wide range of locally embedded representations of nature to enhance the currency of its framing efforts, the nature conservation agency responsible for the management of the forest refers to a much more limited range of representations. By making references only to the wilderness representation of nature, the cultural resonance of the agency’s framing efforts remains limited to those residents who adhere to this specific representation of nature. Consequently, this framing is not very successful among groups that adhere to other representations of nature, such as aesthetic or inclusive representations. Our analysis shows that combining framing theory with social representations theory enables one to disentangle the framing of environmental disputes from the more constant cultural values and opinions on which this framing is based.
Appraisal defined here to include a variety of ex ante techniques and procedures that seek to predict and evaluate the consequences of certain human actions has been afforded an increasingly ...important role in environmental policy. We argue in this paper, however, that both the nature of appraisal and its role in the political process have been inadequately conceptualised. Exploring a literature that has tended to polarise 'technical' and 'deliberative' models, we identify a need for sensitive selection and combination of approaches, taking account of both the object and the objective of appraisal in particular contexts. We suggest that an important role for appraisal (by design or by default) may be that of providing spaces for dialogue and learning in the making of policies and decisions. A better understanding of such processes requires further research, particularly well-designed longitudinal work involving retrospective and 'real time' studies of appraisal in practice.
‘The public’ are potentially implicated in processes of sociotechnical change as political actors who welcome or resist technology development in general, or in particular places and settings. We ...argue in this paper that the potential influence of public subjectivities on sociotechnical change is realised not only through moments of active participation and protest, but also through ‘the public’ being imagined, given agency, and invoked for various purposes by actors in technical–industrial and policy networks. As a case study we explore the significance of an imagined and anticipated public subjectivity for the development of renewable energy technologies in the UK. We use interviews with a diversity of industry and policy actors to explore how imaginaries of the public are constructed from first-hand and mediated experience and knowledge, and the influence these imagined public subjectivities may have on development trajectories and on actor strategies and activities. We show how the shared expectation of an ever present latent but conditional public hostility to renewable energy project development is seen as shaping the material forms of the technologies, their evolving spatiality, and practices of public engagement involved in obtaining project consent. Implications for the actors we are interested in and for broader questions of democratic practice are considered.
Although linkages between water scarcity and conflict have received a great deal of attention, both in qualitative case studies as well as quantitative studies, the relationship remains unclear since ...the literature has generally not considered the effectiveness of governance. We distinguish between direct effects and indirect effects linking water resource scarcity and conflict by systematically examining how intervening factors, such as political institutions, might influence the impact of water scarcity on the probability of conflict. We find support for our hypotheses postulating both direct and indirect relationships between water scarcity, governance, and conflict.
► Many scholars argue that water scarcity can promote violent intrastate conflict. ► Better governance and institutions can ameliorate the consequences of water scarcity. ► Effects of water scarcity on conflict differ between democratic and non-democratic regimes.
Using a game theory framework, this paper models the behavior of two stakeholder groups who are concerned with the implementation and enforcement of a marine park at Balaclava, situated in the ...North-West of the island of Mauritius, located in the Indian Ocean. These two stakeholders are artisanal fishers and hotel-based pleasure craft/water-sports operators who often have to compete spatially within the lagoon to carry out their activity. Nash equilibrium results show that fishers and pleasure craft operators may reach a sub-optimal outcome, leading to unsustainability of marine resources. Empirical verification of strategic motives, attitudes and perceptions, using a questionnaire-based survey, actually revealed that there is little convincing evidence that both parties would be able to collaborate and co-manage the park successfully despite the fact that they agree that a marine park is vital for protecting marine resources. While 81.3 per cent of the fishers and 90.1 per cent of the hotel water-based sports operators were in favor of a marine park, only 28 per cent of the hotel sports operators would be willing to work in collaboration with fishers and 46 per cent of the fishers would be willing to work with their counterparts. One of the major policy recommendations that emanates from this study is that the authorities should come up with an effective action plan to foster more dialogues among all concerned stakeholders and emphasize the virtues of co-management for the sustainability of the park.
During the last three decades, significant research has been undertaken on the characteristics and relationships of the marketing organization with the implementation of strategies. These are the ...structure, culture, processes, and influence and leadership characteristics of the marketing institution. However, there has been little attention given to the human resources management policies of the marketing staff. These policies are one of the strongest sensations of people and organizations, when properly implemented, to conduct themselves correctly. In this study, we show that mid-level marketer implementation of HR policies differ substantially in the type of marketing strategy adopted by the companies. Companies with aligned enterprise and marketing strategies have achieved considerably stronger performance than companies with unequalled business and marketing strategies.
After many years of slow progress, we find that worldwide environmental, political, and economic pressures are providing greater purchase for the accelerated development of renewable energy. Although ...many people would consider this quickening pace good news, the transition from conventional resources has encountered public resistance. In this article I examine the nature of challenges to the development of geothermal, wind, and solar energy projects in three places: the United States, Scotland, and Mexico. The common thread in the public reservations about renewable energy is landscape change and the consequent disruption such change produces to established ways of life for those who are nearby. It also suggests the importance of rebalancing the emphasis of renewable energy programs away from the traditional technical focus that dominates development planning. The more suitable and expedient approach would be to consider the challenges of development as predominantly social matters with technical components, rather than the other way around. To accept this view is to unlock the door to a renewable energy future.
Various methodologies are being put in place in participatory mapping programs by actors with the aim of improving the system of land governance. However, they all contribute to the ...integrated management of resources and the strengthening of local user rights. The purpose of this study is to explain the role of participatory mapping in the sustainable management of land resources. Thus, the existing methodologies has several denominations like the RRA (Rapid Rural Appraisal), the PRA (Participative Rural Appraisal) and the MARP (Accelerated Method of Participatory Research). They all have a link with traditional cartography by focusing on the symbolic representation of traditional knowledge. Examples of participatory mapping applied in Cameroon and Congo Basin by various actors are using various methodologies. This makes it difficult its integration into the sustainable management of resources despite the impact of the political will that influences their resolutions.
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This study evaluates the impact of political fragmentation at the municipal level on public expenditure during the period 2007–2018 for the Peruvian case. The results indicate that the ...effect of political fragmentation within a municipal council on the spending of the provincial municipality could be non-linear. That is, political fragmentation affects negatively the expenditure in a certain tranche and positively in another. In particular, we observe that the incidence occurs only on the execution of capital expenditure. On the other hand, the political fragmentation of the districts within a province seems not to have a significant effect on the execution of expenditure in coordinated areas such as transport, health, and sanitation. (JEL Codes: E62, H54, H72, P16, P35)
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