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Between absence and presence: Questioning the value of insurance for bushfire recovery
No full textThis chapter examines the meaning of value, and how it is calculated, among bushfire survivors in Australia. In Australia, fire has shaped culture, traditions, and national identity. Yet, the fiery future that is emerging questions people's ability to insure against growing losses. High-fire-danger days and uncontrollable fire behaviour are increasing as a result of climate change and unsustainable land management practices. More people are building and living in amenity-rich but fire-prone landscapes. A grim picture of un- and under-insurance has already been revealed. Still, some bushfire survivors describe a re-evaluated relationship to material possessions post-fire. This raises questions about what is valuable, and to whom? How can we understand ‘adequate’ insurance levels in more than monetary terms? The chapter shows how the difference between the absence and presence of material belongings cannot always be defined by a monetary value replaceable by insurance pay-outs. Rather, it is an emotional presence that continues despite its physical absence. Time, emotional, and physical labour are currencies that often hold as much value to survivors as the financial promise of an insurance policy. Yet, these currencies hold little value in the eyes of insurance assessors. The chapter concludes that in the context of the material and emotional resources that define people's complex everyday lives, the value of insurance is what people make it
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
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
The Relational Urban Geographies of Re/insurance: Florida Hurricane Wind Risk and the Making of Singapore’s Catastrophe Finance Hub
No full textRe/insurance plays a multifaceted and increasingly powerful role in the expansion of financialised forms of climate risk governance. While re/insurance markets are global(-ising), they are also geographically uneven, contingent, and provisional. This chapter reflects on this tension by examining how catastrophe capital markets evolve through relational interplays within and between key urban geographies. Contemporary efforts to construct an insurance-linked securities (ILS) hub in Singapore using Florida insured hurricane wind risks provide a touchstone for the analysis. The chapter makes two contributions to critical insurance studies. First, the Florida-Singapore ILS case furthers our understanding of the constitutive relationships between re/insurance markets and specific urban geographical sites and practices, and shifting political and economic agendas and ecological risks therein. The chapter, therefore, aims to advance relational understandings of re/insurance geographies that incorporate both inter- and intra-market factors within critical accounts of industry transformation. Second, three analytical focal points – circulations of tools and techniques, risk capital flows, and shifting state engagement – are drawn from the case to further the relational study of changing reinsurance geographies.Urban Development Managemen
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
Insure the Volume?: Sensing air, atmospheres, and radiation in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
No full textOn 26 April 1986, the explosion and subsequent open-air graphite fire at Reactor No. 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant contaminated the soil, water, and atmosphere alike with radioactive material. The Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, imposed after the accident, remains one of the most contaminated areas in the world today. Over a thousand wildfires have burnt inside the Zone since it was established, raising international concern that combustion from a high-intensity wildfire will rerelease radioisotopes currently held in the vegetation and soil. This chapter focuses on the wildfires that blazed in the Zone in the spring of 2020. To understand the lingering effects and insurance implications of the Chornobyl disaster, volumetric understandings of sovereign power and territory are required. Equally, the affective atmospheres of the subsequent wildfires require attention in order to understand the impacts of such atmospheric events. This chapter, therefore, brings ideas regarding affective atmospheres, sensing assemblages, and volumetric sovereignty from human geography and cognate disciplines into conversation with insurance studies. We think through the insurantial consequences of events that are not bound by two-dimensional cartographies, and that transcend geopolitical borders in space and time
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