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Le strategie delle imprese cooperative nella struttura competitiva della filiera vitivinicola del Friuli Venezia Giulia
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L'assetto produttivo: Il quadro in base alle informazioni campionarie raccolte presso il Servizio Fitosanitario Regionale
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Perception of protected areas: Evidence from an italian alpine area
No full textThe objective of the study was to investigate perception of Alpine protected areas (APAs), which play a crucial role in protecting local natural, social and economic values. We proposed a research model in which the positive behavioral intention towards APAs was assumed to be affected by environmental awareness, awareness of wildlife, and perception of ecological connectivity and its functions. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to test causalities. Our findings indicated that environmental awareness is not, per se, the determinant of a positive behavioral intention towards APAs: in fact, some specific and closely interlinked elements, such as awareness of wildlife and perception of ecological connectivity, heavily affected the behavioral intention towards a responsible fruition of APAs. The managerial implications of this work include some considerations: a) perception of protected areas has to be analyzed to bolster a positive behavioral intention towards responsible fruition of protected areas; b) awareness of wildlife and perception of ecological connectivity have a crucial role and could be used to strengthen responsible fruition of protected areas; c) these aspects could act as a lever to attract tourists, investors and other stakeholders. These findings should become the basis to plan effective policies, including communication and marketing activities, aimed at bolstering responsible fruition of protected areas as well as of the Alps as a whole
A Multi-‐Criteria Decision approach for the sustainable dairy farm management
No full textThe profit maximization strategy still pursued by most of the farmers is largely responsible of the intensification of the production processes, natural resources’ depletion and climate change. To curb the impact of the negative externalities, new strategies have been tempted based on the corporate social responsibility to make the economic objective compatible with the environmental and social ones in the sustainable agriculture. The aim of this research is to present an application of the Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) approach to the dairy farming to generate sustainable solutions inclusive of the economic, environment and social objectives to satisfy the preferences of different stakeholder groups involved in the dairy farm management. This approach converts the profit maximization objective in sustainable goals to be achieved simultaneously at some predefined target levels. The optimal solution consists in finding a goals’ combination by minimizing the deviations between goals and corresponding target values, weighted according with the stakeholders’ preferences. Among the many possible solutions, the best one will satisfy the Pareto optimal criteria. The results suggest that the compromise solutions obtained with MCDM in the weighted goal programming (WGP) version is different from profit maximization due to the achievement of the many dimensions of sustainability reflecting the stakeholders’ preferences for economic environment and social goals. Sensitive and trade off analysis contribute to improve the sustainable solution in whole farm planning. This approach contributes also to formulate policy measures to address the objectives of farmers versus goals of social and public interest
Innovative Local Development Initiatives in the Eastern Alps: Forest Therapy, Land Consolidation Associations and Mountaineering Villages
Full text linkAssessing environmental awareness towards protection of the Alps: a case study
Full text linkThe paper focuses on environmental awareness towards the protection of Alpine areas, and presents the results of a research aimed at assessing people’s awareness in regards to certain topical environmental issues such as protected areas, ecological connectivity, and wildlife. The study area is the Julian Prealps Natural Park, in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Northeast Italy). In order to obtain a measure of “environmental awareness”, the Rasch model was applied. It allowed us first to identify which items are most suitable for this. The results obtained show that people are quite aware of some issues, e.g. that wellbeing is related to greener areas and that they can change things to solve environmental problems. We also found that it is easier to agree with items relating to the environment in general than with more specific issues, probably due to a lack of knowledge. However, the provision of pertinent information, in our case on ecological connectivity, can increase the level of environmental awareness. The model also showed that the level varies according to certain sociodemographic characteristics, particularly gender and age. These results could serve as a starting point for planning effective information activities aimed at raising environmental awareness and, possibly, bolstering participation in initiatives for protecting Alpine areas
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