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Indigenous peoples and climate justice. A critical analysis of international human rights law and governance
No full textThis book provides a new interpretation of international law specifically dedicated to Indigenous peoples in the context of a climate justice approach. The book presents a critical analysis of past and current developments at the intersection of human rights and international environmental law and governance. The book suggests new ways forward and demonstrates the need for a paradigmatic shift that would enhance the meaningful participation of Indigenous peoples as fundamental actors in the conservation of biodiversity and in the fight against climate change. The book offers guidance on a number of critical intersecting and interdependent issues at the forefront of climate change law and policy – inside and outside of the UN climate change regime. The author suggests that the adoption of a critical perspective on international law is needed in order to highlight inherent structural and systemic issues of the international law regime which are all issues that ultimately impede the pursue of climate justice for Indigenous peoples.
Giada Giacomini is an experienced researcher in international human rights law, international environmental law, climate change law and policy, and with an interest in climate vulnerable communities. She holds a PhD in Public, Comparative and International Law. She specializes in climate justice, critical legal studies and non-anthropocentric law. Upon completion of her PhD studies, she completed an Internship at the Independent Redress Mechanism of the Green Climate Fund. She is currently involved in several research projects dealing with ecosocial work, environmental conservation and Indigenous peoples, and climate litigation
Indigenous peoples and climate change. The Yanesha people’s case from a participatory justice perspective
Full text linkThis paper analyses the main results of the fieldwork conducted by the author for the purposes of determining the impacts of climate change in traditionally living Yanesha communities of the Palcazu, Peru. It gives an overview of the relationship between the Yanesha people and their sacred territory before delving into the data gathered during the fieldwork carried out in November 2018. It concludes by linking the Yanesha people’s case to the broader issue of climate justice, arguing that Indigenous peoples’ participatory rights should be at the centre of a fair and inclusive international and national climate governance regime that recognizes both their vulnerability and their role as agents of environmental conservation
Orientarsi tra le nuvole: cartografie, atlanti e pratiche mappanti nel racconto a fumetti
Full text linkA partire dalla recente nascita della ‘comic book geography’ (Dittmer 2014), il contributo intende proporre la ‘comic book cartography’ come un’ulteriore linea di ricerca volta ad esplorare le contaminazioni tra fumetto e cartografia.
L’approccio transdisciplinare proposto si fonda sull’intersezione tra geografia e analisi geocritica, tra ‘comics studies’ e teoria cartografica post-rappresentazionale. Attraverso una lettura ‘carto-centrata’ di alcuni casi di studio italiani e internazionali, il fumetto viene inteso come una mappa che coinvolge autore e lettore in una vera e propria pratica di orientamento.
[Abstract eng] Orientating among the balloons: maps, atlases and mapping practices in comic books
Starting from the recently emerged field of ‘comic book geography’ (Dittmer 2014), the article proposes ‘comic book cartography’ as a further research line to explore the intersections bewteen comics and cartography.
The proposed transdisciplinary approach is based on the encounter between geography and geocriticism, comics studies and post-representational theories in cartography. Through a ‘carto-centred’ reading of both Italian and international case studies, the comic book is interpreted as a map inolving author and reader in an orientation practice
Playing it fashionably queer: Mae West's performing sexuality
No full text“Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution”. With this challenging innuendo, the American actress and author Mae West offers an insight into gender performativity and heteronormativity through marriage in a period, the “Roaring Twenties”, in which sexual and gender politics could not be put into scrutiny. Her vamp persona and the elaborated iconography that she crafted on her character gave birth to a meticulous semiotics of the body that eventually undermined the American social context of the time fostering on the one hand, an image of heterosexual desire, and on the other hand an appealing icon to a gay market. This article ventures a queer-oriented perspective on West’s charismatic character and on the intertwined effects that tie semiotics to body language, especially focussing on the plays Sex (1926) and The Drag (1927)
Comic Book Cartographies: A Cartocentred Reading of 'City of Glass', the Graphic Novel
No full textThis paper responds to the call for a deeper theoretical and methodological
exchange between the disciplines involved in geohumanities research and
proposes comic books as an environment for interdisciplinary,
