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Tourist Walking Trails in Italy and Argentina: Navigating Political Recognition and Socio-Territorial Innovation
Full text linkTourism is often considered the world’s biggest industry, as it contributes approximately 10% of the global GDP. Despite this economic impact, tourism also includes important critical issues like territorial inequalities, diminishment of local engagement, and has high environmental and cultural impacts. This study investigates the rise of “walking trail tourism”, a niche sector where the respect for local communities and the environmental sustainability are particularly important. The focus is on Italy and Argentina: two countries with very different political, tourism, and biophysical backgrounds, but with the common recent development of walking trails and forms of social innovation. This study explores three main questions: the trends in walking trail tourism, the role of these trails in fostering local social innovation, and the influence of national policies in this domain. The study combines historical-statistical analysis, political–legislative review, and interviews with experts in order to assess all these aspects. Findings reveal significant social innovation trends within walking trail tourism but also challenges in territorial coordination and the establishment of national governance. Italy and Argentina are both characterized by an opposite situation regarding walking trails: there are several local initiatives but a lack of national guidelines in the former, and some good national policies but few bottom-up initiatives in the latter
Latin America's grassroots approach to social innovation: Expanding the international debate
Full text linkIn a world experiencing profound environmental, technological, and demographic shifts, welfare systems are being fundamentally reshaped, highlighting social innovation (SI) as crucial for addressing emerging societal challenges. This research examines the distinctive Latin American approach to SI, exploring its role in transforming regional welfare states whilst bridging the gap between Latin American and European perspectives. The theoretical framework combines SI theory with the quintuple helix model, emphasizing interactions among public bodies, businesses, academia, civil society, and citizens in fostering local innovation. Through comparative analysis of Argentinian and Brazilian cases, contrasted with Italian and British examples, this study employs ethnographic methods, questionnaires, and interviews. The findings reveal a uniquely Latin American SI approach, characterized by robust community engagement and university partnerships, diverging from market-driven European models. The research advances the global SI discourse by highlighting the significance of grassroots, collaborative initiatives, particularly within contexts of institutional and welfare system fragility
Il contributo delle esperienze di economia solidale alla costruzione di una nuova governance alimentare.
No full textÈ ampiamente riconosciuta la necessità di una transizione verso sistemi alimentari sostenibili. Nelle ultime tre decadi si sono diffusi movimenti che hanno cominciato a chiedere e proporre in tal senso una trasformazione radicale. Tra questi, le esperienze che si ispirano ai principi dell’economia solidale hanno dato vita a percorsi fortemente innovativi: dalla ridefinizione dei significati e delle pratiche del cibo, alla ricostruzione di circuiti locali su criteri di sostenibilità sociale ed ecologica, fino ad esperienze più avanzate di patto sociale e gestione comunitaria. Appare importante, nei processi di attivazione di politiche locali del cibo, cogliere e amplificare questi contenuti di innovazione. A tale scopo, le forme che la governance alimentare assume hanno un ruolo determinante. Questo scritto si propone di esplorare tali aspetti. Nel farlo abbiamo attinto all’esperienza maturata nello studiare e partecipare a molteplici iniziative esemplificative della tematica analizzata.The need for a transition to sustainable food systems is widely recognised. Over the last three decades, movements have begun to demand and propose a radical transformation. Among these, experiences inspired by the principles of the solidarity economy have given rise to highly innovative paths: from the redefinition of meanings of food and and food-related practices, to the reconstruction of local food systems on criteria of social and ecological sustainability, to more advanced experiences of social pact and community-based engagement. The pathways of social innovation launched by solidarity economy networks constitute a consolidated area of experimentation on which to draw, with regard to the identification of the crucial nodes to be solved, the perspective to adopt when looking at benefits, and the modes of action to create alternatives. Capturing and supporting this innovation seem extremely important in a time of needed transformation of the mainstream food system, and even more strategical when building local food policies. This significantly involves the meanings and forms that food governance takes on. The paper aims at investigating these aspects, reading the initiatives inspired by solidarity economy principles as example of radical social innovation, which prefigures visions and practices of a re-commonification of food and food systems (commoning). To that end, we drew on the experience gained in studying and directly engaging in many of these initiatives
Territori e comunità. Le sfide dell'autogoverno comunitario. Atti dei Laboratori del 6° Convegno della Società dei Territorialisti (Castel del Monte, 15-17 novembre 2018)
No full textProcesos socioterritoriales innovadores y construcción de nuevos espacios de welfare
Full text linkThe Author reflects on the role of local actors linked to social movements and on the possibility that the latter have of conveying their requests to the institutions. The main hypothesis assumed by the essay is that the effectiveness of the actions of social movements and basic projects improve thanks to the creation of direct relationships capable of fueling mutual trust both within and outside the movements themselves.El Autor reflexiona sobre el papel de los actores locales vinculados a los movimientos sociales y sobre la posibilidad que tienen estos últimos de dirigir sus demandas a las instituciones. La principal hipótesis que asume el ensayo es que la efectividad de las acciones de los movimientos sociales y proyectos de base mejoran gracias a la creación de relaciones directas capaces de alimentar la confianza mutua tanto dentro como fuera de los propios movimientos.L’Autore riflette sul ruolo degli attori locali legati ai movimenti sociali e sulla possibilità che questi ultimi hanno di far pervenire le loro istanze alle istituzioni. L’ipotesi principale assunta dal saggio è che l’efficacia delle azioni dei movimenti sociali e dei progetti di base migliorino grazie alla creazione di relazioni dirette in grado di alimentare la fiducia reciproca tanto all’interno quanto all’esterno dei movimenti stessi
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
Le reti di Economia Solidale: comunità di pratiche per una trasformazione sociale
No full textDottorato di ricerca in Conoscenze e innovazioni per lo sviluppo, XXIV ciclo. A.a. 2011-201
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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