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Dominique Hes and Chrisna du Plessis: Designing for hope: pathways to regenerative sustainability
No full textDominique Hes and Chrisna du Plessis: Designing for hope: pathways to regenerative sustainabilit
A strategic framework for sustainable construction in developing countries
No full textThere is no doubt that large-scale development in the built environment and its physical infrastructure is needed in the so-called 'developing countries'. However, these problems need to be addressed in a way that is socially and ecologically responsible. There is great urgency to make sustainable interventions now, while these built environments are being created, rather than try and change things after the fact. However, there are a number of challenges to the introduction of sustainable construction technologies and practices, and certain enablers need to be developed to help these countries adopt a more sustainable path. The Agenda 21 for Sustainable Construction in Developing Countries suggested a strategy for addressing some of these challenges by developing a Research and Development Agenda, based on a matrix of immediate, medium-term and long-term technological, institutional and value enablers. This Agenda is supported by a Stakeholder Plan for Action. The challenge now is to find the means to implement these suggestions at a local level by developing regional and national action plans.Sustainable, construction, development, developing countries, strategy,
Researchspace: Understanding Cities as Social-ecological Systems.” r
No full textSummary This paper builds on earlier ecological approaches to urban development, as well as more recent thinking in the fields of sustainability science, resilience thinking and complexity theory, to propose a conceptual framework for understanding cities as social-ecological systems (SESs) as a point of departure for further dialogue in the study of urban sustainability. It proposes that cities should be understood as (1) complex, adaptive systems that are (2) integrated across spheres of matter, life and human social and cultural phenomena (or mind), (3) are structured as nested systems that allows interaction across scales and levels of organisation, an
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
Planning for dynamic cities: introducing a framework to understand urban change from a complex adaptive systems approach
No full textTowards a regenerative paradigm for the built environment
Get PDFThe concept of regenerative design and development is situated within the broader
theoretical context of sustainability. The emerging regenerative paradigm is contrasted with
the two current sustainability paradigms – internationally negotiated ‘idealistic’ public policy
and private sector ‘Ecological Modernization’ – that seek to maintain the status quo. Each of
these sustainability paradigms is explained though a brief historical narrative to illustrate
their response to broader social pressures, the main critiques of each and some
commonalities. It is argued that the dominant sustainability paradigms are reaching the
limitations of their usefulness due to their conceptual foundation in an inappropriate
mechanistic worldview and their tacit support of a modernization project that prevents
effective engagement with a complex, dynamic and living world. The regenerative paradigm
provides an alternative that is explicitly designed to engage with a living world through its
emphasis on a co-creative partnership with nature based on strategies of adaptation,
resilience and regeneration. It provides a foundation for a sustainability paradigm that is
relevant to an ecological worldview.http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rbri20hb2013ai201
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