geo/cartographical and literary critical research practice. The analysis
considers the emerging field of ‘comic book geographies’ and suggests a
further opening to ‘comic book cartographies’. Hence, by referring to the
‘spatiocentred’ approaches emerging in literary theory and criticism, I
propose a ‘geocritical’ and ‘cartocentred’ reading of comics to explore the
‘cartographies of the comic book’. I individuate the peculiar map-like
features of comics’ spatial grammar to interpret the comic book as both a
cartographer and a map. Moreover, taking into account the recent shift in
cartographic theory towards an ‘emergent cartography’, I propose an
‘ontogenetic’ understanding of comics as maps. Through both their
representational and non-representational, map-like features, comics are
intended ‘as always mappings’, providing the author/reader with a truly
mapping experience. The analysis of the exemplary case study of City of
Glass, the graphic novel transposition of Auster’s novel by Paul Karasik and
David Mazzucchelli, counts as a first attempt to propose a ‘cartocentred’
reading of the cartographies inserted within and emerging from a comic
book. This article suggests that a ‘cartocritical’ reading of comics could
provide comic studies, cultural geography and literary theory with new
insights, as well as cartographic theory with an unexplored laboratory to
keep on ‘rethinking maps’ from an ‘emergent’ perspective
«Nach dem französischen von Sonnleithner». Questioni storico-filologiche per un’edizione critica della Faniska di Luigi Cherubini
No full textFaniska è l’unica opera di Luigi Cherubini ad essere stata scritta
espressamente per i teatri di corte viennesi. Rappresentata la prima volta il 25 febbraio 1806, essa fu ripresa per
decenni in diverse città dell’area germanofona. Ciononostante, nessuno
dei due autografi a noi pervenuti è in tedesco: il testimone primario, una partitura completa dell’opera, è basato su un libretto italiano, mentre il secondo autografo, formato da pochi numeri, ne mette in musica una
traduzione francese. Il saggio discute le fonti testuali e
musicali della Faniska, costituendo uno studio preparatorio per l’edizione
critica. Al fine di stabilire le relazioni tra le fonti, l’autrice ricostruisce il
processo creativo dell’opera e il sistema produttivo dei teatri di corte viennesi
nel periodo in cui Cherubini la compose. Lo scopo è di chiarire perché
l’opera fu sempre rappresentata in tedesco, benché originariamente
composta su un libretto italiano, e a qual fine Cherubini ne intraprese una seconda versione basata su una
traduzione francese.The opera Faniska is the only work by Luigi Cherubini to be specially written for the Viennese Court
Theaters. After its premiere on 25th February 1806, the opera was performed over many decades in
different German-speaking cities. Nevertheless, none of both preserved autographs contain German words: the main source is a complete score based on an Italian libretto, the second autograph consists of few musical numbers which set a French
translation of the Italian libretto. The paper discusses Faniska’s musical and textual sources as a preparatory study for the critical
edition. In order to understand the relations among the sources, the author reconstructs Faniska’s
creative process and the production system of the Viennese Court Theaters during the time Cherubini
composed this work. The aim is to explain why the opera was always performed in German, although it was originally composed on an
Italian libretto, and for which purpose Cherubini undertook a second version based on a French translatio
Sinkhole Risk-Based Sensor Placement for Leakage Localization in Water Distribution Networks with a Data-Driven Approach
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Sinkhole Risk-Based Sensor Placement for Leakage Localization in Water Distribution Networks with a Data-Driven Approach
by Gabriele MedioORCID,Giada VarraORCID,Çağrı Alperen İnanORCID,Luca Cozzolino *ORCID andRenata Della MorteORCID
Department of Engineering, University of Naples Parthenope, 80143 Naples, Italy
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Sustainability 2024, 16(12), 5246; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16125246 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 15 May 2024 / Revised: 15 June 2024 / Accepted: 18 June 2024 / Published: 20 June 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Flood Resilience Integrating AI and Hydraulic and Horologic Modeling)
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Leakages from damaged or deteriorated buried pipes in urban water distribution networks may cause significant socio-economic and environmental impacts, such as depletion of water resources and sinkhole events. Sinkholes are often caused by internal erosion and fluidization of the soil surrounding leaking pipes, with the formation of soil cavities that may eventually collapse. This in turn causes road disruption and building foundation damage, with possible victims. While the loss of precious water resources is a well-known problem, less attention has been paid to anthropogenic sinkhole events generated by leakages in water distribution systems. With a view to improving urban smart resilience and sustainability of urban areas, this study introduces an innovative framework to localize leakages based on a Machine learning model (for the training and evaluation of candidate sets of pressure sensors) and a Genetic algorithm (for the optimal sensor set positioning) with the goal of detecting and mitigating potential hydrogeological urban disruption due to water leakage in the most sensitive/critical locations. The application of the methodology on a synthetic case study from literature and a real-world case scenario shows that the methodology also contributes to reducing the depletion of water resources
