Social and Economic Considerations for Creating Sustainable Climate Change Haven Communities

As Climate Change Haven Communities are constructed across the Northern Hemisphere, it will be necessary to attract two types of migrants to populate them. The first group consists of professionals and companies in eco-sustainable businesses, such as law firms, insurance companies, investment firms, banking, technological innovation, mass media, medical research and pharmaceutical research. The second group will consist of persons engaged in organic/eco-sustainable agriculture whose crops and animal husbandry practices can be transferred successfully to Climate Change Haven regions. The present research focuses on the social and economic variables that must be taken into account to insure that each new Climate Change Haven Community becomes successfully integrated with the local population and forms a cohesive, harmonious social structure. Examples are given from the United States, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy.

Influencing Factors of Long-Term Residence Intention of Highly Educated Inter-Provincial and Intra-Provincial Floating Population From the Perspective of Social Integration:Take Guangdong Province for Example

Floating population plays an important role in the development of cities,regions,and countries.The economic growth path with Guangdong characteristics is inseparable from the support of highly educated groups.Studying the long-term residence intention of the highly educated floating population is helpful for the city to attract and retain talents.From the perspective of social integration,using CMDS 2017 data and taking Guangdong Province for example,this paper studies the influencing factors of long-term residence intention through SPSS logistic regression,taking intra-provincial and inter-provincial floating population with a bachelor’s degree or above as sample.The main conclusions are:(1)Marital and childbearing status is the primitive influencing factor of long-term residence intention among intra-provincial and inter-provincial floating population.Samples with high income,under social insurance system,being female and having non-agricultural hukou,are tend to prefer long-term residence.Samples who connect with the locals and participate in social public welfare are more likely to stay.(2)Personal age and city livability have a significant positive impact on the long-term residence intention of the inter-provincial highly educated floating population,but agricultural hukou and self-employed laborer status will weaken the long-term residence intention of this group.(3)Participation in townsmen/alumni association has a positive effect on the long-term residence intention of the intra-provincial highly educated floating population,and connection with outlanders also promotes the long-term residence intention of this group.(4)The long-term residence intention of inter-provincial highly educated floating population is usually based on reality,therefore they pay more attention to the development,changes,and livability of the destination city.However,the long-term residence intention of intra-provincial highly educated floating population is usually based on perception,so they pay more attention to whether they like the city.Compared with intra-provincial flows,inter-provincial flows have higher economic and emotional migration costs,more institutional barriers,and more life adaptation problems.Therefore,the government should introduce targeted measures to promote social integration and improve long-term residence intention.

The Road to the Integration of International Migrants： The Case of the Work Integration Social Enterprises

This paper reports some first results obtained from a study conducted on work integration social enterprises （WISEs） in the framework of the social and solidarity economy （SSE） and the integration of international migrants. WISEs, as hybrid transit companies, go beyond a pure economic rationale, enabling labor and social inclusion for disadvantaged groups, international migrants included, through an insertion process in a real job performance environment. Therefore, WISEs should be understood as valuable mechanisms for achieving optimal levels of personal empowerment and social and labor integration in their active use and enhancement of these employees＇ capacities and competences. All of these aspects of WISEs have an impact on social justice in helping construct a more inclusive growth and society and foster the integration of international migrants.

Analysis of Migrant Population's Social Integration in Hangzhou

Since China began implementing reform and opening-up policies, along with a fast development of the national economy and great changes of social life, an increasing number of peasan＇s have kept flowing into cities and economically more developed regions. Aspiring to improve their life and yearning for a better urban life, they defy the restraint of the household registry system and, in the process of moving from one place to another, ignore economic and psychological costs. As early as in year 2000 China＇s migrant population reached 140 million, more than 10% of the total population. Since 2000 the migrant poptilation in Zhejiang Province, east China, has kept growing by 20% annually, the second fastest in the country for seven consecutive years.

