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RESILIENCE APPROACH IN PUBLIC POLICIES. A multidisciplinary framework to study the reactive, adaptive and transformative capacities of individuals and of legal and socio-economic systems.
Full text linkThe book contains a broad collect of contributions on the different meanings and applications of the concept
of resilience, trying to identify the techniques and the methodologies of analysis most adequate to measure the
phenomenon and identify its determinants, the possible tools for prevention and public policy measures to
strengthen elasticity and adaptability of individuals and social relations among them, as well as of urban
systems, territorial and environmental to adversity created by the nature (catastrophic events caused by climate
change, earthquakes, etc.), the economic environment (economic or financial crises, periods of recession, etc.)
and social context (massive affluence of immigrants, urban and social changes determined by phenomena of
shrinking populations and houses, etc.).
The papers collected in the book show the first results of a research project on "Resilience, Adaptability and
Transformability. Development, Assessment and Implementation of Public Policies for Adaptive Governance of
Complexity", coordinated by Prof. Salvatore Villani from the University of Naples Federico II. The research
project carried out with the collaboration of experts and teachers coming from Italian Universities (University of
Naples Federico II, UPM – International University of Milan, University of Sannio and University of Teramo) and from the Universities of Exeter, Görlitz, Kobe and Miami
RESILIENCE APPROACH TO PUBLIC POLICIES: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY FRAMEWORK
No full textToday more than ever there is the necessity to deal with the meaning of a word and, at the same time, a concept, “resilience”, which has gradually become the “key-concept of an era” due to its symbolic and evocative value, in a time when its most frequent interpretation has been connected to an other word: “crisis”.
2015 has been defined “the year of resilience” by the heads of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). Twenty years after the terrible Kobe earthquake, which led in 2005 (during the UN Conference at Hyogo in Japan) to the Definition of the Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the resilience of nations and communities to disasters, the international community wonders what lessons can be drawn from the new crises and catastrophes, and identifies the resilience as the key-concept in order to face these challenges. In fact, the resilience implies elasticity and the ability to adapt by the corpora, the passions, the entire siystems and territories. These qualities today more than ever are valuable to get out of the trap represented by a crisis, an epochal crisis which arose from the financialisation of the economy and the globalization of markets. Globalization has betrayed, in fact, our expectations of prosperity and economic stability. It has produced innumerable positive effects, but has also brought much fragility and vulnerability, aggravating the problem of the struggle for resources and survival, rather than solving it, as Keynes foresaw and hoped for his grandchildren.
Nowadays, “the grandchildren of Keynes” – or should we say his “great-grandchildren”, because since the first edition (1931) of the famous essay Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren have already elapsed more than eighty years – undoubtedly live in a bigger and more open world than the one in which their illustrious ancestor lived, but the only result which they have obtained is to make it much more dangerous, uncertain and unstable. It is enough to look around to realize it: the technological revolution overwhelms the economic and social systems; societies are increasingly complex and sophisticated, but also more unequal, more expulsive and more exposed to the meltdown; the economic crisis weakens the people and impoverishes countries; natural disasters, still rising, are often caused by the direct or indirect human action and produce devastating physical and economic damages; the progressive decrease in births and the aging population put a strain on the sustainability of welfare and health care systems in the rich and industrialized countries. The traditional political solutions, namely the creation of corporative and universalistic national welfare systems, have gradually become unsustainable because of the spending review. Moreover, the progressive evolution towards regional and liberal welfare systems undermines their redistributive and inclusive function, especially because of the progressive change in the composition of the population determined by migration.
The government of these processes is entrusted to a public sector in continuous evolution because of the reorganization of local government, which in the name of subsidiarity and adequacy is taking shape in some big European countries. It is necessary therefore a change, a new approach to the problems of the world, leading to a reversal or, alternatively, to a recovery of the original push, which could eventually lead to safety the “Keynes’s grandchildren”, outside the trap in which they remained imprisoned. However, to achieve this goal it is necessary that contemporary societies become aware of the ongoing changes and adapt to them quickly and consistently. The key to everything, the path to salvation, is now more than ever the resilience, and the ability to respond to the uncertainty and changes by implementing adaptive strategies and constantly creating new forms of equilibrium, other than that of departure. This is the only method which can help us to “tame the beast” and persuade it to change the trajectory, forcing it to do what we want, that is, to increase the welfare and improve the living conditions of the people inhabiting the world, especially of the poorest, without prejudice to democracy and social justice.
This paper focuses, in a socio-economic and multilevel perspective, on the applicability of a resilience approach to public policies
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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
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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