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Multiscalar narratives of a disaster: from media amplification to western participation in Asian tsunamis
No full textResilientscapes: Perception and Resilience to Reduce Vulnerability in the Island of Madeira
No full textAbstractThis paper intends to discuss landscape resilience as a way of reducing disaster risk in the island of Madeira. Maderia is a Portuguese Macaronesian island that is located in the Atlantic Ocean and frequently affected by natural hazards.Here, the concept of resilience is discussed as a dichotomous and place-based concept and as a way of achieving sustainability, sustainability being one of the main solutions for climate change. This paper will discuss the complexity of defining “resilience”, the contradictions involved in its use and its positive and negative applications.In order to make resilience an operative concept, it is investigated within landscape research, in which landscape is considered to be the result of human and natural actions and their interaction. Here, landscape is considered as a holistic, place-based, bottom-up concept that can be used as a unit of measure for community resilience.As a consequence of the kind of relationship that a community builds with the landscape in which it lives, we can encounter different kinds of lansdscapes: riskscapes, hazardscapes, resilientscapes, sustainable landscapes, etc. These landscapes are investigated in the context of the island of Madeira in order to identify the resilient actions of its community.To conclude, today, Madeira is a riskscape and often a hazardscape. The most recent incidents were the fires of 2013 and the flash flood of 2010, which was one of the worst events in the history of the archipelago. However, the first signs of resilience have been identified, which represent interesting examples of increasing awareness in both top-down and bottom-up ways
Quale ruolo per la geografia italiana nella didattica del rischio? Tracciare la rotta nel difficile dialogo tra le generazioni.
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Interpreting risks through the geographical identity: the importance of local perception in defining global vulnerability
No full textIf the perceived risk does not correspond to the real risk, what is risk? This paper aims to study the concept of perception and how it influences vulnerability to disasters. In particular, the discussion starts with the assumption that risk globalization has amplified the role of perception, reducing emotional distances. This makes it difficult to have a real perception of global risks, and it favours the distortion of their narrative. As discussed at considerable length in the literature, different cultural groups perceive environmental crises in different ways. This happens because of the weight that these groups’ cultural identities have in their level of perception. However, different levels of perception do not just result in low or high capacity to respond to emergencies; rather, they give rise to different ways of interpreting how to deal with risks. This paper focuses on the case of Madeira Island in particular. During the “Riscos naturais e comunidade local. Construir a resiliência através da participação” seminar, data on local perceptions was collected with the aim of understanding the level of disaster resilience on the island. The workshop was a moment of knowledge-sharing between scientists and the community. The results highlighted a certain lack in community identity as one of the main factors to be considered
Introduction: Geographies and natures: Facing the social construction of nature in Italy
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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
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
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