La prestazione d'opera nelle società
Full text linkThe present study focuses on provision of work inside companies. Starting from a historical reconstructive analisys and from an examination of the positive right various figures ruled by civil code, in order to better understand the ratio of the current law, the author later focused on provision of work qualification, in order to evaluate the compatibility between worker – partner and the various kinds of working relationships also considering, for this purpose, the jurisprudential elaboration formed about joint-venture. Finally, it has been studied the meaning of economic dependence, as it is defined in Italy and in France, for the purpose of verify its applicability on previously analysed relationships, with a special regard toward the cooperative worker-partner position, also keeping in mind the indexes elaborated by doctrine concerning economically dependent employment.Il presente lavoro di ricerca affronta il tema della prestazione d'opera nelle società. Partendo da un'analisi storico ricostruttiva e dall'esame del diritto positivo delle diverse figure disciplinate dal codice civile, alla ricerca della ratio della disciplina legislativa attuale del conferimento d'opera, ci si è poi concentrati sulla qualificazione di tale conferimento al fine di valutare la compatibilità tra la posizione di socio d'opera e le diverse tipologie di rapporto di lavoro, prendendo in esame a tal fine anche l'elaborazione giurisprudenziale del diverso istituto dell'associazione in partecipazione. In conclusione si è studiato il concetto di dipendenza economica, così come definito in Italia e in Francia, al fine di verificare l'applicabilità dello stesso ai rapporti analizzati in precedenza, con particolare riguardo alla posizione del socio-lavoratore di cooperativa, tendendo conto degli indici elaborati dalla dottrina in relazione al lavoro economicamente dipendente
Game theoretical trajectory planning enhances social acceptability of robots by humans
Full text linkSince humans and robots are increasingly sharing portions of their operational spaces, experimental evidence is needed to ascertain the safety and social acceptability of robots in human-populated environments. Although several studies have aimed at devising strategies for robot trajectory planning to perform safe motion in populated environments, a few efforts have measured to what extent a robot trajectory is accepted by humans. Here, we present a navigation system for autonomous robots that ensures safety and social acceptability of robotic trajectories. We overcome the typical reactive nature of state-of-the-art trajectory planners by leveraging non-cooperative game theory to design a planner that encapsulates human-like features of preservation of a personal space, recognition of groups, sequential and strategized decision making, and smooth obstacle avoidance. Social acceptability is measured through a variation of the Turing test administered in the form of a survey questionnaire to a pool of 691 participants. Comparison terms for our tests are a state-of-the-art navigation algorithm (Enhanced Vector Field Histogram, VFH) and purely human trajectories. While all participants easily recognized the non-human nature of VFH-generated trajectories, the distinction between game-theoretical trajectories and human ones were hardly revealed. Our results mark a strong milestone toward the full integration of robots in social environments.Team Bart De SchutterTeam Sergio Grammatic
Thin graphene oxide nanoflakes modulate glutamatergic synapses in the amygdala cultured circuits: exploiting synaptic approaches to anxiety disorders
Full text linkAnxiety disorders (ADs) are nervous system maladies involving changes in the amygdala synaptic circuitry, such as an upregulation of excitatory neurotransmission at glutamatergic synapses. In the field of nanotechnology, thin graphene oxide flakes with nanoscale lateral size (s-GO) have shown outstanding promise for the manipulation of excitatory neuronal transmission with high temporal and spatial precision, thus they were considered as ideal candidates for modulating amygdalar glutamatergic transmission. Here, we validated an in vitro model of amygdala circuitry as a screening tool to target synapses, towards development of future ADs treatments. After one week in vitro, dissociated amygdalar neurons reconnected forming functional networks, whose development recapitulated that of the tissue of origin. When acutely applied to these cultures, s-GO flakes induced a selective modification of excitatory activity. This type of interaction between s-GO and amygdalar neurons may form the basis for the exploitation of alternative approaches in the treatment of ADs
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