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Valuing the Mediterranean Diet from Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity to tangible resource of the te territory: a Contingent Valuation study
Full text linkThis thesis engages with the problem of valuing the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of the Mediterranean Diet (MD), into the overall context of its progressive erosion due to general decline in adherence to the Mediterranean dietary pattern by Mediterranean people, especially young generations. This work is also engaged with the problem of what it may be done to preserve, safeguard and revitalize the ICH of the MD. In this context, with the double specific objective to calculate economic value of the Mediterranean Diet - Intangible Cultural Heritage and to define the specific determinants of respondents WTP for MD heritage and, consequently, for preserving it, a contingent valuation (CV) survey was conducted between July and October 2016, using nationwide internet-based interviews on a sample of 897 Italian respondents. To this scope, ICH of MD was declined in a prototypical project, which factoring the most affective elements of the intangible cultural heritage of the Mediterranean diet into a tangible product related with cultural as well as tourism sector: the “Mediterranean Diet District”. It was designed to let people, physically and actively, “experience” the ICH of the MD, making explicit and tangible its use value.
The results of this study provide quantitative information and important insights for both policymaking and research
Horizontal collaborations in agri-food supply chain: producers’ marketing choices within the fair trade chains
No full textHeritage. New perspectives for tourism development and management
No full textHeritage is created by a recognition of the value in what ancestors left behind and it is commonly
understood to encompass three major entities: material culture, natural environment and human
environment. The aims of this work is to stimulate discussion about built heritage as a resource for
tourism. The relationship between heritage and tourism is well documented (Ashworth,2000;
Garrod and Fyall, 2000) and it is generally assumed that culture and tourism are interdependent
(Ashworth, 1993). This is particularly so with regard the positive impact of built heritage on
tourism industry. But what it means to built heritage for tourism development? Heritage
encompasses landscapes, historic places, sites and built environments, but it also includes
biodiversity, collections, past and continuing cultural practices, knowledge and living experiences
(ICOMOS). Our work aims at underlining the irreplaceable and the foundation role of heritage for
development of each locality and community focusing on tourism development and management.
On the other hand, the paper gives insight about what development of tourism means for a
destination/locality/community in terms of economic development and management of cultural
heritage resources
Retailers towards zero-waste: a walkthrough survey in Italy
No full textApproximately 1/3 of the food produced for consumption is lost/wasted globally being
discarded by retail shops and households. Reducing food losses can thus make a
significant contribution to ensuring global food supply. The purpose of this paper is to
analyze how the Italy’s top ten food retailers try to promote sustainable consumptions
within stores. Some simple “walk through/visual observation and information collection”
surveys conducted within the largest store operated by each of the best food retailers
within a province in South Italy provided the empirical materials. Then, conclusions
suggest how paths direct to sustainable consumptions should be inserted into the large
food retailers’ business models. Defining a bio-business model can move peoples towards
zero-waste
Consuming Landscape: an investigation of eco-economic development strategies in rural areas
No full textCultural heritage in Mediterranean countries: The case of an IPA Adriatic Cross Border Cooperation project
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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
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
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