大型石化建设项目的政府协调与审批

结合中海壳牌南海石化项目的工作实践,总结了大型石化项目建设过程中的政府许可与审批工作的内容和特点。     

从城市的发展变迁看政府职能的转变

在经济体制转型和政治体制改革阶段,中国城市政府的职能调整、目标设定、政策选择将决定城市的未来。中国城市政府职能转变的重点是：强化规划职能,确定城市发展战略和目标,协调城市的空间布局和各项建设;强化建设和完善公共物品的职能,为强化城市聚集功能和辐射功能奠定基础。     

Renewable fuels: Policy effectiveness and project risk

This paper examines the impact of government policy on the risk profile of a small ethanol production facility. We derive four key results from a simulation model. First, we show that commodity price risk may discourage investment in a project, despite a positive expected rate of return. Second, we show that political uncertainty may have significant impacts on the risk profile of a project. Next, we show that using only production subsidies to attract investors is expensive, since the financial assistance is paid regardless of whether the plant is operating under positive or negative financial conditions. Finally, we show that a capital grant provides a valuable complement to a subsidy, because the grant reduces the amount of value investors must put at risk, and increases their leverage thereby enhancing returns, while the subsidy mitigates commodity price risk. Our results show that compared to a subsidy-only approach, a grant and subsidy combination provides an investment environment with similar downside protection and expected returns for less than 60% of the cost. Further, we show that the two policy tools combined yield a superior investment environment to that created by an equivalent or greater total investment deployed entirely in either of the policy tools without the other.     

Does ideology matter for surveillance concerns?

The analysis of survey data pooled from the Pew Research Center’s Privacy Panels revealed that ideological proximity influences individual concerns about government surveillance. Two dimensions of ideology—allowance for government interference in the personal sphere and in the economic sphere—manifest themselves as four types: libertarians (less allowance for interference in both spheres), liberals (less allowance in the personal sphere but more allowance in the economic sphere), conservatives (more allowance in the personal sphere but less allowance in the economic sphere), and communitarians (more allowance in both spheres). Whereas libertarians and liberals have more concerns about government surveillance, conservatives and communitarians have fewer concerns. Given the salient differences between the libertarian-liberal ideology and conservative-communitarian ideology, findings of this study revealed that government interference in the personal sphere matters more for surveillance concerns than government interference in the economic sphere. Actual control for privacy protection, information sensitivity, and perceived transparency predict significantly the level of surveillance concerns.     

Electricity production,government effectiveness eco-innovation,and public health: Novel findings in the context of sustainability policies

In the recent world of catastrophe, scholars and policymakers have empirically examined the influence of various economic and financial instruments on environmental quality. Still, the literature is limited in terms of displaying the factors affecting public health, particularly in case of China. This study aims is to examine the nexus between green electricity, government efficiency, and health issues to draw novel policies. The current study investigates role of electricity production, eco-innovation and institutional factors for overall public health in China using the data from 2000Q1-2021Q4, which is a novel contribution to the existing literature. For empirical analysis, the study employs cointegration analysis, quantile regression and fully modified ordinary least square methods. The empirical result found the validity of the long-run equilibrium relationship. However, the asymmetric distribution of all variables allows this study to use a non-parametric “quantile regression” approach. The empirics depicts that economic growth and renewable electricity production positively influence public health–increase health-related issues. On the contrary, eco-innovation and government effectiveness substantially reduces public health issues. The empirical results are authenticated by the applying three parametric approaches – fully modified ordinary least square, canonical cointegration regression, and dynamic ordinary least square. To explore the causal connection between the variables, this study uses granger causality test – validates the presence of unidirectional and bidirectional causalities between variables. This study suggests enhancement in government effectiveness, expenditure, and eco-innovation to reduce critical health issues in the country.     

Stakeholder management mapping to improve public-private partnership success in emerging country water projects: Indonesia’s experience

Public-private partnerships for water projects are complicated and involve multi-level stakeholders. This study was conducted to map the stakeholder management process based on institutional analysis to improve water project success. This research used qualitative content analysis with an interpretive approach, and the results demonstrated the coercive role of the central government in supporting, monitoring, and governing projects. This role brings confidence to local governments in terms of project commitment, communication, and championship. In this context, professional managers can assess project feasibility, develop scope, design contracts, and attract private-sector involvement.     

浅谈政府行为影响下传统商业街区的演化与重生——以长沙市晏家塘小古道巷为例

城市中的传统商业街区拥有悠久的历史和商业文化,延续着城市的发展脉络.多数的传统商业街区处于旧城中心位置,随着经济及社会环境的改变,它们已经成为存在问题最多、急需进行更新改造的地区,否则将面临衰落甚至消亡的命运.此时政府行为的介入往往决定着传统商业街区的转折与重生.该文通过对长沙市晏家塘小古道巷建国以来空间生长的梳理,探讨传统商业街巷的自身发展规律和以政府行为为代表的他组织机制对街巷生长的影响,以期更好地理解当下传统商业街衰败的根源,找出适合的发展策略,为传统商业街区的转型与更新提供参考和借鉴.     

政府投资建设项目工程造价控制存在的问题与对策

文章根据政府投资建设项目审计中发现的有关工程造价控制存在的问题进行分析,并对进一步完善政府投资建设项目的工程造价控制提出合理化建议,对保证财政资金的使用安全及使用效率具有重要意义。     

Twenty-Five Years of Urban Policy and Research, 1982–2006

The 1990s witnessed a major era of structural reform in Australian local government. Amalgamation programmes in all six states resulted in a substantial decrease in the number of local authorities in Australia. The chief rationale underlying local government mergers lay apparently in the belief that larger municipalities would exhibit greater economic efficiencies. Despite its widespread acceptance amongst policy elites, this argument did not derive from a solid empirical base. This article seeks to evaluate available research evidence on the controversial question of economies of scale in Australian local government.     

Natural disasters in Italy: do we invest enough in risk prevention and mitigation?

Italy is exposed to a number of major natural risks. In the period 1944–2012, earthquakes, landslides and floods have resulted in huge losses with an economic cost (widely underestimated) of 3.5 billion Euros per year. Risk prevention and mitigation (RPM) should represent, therefore, a national priority and would require an adequate scale of financing. The Italian Government has earmarked financial resources for RPM through a multitude of laws. Based on an analysis of this legislation, this paper surveys the main measures financed by the Government to prevent and mitigate the seismic and hydrogeological risks in recent years. Besides, it compares RPM Government financing to the available estimates of the RPM financial need. It concludes that RPM Government financing, although increasing, still represents a small share of the RPM financial need, with, however, discrepancies across Regions.