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From Rigs to Riches - A Case Study of Oil and Gas Decommissioning in the North Sea through a Just Transitions Framework
No full textThis thesis investigates the ways in which the process of oil and gas decommissioning, the dismantling of offshore installations, can be said to be part of a just transition. This inquiry is mainly done on the basis of two weeks of fieldwork in Western Norway and a thematic analysis of twenty recorded interviews. The concept of just transitions is found to include differing tendencies. These have been unpacked and assessed in order to provide a clear and transparent theoretical framework, as well as to contribute to the conversation on what the notion of just transitions should entail. The thesis also seeks to contribute to the field of circular decommissioning, finding that the prioritising of exchange value is a barrier against fully enabling a circular approach to decommissioning founded on use value, informed by Marxist categories. Moreover, if circularity is applied within oil and gas without a broader perspective of just transitions, one risks only prolonging extraction of fossil fuels. The existing literature on oil and gas decommissioning has been found to have an overly technical focus. This thesis has sought to contribute an assessment of the qualitative aspects of decommissioning, and to map the relational geographies of the spaces produced by this industry. This has also led to an inquiry into how the North Sea fossil industry is internally connected with exploitative relations of beaching and shipbreaking in the Global South. The investigation also finds that unionised labour supports the activity of decommissioning, insofar as it can create decent local jobs and avoid contributing to environmental degradation and the exploitation of workers in the Global South. While the work related to dismantling and recycling offshore installations and vessels is no silver bullet in the green transition, it has been found to have linkages with parts of the oil and gas industry that are the most vulnerable to the transition, both in terms of fixed capital, skills and where this activity takes place. Both spatial and temporal aspects of decommissioning makes it a key industry for diversification away from oil and gas, with a potential of further functional upgrading into future industries. While decom is showing great potential, there are barriers to its further upscaling, such as the unpredictability of when platforms will finally be removed and recycled. Here the inquiry finds that a planned phase out of oil and gas could enable the rational use of the existing decom yards, while significantly increasing the potential for green jobs in the sector
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Petroleum Transition Pathways in Norway. How do Norwegian stakeholders envision pathways to net-zero and phase-out for the country’s oil and gas sector?
No full textPetroleum Transition Pathways in Norway. How do Norwegian stakeholders envision pathways to net-zero and phase-out for the country’s oil and gas sector?
Get PDFThe Oil and Gas Transitions (OGT) is an evidence-based programme which aims accelerate just transitions
from oil and gas in Denmark, Norway and the UK.publishedVersio
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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