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Le Smart Strategies, i nuovi attori e il planning. Alcune considerazioni in rapporto al sistema di pianificazione strategica e di governance a scala regionale
No full textIn questi anni, le Smart Specialisation Strategies-S3 stanno costruendo un nuovo rapporto tra Smartness e Territori, ripensando le politiche e il ruolo degli attori per l’innovazione e lo sviluppo regionale. A partire da una analisi della letteratura, l’articolo indaga gli indirizzi e gli approcci della politica ed alcune teorie della governance, che riguardano i processi S3, alla ricerca di nuovi attori, nuove skill policy e nuovi modelli di governance per la creazione di un valore pubblico (VP) da dare al Territorio all’interno dei processi di pianificazione.
Parole chiave: Smart Specialisation Strategies-S3; soft planning; processi di territorializzazione; Industria 4.0-I4.0; politiche di sviluppo regionale.
Smart Strategies, new actors and planning. Some considerations in relation
to the strategic planning and governance system at regional scale
In recent years, the Smart Specialization Strategies-S3 are building a new relation
between Smartness and Territories, rethinking the policies and the actors’ role, for
innovation and regional development. Starting from a literature review, the paper
examines the directions and the approaches of the policies and some theories of
governance, which concern innovation and S3 processes, in search of new actors,
new skill policies, and new governance models for the creation of a public value
(VP) for Territory inside the planning processes.
Keywords: Smart Specialisation Strategies-S3; soft planning; territoriality
processes; Industry 4.0-I4.0; regional development policie
The Regionalization of Ecosystem Services to Support Sustainable Planning: The Case Study of the Province of Potenza
No full textThe term “Ecosystem Services” refers to the benefits provided by natural ecosystems to human society, which are crucial for human well-being and long-term sustainability. In order to effectively plan for the use of these services, spatial simulation of natural processes can help identify optimal methods of combining short-term economic development with long-term sustainability. This requires analyzing complex territorial systems and considering interactions between biodiversity, human activity, and the abiotic environment. Multifunctionality, or the joint provision of multiple services, functions, and benefits, is an important concept in the context of Ecosystem Services, as it measures the potential benefits provided to society and human well-being. This study proposes a methodology that uses regionalization algorithms to develop a territorial model capable of identifying sub-regions of specialization (areas with high provision of one or more ReMES) by analyzing maps of Ecosystem Services data. Regionalization is used to identify more geographically coherent regions that provide similar benefits for human well-being, rather than using cluster analysis. The results provide a measure of territorial performance that can be used to compare different development scenarios, including environmental protection and socio-economic development strategies. This information can help decision makers evaluate trade-offs associated with various policies and identify areas in which investments in Ecosystem Services can improve human actions and environmental conservation
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
Unveiling intra-rural divides: investigating decline and prosperity in rural areas. The case study of southern Italy
No full textStrategies to address the decline and marginalization of rural areas are emerging as a central issue of European and national policies. Yet, the conceptualization of decline and the recognition of forms of decline specific to distinct rural areas, resulting in conditions of intra-rural divide, are fundamental aspects for developing place-based and targeted strategies. The article thus focuses on the concept of intra-rural divide. It introduces the categories of declining, adapting, stabilizing, and developing regions as spatial clusters that present specific population trends and require specific place-based policies. These policies are defined as adaptation, mitigation, and development strategies. The aim of the study is to develop a procedure, based on a set of indicators of population trends and population structure, to investigate the impact of active decline resulting from out-migration and legacy decline resulting from demographic imbalances produced by past migration. The objective is to understand the intra-rural divide and identify clusters of declining transition and prosperous rural areas. Six Italian regions were selected as study areas, including Abruzzo, Basilicata, Calabria, Campania, Molise, and Puglia. The Municipalities are selected as the unit of analysis. The study’s findings provide relevant information for defining targeted policies and balancing adaptation, mitigation, and development strategies
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
The Influence of Potential Flood Hazard Areas for Urban Adaptation to Climate Change
No full textIn the modern context of climatic uncertainty, the management of the resilient transformation process of the city emerges as a priority challenge for urban planning to develop a multidisciplinary and inter-scalar approach, transferring knowledge between sectors and encouraging the whole system thinking. In detail, the present work investigates the interferences between the potential flood hazard areas and the emergency planning of the municipality of Potenza. Critical nodes have been identified in the infrastructure network as essential features for coordinating rescue interventions to protect the population in a disaster. Indeed, the plan must be flexible in all emergencies, including unexpected ones. Therefore, a new perspective of risk management aims to reduce sources of risk and strengthen the ability to reduce the variability of performance, and complement the risk analysis with frameworks and practices that support system-wide resilience
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