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Waterveiligheid: Managen van kwetsbaarheid voorbij de mythe van droge voeten. De Nederlandse omgang met overstromingsdreiging in sociaal-cultureel perspectief.
No full textIn dit proefschrift leggen Heems en Kothuis uit waarom overstromings- dreiging bij de meeste Nederlanders ‘niet leeft’. Zij beantwoorden vanuit sociaal cultureel perspectief de vraag hoe Nederlanders aan het begin van de 21e eeuw betekenis geven aan de omgang met waterveiligheid. Na de (bijna) overstromingen van de rivieren in 1993 en 1995 zette de Nederlandse overheid in op een andere omgang met water. Overheden verwachtten dat publieke communicatie over waterveiligheid en publieksparticipatie bij waterveiligheidsprojecten zouden leiden tot meer waterbewustzijn en meer risicobewust gedrag in de samenleving. Van deze strategieën verwachtten zij geen ongewenste neveneffecten. Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat deze verwachting niet alleen onjuist is, maar dat deze strategieën zelfs tot verontwaardiging, apathie en verlies van publiek vertrouwen leiden. Heems en Kothuis betogen dat dit mede komt omdat overheden en burgers verschillende historisch verankerde veronderstellingen over de omgang met waterveiligheid hebben en deze niet van elkaar (h)erken- nen. Daarbij heeft de omgang met overstromingsdreiging na de Ramp van 1953 geleid tot een veiligheidsmythe van droge voeten. Deze houdt kort gezegd in dat, hoewel Nederlanders rationeel weten dat honderd procent garantie niet bestaat, toch de overtuiging bestaat dat met de komst van de Deltawerken droge voeten gegarandeerd zijn. De mythe kenmerkt zich door blind vertrouwen in overheden en experts en ontbreken van angst voor water. Om een andere omgang met waterveiligheid maatschappelijk te verankeren is het noodzakelijk die mythe te deconstrueren. Dat kan met behulp van kritisch vertrouwen, een cognitieve angst voor water als progressieve kracht en een discours van zorg. Vanuit die houding kan een maatschappelijk debat worden gevoerd dat niet is gebaseerd op risicobeheersing maar op acceptatie van kwetsbaarheid. Pas dan is echt anders omgaan met water mogelijk: maatschappijbrede zorg voor waterveiligheid waarin burgers een eigen verantwoordelijkheid nemen. Promotoren: Wiebe E. Bijker - Universiteit van Maastricht Marcel J.F. Stive - Technische Universiteit Delft Maarten A. Hajer - Universiteit van AmsterdamBeleidsanalyseTechnology, Policy and Managemen
Multi-actor governance: Making sense and managing sensitivities while developing MFFD
No full textDealing with collaboration challenges in integrated spatial projects Almost everybody agrees that the environmental challenges we are currently facing need to be approached in an integrated manner, from governments to citizens, and from companies to research institutes (Brown 2008; Brown & Farrelly 2009). To create multifunctional flood defenses, innovative integrated solutions are needed so that land use, responsibilities, financing, as well as risk-taking, are all shared. When developing integrated spatial projects, such as multifunctional flood defenses, the focus is increasingly on multidisciplinary cooperation between actors from different institutions, based on the assumption that collaboration allows knowledge to be shared and thus produces integrated spatial developments (BNA 2016; Janssen 2015; Healy 1998, 2006). But the intense collaboration involved in such projects is not as straightforward as it might appear. Policy Analysi
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
Flood risk management: managing vulnerability beyond the myth of dry feet: the Dutch approach to the threat of flooding
Get PDFThis dissertation explains why flood risk is not an item in the Netherlands. After problems with rivers in 1993 and 1995, the Dutch government decided to stimulate public communication on water safety and public participation in water safety projects. This would increase the water awareness of citizens and enhance risk-conscious behaviour. Research now shows the unexpected and undesirable side-effects of this policy: indignation, apathy and loss of public trust. According to Heems and Kothuis, the ‘safety myth of dry feet’ is the cause of the failing government policy: knowing that there is no absolute guarantee, but at the same time believing that the Delta Works guarantee dry feet. Denying this widespread myth is necessary for social anchoring of the desired attitude towards water safety. <br/
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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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