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Although recent studies have provided explanations for the causes of success and failure in recovery projects following socio-natural disasters, there is a need for a concise understanding of how different combinations of factors may contribute to recovery failure or success. In this study, to examine the community recovery pathways after the 2003 Bam earthquake, we conducted a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis of 11 neighborhoods in Bam city and Baravat (the neighborhoods represent the division of the areas damaged by the earthquake, as presented by local government). The success of socio-natural disaster recovery projects is presented in three pathways in which the absence or presence of public engagement had a significant influence on the results. The results indicate that a recovery project should respond to the needs of the project within the continuous lifecycle of the project. Additionally, on the one hand, public participation and prompt rescue operations have a significant effect on project success. On the other hand, neglecting the needs of people and the area's climate in housing design have led to project failure. It is expected that the findings from this study can be used to develop strategies for empowering people in recovery projects and to develop housing guidelines that respect residents' needs while focusing on on-time and sufficient rescue processes. However, care should be taken when applying the present findings in practice, because every socio-natural disaster is unique and requires careful consideration of complex sets of features.

Fiscal incentives can affect governments&rsquo ; behavior and further influence economic and social development. Due to the specific conditions of the household registration system and the land ownership system in China, the urbanization process is dominated by the government. This article conceptually and empirically investigates the influence of fiscal incentives on sustainable urbanization. We theoretically analyze the fiscal reasons why land urbanization occurs faster than the population urbanization. Then we employ panel data of 30 provinces and autonomous regions in China from 2000 to 2012 to discuss the impact of fiscal incentives on urbanization from four aspects: fiscal revenue, types of taxes, fiscal self-financing rate, and tax losses. The econometric results show that both the local tax revenue and fiscal self-financing rate have a significantly negative effect on the gap between land urbanization and population urbanization. The larger the proportion of business tax, the smaller the gap, and vice versa for value-added tax. The greater the local governments&rsquo ; tax losses, the greater the gap. The results explain why local governments in China choose land urbanization rather than population urbanization from the perspective of fiscal incentives.

"This volume presents the concept of a Human Community with a Shared Future as a new path towards the realization of human rights. This idea tries to encourage all countries and economies to focus on a shared future and common destiny for all humankind as well as to work together to build a Human Community with a Shared Future through interdependence and joint development. The present volume consists of a collection of texts arising from conferences organized by the China Society for Human Rights Studies. The texts centre on the concept of a Human Community with a Shared Future, reflecting the current reality and extent of human rights thinking with respect to both law and policy in establishment circles in China, and helping to demonstrate the likely direction of official policy in the near future"--

Cover -- Titelei -- Impressum -- INHALTSVERZEICHNIS -- Vorwort -- Vorwort zur zweiten Auflage -- 1. Einleitung: Leit-Frage und Grundlegung der Ethik -- 1.1 Von der Frage des Sokrates bis zur Leit-Frage der Ethik -- 1.2 Was ist das ethisch Gute? -- 1.3 Ethik und Moral -- 1.4 Der Anfang der Ethik: der Streit zwischen Protagoras und Sokrates -- 1.5 Ein Fall: Gefühl und Vernunft in der Ethik Kants -- 1.5.1 Die früheste Vernunftethik bei Kant -- 1.5.2 Die Ethik des moralischen Gefühls bei Kant -- 1.5.3 Die reine Vernunftethik bei Kant -- 2. Kapitel I: Formales Apriori und materiales Apriori -- 2.1 Formal a priori bei Kant -- 2.1.1 Negatives und positives Verständnis des Begriffes a priori -- 2.1.2 Formal a priori in der Transzendentalphilosophie -- 2.2 Wesens-Apriori bei E. Husserl -- 2.2.1 Relation of ideas oder formal a priori? -- 2.2.2 "Die Wesensschau als genuine Methode der Erfassung des Apriori" -- 2.3 Material a priori bei Max Scheler -- 2.3.1 Das materiale Apriori im Gegensatz zum formalen Apriori -- 2.3.2 "Kopernikanische Revolution" oder "ptolemäische Konterrevolution"? -- 2.3.3 Die Bolzano'sche Wendung bei Husserl und die Seinsart des idealen Gegenstandes -- 2.3.4 Wird die Konsequenz eines rein phänomenologischen Vorgehens unterbrochen? -- 2.4 Exkurs: Gibt es ein materiales Apriori? -- 2.4.1 Es gibt kein materiales Apriori: Schlicks Kritik an Husserl und Scheler -- 2.4.2 Synthetisches Apriori und die Funktionalisierung der Wesenseinsicht -- 3. Kapitel II: Vernünftig a priori und emotionales Apriori -- 3.1 Vernünftig a priori bei Kant -- 3.1.1 Vernünftiges Prinzip a priori als Prinzip der Beurteilung der Sittlichkeit -- 3.1.2 Das "Faktum der Vernunft" als letzte Begründung der Ethik Kants -- 3.2 Intentionales Gefühl bei Husserl -- 3.2.1 Husserls Kritik an Kants Vernunft-a priori -- 3.2.2 Intentionales Gefühl und wertender Akt bei Husserl.

