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Enhancing Good Governance Within the International Climate Regime Through Human Rights Principles
No full textGovernance of climate displacement within the UN climate regime
No full textThis chapter explores how the UN Climate Regime governs climate displacement. One of the gravest injustices of climate change is the distribution of negative impacts upon the poor and vulnerable in society. It is fundamentally unjust that people who are most likely to be displaced by climate change are the ones that have contributed least to global emissions. Such innocent people stand to lose their home, their connections with land, community, language and family and face the challenge of starting life again in a foreign place with a potential hostile reception from host communities. As such it has been recognised that climate displacement is a multifaceted challenge which has generated debate about the most appropriate international institution to respond to this issue. Rather than revisiting the merits and pitfalls of international environmental, human rights and refugee law regimes to deal with climate displacement, this chapter will instead explore how the UN Climate regime has responded to the issue. It is argued that the UN Climate regime will be play a critical role in assisting those displaced by climate change for two reasons. Firstly, the UN Climate regime can create a moral argument on the basis of historical and current emissions contributions as to why Parties to the <i>United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change</i> (UNFCCC) must assist those must vulnerable to climate change. Secondly, the UN Climate regime has the ability to generate financial assistance, separate and additional from any other existing international funds for displaced/refugee populations. The UN Climate regime therefore plays a key role in governing climate displacement by recognising the moral issues associated with excessive greenhouse gas emissions and by providing a governance structure to provide financial and other support to those displaced by climate change
Co-producing climate smart agriculture knowledge through Social networks: Future directions for climate governance
No full textOne of the key purposes of the international climate change regime is to prevent greenhouse gas emissions from reaching levels that adversely affect food production. Climate-smart agriculture is a concept that links food production with adaption and mitigation and has been identified by the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change as a concept where more knowledge is needed. This chapter illustrates that the implementation of international climate law does not end with the decisions and activities of the state, and instead its goals must necessarily be translated and further developed at the farm and community level. We examined Mkulima Young, an online farming platform for farmers in Eastern Africa, as a case study to explore how progress towards international goals occurs through bottom-up governance mechanisms. Equally, this chapter illustrates the unique role of networked and informational governance models for contributing to the realisation of international emissions reductions objectives
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
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
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