Economic Development and Social Integration of Migrants in China

Migrants often face challenges in social integration.Using a nationally representative sample of migrant workers and employing the epidemiological approach,this paper examines the determinants of social integration.It finds that,conditional on a set of individual features,the migrants from less-developed provinces have greater difficulty in integrating into local communities.These results still demonstrate robustness across alternative variables,samples,and various specifications.Mechanism analysis shows that educational and employment factors account for over 40 percent of the variance in social integration levels,suggesting their significant influence.Additionally,the analysis suggests that native bias against migrants,along with misunderstandings between them,may account for part of the remaining variation in social integration levels.Importantly,the ability to speak local dialects has been identified as a crucial factor that can significantly improve migrants'subjective experience of integrating into a new city.By identifying one specific cause of social integration,this paper provides information to individuals and governments and assists them to improve social integration.

意大利政府对残疾人的优惠政策及工法架构(英文)

The most important reference in Italian legislation concerning interventions in favour of people with disabilities came about with Law 104 from February 5th 1992 in which the most important rights for disabled people were established. This law led to a new vision,the person with disabilities is no longer seen only a subject needing help but as a person who has the right to live his life in the best possible way that his condition allows him to and thus,it is society's duty and that of the Government,to do everything possible to remove invalidating causes,to promote a disabled person's autonomy and to realise his best social integration possible. To implement what is foreseen by this law it was necessary to activate different important interventions,two of which are very significant:the realisation of Guidelines from the Ministry of Health on rehabilitation activities in which the aims are defined on how rehabilitation should be implemented and how it should be organised on a national level and at a community level. Law 68 from March 12th 1999 decreed the full rights of people with disability to be integrated into the workplace. In the article we will also report some significant data concerning the results of the applications of the law.

An Open Source Toolkit for Identifying Comparative Space-time Research Questions

Comparative space-time thinking lies at the heart of spatiotemporally integrated social sciences. The multiple dimensions and scales of socioeconomic dynamics pose numerous challenges for the application and evaluation of public policies in the comparative context. At the same time, social scientists have been slow to adopt and implement new spatiotemporally explicit methods of data analysis due to the lack of extensible software packages, which becomes a major impediment to the promotion of spatiotemporal thinking. The proposed framework will address this need by developing a set of research questions based on space-time-distributional features of socioeconomic datasets. The authors aim to develop, evaluate, and implement this framework in an open source toolkit to comprehensively quantify the changes and level of hidden variation of space-time datasets across scales and dimensions. Free access to the source code allows a broader community to incorporate additional advances in perspectives and methods, thus facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration. Being written in Python, it is entirely cross-platform, lowering transmission costs in research and education.

Foreign E-commerce Practitioners in “Taobao Village”: Isolation and Integration

This research mainly analyzes the actual situation of social integration of migrant E-commerce practitioners in Xintang Town of Guangdong Province through field survey.According to the survey,the overall level of social integration is relatively low,and there are three isolation barriers,namely time,space and psychology.Regarding the influencing factors of social integration level,it is concluded through the principal component analysis that five main factors impacting the social integration of migrant E-commerce practitioners are life factor,business factor,housing factor,social factor and individual factor.By establish a multiple logistic analysis model,it is found that type of friends,interest protection and frequency of recreational activities would impact the social integration of migrant E-commerce practitioners most significantly among all factors.

Immigrants,Citizenship and Social Integration in French Urban Society in the Late Middle Ages:A Case Study of Avignon

An important feature of the urban demographic structure in France in the late Middle Ages was the significant increase in immigrants as a proportion of the population.The influx of immigrants and their successful assimilation were necessary for urban society to cope with the crisis of the late Middle Ages.There were two principal pathways for integration.Firstly,the municipal authority granted citizenship to some selected immigrants,accepting them legally into the citizen community.Secondly,immigrants constructed spontaneous and autonomously diversified social relationships and interacted with other residents through religious-based confraternities.The two routes were mutually complimentary and promoted the absorption of multiple immigrants into urban society achieving a revival in early modern times.That said,social participation was the only way for all immigrants to integrate into urban society and reveals the initiative and autonomy of the newcomers.