Preface : one step further towards the rule of law? / Zhang Wei -- The relationship between rule of law, human rights, good governance and democracy / Zhang Wei -- Rights-oriented ethics in Confucianism / Shan Chun -- Chinese good governance and human rights protection / Li Yunlong, Qian Zhen -- Human rights, good governance and protection of women against domestic violence in China / Wang Jianling -- Research on China's partner assistance policy and its improvement in the post-disaster restoration / Li Weihai, Sun Xiaolei -- Human rights defenders and good governance / Petter F. Wille -- Two models of judicial oversight of good governance / Tom Zwart -- Good governance: protecting the most vulnerable / Brian Burdekin -- The right to good administration in the multilevel system of the European Union : a "newish" right strengthening the administrative -- culture / Jonas Grimheden and Gabriel N Toggenburg -- People's livelihood and good law and governance / Zhang Wenxian -- The enforcement of the constitution and transformation of social governance patterns / Han Dayuan -- Human rights in the constitutional law of China in transition / Xu Shuang -- Can the human rights clause of the Chinese constitution be interpreted from the international human rights law perspective? / Qu Xiangfei -- Balance and imbalance in human rights law / Luo Haocai and Song Gongde -- Soft law, human rights and social development / Liu Huawen -- Human rights protection and social stability / Zhang Xiaoling -- Human rights and the overhaul of civil procedure 2012 / Hao Zuocheng -- The development and evaluation of "presumption of innocence" in China / Jiang Tianlong -- Integration and coordination within the UN human rights system and its challenges to China / Sun Meng -- Our common humanity : reflections of a human practitioner / Christophe Peschoux -- Democracy or populism / Yu Keping -- The protection and promotion of human rights during (post-) conflict situations : engaging EU peacekeepers and NGOs-lessons for China / Matthias Vanhullebusch

What is the state of health care in China? Wei Zhang analyzes the deep institutional issues that plague China's health care system. Despite its timely and effective efforts to mitigate the COVID-19 crisis, the system still faces deep-seated challenges, many of which can be traced directly to the marketization of hospitals and medical care.

From the perspective of phenomenology and phylogenetic evolution, this manuscript reports a critical study of the core position of representation in the mind. The development of mind can be divided into three stages: body, unconsciousness, and consciousness. In this complex evolutionary process, the organism gradually has a relatively independent internal world, and it can use representation to simulate the interaction between itself and the world. Accordingly, its ways to deal with the world's "challenges" have become more flexible and diverse. In addition, the internal world can go beyond the simple "replication" and "simulation" to some extent, and construct people or things unlike the real world (even nonexistent people or things). On one hand, it provides soil for human creative activities; on the other hand, it provides a hotbed for human beings to get out of the real world and immerse themselves in various fantasies. Human beings live in the world under the "resulting force" of the internal loop and the external loop.