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Ecosystem services and justice of protected areas: the case of Circeo National Park, Italy
Full text linkProtected areas are key instruments for conserving biodiversity and landscapes. Yet, conservation initiatives are still often struggling to accommodate people’s needs, provoking conflicts, and lacking support from local communities. Our study combines environmental justice and ecosystem services approaches to provide a critical understanding of trade-offs between people’s interests and conservation goals in the case study of Circeo National Park (Italy). Applying a qualitative content analysis of different materials and using a survey of local residents, we focus on three main objectives: analysing the implementation of the ecosystem services framework in policy documents and exploring how different people value benefits from nature; investigating the decision-making process in terms of participation, information and communication strategies; and identifying how conservation policies generated different allocations of benefits, burdens and inequalities among social groups. The integrated approach applied in our study highlights ways to systematically uncover perceived injustices and identifies potential conflict lines. In the long run, this approach might help to increase the public acceptance of protected areas by fostering sustainability also in its often-overlooked social dimension
Late Quaternary sedimentary processes along the western North Atlantic Margin
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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
A combined approach based on ecosystem services and environmental justice: the case study of Circeo National Park, Italy
Full text linkStarting from its born, the Ecosystem Services (ES) approaches become important for linking human and nature, and for supporting different decision-making and management contexts, in particular conservation strategies, landscape and urban planning, and compensative policies. However, the ES literature has been criticized for adopting a homogenous approach to communities and failing to consider social diversity, power structures influencing access to benefits, and participation in the management of ES. Still, despite the growing body of literature on ES, considerations of Environmental Justice (EJ) tend to fall short in ES assessments and therefore in planning and policy. EJ scholarship has traditionally parsed out a framework of justice based on a trilogy of concerns: the distributional justice, that can provide a framework to focus on the spatial and temporal distribution of costs, benefits, and risks of ES; the recognitional justice, referring the recognition of people’s varying values associated with ES; and the procedural justice, that considers the participation in the procedures through which decisions are made about ES. The main goal of the present thesis is to explore in which extent an ES approach with an EJ lens can support the environmental governance. The research was developed in three main parts: a literature review, a systematic review, and an empirical application in Circeo National Park (Italy). Although the two fields seem to focus on two distinct aspects of the environment – the original idea of EJ revolved around the negative health impacts of environmental degradation and pollution, while ES highlights benefits of ecosystems beyond health –, the two literature reviews showed different meetings points. First, the literature review integrated the aspects of EJ in ES, exploring their interconnections, and considering EJ as an analytical approach to thinking about ES issues. Second, the systematic literature review investigated how the different approaches of ES and justice were used for real-world application, how they evolved over time, and which trends have followed in order to identify possible gaps. The systematic review explored the number and type (conceptual, review, or empirical) of publications, the geographical distribution and scale of case studies analysed, the ES and justice dimensions investigated, and the governance contexts explored. Lastly, the analysis of the case study was useful to apply the ES and EJ combined approach with the purpose of understanding how and why the ES conservation policies in Circeo National Park generated different benefits and costs among different groups within society and were related to diverse kind of injustices. The addition of an EJ lens in combination with the ES approach revealed local perceptions critical to ES trade-offs and identified different stakeholders’ objectives. The thesis highlighted that EJ can uncover existing and potential social conflicts between management and use, especially when conservation policies are applied without due consideration of the interests and needs of local communities. Moreover, EJ provides a well-developed lens to focus on fair treatment of all with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies
Variations on the Author
Full text link“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
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe 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
Patrimonio, Patrimonializzazione e Potere: intersezioni , riflessioni e dinamiche socio-politiche
No full textUN EDIFICIO AI MARGINI DELLA CITTÀ COME PATRIMONIO IMMATERIALE. IL CASO DEL CINEMA PIERROT NELLA PERIFERIA ORIENTALE DI NAPOLI
No full textQuesto contributo parte dal presupposto che alcune pratiche sociali possano essere interpretate come elementi di costruzione di un senso di patrimonio per la comunità locale. Si tratta di una pratica di patrimonializzazione non formalizzata che fa riferimento alla capacità di un certo tipo di azione sociale di incidere sul territorio, seminando processi di valorizzazione a partire da un luogo speci co, che si va con gurando quale cantiere in continuo divenire di un progetto sociale. Il caso è quello del Cinema Pierrot di Ponticelli, quartiere complesso ai margini orientali della città di Napoli, che dopo un quarantennio di destini alterni sembrava destinato, come tante altre sale di periferia, a trasformarsi
in supermercato. Dalla battaglia del 1993 per evitare la chiusura della sala nasce l’esperienza associativa di Arci Movie, che ha fatto della sala un centro di cultura e di aggregazione
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