How to Manage the ＂New Age＂ Employee

This paper explains why as a manager employing recent Chinese University graduates cannot manage them using traditional management styles. Management is very similar to a negotiation. The manager must change their ＂negotiation style＂ to manage their Chinese graduates into a valuable addition to their enterprise.

The Inequality Effect of Urbanization and Social Integration

On the basis of the China Social Survey （CSS2011） and related urban statistics, this article conducts an analysis of the ＂unequal＂ effects of urbanization and of problems in rural migrants＇ social integration with urban residents in the course of their urbanization. We found that although the increased rate of population urbanization did not produce a significant difference between ＂rural migrants＂ and ＂city people＂ in terms of income, migrants fare considerably worse than city people with regard to social security, cultural life, psychological acceptance and status identification. This kind of inequality transforms the original urban/rural dual structure into a new dichotomy that divides urban dwellers into the migrant population and residents with urban household registration, thereby impeding social integration. This finding will help us understand the causes of the social barriers in current urbanization and may provide theoretical and empirical reference material for ＂new-type urbanization,＂ particularly as it relates to the transformation of the rural migrant population into urban citizens.

Building a harmonious community:public services,social integration and expression of residents' views- a study of cases from Ningbo,Dalian and Beijing

Through case studies in Ningbo, Dalian and Beijing, this article discusses how to promote public services, social integration and expression of residents＇ views in the construction of harmonious communities. The Ningbo case shows the origin, scale and effect of a government-led community public service network; the Dalian case describes the emergence, development and functions of community-led autonomous organizations as a means of promoting socially disadvantaged groups＇ integration into society; and the Beijing case reveals the value orientation, methods and constructive experience of community development evaluation based on the expression of residents＇ views.

Urban livability in socially disadvantaged neighborhoods: The experience of the German program “socially integrative city”

This paper asks how the livability of socially disadvantaged urban neighborhoods can be improved with the help of publicly funded area-based urban regeneration.It builds on the history of area-based regeneration policies in Germany aiming at upgrading and resolving urban problems at the neighborhood level.Its main argument is as follows.First,the fate of conventional physical upgrading policies focusing on the livability of deprived urban areas depends on the development environment.While successful upgrading sometimes makes inner-city neighborhoods so attractive that they run into a trend towards gentrification and displacement of the urban poor,the stabilization of less privileged areas cannot always be guaranteed.Second,alternative approaches are needed,linking limited physical upgrading with socially oriented policies,building on strategies like neighborhood management and empowerment.Third,they can make a substantial contribution to stabilizing deprived neighborhoods,thereby improving the general living conditions and the opportunities of the urban poor.However,they require at least some permanent intervention.Thus,they transcend the logic of area-based regeneration normally limited to restoring faith into the private real estate market and thereby directing inward investment into them that improves the quality of the physical environment.Fourth,they are hardly able to overcome significant negative stigmatization in cities that are severely hit by economic downturn and population decline.This is especially true when they act as arrival areas for consecutive waves of migrants,making it necessary to redefine the role of those areas in cities and accepting their high concentration of urban problems as a starting point for different area-based policies dealing with them.The key empirical background of the paper is the German system of urban development grants and an evaluation of the so-called program of“socially integrative city”.

Social Integration of the “Lao-Piao-Zu” in Beijing: A Case Study on the Huilongguan Area

Following the rapid urbanization in China, in recent years a great number of young laborers have migrated and settled down in large cities like Beijing. Subsequently, many of their parents then moved to these large cities to live with them and take care of them and their children, which has gradually formed a specific social group: "Lao-Piao-Zu." Recently, social integration of the "Lao-Piao-Zu" has drawn the attention of many scholars, but there still is a lack of detailed analysis based on surveys. This paper aims to set up a comprehensive evaluation system to measure the extent of social integration of the "Lao-Piao-Zu," through three dimensions including culture, social relations, and psychology. Nearly 200 questionnaires were collected from three communities in the Huilongguan area in Beijing in the summer of 2015. By multiple linear regression, it reveals that the weakness of social relations and psychological concerns are main barriers to the social integration of "Lao-Piao-Zu," and the support from social organizations is crucial for that. The findings try to provide valuable suggestions to improve the social well-beings of the increasing "Lao-Piao-Zu" in the future.

