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DESIGN for COASTALSCAPE. The spatial dimension of land-sea planning
Full text linkThe PhD examines the phenomenon of coastal territories and their land and sea dynamics by a planning perspective. The study starts from the consideration that half of the world’s population interacts daily with the sea through living in coastal cities and that these geographical areas are under constant pressure from anthropic activities and climate change threats.
This doctoral dissertation aims to understand how a well-structured framework of knowledge about land-sea interactions might enhance the resilience of coastalscapes. The research considers multiple approaches to tackle the topic from diverse points of view. The PhD path is divided into two key milestones.
The first key milestone of the research, coming along on a double literature review on land-sea interactions, attempts to detect, find gaps and build a framework of knowledge on land-sea interactions in order to make more accessible the topic to scientists and policymakers.
The second key milestone endeavours to enlarge the knowledge gained from the first key milestone; by looking at the coastal area through a different lens, it tries to interpret the land-sea interactions phenomena that shape the coastalscape. This milestone is based on multiple case studies approach through a mapping analysis. The first phase is focused on understanding the typologies of anthropic and natural environments present in the case studies through three types of mapping analysis. The second phase zooms in on edge to understand the components of the coastalscape by revealing a common mapping language.
The approach and methods used in the research - the double literature review, fluxes schemes and mapping - have contributed to the knowledge and even though applied on four specific cases can be relevant as guidance through the study of other cases
Padova Resiliente : linee guida per la costruzione del piano di adattamento al cambiamento climatico
Full text linkRisulta sempre più evidente come i cambiamenti climatici richiedano una sostanziale modifica degli approcci alla pianificazione della città e del territorio, sia in termini di riduzione della produzione di emissioni clima-alteranti (mitigazione) sia nel rendere i sistemi urbani più resilienti alla progressiva variabilità del clima (adattamento).
La presente guida rappresenta un primo documento operativo nell’ottica di avviare la redazione di un piano per l’adattamento di Padova in stretto raccordo con gli strumenti di governo della città e dell’ambiente, già previsti dalle normative locali. Le linee guida affrontano la costruzione di un piano di adattamento valutando le maggiori criticità ambientali del territorio comunale e orientando i risultati alla costruzione di un inventario degli impatti potenziali a breve e medio-lungo termine. Il documento si completa con alcune ipotesi di soluzioni operative.
Il percorso teorico metodologico presentato nella guida è stato sviluppato dall’Università Iuav di Venezia in collaborazione con il Settore Ambiente e Territorio del Comune di Padova
Resilienza.Iuav : Rendere operativa la resilienza nelle tre missioni accademiche
No full textL’emergenza climatica e i relativi impatti sui sistemi urbani antropici e naturali richiedono con urgenza competenze e azioni per costruire resilienza. L’Università Iuav di Venezia è in prima linea nello sviluppare la resilienza come teoria e approccio alla pianificazione urbanistica e nella sua operazionalizzazione in progetti di ricerca internazionali, attività didattiche per universitari e professionisti, e collaborazione e supporto alle amministrazioni pubbliche
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
LAND-SEA INTERACTIONS IN MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING: A CASE STUDY IN TUSCANY
No full textThe book tells the story of the sea-land continuum based on the case
of the North Sea — one of the world’s most industrialised seas, in which
the Netherlands plays a central role. The space of the North Sea is almost
fully planned and has been loaded with the task of increased economic
production from new and traditional maritime sectors. At the same time,
it has been emptied of cultural signi ficance.
Through diverse projects from academia, art, literature, and practice,
from analysis to design, the book explores synergies for designing this
new spatial realm. Port city expert Carola Hein, professor of the history
of architecture & urban planning at Delft University of Technology, and
Nancy Couling, associate professor at the Bergen School of Architecture
and researcher of the urbanised sea, combine forces with interdisciplinary
experts to guide the reader through this complex and fascinating topic
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
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