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Enhancing integration of local food systems into spatial planning in Lusaka, Zambia.
Get PDFThesis of Doctor of Philosophy in Geography-Spatial Planning.Most sub-Saharan African cities face a lack of cogent integration and consideration of food systems (FS) in spatial planning. This has exacerbated the ongoing food insecurity in urban regions. This exigent situation calls for the integration of food systems into spatial planning. In Zambia, the proposed Lusaka City Region Food System (LCRFS) can aid the inclusion of Food systems in spatial planning. Unfortunately, in the global south, systems for food production, distribution, and processes are at odds with spatial planning. This is because they have been approached as parallels instead of different sides of the same coin. This research has developed a framework that will serve as a roadmap for improving how food systems are integrated into spatial planning. The next step involved the evaluation of the food systems in Lusaka, which was done in two phases. The first phase was to determine the city's level of food security from three residential areas: Chazanga, Mtendere East, and Kalikiliki. The second phase evaluated the sources of various foods from within the LCRFS to address the characteristics of spatial planning and the food system for Lusaka. This was done by conducting 1500 farm surveys of fresh foods within the LCRFS and 75 traders from certain markets were selected. The nexus between spatial planning and food systems was identified by evaluating existing connections, strengths, and weaknesses of this nexus, and how the existing policies address both formal and informal actors. Thematic analysis was used to assess the study's qualitative components and univalent analysis for quantitative components. The pragmatism philosophical approach was used to operationalize the integration of food systems in spatial planning and a case study was employed for Lusaka city. This was accomplished by first conducting a critical analysis of Lusaka's spatial planning environment, supplemented by key informant interviews with five snowball-selected individuals who had knowledge of Lusaka's historical development and considered the personnel of the Lusaka City Council (LCC). An embedded mixed method was possible with this method. The flux of processes, experiences, and practices served as the foundation for the ontological assumption. The epistemological presumptions were centred on the practices and applicability in real-world situations. The theoretical framework is interdisciplinary and is influenced by several sources in spatial planning, including normative and substantive planning theories, knowledge co-production, and city food region systems. The results show that many methods have been employed to reduce food insecurity in urban areas and informal settlements. Some of the strategies are the production of food in peri-urban areas; the zoning of land for agricultural use in the LCRFS; the provision of water for domestic and agricultural use; the upkeep and construction of roads; and the opening of trading points closer to consumers. However, despite
these initiatives, there is still a lack of a defined framework for proactively integrating food systems into spatial planning and a weak integration of these techniques. Furthermore, the study established that both formal and informal food sources play a critical role in ensuring food security in Lusaka. The use of a modernistic approach in governing spatial planning visa food systems in Lusaka was centre as such, contributing to the continued loss of agricultural land both in the city and surrounding districts that constitute the proposed LCRFS. Some of the recommendations provided include collaboration; the development of larger markets; the encouragement of backyard gardening; and the rerouting and improvement of road networks from agricultural areas. The study concluded that various legal frameworks that speak to spatial planning and food systems are in silos and that planning professionals have neglected the issue of food. The implications of the findings call for a robust involvement of all stakeholders. There is a need to examine the current planning legislation applicable to the local context in tandem with the problems being experienced. The following papers have since been published; “Food Insecurity in Informal Settlements of Lusaka: Spatial Planning as the Missing Link” and “Situation Analysis of Provider and Consumer in the Food System Concept of Sub-Saharan Africa with spatial planning taking centre stage: Some insights from Zambia
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
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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