The Impact of Incentives on the Number of Suppliers

In the context of adulteration by suppliers,downstream firms need to choose between incentives and regulation to ensure product quality.Studies have shown that the adulteration behavior of suppliers increases with the degree of dispersion of suppliers,that is,the number of suppliers increases.Therefore,based on the assumption that the number of suppliers impacts quality uncertainty,this paper further introduces the number of suppliers into the incentive model to investigate the relationship between supply chain dispersion,that is,the number of suppliers,social integrity,and incentive strength.The study finds that the optimal number of suppliers depends on social integrity,regulatory cost,and incentive strength.There is a positive correlation between social integrity and the number of suppliers,while regulatory costs and incentive strength have a negative correlation with the number of suppliers.That means,the higher the social integrity,the lower the regulatory cost;and the lower the incentive intensity,the more optimal suppliers can be selected.

Neighborhood,community and consumption:Study on the socio-spatial structure during two boosting epochs in Shanghai

The modernization of Shanghai has experienced two boosting periods.The first appeared in the 1930s,when it formed the civil society of Shanghai and initially facilitated the trade port into an international metropolis.The second started after the nation’s reform and opening-up,which attempted to promote the city into a global metropolis in the 2010s.In order to evaluate the socio-spatial transitions of communities in Shanghai during the process,Lilong historical neighborhoods in the 1930s and 2010s are successively chosen as research objects.Meanwhile,three specific neighborhoods in each period are selected for case study,so as to depict different symbiosis patterns of the socio-spatial structures under different spatiotemporal conditions by means of a cross-sectional analysis of the consumption level.By pointing out Shanghai in the 1930s was marked with social integration and local-based consumption,while it was inundated with administration tendency and global-oriented consumption in the 2010s,the article believes the dual integration of local-based and global-oriented consumptions is an alternative solution for Shanghai.Finally,the article proposes that Shanghai’s current urban regeneration should rely on the multi-centered symbiotic structure to create a compound network,during which territorial socio-spatial structures and basic living needs of the plebeian can be simultaneously preserved.

Strategies for Improving Public Transportation Accessibility in Beijing's Urban Regeneration from an Inclusive Perspective: Inspirations from Paris's Experience

As China’s urbanization has transformed from extensive development to "refined operation," urban regeneration is more significant. This paper analyzes changes in research perspectives of urban regeneration in recent years at home and abroad and the innovative concept of inclusive development proposed in the context of globalization, finding that the connotation of urban regeneration in European countries has been gradually enriched in order to promote social integration. Based on this, the paper examines how Paris, the first European city, combined inclusive development and urban regeneration and addressed social integration and equity in urban regeneration by taking accessibility as a key point in solving the most fundamental transportation problems. Based on lessons learned from Paris in developing a barrier-free transportation system, it proposes specific optimization strategies at the micro level in accordance with the status quo of public transportation accessibility in Beijing’s urban regeneration.

Citizenization of Native Villagers after Redeveloped Urban Village:A Case Study of Liede Community in Guangzhou

Based on qualitative data from in-depth interviews,participative observation,and literature study,this paper aims to get insights into the patterns and process of the citizenization of native villagers living in Liede Community,which is the first redeveloped urban village in Guangzhou.Investigation on villagers' citizenization level is carried out to examine how the redevelopment project affects villagers' citizenization.Our finding reveals that the redevelopment project has improved villagers' living conditions and income levels remarkably,has facilitated the mixed housing patterns of diversified social groups,and has increased their chances to be integrated into urban social life.Nevertheless,as villagers kept their traditional mode of thinking,behavioral habits,and lifestyles,the citizenization process made little progress in terms of land ownership,management mode,mode of livelihood,and citizen identity.Therefore,the Liede redevelopment project has turned out to be a "passive citizenization" process,i.e.,villagers merely received socio-economic benefits from the redevelopment passively but remained isolated from the socio-economic and cultural system of the city.Finally,this paper proposes some policy suggestions to promote the citizenization from both conceptual and practical perspectives.